Nice post^

Welcome to VGC.

First, let's see the whole list of all GTA games ever made.

Grand Theft Auto (1997/1998)

Grand Theft Auto: Mission packs (1999) [expansion packs for the game Grand Theft Auto]

London, 1969
London, 1961

Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999)

Grand Theft Auto III (2001)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)

Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004)

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005)

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006)

Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)

I'll fill in the sales later... it's difficult to find them for all systems...

I'm rather surprised that people are so confident that the PS3 will see a larger boost than the 360 from this game.

Do you seriously believe that Microsoft won't promote the heck out of the DLC content? I imagine it could even be plastered all over the front of the game. MS will do everything in their power to make it abundantly clear that the 360 version is the "complete" one.

We'll see how it goes, but I think people are remarkably overconfident on this issue. 

It really sucks that GTA4 is not exclusive to the PS3, R* already said that the lack of an HDD and the DVD format are hurting their game. GTA series is already looking gimped this gen.

I agree, the franchise should have remained a PC exclusive, like it used to be in the GTA 1/2 days.

Being on the PS3/360 really gimps the possibilities the game might be able to achieve if it were made for high end PCs instead. I wish developers didn't have to worry so much about sales and piracy on the PC, because it would be neat to see what they could do with a machine that had more power. 

Wow ... so, according to your rant, why did R* show off GTA IV to the media using the 360? To this date, there's not a single - SINGLE screen from the PS3 version.

If the 360 gimped it so much, why didn't they show off the PS3 build and get people hyped? And why did R* say the 'complete experience' was on the 360? Did you just read over that in your search for more MS-bashing propaganda?

The stuff folks will concoct to justify their purchases ... my heavens ... 

Madskillz, R* could have had an agreement with MS to only release gameplay videos on the 360. And considering how much they ponied up for the exclusive content, I wouldn't be shocked by that at all.

They also mentioned that the PS3 is very difficult to program for and that the system has its own problems.

Choose your poison. 

That's ridiculous. There are many other concessions MS would have asked for before "only show your demo videos on a 360". It's a pointless thing to ask for because 99% of the viewers have no idea what system they're viewing the game on and the continued statements from Rockstar that the versions are "completely identical" make it an even bigger waste of time.

More likely the reason they're showing 360 versions is because the PS3 version is holding up the release date, just like we have seen with countless other games. Who knows? It could be the 360 version holding it up. We just don't know.

In either case, it doesn't matter because both games will look identical and will release day and date to each other. Only later will the 360 get the DLC.

I swear, some of the people here are definitely in the Tinfoil Hat crowd. Everything is because Company A paid off the developer, Company B paid off a publisher, Periodical C is biased against Company C, blah, blah, blah.

Some things just happen because they make sense to whoever is working on the game or beause it's convenient for them to do it that way. Not everything has some money-laden conspiracy behind it.