Microsoft Fanboy puff piece.

Microsoft just spouted a load of positives from thier perspective. "Microsoft cares more about security than their competitors and for good reason" as if any objective person could take that seriously.

Hmmm...seems like it was an excelent business move by M$. It may prove to be over ambitious if the they don't get at least get 75% percent of sales.

If I got the 360 version I would feel like I needed to buy the content in order to get the most out of the game. I'll just get it for PS3 and be done with it.

Besides, I hate having a guilty conscience.

 Don't microsoft get the $50M back though? This effectively means that they have made two games exclusive to the 360 for no money at all. I don't think Rockstar are that stupid. The DLC is probably just some more missions and a few more vehicles/weapons. 

No they got what was essentially a guarantee "You make the DLC exclusive to the X360 and you will get $50M dollars in revenue" they didn't make it for nothing, they made it for a guarantee of the financial success of their DLC and I doubt their contract with MS will allow them to make just "just some more missions and a few more vehicles/weapons."

I expect a new area and a story arc, kind of like the HL2:E1 and HL2:E2, not large enough to be a stand alone game but most definately a decent expansion to GTAIV.

"If the DLC was anything like the size of VC or SA, I would consider a $30 price a bargain. "

Since it is up to Rockstar if they want to charge for it or not, I seriously doubt that the size will be "anything like the size of VC". If they were this big, they would charge for it period.

In the end we will have to wait and see. I expect that the work Rockstar puts into them will (in the frame of the contract with MS) vary depending on the success of a first "test" expansion and on GtA4 sales on the 360 compared with the PS3.

Bottomline it would be much more informative if a Rockstar guy said something about them not a Microsoft guy. Especially if you take the vague sentences into account.

I think it's pretty clear that these will be a big deal, and that Microsoft will advertise the heck out of them, so that everyone in the world knows that yes, the Xbox360 has the definitive version of GTA IV.

I think it's odd that some people throw these aside like they're nothing when I think they're a pretty important turning point for the year.

"I think it's pretty clear that these will be a big deal, and that Microsoft will advertise the heck out of them"

They need to for 50m. But to be honest its hard to get excited about downloadable expansions to a game that isn't even out, expansions we know nothing about. Size/Setting/ a single screenshot? I mean for all we know they could be new cars and additional songs for the radio. So perhaps we will care more after we got some details.

The question I have to ask is with the DLC being the size of full games, as stated by this article, where does this leave users that purchased X360 for GTAIV but got the Arcade SKU without a hdd. This could be a bad public relations issue. Especially in light of the whole Burnout Paradise controversy. I don't know, Microsoft better be careful with this...