GTAIV bundle for PS3 might be correct. But I highly doubt the bits about Fallout 3 and Bioshock.

PS3+GTA4 bundle april 29 in europe

http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-128744.aspx

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I'm not commenting on the numbers (which I agree with), but about Take-Two's possible profit on the downloads:

They will never see a dime of it. Their cash came from Microsoft's $50 million to create it. The DL's (or most of it) will go towards MS making some of that cash back.

the 360 version will sell better.

I think 8-9m 360, 4-5m PS3 WW. The 360 has a proven that when there is a multiplayer aspect to a multi-platform game, it blows the PS3 version out the water.

A GTA4 bundle for PS3 to me looks increasingly unlikely as we are so near release date and giving this game away in a bundle would severely detriment revenue from the franchise as they have to sell it much cheaper. Anyhow, most retailers here (I live in the UK) are advertising GTA4 with the 360 more heavily (check HMV, they are giving away Live points and vouchers).

Bethesda has given exclusive interviews and in-game details to a lot of 360 magazines so Fallout 3 being PS3 exclusive is definitely not going to happen.

Im not flaming, just giving some facts and what I think.

in my opinion patcher's estimated price of a $15 download is crap.

Microsoft paid $50 million dolalrs for exclusivity, that means they are going to make the price. Knowing those greedy bastards the actual retail is going to be around 20-30 dollars until they make their money back. Not worth it that's par of the reason why I'll be getting the PS3 version (or PC depending on if I have a PS3 before they release it).

I posted this when he said it in gametrailers' bonus round, and he is an idiot.

ms isn't trying to make the $50mil back in downloads

they are trying to make it back in extra sales (they get paid for each game sold) and extra console sales + extra game sales from those console owners, etc

the d/l money is just gravy

There are a lot of confusing factors when trying to make this prediction...

There will be people choosing a system to buy this game.. .Which one will they choose?

360 + Episodic content?

PS3 + Free online play?

Are they looking at the other games that are coming out this year?

Are they looking at playing past next-gen classics?

Does the former tight association with the PlayStation brand for GTAIV make a difference? Lots of issues.

Conventional wisdom would say that the 360 will sell more... right?

After all, there are 17.75 million 360's out in the world to about 11 million PS3s... So more customers.... It is more of a "U.S." game. And here in the U.S. there's even more 360's out there compared to PS3s.

Look how different games don't always reflect the ratio of hardware out there...

I dumped some vgchartz data into a spreadsheet to look at this last week... (There are some "world" sales numbers in there that appear that they only are US numbers... but you can get an idea of how much things can range).

(chart from March 25th, 2008)

I'm not sure what exactly to predict based on all this...

Here, I'll go out on a limb... lol:

**Wait for 8 weeks of sales minimum** and then:
US
360 version outsells PS3 version by 1.99:1 or lower (i.e. It will not break 2:1 and it will be substantially less than the 2.6:1 console advantage that the 360 has). This would APPEAR to be the same as Michael Patcher's estimate... unless he was looking at world sales)

World
360 version will outsell PS3 version by 1.2:1 or lower (i.e. It will sell better on the PS3 than the 1.6:1 console advantage that the 360 has).

Question: If the ratio of 360s to PS3s in the U.S is 2.6:1, then when a game sells at below that ratio (meaning a higher percentage of PS3 owners buy the game than 360 owners), does that mean the game sold "better" on the PS3?

Obviously more copies would be sold to the 360 because there are more total customers... but would you put meaning to the ratios?

I think is going to be a 3:2... but Im not sure, EU and JAP could give a nice boost to the PS3...