GTA series is becoming pretty irrelevant and boring. Halo 3 would have outsold it by a mile had it released this year. That was obvious. No doubt Halo is a much bigger series. Gears of War 2 would be a bigger seller also.

Also this rumor is obviously not true. GTA cant be Sony exclusive without losing most of it's sales since 360 is the dominant console in NA and Europe and Japan doesn't buy GTA.

But I'm just saying, even if Sony gained GTA exclusive, it wouldn't matter much.

BTW this thread title is pretty misleading since it's obviously not even much of a rumor from a small PS3 fansite. 

It would be a HUGE deal if this is true. It would sell consoles in the long run and be something that Sony would profit from greatly. GTA is one of the most popular series in recent years and would move the PS3. If it was just GTA4(which I think they would be contractuallly obligated to finish the game for the 360 as well as the DLC) I don't think it would push an additional 10-12 million units in a short amount of time. But it would get one heck of a bump, moreso then a Halo 3 would have on the 360.

 GTA is getting kind of ho-hum. The first one on this gen (GTA4)will attract some attention with new graphics on the move to new machines, but GTA5 would just be more of the same and since they would have roughly the same gfx, people wouldn't be that excited. GTA was already losing steam before with GTA Vice City,  Liberty City bla blah blah, each one selling less than before.

Also no use discussing this as it's not true, obviously. 

not happening.

1. without rockstar, take two as a company is close to worthless. letting rockstar go essentially means take two is liquidating, which is absolutely not the case.

2. most publishers derive a significant amount of revenue from multiple platforms; that's why going single platform essentially means something like halving the revenue stream. that means sony would have to grossly overpay for the business in relation to its future revenue stream.

3. if it makes business sense to sony, it would make business sense to microsoft, and microsoft will surely outbid sony. in fact, microsoft was mentioned as a potential suitor for take-two when its troubles surfaced earlier this year. if nothing happened then, nothing is dramatically different now.

  Ok, I've never bought a GTA, haven't been interested.  But I just did a quick search on vgchartz here.  So GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas on the PS2 both sold over 14 million.  How could rasone77 be wrong in saying Rockstar's profits would shrink?  At max, their games would sell 4 million right now if EVERY PS3 owner bought their game.

   I think the deal would be a bad idea for Rockstar, if Sony isn't throwing something extra in.  At least short term, just like rasone77 said.  But if this goes through, it sure will be a good deal for Sony. 

Our mentally challenged free lancer put this story up. The guy who wrote this works for Vivendi Games which should tell you right there that he is an idiot. Vivendi is one of the worst devs there is. There best games are worse then EA's worst games.

R* wont comment if this is trust or not anyways. I dont even believe it, I'd more or less believe Sony payed R*/Take Two for exclusives not buying the whole company.

 Well honestly I don't see 11 million people buying a PS3 for GTA4 alone, ohh it will cleraly sell a lot of PS3:s but 11 millions? Thats a lot. Of course I can be wrong so no need to throw shit at each others and write angry message at each other just because we disagree right.

 but the 14million was with a userbase of 100million easy. that is what ten percent? if that so if they had exclusive rights to GTA4 it would sell maybe 900k if rockstar lets sony buy them it will be a big big big mistake cause look at the multiplateform games beng released soon and the money they will make from it.

Of course there profit would shrink if they were not gunna do it on the 360 (its common sense) but thats not to say it cant sell more then 15 million copy's. GTA games have that lasting apeal. If GTA4 were released on the PS3 only then I would expect sales of the PS3 (just in America) to jump in the millions for that month.

GTA is a hit around the world. Its biggest in Europe, then US, and it sells pretty decent in Japan (look at GTA:SA and GTA:LCS). If GTA were released I would expect worldwide console sales of the PS3 to be in the 3 million range. GTA is that popular.

Crap. That means no future Wii rockstar games. I kinda like R* too. Well, this will definately help PS3 in the next few years, so long as the developers stay and don't jump ship to make new companies. That seems to happen a lot when one is bought out.