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endimion on 09 August 2007

well MS is probably willing to lose even more money if it means to put Sony even further down.... but I don't see it happening (buying R* for either of them).....

and I really don't want to see that happening...... because if it's sony I won't be able to play GTA on XB.... but mostly because I really want them to stay a 3rd party, it makes the market way more interesting.... I don't want the studio being owned by any of the 3 companies.... in my opinion it would suck for the gamers overall



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stranne on 09 August 2007

This can't be true. But then again, that's what (almost) everyone said about AMD buying ATI...



Bodhesatva on 09 August 2007

Not buying that for a second. If anything, Rockstar has been pulling away from Sony (Table Tennis, exclusive Xbox 360 GTA 4 episodes, Manhunt 2, Bully: Scholarship Edition...), and if Rockstar was really for sale (although I don't know why Take 2 would be selling what is probably their most profitable studio), Microsoft should have no problem outbidding Sony. Also, no reputable gaming website reported on recent Rockstar going PS3 exclusive rumors, just blogs and various lesser websites.

I'm putting this rumor in a fanboys' wishful thinking drawer for now.



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mitsuhide on 09 August 2007

Stranger things have happened than this.



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mitsuhide on 09 August 2007
Bodhesatva said:
Not buying that for a second. If anything, Rockstar has been pulling away from Sony (Table Tennis, exclusive Xbox 360 GTA 4 episodes, Manhunt 2, Bully: Scholarship Edition...), and if Rockstar was really for sale (although I don't know why Take 2 would be selling what is probably their most profitable studio), Microsoft should have no problem outbidding Sony. Also, no reputable gaming website reported on recent Rockstar going PS3 exclusive rumors, just blogs and various lesser websites.

I'm putting this rumor in a fanboys' wishful thinking drawer for now.

 And 2 PS3 exclusives because that is pulling away from Sony.



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vizunary on 09 August 2007
sharky said:

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. 

 

Bullshit, no way Gears of War 2 would outsell GTAIV, ever... you're completely full of it, troll.

Still a rumor, but cool anyways.

 



z64dan on 09 August 2007

I think probably the same thing will happen that happened with Rareware. The talented people all left after being bought out. I mean, Rockstar doesn't have that much intellectual property anyway, just a simple premise of a sandbox city with guns.



jhlennon1 on 09 August 2007
Bodhesatva said:
Not buying that for a second. If anything, Rockstar has been pulling away from Sony (Table Tennis, exclusive Xbox 360 GTA 4 episodes, Manhunt 2, Bully: Scholarship Edition...), and if Rockstar was really for sale (although I don't know why Take 2 would be selling what is probably their most profitable studio), Microsoft should have no problem outbidding Sony. Also, no reputable gaming website reported on recent Rockstar going PS3 exclusive rumors, just blogs and various lesser websites.

I'm putting this rumor in a fanboys' wishful thinking drawer for now.

Hmm.... Rockstar are pulling away from Sony yet they announced LA Noire as PS3 Exclusive, and Sony themselves confirmed another new IP to be PS3 exclusive.

That is not pulling away, no matter how you spin it.



Sporticus on 09 August 2007
vizunary said:
sharky said:

Bullshit, no way Gears of War 2 would outsell GTAIV, ever... you're completely full of it, troll.

Still a rumor, but cool anyways.


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Sporticus on 09 August 2007
jhlennon1 said:
Bodhesatva said:
Not buying that for a second. If anything, Rockstar has been pulling away from Sony (Table Tennis, exclusive Xbox 360 GTA 4 episodes, Manhunt 2, Bully: Scholarship Edition...), and if Rockstar was really for sale (although I don't know why Take 2 would be selling what is probably their most profitable studio), Microsoft should have no problem outbidding Sony. Also, no reputable gaming website reported on recent Rockstar going PS3 exclusive rumors, just blogs and various lesser websites.

I'm putting this rumor in a fanboys' wishful thinking drawer for now.

Hmm.... Rockstar are pulling away from Sony yet they announced LA Noire as PS3 Exclusive, and Sony themselves confirmed another new IP to be PS3 exclusive. No one is saying they're abandoning sony, but at the same time, there's no arguing they're no longer as fond of the PS as they once were.

That is not pulling away, no matter how you spin it.


Since almost all of Rockstars games were basically Sony exclusives last gen, the fact that only two of their games are Ps3 exclusive now does indeed show them pulling away.



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