This is a Playstation orientated article and is not created with the intention to provoke a “Fanboy War”

Digital Distribution.

It’s 2010 and distributing games digitally is becoming more popular. The developer can get direct feedback about the product, right after the digital launch. With a retail launch, there are at least 4 weeks between the finished game and getting it to the stores.

• Microsoft, Sony and Steam are really pushing the digital distribution of games with their services these days, Microsoft is using Downloadable Content as one of their pillars why people have to get a Xbox360.
• Sony on the other hand has a great catalogue of Playstation 1 games and DLC as well. On the Xbox360 you can download “Xbox Originals” like you download Playstation 1 games on your Playstation 3 trough the PS-Network.
• Steam (download platform by the company Valve)  is the biggest player in the digital distribution of P.C games. They have “exploded” in 2009 and now serve over 25 million people with digital content.

We can safely say that downloading games and content is now part of the gaming industry. People are used to downloading extra content or even downloading a full game to their hard drive.

Grand Theft Auto and DLC.

Rockstar jumped into the DLC market together with Microsoft for Grand Theft Auto IV with: The Lost And Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony ( Together: “Episodes From Liberty City” a disc which you can play without GTA IV)
Just yesterday Rockstar revealed that Episodes From Liberty City will also make it’s way to the Playstation Network(Sony) and Games for Windows Live ( Microsoft). This way  everybody can enjoy the new GTA content no matter what platform.

High Definition Version of GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas?
Microsoft brought Xbox Originals to Xbox Live and Sony brought Playstation 1 games to the Playstation Network. Enabling gamers to play their old but favorite games again on their sparkling new machine with upgraded graphics and/or up scaled to fit HD screens.

This brings us as GTA ( Right? ) fans to a really interesting discussion.
Could GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas be ‘upgraded’ to fit the Playstation 3 and be sold as the “GTA3 Trilogy [HD]” and be popular?
I have no doubt that it will be popular, the thing that IS a doubt: Are we ever going to see 3, Vice City and San Andreas in one package created by Rockstar Games for these machines?

It’s fun to think about the possibilities that rise when you have the power of the Playstation 3. But Rockstar is working on other and bigger projects this year which means we might not even see something like this. Check out the image below: San Andreas with the famous ENB-Modification. Is this how San Andreas would look like in a ‘upgraded’ way?

http://www.rockstarbase.com/?p=3641

I would buy it. I love rockstar and most of their games. It would be the ultimate if this happened!!!!

I'd want them to tune up some of the mechanics in GTA III and Vice City as well. The driving kind of feels like it's on rails and very twitchy compared to San Andreas.

I don't think the GTA's would really suit it, other then loads of people having already played them I don't see a benefit in going back to play them.

With the GOW collection it made sense so that people like me could play the first two, get the story and such like ready for the third (Just release in Europe FFS). Same if they do an ICO type thing in advance for The Last Guardian.

Saying that, I'd rebuy a rerelease of any Final Fantasy game if it had trophies, or any game I enjoyed on the PS2 probably 0_o.

That would be awesome, gta 3 ,gta: vice city and gta: san andreas, upscaled in HD like the god of war collection, it would sell so much.