Sony to acquire Rockstar?

Posted Aug 9, 2007 at 10:45AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3, PSP Tags: Sony, Take-Two Interactive
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Sony acquiring Rockstar? Well, we don't think so... - Image 1 We've been hearing several reports for a couple of weeks now saying that after the release of the much-anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3), Rockstar Games is not only developing a new franchise for Sony consoles but is going Sony exclusive all the way.

Given those talks, it's not impossible if the next thing we hear about is Rockstar Games being absorbed by Sony. And that's exactly what PlayStation Universe is saying right now. One correspondent of the said fan site reported:


Various sources in the press and development team state that Sony is looking to take Rockstar "under their wings". While we learned that any agreement Sony and Take-Two entered into would not affect the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV...


Such an agreement would presumably affect any future releases from Rockstar, including the new franchise Sony has been discussing and L.A. Noire, which looks likely to be a PS3 exclusive at this point as well.


 

However, we believe that there are a lot of things to consider first before taking this piece to be true. First, the controversial game Manhunt 2 is still in limbo and aside from that, it's hard to believe that Take-Two Interactive is going to let go of its top asset that easily.

It should be remembered that the publisher just recently fixed its internal problems and losing Rockstar would mean the world to them. As of this writing, Rockstar Games or any of the companies involved for that matter has yet to give an official announcement.

Thanks to qual for the heads up!

Via PSU

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by BigsmokeSA - 2007-08-09 05:20
» yay

first

by Rikimaru - 2007-08-09 05:27
» Another rumor

Holy poop. This wll be big if it happens but its just one of those pesky rumors.

by Razgoull - 2007-08-09 05:31
» unh!!

Why not... Buy R* and take the 50 millions M$ gives. It's yours now.



I really don't like what's happening in that Gen. It's win or break!



I hope in the next-gen, Sony and M$ will unified and make the one and only ultimate machine.

by Boby Brown - 2007-08-09 05:32
» go...

Sounds great ! This way Sony can screw M$ !!! Simple: I like it !

by Randy - 2007-08-09 05:36
» !!!

*plays Darth Vader theme*



dun dun dun dun dundun dun dundun

by REPLYER - 2007-08-09 05:37
» iReply

With MS making partof the machine it may blow up.

by GMO - 2007-08-09 05:44
» OMGF OMFG OMFG

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!

by pie man - 2007-08-09 05:49
» sony sucks

If sony buys rockstar all the games are going to suck

by cake man - 2007-08-09 05:57
» WTF

how the ***** does sony suck? sony is the only company making decent games these days, and thats including third party.

by Steveoreno - 2007-08-09 06:03
» Free PS3

http://www.ps34free.com/default.aspx?r=862277



No joke, No scam, No Time Wasted!

by the by - 2007-08-09 06:21
» ok, here goes!!!

im a self confessed sony fanboy and yes im proud of it but..... i remember a big honcho at sony saying "we dont buy up 3rd party devs to make games for us unlike other consoles" i hope that they don't do it on moral principle however if they did then the floodgates could open up!!!

by gtauk - 2007-08-09 06:25
» if this happens

gta will be back on the console it should be on... playstation

by me - 2007-08-09 06:35
» nooooo!

no, please!!!

GTA is the best computer game in the world.

Making it Playstation exclusive would be a crime! A CRIME!!!



AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHH!!! !!!!



Want to play GTA on my PC!!!

by PUGTON - 2007-08-09 06:36
» ....

If this rumour turns out true then it just means Sony is doing what they should have done years ago.

It would be a big kick in the teeth for Microsoft but not as much Nintendo if Sony was to buy Rockstar.

by Half_Life000111 - 2007-08-09 06:57
» It's not the same concept

Sony is looking to completely buy out Rockstar making them a full fledge first party publisher voiding the idea of the money being a bribe. This is different than what Microsoft has done in which is bribing a 3rd party publisher, not making it a 1st party publisher, into making exclusive content for the 360. This is how publishers become 1st party.

by Mister Common Sense - 2007-08-09 07:00
» exactly

They're going to half ass all they're games and say they're only possible on the PS3 and with blu ray storage.



Yeah, goodbye to all the Rockstar classics we've come to love. Hello to all the BS that comes with sony trying to make money for all the divisions they own.



If it happens, not only will I never buy a sony product again, I will take every sony product in my house, throw it into the street, and torch it.

by Steveoreno - 2007-08-09 07:01
» Free PS3

http://www.ps34free.com/default.aspx?r=862261



No Joke, No Scam, No Time Wasted!

by Mister Common Sense - 2007-08-09 07:05
» it should be on a successful console

Grand Theft Auto started on the PC. It's already coming to the PS3, which Rockstar is probably losing a lot of money on already. What are you complaining about? The PS3 is the reason it's been delayed! The $50 million for exclusive content MS paid is probably allowing Rockstar to finish up the PS3 version!



The PS3 is LUCKY to have GTA IV, as many other former playstation series have gone to XBOX exclusive for obvious reasons.

by Mister Common Sense - 2007-08-09 07:07
» .

Microsoft makes exceptional games, not just decent games. They actually care about games, not a movie format.

by . - 2007-08-09 07:13
» .

you two are so retarded

by I - 2007-08-09 07:16
» OMG

Mister Common Sense you seem so desperate and pathetic replying to everybody here. You look like a scared little girl I'll bet your refreshing this page like crazy aren't you.

by me - 2007-08-09 07:18
» exclusivity is not good in this case

man! i think it is great to hav

by Ash - 2007-08-09 07:19
» WHAT?

Why would the games suck? Sony won't be able to tell R* what to do, that's the beauty of R*, they are like a gamble. They are Take2's main reason for money loss and at the same time Take2's biggest money maker. R* likes to gamble and push limits. If this is true, then Sony should at least let them be the way they usually. If they do some ***** like rebrand it Sony-Rockstar and cut away all the risks and gambles, it will become *****.

by This Guy - 2007-08-09 07:25
» Sony's 1st Party

Why are people saying that Sony's games suck? Gran Turismo, God of War, Twisted Metal, Jax and Dexter, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, etc.... These are all 1st party games by Sony. Do all these games suck?



M$ has Forza and Halo.



Ninty has more (and I mean MORE), Mario games. Metroid and Zelda to round it out.



Sony comes up with new 1st party franchises all the time. Resistance, Motorstorm, Uncharted, etc...

by lol - 2007-08-09 07:28
» the irony...

So big boy M$ spends 50 million on a few extra missions, Sony buys the company. Looks like Sony had the better hand after all.

by pspfanboy - 2007-08-09 07:35
» darn

what games does sony make?

God of War?

1 game in 15 years?



if i had to buy a system based on 1st party software i'd buy a nintendo,then an xbox and last a playstation.



look at the psp,they sold 20 million of them and have 2 games that sold a million copies.



sony does know how to make good deals.

mostly ones that contradict thier stance on issues like "no rpgs in america" and look what final fantasy did for them. "no 2d games,everythin g must be 3d" and look how well the handheld industry did.



the blu-ray has more storage gimmick is about the same as saying the nintendo 64 carts have no loading time.



we barely had games taking up space on a dvd,are we to suddenly believe they all of a sudden need this extra space? Gamecube games looked great compared to the playstation 2,and the ps2 had a much larger storage space then the gamecube disc.

by 0.00 +no dollars and no ____ - 2007-08-09 07:36
» no

What series B1tch?>

by the by - 2007-08-09 07:50
» mcs is right!!!

gta did start on pc, but really made its money on ps2!!! as for the crap of the $50mill to finish the ps3 verson, whos to say that the real reason is that rockstar is having problems compressing the game to dvd for xbox360???

by Half_life000111 - 2007-08-09 07:58
» dumbass

Wow, nintendo then xbox then sony based off of good game.... aren't you an incompotent idiot. It's not like sony has the best titles on their console or anything......... the only decently good titles they are missing are Zelda, Mario, and Halo (that's not alot of titles). Oh, and the blue-ray isn't a gimmick by far...... besides the fact that every dvd company is moving torwards blue-ray..... and the fact that 1 level of killzone costs 2 gigs (25 levels.... hey that's 50 gigs *which a blue ray disc can fit)..... and the fact that it has the best high def. resolution *you saying that the blue ray is a gimmick is like calling high def. in general a gimmick* "See the difference and you'll know why it is there". Oh and the games Heavenly Sword, God of War, Haze, Little Big Planet, Home, Lair, Warhawk, Ratchet and Clank, apparently now all Grand Theft Auto tittles, Uncharted Drakes Fortune along with all of the Jak and Daxter series....... dude no games my ass. Microsoft they have Gears of War and Halo *that's it* (if it weren't for Halo the xbox would have been an utter failure). Nintendo has, expecially since the wii launch, only a few actual considerable games that can be called games. Most of what Nintendo has now is nothing but casual minigames. They've got Brawl, Metroid and Zelda. All of which is nothing new, just repeated and updated gameplay from old games. Everything else is cheap ass produced minigames. Look it up gamers everywhere are worried that the wii is going to get rid of the hardcore games and hurt ACTUAL games by pushing minigames into the market..... it's rediculous.

by Xman - 2007-08-09 08:10
» what?

this wont happen because sony doesnt have the money to do it!! only m$ can buy R*!! sony is broke!! and still loseing money!!

by LeOn - 2007-08-09 08:12
» Shut up

Shut the ***** up

by Seoulfood - 2007-08-09 08:13
» Microsoft games

are a mixed bag. Gears looked wonderful(altho ugh glitchy, maybe my xbox is dying I dunno) but Resistance wasn't the let down that most people said Perfect Dark was. Not many people liked Kameo. And there was that online FPS that released a little bit ago that I personally have not played, but got pretty ass reviews. I'll give them a point for Crackdown, because even though I found it really derivative, lots of other people liked it. Microsoft, in the end, hasn't really made many gems. But the system itself has a great library.

by Annoynomous - 2007-08-09 08:13
» Wow

Sony Taking Over Rockstar?Thats Just incredible.They Both make good games and if sony do aquire them,they'll just rock the gaming world.

by Seoulfood - 2007-08-09 08:22
» I suppose this could happen

With Hirai as the new man in charge, maybe he saw the value of actually doing pay-offs in order to get some exclusives. In the end, that wouldn't really be a huge deal until the next GTA comes out, because that is the franchise that sells the systems. I think for now, Sony should give Rockstar a $50mil incentive of their own in order for Rockstar to make some exclusive episodes for the PS3 version.

by Kutibh - 2007-08-09 08:22
» you're forgetting

Gran Turismo series...

by StrifeHawkins - 2007-08-09 08:30
» Seoulfood isn't too bright

why pay 50 million for episodic content? Rockstar are already making real games for them! LA Noire and other exclusives (strong rumour)

Episodic content is stupid for sony. The dont even have that sort of online user base to take advantage of that.

by Jesus Christ - 2007-08-09 08:34
» This is stupid;

This isn't going to happen. Not for any other reason other than the fact that, although I don't like Sony, they are a business, and they are run by semi intelligent businessmen. It would be totally pointless to buy them now, as GTA IV is ALREADY coming to the 360, we KNOW theres a PS3 exclusive coming out, and most people who actually know about LA Noire generally assume its a PS3 exclusive. What the ***** would they waste millions of dollars for to not change ANYTHING until late 09, early 2010 IF that. You have to consider that there will probably be a Table Tennis 2, theres still GTA IV, Manhunt, LA Noire, and the new Bully coming out on 360 and Wii. The next game that can even have a chance to go exclusive ( besides the already mentioned PS3 exclusive) wont be released for at least another 2 -4 years.

by moohahaha - 2007-08-09 08:41
» Party like a R*

GTAV exclusive hahaha

Bully 2 exclusive hahaha

Ping pong exclusive hahahaha

Manhunt 3 exclusive hahahaha

Original usualy good R* exclusives hahahaha

Your move.

by Hey Moron! O' me? - 2007-08-09 08:50
» O' Rly

so did bully suck?

did any of the GTAs on the PS2 suck?

does any R* suck so far?

No.

i thought so.

R* began with sony giving them great games that will for ever be remembered plus R* doesnt go out there way to dis credit other companiesa and they never boast about how great the graphics are they always focus in on gameplay and story. Sony has yet to butt in and tell R* what to do. Sony is completely confident with R* ability to provide consumers with great games that they will love.

by GigaByte - 2007-08-09 08:50
» lawl

hahahaha

i would lol so hard...

The GTA4 devs would sure love it, so they could drop the POSbox...

by Mister Common Sense Is gay - 2007-08-09 08:51
» Mister Common Sense is very gay

Mister Common Sense is really really gay



... Like it wasn't allways this way he use to like girls but then one day he realized he was to ugly and fat to ever get to 2nd base. So he became gay.... But sadly he is still to ugly and fat to even find a guy.



Joking aside ... R* would still make great games, they wouldn't join sony if they had to only make game A or B.

if this is true that is.



and who said it was the ps3 fault? No one from R* .... Face it it was delayed because of bugs ands problems on BOTH systems ...

by Silver-Tiger - 2007-08-09 08:52
» xD

That really mad my day XD xD XD

by ... - 2007-08-09 08:57
» ...

Sony is *****ing rich, (not as rich as MS) of course they can afford to do it.



How old are you Xman? Are you like 12?

by Silver-Tiger - 2007-08-09 08:59
» ...

everything you just said was totally BS...

by gtauk - 2007-08-09 08:59
» common sense

you don't know the ps3 caused it and why do you think it has been delayed for both consoles if it is the ps3 causing it then? and the ps3 isn't lucky to have it and gta will always be on playstation

by gtauk - 2007-08-09 09:02
» sony

is still making profits from ps2 but mainly out of the gaming division

by Spectre - 2007-08-09 09:02
» great

Btw, GTA did start off on the PC. BUT! it was garbage. gta3 set the standard for sandbox gameplay, gta:vc brought the series into the open, and gta:sa pushed the limit to how much violence/sex the industry is allowed to have in a game. and guess wut...they were all done on the PS2.



R* has a chance to build games from the ground up to utilize the ps3 hardware and find new horizons for innovation. sony has a chance to capitalize if they can acquire R* and set the world on fire with controversy.

by gtauk - 2007-08-09 09:06
» the psp

outsold the xbox

by hush404 - 2007-08-09 09:18
» ha

Hope its true. Simply because this kind of thing has been happening all around sony for so long. MS simply throwing money at devs to get their support. With R* teamed up with sony, only good things can come.

by Nail - 2007-08-09 09:19
» Suck my p3nis

Nooooooooooooo that means i have to by a ps3......

by hush404 - 2007-08-09 09:32
» lol - Just thought of something

If Sony acquires Rockstar... they simply have to say "yeah... make that exclusive 360 GTA4 stuff... multiplatform... now". ;)

by Spectre - 2007-08-09 09:38
» join the bandwagon

buddy

by what needs to be said - 2007-08-09 09:44
» they both pay companies

look, both sony and microsoft pay companies for exclusives. gta stayed sony exclusive for a while (forced the slow development of the xbox version) by paying for an exclusivity contract. the same happened with assasins creed, it was only for ps3, but then it was announced for the 360. microsoft bought bungie when they found out about halo, and purchased rare. microsoft and sony are not alone in this, evenb nintendo did this when they found out about metroid. it was made by another company but nintendo bought all rights to the game to stop other formats getting it. they have all done this at one point or another, but sony is by far the worst. on a side note, the ps3's blu-ray drive can only read the 25GB BD-roms as it was released before the 50GB version was made stable. the only way it could have held 50GB was to delay the release of the ps3 even more. every other division of sony is in the red, and if the playstation fails (looking more likely with the sales figures, sales dropped by 87% in the second week) sony will go down with its playstation division. microsoft have far too much money to ever disappear, and nintendo will always get non-gamers to waste money on overpriced addons and games.

by Sony - 2007-08-09 10:04
» IS

Sony + 2nd largest electronics producer. And they started makeing electronics 35 years before MS was even born.

by old - 2007-08-09 10:17
» @hush

I don't think so more like create different episodes but that is if they acquire R*

by - - 2007-08-09 10:22
» -

you are wrong. kojima said mgs4 will be on dual layer 50gb bluray disk.

by Beejbc - 2007-08-09 10:22
» sony in the red?

all of their other divisions are in the red? what the hell are you smoking?

It literally took 5 seconds to find Sony's Q1 earnings.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/07q1_sony.pdf



You seem to forget that Sony is a) popular brand b) makes great products and c) has numerous profitable divisions.



So youve put a BD 50GB in your ps3 and it didnt work? Weird because Talladega nights and Click were on 50GB discs.. keep spewing ***** from your mouth and you might have to go to the doctor to get that checked.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/10/06/sony-pictures-first-three-50gb-titles-officially-announced/

by na2rul - 2007-08-09 10:25
» M$ gd games???

Only thing i noticed from M$ are crap games focused too much on boring real life activities i.e racing games, flight simulator........err train simulator. nothing new and innovative

by Spectre - 2007-08-09 10:26
» ROFL

PWNT. 2 points for Beejbc

by Xbox360fanboy - 2007-08-09 10:49
» haha

Microsoft is gonna take over sony! What now?

by PS3Fanboy - 2007-08-09 10:51
» haha

Your gey! Sony gonna tak over microsoft! Folding at home is awesome! I don't care about games! ***** you xbot!

by Stealth! - 2007-08-09 10:52
» pie man

By that logic its like saying any Developer exclusive to MS lets say Bungie will make s.h.i.t.t.y games for xbox, like Halo3. No thats not true, we all know Halo is going to be good, i hope the ending is better than the last one.



Man there is so many things wrong with your comment its a wonder why your here.

by Xbox360fanboy - 2007-08-09 10:55
» What!

No! I'm not gey! your gey!



I got all these good games...like halo...and that awesome game called Red ring of death!

by PS3Fanboy - 2007-08-09 10:59
» So?

I got games...like..resistance....and motorstorm!



My ps2 also had a game similair to Red Ring of Death...except it was called Disc Read Error! It got a 10 out of 10!



So STFU GEY WAD!

by dopey - 2007-08-09 11:01
» .

LOL..Wii mini games....

Yea thats true.....

Microsoft has some other good games too ....like umm...umm...nope. Just HALO.

And Gears of War....good game, but its not microsofts. It could even go multiplatform.

I wouldnt be surprised if Gears of Wars 2 comes out for the PS3.

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:06
» bad idea

that machine might catch the red ring of death desease

by pokehater - 2007-08-09 11:10
» .

fo..get ur facts strait.

All of that..is BS to me.

Mgs4 is already 39 gigs long..so it will be released on a blu ray dual layer disc.

by ass - 2007-08-09 11:10
» ideot

learn to spell

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:15
» ur right this guy

m$ really sucks with 1st party and basically depends on third party sony's creative with its their new games

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:23
» not really

sony's got God of War I and II, Gran Turismo, God of War, Twisted Metal, Jax and Dexter, Shadow of the Colossus, ratchet and clank, resistance, motorstorm (decent game), and coming soon are games like Heavenly Sword, Lair and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and killzone 2

while M$ seems too have Halo, forza motorstport, project gothem and Mass effect

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:30
» umm xman ur lying im telling

th ps3 is doesnt determine sony's wealth ( its not doing that bad anyway 4.6 mil) the bigger market is the bluray its already been established and they get a lot more money then microsoft is worth

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:35
» Question

-how long have you been around Jesus

-more than 2000 yrs!!! so why are you fussing around about 2-4 yrs

by jodf - 2007-08-09 11:40
» and by the way

this would mean GTA V, VI, VII etc. would be exclusive

by Spectre - 2007-08-09 12:06
» HAHAHAHA

Do you know why the Disc Read Error got a 10/10 and the Red Ring of Death got a 2/10?



Sony didn't take the initiative to extend anyone's warranties so if anyones PS2 had the problem after the warranty was up, it was GG. Dead PS2 owners had to buy new ones...and they had no choice coz it was the true winner that generation. Sony didn't admit to the DRE until this year...>HAHAHHHA!



RRoD? lmao, Peter Moore jumped ship after announcing the warranties because he feared being fired for doing the right thing. BOO!

by ... - 2007-08-09 12:14
» ...

"the ps3's blu ray drive can only read 25gb BDroms" - really? Proof please.



Nintendo bought metroid... a ha ha... Super Metroid (equals) brainchild of Gunpei Yokoi (equals) creator of Gameboy (equals) Nintendo employee...



Stop spoutin BS

by Boo Halo - 2007-08-09 12:19
» Microsoftc0ck blows

Am I the only FPS fan that didn't think Halo was that revolutionary. I think the open environment of the second level was great but the gray walled corridors were the majority of the game and all other levels kept you on a fixed track. Halo 2 was even more set on a track but they finally had online, although Socom was already eating up all my bandwidth for over a year before MS got their online act together. Anyway, Forza looks like trash next to GT hd. So beat it fanboys

by Xman - 2007-08-09 12:27
» ha

sony will go out of buzzness if they try to buy R* you idiotes!! anyway gta for the 360 will still look and play beeter!!

by Barakku - 2007-08-09 12:28
» Ha

I've never seen anyone so full of ***** put down so succinctly. Nice one, Beejbc.

by Seoulfood - 2007-08-09 12:39
» GTA is really the one that matters

You want to give buyers incentive to choose Sony's version over the Microsoft version, so you need to have something that is comparable to the extra episodes that the 360 version is getting. I'm sure LA noire will be great, but GTA is the one that EVERYONE is anticipating.

by Spectre - 2007-08-09 14:26
» GTA4

will be banned for the XBlowx711. check out this link:



http://www.futuregaming.com/news/microsoft-to-ban-gta4-before-release.html

by advertising - 2007-08-09 14:29
» Mister No Common Sense

STFU

by 7 - 2007-08-09 15:01
» LOL

You can tell this guy doesn't know ***** what he's talking about. And yes the PS3 can read 50 Gb Blu-Ray discs MGS4 and possibly Killzone 2 will be the first PS3 games to use such discs. Oh and btw the PS3 has sold 4.6 million units worldwide.

by FFS - 2007-08-09 15:32
» No

No, No, *****ING NO!!!!



Almost every developer absorbed into Sony turns to *****. Besides, all R* games are better on PC.. PERIOD.

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by tick tock - 2007-08-09 15:50
» not really

All you would get is a whole bunch of Mario related games, some more zelda, and metroid prime. how long can you run on Mario. 3rd party games are usually a 7 or less. Sonys first party games usually shadow of the colossus, Kingdom hearts and God of War were within 15 years. the Gamecube disc format was actually quite big but today the amount of polygons it took to make a map is used on one character. the PS2 wasnt able to use that many polygons anyway.

by dumb ass - 2007-08-09 16:39
» aaa

it's jak and daxter you idiots

by dopey - 2007-08-09 16:56
» Ahh

Funk the pc. period. The PC isnt all that great. you have to worry about ur computer lagging, no 1080p, barely any people have a pc as good as an Xbox or ps3 technology, its not the big screen, CANNOT read BLURAY, no good online experience, and only nerdy people give a damn about PC gaming. Whats so good about it?? And its expensive.

by HailBlade - 2007-08-09 16:59
» Yea ***** the pc.

No blu ray..it means ur still stuck wit 9 gig DVD.

GAY!!!!!!!

Who has all of those requirements??

by . - 2007-08-09 17:02
» To REPLYER

Please, the only electronics product I've ever come across that actually does blow up has been a Sony product. Remember those laptops? Please leave fanboyism out of this

by NanakiXIII - 2007-08-09 17:10
» Know what I hate most???

*****ing PC fanboys... Sorry to say that cause I also have games on the PC myself such as Diablo 1+2, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sims, WoW, + FF7. But if I know one thing its that I never have to do upgrades to my Video Game Systems. Yes the graphics may be a little better but thats all PC gamers have to hype... Graphics... But I know whats alot easier. Not havinf to install large amount of memory to my game system such as the PS3 cause the game is directly played off the disc. And bringing the game with you is just so much easier cause I don't have to worry if my friends computer is good enough to handle it and if he even wants me to install it on his computer. A simple file on my mem stick and I can play in seconds. Plus honestly I feel so much more comfortable with a ps3 remote in my hand... or a wii... or even 360 than i do with a keyboard... Honestly a computer to hold all the games I would play and performance would be a fortune compared to the Ps3. Plus I dont go on internet except for multiplayer and PS Stoe so I probally wont catch a virus either. All in all PC gaming is not as glorious as it is made out to be but is still a step (a small step) better than systems.

by lol - 2007-08-09 17:22
» haha

even advertising thinks MCS is an arsh.

by the by - 2007-08-09 17:36
» pc 's are good gaming machines

but they are very expensive to keep up to date with the latest graphic cards, memory upgrades, hard drive upgrades!!! u could go on for years and years wasting money to get the 'latest gaming experience'!!! stuff that! i'd rather just sit down in front of a box that i know will play the games i want to play!! not sit down in front of a computer and go mmm-nice game, could do with another graphics card to make this play better though!!!

by XseraphX - 2007-08-09 17:59
» this would be

so awesome



no, not just awesome



really really awesome =)

by dEx - 2007-08-09 19:26
» Good

Now maybe they can scrap all of that crap that RockStar makes, and come out with some decent games.

by - - 2007-08-09 20:22
» pwned

sony fanboys, you just got owned by .

by paulpc - 2007-08-09 21:28
» SUPER

Sony + Rockstar = THE BEST

by danny - 2007-08-09 23:03
» theres only one looser

the looser is the people who play the games who only have one console. well thats lucky for me i have both xbox 360 and ps3

by jay - 2007-08-09 23:42
» ha ha microsoft now you can't say you have the best games.

lets see ps3 exclusive R&c tools of destruction, gta IV eh those are the only ones i wan't but still they would wan't to trade back there xbox 360's if they want to play it which the series was always more popular.

by dopey get your facts right - 2007-08-10 01:39
» stupid people....

First off PC's are capible of displaying way beyond 1080p. Last time I looked 1080p was 1920x1080 at 60 refresh rate. Even midrange graphics cards can pull that off. Second the last time I looked my laptop has a bluray in it.....Hmm. 3rd as for online play WHERE DID IT START? oh ya PC's. I own 4 pc's including my laptop, a PS3, Wii, and a 360. I will admit pc gaming has went downhill horribly. I would much rather play a game on my consoles due to the fact of easy pop the game in and go, no installing, no driver updates, and no operating system issues.



As far as noone having a pc as good as an xbox or a ps3....Ask yourself for what gaming. Ya prob. not. Consoles ARE MADE FOR GAMING. PC's are not designed specifically for gaming. the last time i tried to copy a movie on my ps3 or 360....Oh wait they can't do that.

by G.C - 2007-08-10 02:07
» Haaaahhhhh

Eat that bill gates u ugly wanker!!!! Haaaaahhh!! xbox 3 sh33ty...

by Manny151 - 2007-08-10 02:19
» To what needs to be said

!!!!BURNED!!!! you idiot. Good job putting this idiot in his place Beejbc. Where the hell does this idiot get his info from anyways. Microsoft has too much money, that's true but they are not idiots. They wont just keep pulling money out from their other departments to feed their gaming division for ever. I fthe Gaming division doesn't get its Sh1t together it wont last much longer. Right now they are what......like 3-4 billion in the hole. From now on what ever thoughts you got just keep them to your self and you might save some face in the future.

by Thinker - 2007-08-10 02:52
» To Common Sense

NOW you are sounding passionate. At least you've abandoned the pretense of having a valid reason for hating Sony, and went into all-out fanboy mode, which is what you are at your core anyway.

by Thinker - 2007-08-10 02:58
» To I(Unregistered)

As much as I don't like the sentiment of comparing MCS to a scared little girl, I have to agree that it DOES seem as if MCS is displaying a smorgasbord of the following emotions - fear, outrage, anger, uncertainty, doubt - and is lashing out at everybody here.

by rob - 2007-08-10 03:04
» you do realise...

it will only be as publishers, rockstars games wqill be the same, just Sony Exclusive

by h0mi - 2007-08-10 03:35
» load of crap

I agree. This is a bunch of _rumors_ on fan web sites.



http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id+169806

by MB - 2007-08-10 04:05
» ...

FYI Metroid wasnt "discovered", its a genuine nintendo developed and thought off franchise, they hired Retro to do the 3d ones on GC/Wii. Metroid 1/2 super metroid and Metroid Fusion were all developed inhouse by Nintendo.

by GTA SA 4 PSP - 2007-08-10 07:06
» PSP

If this happens sony will make them crete GTA San Andreas 4 PSP YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

by dssucks - 2007-08-10 07:06
» im a proud ps3 owner

now the only (decent) game 360 has is halo...

FU*K YEAH!!!

by all of you are *****got fanboys. - 2007-08-10 07:25
» you guys are morons

Sony just has ***** 3nvy



I've never seen such a large congregation of Sony fanboys ever. This is incredible. The amount of ignorance in this thread alone is astounding. No wonder you guys like

Sony so much. You can't think for yourselves. you're just saying what Sony has told you. Sony won't buy Rockstar because if Rockstar was smart it would continue making games for multiple platforms. They are going to make a killing on GTAIV because so many people have a 360 and less than half that number have a PS3. Until the PS3 has a larger install base an exclusive like a GTA is out of the question. That's purely from a business standpoint. Now everyone go suck your thumbs and watch Talledega Nights on Blu-Ray since that's all there is to do on a PS3 right now anyways.

by jodf - 2007-08-10 07:29
» but

GTA V wont because it wont come out for the 360

by Who cares! - 2007-08-10 08:07
» Garbage your m*m

GTA 1 was'nt garbage at all. It was a revolutionary game in that time (1997), fast gameplay, freedom to play your character as you wish, etc... GTA II offered the same thing but 2 years later so it wasn't that good.



Probably you're just a little kid that just look at nice graphics.

¬_¬

by Illusion8400 - 2007-08-10 08:35
» What the hell 360fanboys

Why do 360fanboys always point out the difference in install base between the barely one year old PS3, and the TWO year old 360, really, after 5 years, the PS2 had oblitirated the Xbox in install base, so, please, for the love of all that is good, SHUT UP UNTIL THE GREAT GAMES COME OUT. And if you are too much of a fanboy to admit that the PS3 does have some great games coming out, then you shouldn't be playing games to begin with



And please, other than Halo and Gears of War, someone please point out to me what GREAT MUST HAVE games the 360 has, that's all I'm asking, not bashing, just, tell me, as I only have a PS3 and honestly don't know...

by ME - 2007-08-10 10:21
» IPHONE

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Make sure you enter this number in the referal box 90610394 honestly.

by me - 2007-08-10 14:01
» .

wow you must not watch youtube everybudy like lights firecrackers on their DS and PSP and crap.

by jim - 2007-08-10 14:28
» ps3

ps3 is a load of crunk! it hasnt sold nearly as well as expected and sony are gonna try to buy out rockstar just to get ppl to by the ps3 for future gta releases. im not a x360 fanatic but i do think ps3's are a waste of time.

by alexxb - 2007-08-10 15:05
» Halo

Halo was supposed to be released on PS2 but Microsoft had bought Bungie before the release of Halo and so they changed the engine for Halo made it go only for the Xbox. So, if Microsoft didnt buy Bungie then, there most likely wouldnt be an Xbox 360.

by FallOutBoy - 2007-08-10 18:36
» HAHA!

Sony is hella rich they can even buy bungee and the creator of GoW....***** M$!!

The only rich people in M$ company is Gates which is losing money cuz he's buying Sony products

by alexxb - 2007-08-10 21:00
» Duh

Thats what game companies do, they buy other game developers so people will buy their console. About the PS3 being a load of junk, Blu-Ray is enough to say that it isnt.

by uibiub - 2007-08-11 00:28
» ubiubiub

uibiubiub

by dssucks - 2007-08-11 00:31
» qwerty

PS3 IS THE BEST!!! PS3 KILL ALL!!!

by Mehman - 2007-08-11 22:00
» Who Cares!

I bought a 360 cause it was Au$400 cheaper and came out 6 months earlier. So far I have seen a thing that makes me say "oh wow, I'm gonna gat a PS3". The PS3 is good but who care about the whole blu-ray thing. So far all the games have been about equal and I'm not paying 1000$ to get a couple of games I'll probably never play! unless I go back to malaysia and get 2 games a carry case and a 60gig model for 600 bucks. I'm gonna go do something real, like soccer.

by Stealth! - 2007-08-12 00:07
» Mister Common Sense

MS doesn't care for you, they want you spend money to deepen there wallets You got alot to learn on the gaming world, oh wait whats that you lack ah! right common sense lol.



The only thing they do is make FPS and downloadable content which isn't that great, PSN already offers what Live has plus there more coming.

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 21:32
» omg

r u serious!! evn ubisoft said they prefer to work with sony because they give them a lot more freedom unlike MS who give them strict guidelines and stuff wif they're next game Haze



"Blu-Ray Anyone?"

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 21:41
» wtf?

"Mister Common Sense"? more like "BS Sense"!! evrybody knows that develprs havnt gttn 2 grips wif the ps3 hardware!!! i knw that lately it seems to be the most overused excuse but its true. And what do you mean it should be on a successful console?? what the 360 wif a frckng 3-5% failure rate!! its even being outsold by ps3 in japan!! evn after its one year head-start!!!

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 21:49
» hell yeah!!

This Guy is right, 360 rely almost solely on third-party developers. I guess all their creativity went into making the xbox 360

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 22:05
» omg

pspfanboy u r a complete noob!! i cant believe you said that xbox has good first-party games or that sony has only one first-party game, you been living in a hole or something?

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 22:13
» ummm

Rockstar is actually making a new franchise exclusive to PS3, its not a rumour bro

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 22:20
» ahahaha

nice one Beejbc, u brought him down, u brought him down to chinatown i bet that what needs to be said will thnk twice b4 writing lies..just anuthr ill-informed sony-basher...

by blitz30952 - 2007-08-16 22:31
» hell yeah

can't think of any other good MS titles bsides Halo and GoW...

by Blueyescyclonee - 2007-08-21 05:53
» Mister Common Sense -

Dude did u ever think that the main reason why its been delayed is because of the XBOX 360 DVD -9 Rockstar can't fit all the content that they want to on it that they can do with the Blu ray DVD not just that they might have to comprise the the data to fit it all on the DVD-9 that the 360 use's.

by Brandon - 2007-08-26 15:00
» Oh god here we go...

First of all the ps3 does not suck, but neither does the 360.The 360 is just as good if not better then the ps3. It's also a lot cheaper and has a larger library of games.Contrary to popular belief, the 360 has pretty much every game the ps3 has. OO a bunch of games that involve Elves and *****. No thanks guys, not for me. ps3 will not buy Rockstar because Rockstar is f*cken rich idiots!They've got the best selling video games series of all time in their hands so why do they need Sony to buy them?So they can lose money because the majority of gamers can't play there games because they have 360.WOW!Look at that.The truth as told by a non-fanboy.

by BLAH1234 - 2007-08-26 17:33
» WTFWTFWTFWTF

If sony takes over and decides not to make GTAIV for 360 ill be so f***ing pissed off..nothing against sony, i used to own a PS2 but PS3 was too expensive, and ppl i know who played it said 360 was better, still no s*** against them.

by BLAH123 - 2007-08-26 17:36
» stfu

stfu n00b, you probably havent even played 360, i played PS3 and i dont think it sucks, just that 360's better

by 360 all the way - 2007-08-27 08:05
» YES

I agree with you 100% cept the 360 part cause i own a 360 and a PC

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