Grand Theft Auto IV Unveiled On 360

Despite expectations that this would be the least eventful of the E3 pre-conferences, Microsoft's Peter Moore drops the news that Grand Theft Auto IV will be on Xbox 360. Rockstar and Microsoft have teamed up to do exclusive episodic content in the GTA gameworld for the 360. Slated to release October 16, 2007 in North America, October 19 in Europe. Other details include lots of support for Live Arcade titles (Sonic, Galaga, Street Fighter II), the official unveiling of Shadowrun for the 360 and PC, the airing of the Halo 3 Teaser Trailer (which is already on Xbox Live), and much discussion of 'Live Anywhere'. This last is an expansion of Xbox Live to PC and cell platforms in addition to the Xbox arena.

Re:Gamespot says no.

[koweja]

Are you really expecting Moore to have a clue. He's probably still convinced that there is no PS3 and the 360 is competing with the PS2. No GTAIV on PS2 = XBOX 360 exclusive.

The other news...

[Robotron23]

Bill Gates' entrance!

"What is that in Bill's hands? He's holding a tiny white object and can't stop fiddling with it."

Finally! News that Bill truly is one of us - except hes probably more compulsive about the whole thing. :-D

From the Article

[Orrin Bloquy]

"While the game will be available for both the PS3 and 360, only XBox Live will have access to the 'Throwing Chairs Monkeyboy' mod. Rockstar CTO Paul Walker was quick to go on record that the game will *not* become a single-platformer: 'We would never marginalize our most successful demographic, overweight white suburban kids who wish they were dangerous Negroes.'"

I roll with Mario

[asusag]

You know what? Super Mario (fill in the blank) is coming out exclusively for the Nintendo (fill in the blank) and that is all I need. I'll probably not buy either the PS3 or the 360.

Re:WRONG... episodic releases are exclusive

[Jordan Catalano]

The Xbox version will have "episodic releases" via Xbox Live.

Oh goodie. I'm glad companies are finally listening to me, the consumer. I'm sick of buying a game and then having it. I'd much rather be nickle-and-dimed for additional content as it's made available to me at their discretion.

Re:The other news...

[spun]

"What is that in Bill's hands? He's holding a tiny white object and can't stop fiddling with it."

There's a reason he named his company micro soft...

Next you'll tell me it has FPSes and sports games

[glindsey]

Whoa, an "urban simulator" on the XBox?

How innovative!

that's a crapload of dosh!

[Thud457]

XBox 360 with 20GB hard drive ($400) + HD-DVD drive addon ($100?) + 1 year XBox Live ($50) = $550. Playstation 3 with 20GB hard drive ($500) + Bluray drive (included) + 5 years online (included) = $500.

$500? FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ?!!
And that's without even a game!

I can give a starving village in Africa a herd of four goats [heifer.org] that would make them self-sufficient for that kind of money! (Hah, I bet you thought I was gonna say I could buy blowjobs for a year!...)

Re:Unified Live!!

[MoriaOrc]

acheivements and gamerscore are coming to Vista.

I can picture it now:
Microsoft Office Vista:
* Formated a document using Bold [10 Points]
* Narrowed the margins to make your report seem longer then it is [50 Points]
* Printed more then 10 copies of a document [25 Points]
* Saved the same document more then 20 times [10 Points]
* Created a new document [5 Points]
* Created 100 new documents [100 Points]

Oh boy! I sure know I can't wait!

Re:I roll with Mario

[Babbster]

It's too bad that Nintendo generally (and Miyamoto specifically) hate GTA. A Nintendo-style sendup of GTA starring Mario would be pretty cool. He could go into business selling mushrooms on the street, aggressively taking territory from Bowzer's gang [of Haitians].

Re:Halo3 trailer at Bungie.net

[IorDMUX]

The magic of E3... transforming "Offtopic -1"'s to "Insightful +1"'s everywhere!

XBox Live in action

[Silent sound]

Don't think of it as changing the story... think of it as a "patch".

Similarly, you can think of CmdrTaco's dupe of this story tomorrow morning as "episodic content".

See? Now XBox Live really is everywhere!!!

Re:I roll with Mario

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, and the Princess Toadstool Hot Coffee mod would be spectacular.

Re:that's a crapload of dosh!

[lazyl]

Or maybe not..