Should GTA 5 be on iPhone 5 this year?

iPhoneRumors.com writes: When we first got our hands on Grand Theft Auto 3 for the iPhone it was amazing and extremely welcomed, which is thanks to hundreds of hours being spent on a birds-eye-view version. While we enjoyed playing that version for iOS, it was certainly lacking in features and graphics found in the newer game. When the iPhone 5 gets a release later this year we don’t want to wait a long time again for an upgrade to the current iOS offering, so should GTA 5 be on the iPhone 5 this year?

[danswayuk]

Car customization on the iPhone sounds cool, it would be silly to leave an iOS update for so long like they did before, of course this also includes Android.

[NukaCola]

They might be able to do an app for phone that tells you when you have missions or updates from GTA V like GTAIV did ingame. Could sync up and also sync up the Social Club. check friends stats, etc. I think that would be need. Especially if they updated missions or side missions more frequently like what inFAMOUS 2 did.

@danswayuk
I personally want another handheld GTA. I don't know why we never got a San Andreas Stories. But I personally loved Chinatown Wars on DS and it's by far my second favorite GTA next to GTA:SA. I would love another on on Vita/3DS.

[danswayuk]

That's a nice idea, but a full game would be good as well.

[bigjin]

NO, it shouldn't be there

[ricky360]

Then you don't have to buy it.

[TopDudeMan]

I don't see any reason why they can't make it another top-down old school GTA game for the iphone, the way they did chinatown wars.

[danswayuk]

You prefer this over GTA 3's style on iPhone, which is almost the same as console? That seems crazy, like going backwards.

[Moby-Royale]

Sounds normal to me, actually. In the same way that I enjoy Ocarina of Time, Starfox 64, MGS1, FFVII, Symphony of the Night, ect. ect.

I guess some people just do not enjoy those, I suppose.

[TopDudeMan]

I just think that's an ideal way to play GTA portably.

[Rhythmattic]

Actually, a little mini GTA game on Mobile devices would be a hoot!!!

The Rage game was fun on the iphone... Well implemented.... That is the key.

[ricky360]

Why have a mini game when it could be the full GTA 5 experience.

[dark-hollow]

sense smartphones could handle GTA 3 flawlessly then port san andreas next instead of GTA 5 which would be a heavily gimped version.

[Xx-ADITYA-xX]

lol wtf NO

[Nodoze]

NO!

[Zha1tan]

How would it control?

[danswayuk]

With touch screen although if it was an iPad version then you could use a bluetooth controller, and the iPad becomes a screen. Now that would be cool for mobile gaming and iOS, bring on GTA 5 to iOS I say and if you don't want it then don't buy it.

[Zha1tan]

I agree but what is the incentive to buy it if you need a controller to play it? its not exactly portable friendly if you have to pull a controller out.

Its not exactly practical but I wouldnt oppose them making it as it does not affect me if it is released.

[Zha1tan]

And i just had another thought, how are you supposed to hold the iphone and the controller at the same time?

[GraveLord]

Hahahahhahah!

You do know that not even Vice City could run on an iPhone right? Let alone V or even IV.

[NiKK_419]

You do know that GTA 3 runs on an iPhone, right? Why couldn't Vice City?

[ginsunuva]

Vita?

[Killman]

Lets see an iPhone run GTA IV first........

[Hicken]

People keep bringing up GTA3, but isn't that a far cry from pretty much everything after it? Are you saying GTA3 has nearly the complexity or content as IV? As V will have?

Then there's the ever-present(and somehow constantly forgotten) problem with controls: you simply can't do a game like this well with only touch controls. And making it compatible with some sort of controller means carrying the controller around to play, which makes it FAR less portable.

Oh, I left out the strain it'd have on the batteries, too. Cuz, you know, playing a game like that is gonna use up a lot of power. And that leaves you with less energy to do what you phone was made to do: make calls. Then again, I guess if things like that mattered, people wouldn't be pushing the mobile angle as hard as they do. Impracticality never enters into the equation.

Could they have some sort of application or minigame that ties in to GTAV? Sure. That'd work just fine. But the full-fledged game?