"Jack Tretton, President/CEO of SCEA, announced during their E3 2009 press conference that Rockstar Games, developer of Grand Theft Auto, was developing Agent, a stealth action video game exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 3. Despite just a logo being shown during the conference, speculation ran rapid and anticipation for the project grew immensely. Here we are more than three years later and we have yet to see any gameplay or hear more details on what Rockstar Games will be delivering with their upcoming project causing many questions to be raised."
-TheGamerAccess.com
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And tbh, even after GTA their main focus will be dlc or the next GTA so unless they move it to another studio its never gonna have the chance to enter full production.
As long as Rockstar keep the platforms for GTAV secret there is still always a remote chance it might even be that.
But back on topic, this started as an original Xbox game from what I understand. Some Rockstar employees were sent out to Cairo to take some pictures they could use for reference back in 2004.
So the possibility of it releasing on new hardware has some weight, since the IP's done it before.
Personally, I don't think it will ever see the light of day.
But this also begs the question of what kind of deal Sony had with Rockstar to begin with. I always thought AGENT was a way to compensate PlayStation enthusiasts for the lack of GTA IV episodes initially and losing out on LA Noire exclusivity. Makes you wonder if there is a written document stipulating that Rockstar owes an exclusive PlayStation platform title.
Take Two broke that deal with Microsoft check covering any losses from breaking the contract.
The clause in the contract was that Sony gets to choose another title as an exclusive.
So basically Take Two laid out some projects that were in the background being worked on or tossed around and Sony chose Agent.
At this point, sony could have changed their minds and chose another title or microsoft stepped in again with another 50 million dollar check forcing sony to choose another title. If so I hope sony was smart enough to sweeten the clause in the contract to maybe get two titles or some other form of payment from take two.
http://n4g.com/news/1052401...
Besides, they are a day late and a dollar short. Actually 62 days late.
http://n4g.com/news/1011281...
Sony wanted a new exclusive RockStar game for their new hardware (PS3), so they went to R* and said hey, make us a great game, and WE are going to fund the whole thing, spare no expense.
So a contract was signed to the tune of Sony giving R* 20 (or it was 25) million dollars. (this signing was behind the scenes late 2005 early 06).
The game and tech R* came up with, with that 20 million dollars was the basis of L.A. NOIR.
R* showed the tech demo of the game to Sony in a meeting early 2007, and as the story goes, Sony was not impressed compared to the things GG, Insomniac and ND were showing Sony......so Sony basically said this isn't good enough to warrant the exclusivity contract and 20 million, but they were very gracious and didn't want the money back........
Instead Sony said, go ahead and make all the money you can with this game you're showing us here. If you want to make it multi-platform, go ahead. Just sign this new contract saying that 20 Million will go towards building a game from the ground-up taking advantage of the PS3 hardware.
That game was Agent.
Basically.......The End........in terms of public info since that story came out back in like 2008.
Personally, my opinion is that RockStar /Take-Two REALLY love all the money they've made this gen cross-platform. Between GTA4, Red Dead and LANoir and their expansions, not to mention the 50 million from MS to make the GTA4 expansions exclusive for a year...........20 million dollars is chicken **** compared to the money they've made, and I suspect they decided they weren't interested in putting their efforts into a game exclusive to a single platform.
I believe they bought out that 20 million dollar contract, and just to not burn any bridges, probably paid Sony back double or even more.
I really believe that happened, and therefore "AGENT the PS3 exclusive game from R*" is no more. The question I have is: What happened to the assets for that game?, because it had to at least have a good 2 years of development in before that happened.
Did R* give the assets of the game to Sony, or is R* going to make it a multi-platform game? Or maybe this article is right, and it will be a PS4 game. But with the game not being mentioned this past E3, there's no possible way it's going to be a PS3 game.
??? Sony didn't lose out on LA Noire exclusivity. RockStar merely "helped" in its development, its main job was to publish the game. Team Bondi is the creator of LA Noire NOT RockStar.
Team Bondi, the team behind The Getaway series made the game and it was being funded by Sony and published by Sony.
They took YEARS to make it, wasted a whole lot of money and Sony decided to give up support of the team.
Team Bondi owning the IP rights to LA Noire went to RockStar to have it published and for help in the final development stages of the game.
Look up how this came about please.
@Larry- read above, RockStar didn't make LA Noire, Team Bondi did.
To question why RockStar would want to make a exclusive PS3 game is quite dumb. They are a open world developer that made GTASA (used up 5.2 gigs) and then made GTAIV (using up about 6.8 gigs) so if you clearly see and understand what i just said, you would have to clearly see why Sam and Dan Houser would want to make a Bluray game.
"Rockstar really wanted to make a game that you can truly only do on PS3, harnessing the power of the Cell and Blu-ray disc and this deal lets them do just that" as said by Sony's Michael Shorrock
"a game the company had been wanting to make for some time" Sam Houser
I believe hes saying this based off Bluray. A GTA game clearly needs the space and DVD9 clearly isn't cutting it.
If they make Agent clearly the PS3 version will be amazing, but the 360 version would have lots of installs and many disk, only based off of the size of such an open world game.
(clearly because the 360 version will clearly come over time as do all 3rd party timed exclusives (besides of course MGS4)
But you never know, MGS4 didn't make that jump because of Bluray, this game can very much be the same deal. Not porting because of hardware limitations (dvd9)
i think it will launch on ps3 and ps4. yes i do believe its still an exclusive and will remain as such IMO. RS and sony have a long relationship so i think RS might just do it as exclusive to create a lot of hype
Except that if Rockstar wants to, you know, make money it WILL go multiplat.. Keep on believing that fanboy BS about "relationships" if you want to.. bottom line is money talks.
Take two president have said they want to make a bang and being exclusive will create bigger hype his words not mine so who the heck knows when ts coming and which systems
But do t forget 2 things:
La:noire Sony funded about 20 million and than they let RS have it
GTA 4 was suppose to be timed exclusive for s3 but any let them out of the contract
So in my eyes agent is RS way of paying back
I think the choice is clear from a business point of view.
Sony will ultimately have no say so in whether this game stays exclusive or not. The only thing they can do is throw advertising / cash for exclusivity and I don't know Rockstar wants to go that route again after GTA 4.
A port would cost a lot of money and probably wouldn't even make them back a return.
ME2 on the other hand could be made on PS3 right away while 360 and PC development was going on.
Look at Wii U! Its not getting ME1 nore ME2. JUST ME3. EA is the reason why buddy, not MS.
LMFAO! Those businessmen who make those deals have contracts, they are not just fanboys or regualr folk. They could care less about this "console war" they are there to do there job and why on earth would they not carry a contract for such a thing? If Rockstar doesn't want exclusivity then its likly they've had to pay Sony something back for backing out on the deal (terms of agreement) Sony is literally leaving out there own first party games knowing such an IP is filling a "void".
Sony could had chose to have Sony London work on something else besides The Getaway 3 because of this deal, CLEARLY if RockStar changes there mind, Sony has something they need from RockStar in return for messing up there plans (breaking terms of agreement)
This is not just a promise made on the playground people. Rockstar and Sony are not just good buddies, they are companies with bankrolls and investors to please.
Nobody knows what behind door dealings are going on here. My point which is still 100% valid is that Rockstar not Sony will decide the fate of this game. IF (I stipulate IF) Rockstar is choosing to back out of a deal made with Sony there must be a big enough monetary reason to do so. There may be some kind of back out clause but given the game never had a hard release date of any kind I am sure those penalties are slight if anything.
So far the only company that actually benefited from this exclusive deal has been Sony to be honest. They got to go on stage at E3 and announce vapor ware (so far atleast) that was coming exclussive to the PS3. Made Sony look great on stage. More than likely this deal Sony had with them hinged on a huge marketing campaign that Sony would foot the bill on for exclusivity. No game means no marketing push which means both parties are able to walk away. Your it messed up Sony's line up falls flat given there was never a release date or true window, you can't plan around something that has no date.
Come to think of it, I guess even in that scenario you could say R* has final say, as they could opt to buy out the contract, though I don't think that is what you were trying to say.
Bottom line, we should know, or at least agree on what the general facts of the deal were to try to guess the obligations of the parties of the contract.
sony paid rockstar for exclusivity in order to move hardware, overwise they would just take their cut on a multiplat game without having to invest a penny on it.
That is why i think it is to late for Agent to have any effect on ps3 sales with just a year before ps4.
That would be amazing.
I guess it's nice that I'll be able to get a hopefully awesome Rockstar title at launch, so I am almost certain to get a triple a title along with my launch model PS4, but it sucks as a PS3 owner, as the game was supposed to be a PS3 exclusive in return for our delay on GTA4's extra content.
What get's me with this, is that you PS3 owners will "keep waiting"...
I'll put a tenner on it, that it'll end up mutliplatform.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
"Geoff Keighley: Still exclusive to PS3, though?
Jack Tretton: Uh, I'm not sure where we're gonna end up on that ... but I think we'll be very pleased with the PS3 offering on Agent."
That sure does not sound like a PlayStation exclusive to me. It looks like it will go the same way as L.A. Noire - starting out as a PS3 exclusive, and then going multiplatform.
http://n4g.com/user/news/ni...