Rockstar Withheld GTAIV from Sony at E3

David Karraker, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at SCEA, to 1UP: "We requested it. We sent an e--mail out to every publisher and said send us your videos that you want put in the press conference, and they never sent it. Not much more you can say about that."

[mrk01]

there were only two availible videos, MS showed the second, it would've sucked if Sony showed the first one from March.

[jromao]

Money talking, isn't surprise Sony didn't got any stuff for E3, the $50 million from MS did work on that decision at Rockstar. Shame we still see this type of atitude.

[Mr VideoGames]

i think the Article speaks for itself...you decide lol

[Bloodmask]

I think this has a lot to do with Micro and that 50 Million. Micro is really trying to push the fact that they have GTA4 at the same time as PS3

GTA was one of the franchises that really sold a lot of PS2 hardware. I think Micro is hoping that it will do the same for 360.

[rosko486]

Why would they put out a new video when the second video had come out just a couple weeks before? It's not as if this video was made just for Microsoft. It was a generic video meant to be shown to everyone at the same time without giving any indication as to what system it was running on.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

Yeah it was actually weird that GTA wasn't that present in Sony E3 event, perhaps Rockstar didn't have PS3 build trailer done yet, the 360 trailer esp the second one had some serious framerate issues.

[Lord Anubis]

allegedly there's something going on with the PS3 version, Kotaku failed to mentioned that even thought they covered it in their interview with Jack and what Phil Harrison had to say.

[ErcsYou]

same as MS didnt show UT3 or haze....who cares, m$ probably made a deal with rockstar for exclusive e3 footage. that 50mil might have something to do with it to.....

its not like M$ had "live" gameplay...they got a trailer.....whoop de doo!!!!

[Eclipticus]

I swear to god, After GTAIV is released you will all see I am correct. Again. MS is gonna buy out Take-Two, and Rockstar.
Exlucsive DLC on 360 only. ManHunt 2 360 and Wii.

[highps3]

Oh no.. Who cares.

I think Sony did just fine without it.

[cartman313]

Yep, I tend to agree. GTA got boring, and I doubt this one will change anything. Sony has that game called Infamous for their sandbox genre. Looks a hell of a lot better than GTA.

[Adamalicious]

The trailer MS showed was old news by then anyway - I don't know why they bothered.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

to announce the exclusive 2 episodes

[darkdoom3000]

mabye the ps3 version will be better so they delayed it. theyre working on the xbox trailer first?

who knows, the fact that this map aint gonna be to big (smaller than the state of San Andreas) puts me off..
+no airplanes, thoes were the best feature in SA!!!!

[BBsin]

MS showed the same trailer that had it's debut a month or two earlier ("looking for that special someone") That very trailer was shown on both the PStore and Marketplace already.

Dont see the big deal besides the 2 episode DLC exclusively for the 360, other than that, Rockstar not sending Sony the same trailer twice isn't a big deal.

[daveman3]

maybe microsoft got e3 exclusivity for gta iv? doesnt really matter now, i saw it during the microsoft conferense so it would be almost pointless for me to see it again with sony

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Sony may get payback if microsoft steals GTA to 100% Exclusive status.

http://www.unconfirmedsourc...

[Eclipticus]

this is the stupidest thing i have ever seen.

[THC CELL]

i think there is a lot more to the ps3 ver- than people know.

i don't care i just want this game

[30ROCK]

Now this has nothing to do with the GTA4 trailer, but be sure that MS is not buying out Take 2, GTA4 PS3 will not be delayed (both versions would be delayed if the PS3 version was struggling), Xbox 360 will not become a PS2 because of having GTA4 AT THE SAME TIME as PS3, and GTA4 will not become a 360 exclusive..neither will Manhunt 2 go to 360.

Ties with R* can't be bad because of the message from Phil after E3, so no worries here. MS looked very stupid announcing multiplatform games at their conference, but I'm assuming they wanted this to be specific to their conference so they could brag about additional content which will have little effect, and will only release in 2008!!!

[TheXgamerLive]

in that the sony version may still be suffering, slow frame rate, low graphical quality, etc...

This is nothing new but that doesn't mean there not still supporting the sony build, they just weren't ready yet.
Hey, better safe than sorry.

We can all b1tch but isn't it a given already that the Xbox 360 version is always going to look better sooner.

[SIX]

All the thunder would have been stolen by KZ. Heck! it was even barely noticed at the MS conference. All strategy.

[Rockstar]

I did no such thing!

[Anything but Cute]

Is GTA IV exclusive to XBOX 360? I don't think so, so it doesn't really matter.

All I know is that Microsoft looked kinda stupid showing off the same exact trailer we have already seen a bunch of times on both LIVE and PSN. Peter Moore even had to comment " I know we've all seen this before" but not on a screen this big.

[xg-ei8ht]

Look better sooner, as in its easier to program. That should be correct.

Not sure how much different the versions with look.

Depends how much rockstar want to get out of each machine.

Kinda like cod4, They've already said they are pulling 60fps no problem on ps3.

There are good games coming out of both systems, but PS3's just look more fun?

[TheMART]

What kind of stupid reason is this...

They didn't mail back? WTF. If you want them on your show, you can

PICK UP YOUR DAMN PHONE AND ASK THEM!

Jees. Sounds like a really lame excuse. Ah well. I guess Sony feels pwned by Rockstar giving MS two episodic content pieces so if the GTA fans want the full and most extended GTA experience have to go for the 360 version.

[Ice]

This game will be great on both systems and I assume it's not a port from 360 and that it was designed from the ground up on both consoles possibly even starting on the ps3 over to 360. If this is the case it should look best on ps3. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[LONEWOLF231]

ICE, why exactly would it look better on the ps3????

You are forgetting which system has the better GPU!
Expect for the 360 version to have better FSAA and HDR effects!

[IPlayGames]

if u cant beat it buy it.

Bubbles plz

[brianodom]

why promote the screens from the 360 version..thats common sense