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Umm, because it’s one of the best games of the year, perhaps?

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Are MORE good games to chose from bad for anybody? Besides, not all those games you mentioned as examples appeal to everyone. maybe very few do depending on their tastes, so GTAIV would possibly be a welcome addition to their collection.

I’d like to see MGS4 get a port also by the way. MGS1 & 2 did. Sure they were a bit bleh as ports go but they were finely playable with a decent gamepad just as the console version so I wouldn’t mind getting MGS3 and 4 in a couple of years.

Don’t get so defensive, all PC gamers know we have a lot of good games, big budget, low budget, independent, modern, old school, quirky, weird, non games, whatever, else we wouldn’t be PC gamers at all.

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Response (Anthony) 10/06/2008 09.07 AM
Hello,

Rockstar and 2K Games are both parts of Take Two Interactive, you have corrected the right company.

The PC version of GTA IV has not even been announced for release and is still in development so is not about to be released on a website we have no knowledge of.

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apparently about $170 million, which ties in with what Halo 3 did, but this was cross platform. I can’t vouch for the validity of these figures though. Certainly it will bank strongly, but I doubt we’ll see a true picture for a couple of weeks. The demand is so strong because of the hype, I expect the sales will have dropped of significantly by then. The main thing is, that given how much it cost, it’s almost a certainty that we will see a PC release. The smart talk seems to be the 30th October as that ties in with Take 2s financial quarter, and is likely to be after the autumn promised release of the 360 DLC pack, so won’t upset Microsoft.

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I know no publisher gets 100% of all sales revenue, but since expectations were THAT high…

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$200 million worth of unit sales since the initial launch, doesn’t translate to $200 million for Rockstar themselves. retailers will have swallowed up at least half of that, the publishers Take 2 probably another third. Given Microsofts $50 million dollar investment (for exclusive DLC they still have to work upon), they might be in for a slice of pie as well on the 360 release, and finally let’s not forget the tax man will want his share. It is going to take a good few weeks more and a lot more console sales before Rockstar actually break even on their investment, let alone make money upon. $100 million is an unprecedented amount of money to spend on development (that’s 2.5 times the development costs of Half life 2 as a comparison). GTA:SA sold 21.5 million unit sales over 4 years across all platforms, which was a 4 million sales improvement on what GTA:VC sold. GTAIV will certainly top those 2, but it’s not going to happen overnight, nor is the current generation console market that expansive. Halo 3 which was considered a ‘must have’ has sold 8.1 million units on 360 worldwide, and that had a far more sales friendly rating than GTA IV has.

@Lh’owon

What I meant to say was ‘recoup their investment’ (it was a pretty late post), but you get the gist of it.

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With my birthday money this year, I bought a new 64 dual processor, a 8600 GTS graphics card, a new motherboard, a new power supply, and another gig of RAM. It came to 305 quid. I’m will to bet the graphics card was less than 200 quid.

Oh, and I paid for service too.

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