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Different GTA IV content on PS3 & 360
Author: Ryan GarsidePublished: 18th October 2006
Is GTA IV the most anticipated game of 2007? Quite possibly.
If you remember a few months ago, Microsoft announced that there would be exclusive content, expanding the game by many hours, available to purchase through Xbox Live. However, an undisclosed source close to Rockstar has told Eurogamer that in fact there will also be exclusive, different content available solely to PS3 owners.
Apparently this bonus content will come in the form of brand new areas for both the 360 and the PS3. The source explained it like this: "Think of the world as a large island - the new downloadable areas will be like smaller islands linking into it."
At the moment the implication is that the game has been designed with room to allow many future updates, probably quite similar to how Bethesda developed Oblivion. What this might mean for console gamers though is a lot less appealing. To get the full GTA IV experience it looks like you will need to own both a 360 and PS3 as well as two different copies of the same game. Quite frankly, that would be a bit naff.
No word as of yet whether GTA IV will be coming to PC, which means it will probably be released a few months after it comes out for the consoles (16th October 2007 for the 360). One reason you may want to hold out for the PC version will be to get your hands on all of the 'exclusive' content… We'll have to wait and see.
Excited about GTA IV? Give us your thoughts on this recent development over in the forums.
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i heard the bits for the 360 one were downloadable too, i dont want a whole game on my harddrive, its wasting a lot of space when it could be on a dvd
ill waifor the pc one, its bound to have both games amalgamated into one
However, I'm not a fan of the GTA series anyway so I don't care.
Fair enough if it's because of a hardware limitation (like being able to use your own MP3's in the PC version of Vice City, but not the console version), but it's obviously not...
yikes...and you left out the part about having to also pay extra for the extra content on both consoles. So, that's $400 for the 360 w/ hard drive, $50 for GTA on 360, at least $10 for the extra content on the 360, $600 for the PS3, $50 for GTA on the PS3, $10 for the extra content on the PS3. So, total cost to experience all of GTA IV is $1120....if my price estimates are accurate (if anything, I'd bet my estimates for the game and the extras are low)
...this "paying for extra content" business is pretty clever. If it was announced that the game would cost $70, people would flip out....but they'll sell the game for a lower price, then charge you a little here and there for extra content, and pretty soon you've still paid $70 for stuff that probably all would have fit on the original DVD.
hmmm...another thought: theoretically, I could re-sell the game to a friend later...but I bet there's no way to transfer the extra content, huh? Cute, real cute. Looks like paying for extra content is a way for the original game manufacturers to keep making money off of people selling used disks....
my thoughts exactly :D