As D Said, GTA Started on the PC, so its an irrelevant comment to make about it going back to where it started or where they have previously made an appearance, when comparing the XBOX or PS3 as the preferred medium. All that matters is whats best for the game as a whole.

Its rather short sighted to claim that this move would be good for the series, it might be marginally better for the next game with increased development time on one platform instead of three but it WOULD hurt sales and revenue overall, as less people would have the means to play or reason to play it. Thus you’ll end up with a smaller series and subsequently smaller budget on the next title.

It should also be noted when comparing developing a game for three platforms instead of 1, its much easier to do than three separate titles, which means your manpower is earning more for your company per hour, meaning you can hire more staff and still concentrate as much dev time on each individual title.

I personally wouldn’t pick it up, I don’t use consoles, if its on the PC I will buy it, if not they don’t get my dollar.

But meh what do I care, the more developers that move off my platform the more sales I can see short term on my own indie projects :).

And frankly, I love RockStar and GTA, but if they didn’t target the 360 with this sort of game, someone else would. It’s a rich market out there right now, with a ton of great games out or coming out for the 360. I’m perfectly happy with it.

Seems pretty stupid to ignore an entire market of millions of gamers out there though. I don’t think ANY company can afford to be a platform bigot at this point – but they need to push the console companies to start working toward some sort of hardware standards though.

As for technical limitations of the xbox, I don’t believe that for one moment.

am happy that rockstar is going exclusive..good for them tho..
too many exclusive circling the ps3, mayn sucks being a 360 owner…

“buy buy”