GTAIV - Which console to buy for?

I'm probably going to pick up the PS3+GTA4 bundle when it hits.
 
rent, if that. I'll be bored before that week is over too. Atleast I'm pretty sure anyway, thats how its been before.
 
rent, if that. I'll be bored before that week is over too. Atleast I'm pretty sure anyway, thats how its been before.


but before you couldnt shoot your friends that are playing cops or you couldnt team up with them :)

the story is part of why i want the game the biggest part is the MP.

MP will add so much replay to the GTA series. thats arguably one of the most important aspects of games. sure a game could have a decent story and such but then what? after you beat it once or twice that game will sit on your shelf or go back to the video rental store. but if it has good fun multi-player it will offer hundreds of hours of gameplay.

i dont even buy games if it doesnt offer multiplayer. id buy GTA4 without mp tho. the fact that it actually has mp makes its value skyrocket in my book.

i think the last single player game i bought was Oblivion and that was a mistake. which makes me wonder if ill even get Fallout3 or not. while i loved the fallout series im worried Bethesda might screw it up like they did Oblivion.
 
all those who favor the 360 over the PS3 should know that the PS3 is more likely to show a better performence than the 360 due to it's stronger power
 
all those who favor the 360 over the PS3 should know that the PS3 is more likely to show a better performence than the 360 due to it's stronger power

What stronger power?

The PS3 CPU is better, but the GPU is worse. The 360 has a faster GPU and a slower CPU.

Many devs and such have said it comes out just about even when the two are put together. Just a different way of processing (360 = More GPU processing, PS3 = more CPU processing)
 
What stronger power?

The PS3 CPU is better, but the GPU is worse. The 360 has a faster GPU and a slower CPU.

Many devs and such have said it comes out just about even when the two are put together. Just a different way of processing (360 = More GPU processing, PS3 = more CPU processing)

PS3 has a nerfed 7800GTX, right? Doesn't really matter, you don't buy GTA games for the visuals anyway. Granted this is by far the best looking iteration, it's still about dropping F-bombs more than any rapper or R-rated flick, drugs, sex, violence, and jacking cars.

Anyhow... "all those who favor the 360 over the PS3 should know that the PC is more likely to show a better performence than the two due to it's stronger power" :D
 
all those who favor the 360 over the PS3 should know that the PS3 is more likely to show a better performence than the 360 due to it's stronger power

Yea I know. Just like the awesome load times in Portal, what a minute halfway through the levels. That superior power sure shows off on a lot of game now a days. Ohh wait...not really. Plus, Rockstar has stated over and over again that they're developing the games to run the exact same on each system. If the 360 version is choppy, I bet the PS3 version is too.
 
Yea I know. Just like the awesome load times in Portal, what a minute halfway through the levels. That superior power sure shows off on a lot of game now a days. Ohh wait...not really. Plus, Rockstar has stated over and over again that they're developing the games to run the exact same on each system. If the 360 version is choppy, I bet the PS3 version is too.

Yea, because we all know that Portal was built ground up for the PS3 :rolleyes:

Why would you use Portal, a shitty port job from PC to console, to demo the performence of the PS3?
 
What stronger power?

The PS3 CPU is better, but the GPU is worse. The 360 has a faster GPU and a slower CPU.

Many devs and such have said it comes out just about even when the two are put together. Just a different way of processing (360 = More GPU processing, PS3 = more CPU processing)

That's a gross oversimplification but I doubt there will be any noticeable performance advantages for PS3 in GTA4.
 
I have a copy preordered for 360.

Better/more comfortable controller (imo), achievements, and DLC made me get the 360 version. If it turns out that the PS3 version plays better, I'll pick that one up down the road.
 
Any word about the PC version? I don't have 360 or PS3 and not interested in buying one. Why is it that PC users are abandoned when it comes to GTA. It happened for 3, Vice City, San Andreas.
 
San Andreas eventually came out on PC and it was much better than the version I played on PS2, it will probably just take a little while.

You really should buy a 360, you are missing out :)
 
Any word about the PC version? I don't have 360 or PS3 and not interested in buying one. Why is it that PC users are abandoned when it comes to GTA. It happened for 3, Vice City, San Andreas.

Optimistically for the holidays.
 
Why is it that PC users are abandoned when it comes to GTA. It happened for 3, Vice City, San Andreas.

Money. If they all released at the same time, how many sales would be lost to people who download? "Grand Theft Bay", anyone? This is why we don't get it until they are over the first and possibly second and third waves of console sales.
 
Has anyone reported if the game will fit on a single DVD or not? I pre-ordered it on 360 a month ago - but I am thinking of changing over to a PS3 pre-order. My XBOX is a lot louder than my PS3.
 
If the newest rumor is true, then it would be foolish to buy the game for PS3 instead of 360. THey're saying the new DLC will be entirely new cities.
 
If the newest rumor is true, then it would be foolish to buy the game for PS3 instead of 360. THey're saying the new DLC will be entirely new cities.

who are 'they'? Do you realize how long it takes to make an entire city and pack it full of detail? That's what you call a new game. No DLC is going to have new cities.
 
I'm gonna wait for some reviews of both the PS3 and 360 versions, then decide. I also can't wait to pick up GT5 Prologue this weekend :)
 
x360 all the way, the multiplayer looks like its gonna be a BlAST!!! xbox live ftw
 
gonna get it for x360. ftw. so are my 2 other roommates. and probably 2 other close friends.
 

if there are going to be new cities, then there have to be new characters, and new missions. that's like an entirely new game. These DLCs are going to cost almost as much as a game, AND will take a long time to create if they are for real.

The only reason this would happen is not because rockstar wants to give content for less than the price of a full retail game, but because MS paid them enough to cancel their plans on entirely new games that would have otherwise came out for ps3, and make the content exclusive to xbox360 as DLCs If it is true, then MS are real bastards.
 
Sure great all the DLC.. but who is behind ONLY making it available for the 360? It would be as easy to release it on the PS store, or have a "Booster, Or Expansion" Disc on shelves.

I have a 360 and a PS3, Im leaning to the PS3 version because my 360 sounds like a jet engine. Even with my music going my 360 is just humming away.

I'm hoping they don't really only release the content for 360. Rockstar may as well say " Hey! go get the 360 version everyone, because you will miss out on half of a game that we ONLY make for 1 system. PS3 owners money isn't good enough for us!"


******* throws 360 out the window********
 
******* throws 360 out the window********

*gets hit in head by falling 360 on the way to store to get a ps3*

Well, I am getting a new console finally, in time for the gta4 launch, and it is going to be a ps3. if the 360 DLC is really worth it ill be getting a 360 later in the year anyway.
 
Last i heard the DLC was going to be extra missions and a few cars (at least the one coming out this fall apparently)

Im getting the PS3 versions anyway... its all i have, and its all i need
 
Sure great all the DLC.. but who is behind ONLY making it available for the 360? It would be as easy to release it on the PS store, or have a "Booster, Or Expansion" Disc on shelves.

I have a 360 and a PS3, Im leaning to the PS3 version because my 360 sounds like a jet engine. Even with my music going my 360 is just humming away.

I'm hoping they don't really only release the content for 360. Rockstar may as well say " Hey! go get the 360 version everyone, because you will miss out on half of a game that we ONLY make for 1 system. PS3 owners money isn't good enough for us!"


******* throws 360 out the window********


Did you not read the rest of the thread?

As many, many people have already mentioned, M$ paid Rockstar millions to get exclusive rights to the DLC...


Ironically, if it works out like people are saying (DLC = New City) I could see them also releasing it at retail as a new game for PS3 owners. Sort of lke when you could either download or buy the Oblivion expansion.
 
Did you not read the rest of the thread?

As many, many people have already mentioned, M$ paid Rockstar millions to get exclusive rights to the DLC...


Ironically, if it works out like people are saying (DLC = New City) I could see them also releasing it at retail as a new game for PS3 owners. Sort of lke when you could either download or buy the Oblivion expansion.

Sorry, was late and didn't bother reading 6 pages.

Well that pretty much solves it for me, as you said they might release a new game or w/e for PS3 which I'd rather have, than a 360 that might catastrophically fail on me. It is one of the older ones, with no HDMI.
 
who are 'they'? Do you realize how long it takes to make an entire city and pack it full of detail? That's what you call a new game. No DLC is going to have new cities.

*bookmarks this post for later reference*
:p

But seriously, a new "city" dosent have to mean a new "sprawling metropolis". It could be of any size, making it more managable.
 
Money. If they all released at the same time, how many sales would be lost to people who download? "Grand Theft Bay", anyone? This is why we don't get it until they are over the first and possibly second and third waves of console sales.

if that were the case they would only release it on ps3. I'm sure there will be over 500,000 snatches of this game for the x360. and thats before the game even comes out in retail
 
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