Atari - Ghostbusters to launch in June 2009
Atari - Mizuguchi confirms new QJ music title for Wii
Atari - Phil takes Ready 2 Rumble and Demigod
April 17th, 2008 @ 14:54
Microsoft Europe is preparing a giant marketing push for GTA IV, the company confirmed this morning, with a spend on a par to Halo 3’s advertising budget last year.
“We can’t wait for the game on Xbox 360, and with recent reports stating consumers should go for the 360 version over the PS3 and talk of the GTA launch being ‘the biggest entertainment launch of all time’, we’re complimenting it with a launch campaign along the same lines as Halo 3 last year,” Steve McGill, head of gaming and entertainment, Xbox UK said in a statement.
“Microsoft sees GTA IV as a fantastic title to showcase how great Xbox 360 is, what with it’s amazing graphics and gaming experience, coupled with playing with your friends on Xbox Live, Achievements and of course the exclusive extra episodic content for GTA IV that will be downloadable this autumn and will only be available on Xbox 360.”
Media overload starts this Friday this week so batten down the hatches, close the curtains and lock the front door - the MS hype train is coming to an orifice near you.
By Mike Bowden
Del.icio.us | Digg | Share on Facebook
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
GTFUCKINARRRGGHHHH!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
“We can’t wait for the game on Xbox 360, and with recent reports stating consumers should go for the 360 version over the PS3″
What? What reports? The ones that *you* did, you mean?
April 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
/STAMPS ON KITTEN
April 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
heh
April 17th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Can you stamp on kittens in GTA4?
April 17th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
“All those reports” indeed!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
They seem to be taking a leaf out of Sony’s “say it enough times and it must be true” rule-book.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Weel, the Xbox IS GTAs new home and all.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Welcome to GTAIV247
This is the motherfucking news.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Shall I write some more GTA IV news? Morriss, you got any GTA IV news?
April 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Did you all see the Saints Row 2 trailer that just got released? It’s laughably bad.
http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_6872_en.html
April 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
blerk: I couldn’t bring myself to write about it. I might do it later.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
chin: Best thing ever
April 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Make morriss write about it, Pat! That’s what underlings are for.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I’m not that cruel!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Blerk the running animations in that Saints Row 2 trailer are hilarious. The trailer is funny for all the wrong reasons, but I do love the sound affect when the guy runs up and ’shocks’ the lady by the side of the road.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
pat: Dare you to change the logo and tagline, just for launch day!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
haha
I’d be shamed forever. But yeah, maybe
April 17th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I’ll dig out some more GTA IV tit-bits for all.
In the meantime, just for Blerk, I’ll do the Saints Row 2 video thingamajig.
/is a happy underling!
April 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Seems that PS3 GTA4 bundle is real, btw. Although Sony managed to spoil it for themselves by not bundling it for “free”:
http://www.game.co.uk/PS3/Hardware/HardwareBundle/~r334572/Sony-PlayStation%20-3-with-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV/
April 17th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Saw that yesterday whilst doing the Retailer story. Didn’t realise there was a doubt as to it being real or not.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
The only doubt that there was to the bundle was if it was going to release with the game. Amazed Sony haven’t announced it yet, but maybe they have an ad campaign ready to go.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Rockstar Social Club has opened.
https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/
April 18th, 2008 at 12:36 am
It’s really bizarre that Microsoft are spending all this money on promoting a multiformat game. Seems they’re trying to steal it for the 360, it’s ever so slightly pathetic. Makes me want to buy it on the PS3 just to piss in their cornflakes.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Zumi: You’re a little odd. :p
MS basically have to advertise the hell out of it because people naturally associate it with the Playstation.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Yeah I know, but it just seems a little scummy. I watch the adverts and I’m thinking “hey, it’s on PS3 too, you cunts! stop trying to trick people!” Sony did a similar thing with Burnout Paradise, and I hope this isn’t a trend that’ll continue. All machines should get credit.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:47 am
They try to get people to connect GTA with the 360 in our collective minds… good luck with that.
Then MS would basically have to erase the great memories
I have of when I got a PS2 and GTA III for Christmas 2001, or maybe a good old brainwashing would do it.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:32 am
…and some of us previously played the real versions on the PC. :p
April 18th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Pfft.. PC versions sucked. I could never get to grips with the free aiming, when I could just close my eyes and autolock on the PS2.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Sounds like the problem lies between the chair and the keyboard.