Comments on: Microsoft slams GTA IV PS3 install time in PR mail

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:11:31 +0000

Rubbish has a new home

By: morriss

morriss — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:56:02 +0000

Epic saying the Wii is rubbish is also a very good one. (also true too! :p)

By: Zumi

Zumi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:02:03 +0000

“Yeah baby yeah.
GTA has a new home!”

LOL

Oh, it’s fun.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:52:57 +0000

Yeah baby yeah.
GTA has a new home!

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:02:13 +0000

It really was a cracker. Best ever.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:00:36 +0000

Man, I’m sorry I missed this one!

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:35:27 +0000

@Enkeixpress
What is 100% true? Please elaborate.

By: Enkeixpress

Enkeixpress — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:05:50 +0000

Hilarious. Indeed. But it is 100% true.

By: SveXo

SveXo — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:09:29 +0000

@judono
Hold on, did you say “we”? You are not apart of Microsoft so the sale of 360’s has nothing to do with you. I know this because your grammar is so broken it’s funny. Save your criticism until you play the game. Kojima didn’t criticize the game, he said he wanted it to be bigger. If you are going to be a fanboy, more power to you, but please try to be intelligent when deciding what to say in your posts.

As for my opinion, besides the DLC, I doubt there will be much, if any difference, in the games. I will not be buying it because my friend preordered it and I’ll just borrow it from him after he’s done with it.

@Rhythm: What are you talking about? What is MCV?

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:47:39 +0000

Psychotext: Ok, it being the last game that fanboys argue about might be pushing it.
But it’s important to remember that this will probably be THE most popular multi-platform title this console generation. Next will probably be Resident Evil 5 or Fallout, but it’s general popularity doesn’t come close to that of GTA.

I do not doubt for a second that these next few weeks will see the peak of people getting extremely angry if one disrespects the other guy’s console choice this console generation, simply because there are so many people out there now with either console. It would be completely pointless. But ofcourse, some jackasses will probably never stop trolling around.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:18:22 +0000

I can’t think of a bigger one given GTA SA was the best selling game last gen.

By: Zumi

Zumi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:06:02 +0000

Is this the biggest multiplatform release ever?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:58:08 +0000

XDamage: You can hope… but I seriously doubt it. =(

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:21:31 +0000

Hopefully this will be the last multi-platform game that will drive adolescent kids crazy on internet forums. Personally I think GTA IV will mark the all time high in the “fanboy war”.

By: judono

judono — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:47:25 +0000

i have a 360 i’m gettin gta4 for my 360 so i sure as hell wont buy a ps3 for gta4 its a multiplatform game not a sysem seller they both have advantages but 360 will eclipse the ps3 version in sales,content and xbox live very vital now a days when purchasing a game for a console. ps3 is lackin the bang for the buck even hideo kojima is not satisfied with the turn out of metal gear 4 wich looked better before on still CG pics and the game sucks online in the betta so who is going to sell me a ps3. no complaints when it comes to making gears of war 2 and it looks better than metal gear 4 kojima should use the unreal engine for his next game maybe he’ll cry less.so therefore i’m not lining up at gamestop for a ps3 just gta4 in its new home sorry fanboys. its all about content,exclusivity and inovation at the end of the day oh we did outsell the ps3 in march ouch. back in the game no more shortages

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:28:10 +0000

Well what if a 40GB PS3 owner has filled his/her HDD full of movies, downloads, demos, music and stuff? They’ll just have to delete some it to make room.

Same would apply to 360 owners.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:00:25 +0000

Why not mandatory if a HDD is present? Cos most 360’s have a 20GB HD with only 13GB of that free to start off with. Not much to play with and get mandatory on peoples asses with. The better speed and more importantly seek times of the optical drive on the 360 will make the game acceptable with an install - an install is still preferable though, and if you know everyone will have a slightly reasonable HDD present then you will want them to get the best experience from your game possible on their available hardware.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:57:03 +0000

Yeah but it would have to be some significant difference for them to have bothered (hence the question over your “if any”).

Personally yeah it will be playable and still a great game without an install on a 360 core machine, but maybe have more texture pop-in and a couple of brief loading pauses as you cross area boundaries. Wait and see, but its got to be something you would want to bother doing otherwise why the option?

By: XDamage

XDamage — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:56:32 +0000

That’s reason enough. The only ones who don’t install will either not do it on principle, or they don’t have an HDD.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:54:22 +0000

Or you can look at it another way - if it did impact gameplay, why make it optional? If the game detects a HDD is present, it should basically do the install as mandatory like the PS3.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:52:31 +0000

So you don’t get those loading times?

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:29:43 +0000

Then why bother having it as an option on the 360?

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:27:10 +0000

I doubt it will make much difference, if any. Maybe they’ll be a slight pause as you go over a bridge to another city or something like that but I doubt it will have any impact on gameplay/frame rate.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:19:17 +0000

@kasai
“Install or not both consoles will play the game just the same.”
Well obviously not true otherwise why have an optional install on the 360? It’s got to improve something above a non-install surely?

Insider info says two versions are near identical - but presumably they are comparing two installed versions.

I’ve got the 360 version on pre-order and I will spend the 5 minutes doing the optional install.

By: DUFFKING

DUFFKING — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:16:19 +0000

Dear fanboys:

Piss off.

By: morriss

morriss — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:03:49 +0000

Yea, teh xb0xbreak-lol

By: OZZY

OZZY — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:11:11 +0000

“So what would you rather do? Play GTAIV on its new home (The Microsft XBox 360) or watch “Installing please wait”?

Embrace the changes fellas.

GTA has a new home”
erm… actually mate i would rather have installing please wait… as long as i know it will run smoothly and not burn down my house: http://gamerush.zoomshare.com/files/news/002563_Xbox_360_almost_burns_down_house.htm so in the long run. by GTA experience will be better than yours. Microsoft are getting despirate as seen from the article above.

By: patlike

patlike — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:51:13 +0000

TeamXbox is based in America. I assume they don’t get emails from Microsoft UK PR.

By: AgentRed

AgentRed — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:50:05 +0000

How can it be nobody else got this ?
Not even TeamXbox ?
I´m sorry but this news sounds more and more like BS to me.

By: Daniel Plainview

Daniel Plainview — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0000

Oh god the comments have gone to shit already

By: sinzindetta

sinzindetta — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:52:45 +0000

Hahaha, that was awesome. PS3 owned!

Xbox360 > PS3

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:13:36 +0000

They just sent it out, I think.

By: XDamage

XDamage — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:11:03 +0000

Just curious, what question did you ask MS UK PR to
get an answer like that Patlike? Or did they just
send it out on a whim??

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:09:14 +0000

Abdizur: You’re taking all this far too seriously.

By: Abdizur

Abdizur — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:06:15 +0000

Tonka, you are some kind of stupid, huh? Talking trash like a 5 year old fanboy is funny? Boy, please!

And by the way:
Yeah, GTA has a new home. The old one was PS2 and PSP. The new one is PS3 with HOME

By: AgentRed

AgentRed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:02:31 +0000

Yeah I think thats more likely, someone trying to make MS look bad with some Fake Email I mean, the fact this is the only site reporting about this doesn´t help either.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:29:15 +0000

I bet my hat you won’t be able to rack up a 5 star rating in 5 minutes.
This is obviously written by SDF in a bid to slander GTAs new home.

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:16:46 +0000

It wasn’t a press release. It was an email from Microsoft UK PR. There’s no pretense. It is what it is.

By: AgentRed

AgentRed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:55 +0000

If it´s just some guy from MS and not an official PR Statement then it´s a big difference for me

Like i said it`s hard for me to believe that *Microsoft* would write something like that.

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:54:39 +0000

The only part of the email I’ve taken off is the PR’s name. It’s real, I promise you

By: AgentRed

AgentRed — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:39:30 +0000

I dont wanna say this is BS but it´s hard for me to believe that Microsoft would say something like that.

Why ?

They haven´t done this before

Only this Site seems to have recieved this PR

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Hey… is the site broken? I keep refreshing, but there’s no new GTA IV stories appeared yet.

/refreshes

By: Rhythm

Rhythm — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:21:12 +0000

Is this them getting defensive over the PS3-outselling-360-3-to-1 story that we saw in MCV yesterday?

By: DUFFKING

DUFFKING — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:11:19 +0000

Every GTA story makes me feel slightly weirder about not buying this game.

By: Zumi

Zumi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:01:36 +0000

This game needs to come out, NOW.

Not because I want to play, just because I’M SICK OF THIS SHIT.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:55:35 +0000

morriss: We don’t know the size, we don’t know if it’s really 5 minutes, we don’t know what it changes, we don’t know how the versions compare to each other and we don’t know what the DLC will have in it.

We don’t know f’all.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:49:03 +0000

I have to do it to keep sane in this GTA skinned world. In two weeks time it will be over.

I might miss it though ;_;

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:47:35 +0000

Thing is, we don’t even know what the install does do we? I mean, Rockstar haven’t said anything official as to what will be improved by the install?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:43:21 +0000

I’m enjoying this version of Tonka. I wonder what he’ll make his next persona do.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:40:52 +0000

Of course they won’t play the same. Wasn’t the 360 lead platform? If you look at other games where this has been the case the 360 always come out on top.

@wholesale: Why do you hate freedom of choice? Don’t you like making your own decisions? MAybe a move to communist russia would set you straight.