Microsoft has splashed out $50 million to get GTA IV downloadable content exclusively on 360?

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SWEET JESUS!

How can they spend that on just DLC? They should have hired another 100 people to work on something else instead.

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SWEET JESUS!

How can they spend that on just DLC? They should have hired another 100 people to work on something else instead.

yeah like heavenly sword

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For general ballpark here, MS paid BioWare about $25M for the Mass Effect trilogy and $25 to SK for the Too Human Trilogy. I think most hardcore gamers would prefer 2 great new IPs than a single IP that was big last gen but who knows what they are doing to it this gen to make it stand out (many big selling games on generation take a step back in successive generations).

On the other hand GTA has to be one of the biggest titles thus far in the pretty slim pickings we have seen in terms of "major industry titles that appeal to a wider/new demographic". Even if the ME trilogy sells a whopping 5M, a single GTA game can easily break 10M. GTA, dollar-for-dollar / unit-for-unit, may not be a bad bet. It surely will sell well and get casuals involved. But more than that MS is using it to hype its best feature: LIVE. Killer content (GTA expansions) for their killer app (Live). Sometimes you pay a premium to get the #1 guy in the industry to toss their weight behind you. Yet if MS takes a chunk of DLC and gets a basic $6 royalty per copy sold, at 10M copies MS could actually come out ahead -- but I bet Take Two also got a sweetheart deal on royalties. It is too important of a title to have time and date, and like others said when the deal went down over a year ago I am sure MS was hedging their bets that Sony would come out swinging hard and not... flopping.

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On the other hand GTA has to be one of the biggest titles thus far in the pretty slim pickings we have seen in terms of "major industry titles that appeal to a wider/new demographic". Even if the ME trilogy sells a whopping 5M, a single GTA game can easily break 10M. GTA, dollar-for-dollar / unit-for-unit, may not be a bad bet. It surely will sell well and get casuals involved. But more than that MS is using it to hype its best feature: LIVE. Killer content (GTA expansions) for their killer app (Live). Sometimes you pay a premium to get the #1 guy in the industry to toss their weight behind you. Yet if MS takes a chunk of DLC and gets a basic $6 royalty per copy sold, at 10M copies MS could actually come out ahead -- but I bet Take Two also got a sweetheart deal on royalties. It is too important of a title to have time and date, and like others said when the deal went down over a year ago I am sure MS was hedging their bets that Sony would come out swinging hard and not... flopping.

The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

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For general ballpark here, MS paid BioWare about $25M for the Mass Effect trilogy and $25 to SK for the Too Human Trilogy.

Where did you get these from?

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[quote=Acert93]For general ballpark here, MS paid BioWare about $25M for the Mass Effect trilogy and $25 to SK for the Too Human Trilogy.quote]
got any link to support that..i heard MS paid SK $80M for the TH triogy

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Posté par szaromir

Where did you get these from?

I've read it somewhere too and come to think of it. it seems about right. I mean gears of War costed 10 million and sequels are much cheaper to make anyway.

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Blue Dragon - Lost Odyssey - Eternal Sonata - Final Fantasy XIII - Cry On - Ninja Gaiden 2 - Heavenly Sword - Assassin's Creed - Devil May Cry 4 - Resident Evil 5 - Naruto 360 - Mass Effect - Alan Wake - Too Human -Infinite Undiscovery

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$25 to SK for the Too Human Trilogy.

Bargain!

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mkk316

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And here we go. The first step to MS monoply on console gaming..........great. Typical MS tactic, just bribe and buy out companies rather than compete. sad.

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Some of the greatest pieces of animation come from Japan, it just cant be marketed to westerner's, so they never see it.

szaromir

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^
I can't believe such people exist.

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Sorry if i offended you, szaromir, but you cant honestly sit there and tell me this wasnt a cheap tactic. I would complain about sony if they did the same thing.

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Some of the greatest pieces of animation come from Japan, it just cant be marketed to westerner's, so they never see it.

szaromir

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It's a fairly standard industry practice and it's always been that way.

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"That just happened 'cause that was awesome" - Randy Pitchford, Gearbox

Acert93

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Sorry if i offended you, szaromir, but you cant honestly sit there and tell me this wasnt a cheap tactic. I would complain about sony if they did the same thing.

Then start complaining. It is standard business practices in this industry to fund titles, be it cash advances, low royalties, no interest loans, and even pay-for-exclusives, to get an edge of some sort. Every company does it MS has essentially paid R* to make content for them. What is wrong with that? R* can say no if they wish. Sony could give them $50M to fund an equally ambitious project. Nothing is stopping them.

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The fans have spoken. Concerning the graphics of the Halo 3 Beta: "There's so many little effects and things going on that make this game pretty much 2nd only to Gears at the moment."

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Sorry if i offended you, szaromir, but you cant honestly sit there and tell me this wasnt a cheap tactic. I would complain about sony if they did the same thing.

You would've had numerous consequtive heart attacks had you been gaming back in the Saturn/PSX days where multiplatform appearances on the Saturn kept disappearing like soldier grunts in a Splinter Cell game.

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Posté par SimonM7

back then i only could afford the psx so i didnt care so much. lol. Though i have all consoles now, it just doesnt seem right to me. You guys are right though, I know im wrong in this instance.

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COD 4's pre-alpha stage looks better than most game's gone gold stage.

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