Simon Munk writes:
"Rockstar Games have announced a new mystery franchise, exclusive to PS3. Sony, unsurprisingly, have been quick to trumpet that Rockstar could only do the game on PS3, saying on their US official blog: "Rockstar really wanted to make a game that you can truly only do on PS3, harnessing the power of CELL and Blu-ray disc." Yeah, right...
Excuse me for my cynicism, but lest we forget Rockstar have a deal in place with Microsoft, so that for the next Grand Theft Auto game extra downloadable content will exclusively be available on the Xbox 360 only. A deal which Rockstar itself says means that for the "complete experience" you need to buy Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360, not the PS3. And, in recent Rockstar history the company has bet a lot of money on a game that is effectively banned anywhere pretty much outside Norway: Manhunt 2, of course. So Rockstar are clearly in a vulnerable financial state and can't afford to excessively annoy Sony. Nor can it afford to upset Microsoft for that matter."
