Cha-ching Microsoft pays $50 million for GTA4 exclusivity

[CptStern]

...for 2 episodes:

Ars Technica is reporting on the highly-anticipated downloadable content for GTA IV mentioned by Microsoft at last year's E3. It appears that, first off, that content is only coming to the Xbox 360. Secondly, Microsoft paid some $50 Million for the privilege. This is from a financials conference call held by Take Two, and a question about a deferred payment from Microsoft reveals the general release schedule for the content.
"The first 25 [million] is for the first episodic content package that's supposed to go out and that is in March of '08. That's why it moved into current because it's in the next 12 months. The second 25 [million] will be for the second episodic, the episode, and that will be later in fiscal '08."

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/18/1646226&from=rss

jeez it better sell like hotcakes but I suspect they're expecting a loss that would be recouped in terms of new xbox owners/xbox live subscribers. It doesnt look like Sony is all that interested in wooing developers with large sums of cash for exclusivity ..which could really hurt the ps3 cuz why pay $200 more for a console that plays many of the same games ...at least this early in the game ....hmmm if Microsoft is smart they'd launch this for games for windows as well ..I'd surely sign up if it meant I could download an episode of gta4

 

[Solaris]

Lol at stern sarchasm..

 

[Lucid]

Already posted. :X

 

[Baal]

Stern is getting bad at this D:

 

[Solaris]

Already posted. :X

Lock that one.

Stern is infallible!

 

[CptStern]

or other people are getting bad at predicting when Stern will make a new thread



besides that other thread is just so pedestrian and boring

"episode content microsoft exclusive" reads like a shopping list: "eggs butter, preparationH" (sorry other thread starting guy) ..where as mine screams indignation and a plea for a pc port of the exclusive content that absolutely no one got except Solaris (gj)