Comments on: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Coming to PSP

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VGBlogger.com - » VGB Week in Review: 6/22/09 - 6/28/09 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:24:59 +0000

[…] Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Coming to PSP […]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:14:11 +0000

I agree – I think that ‘timed exclusive’ is the best one can expect. And what is the benefit for the consumer, anyway?

For the PSP I know there was a feeling that rather than optimizing the GTA games for PSP they were developing with PS2 in mind and then just putting them out for PSP first to grab more publicity / sales than a cut-down PS2 version would otherwise have gotten.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:33:03 +0000

Sony fanboys always seem to act like the world is coming to an end when an exclusive becomes multi-platform, to the point where it seems they forget the game is still coming to their platform. Fact of the matter is you simply can’t expect any third-party game to be 100% exclusive anymore.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:09 +0000

Interesting. I know sales have continued along … but still not at a pace that would make it even compare with the previous PSP games!

It will be interesting to track this – I haven’t found that DS owners are as touchy about exclusives as other consoles … including how upset PSP users have gotten about their stuff either being PS2 ports or quickly ported to PS2.