No name to the game yet...
Over on PlayStation.Blog, Michael Shorrock, Director of 3rd Party Relations, SCEA has made a post revealing that there’s to be a Rockstar games franchise completely exclusive to the PS3.“As part of our long standing relationship with Rockstar, and the incredible success for both companies with the cultural icon that is Grand Theft Auto, we’ve agreed to the PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar studios.”
He goes on to explain that Rockstar are keen to make a game that can only be produced with the “power of CELL and Blu-ray”.
Shorrock underlined that this as yet unnamed franchise is definitely not LA Noire and in fact revealed nothing at all about the franchise or any possible gameplay at all, citing an agreement between Take Two, Rockstar and Sony that forbade him from doing so.
One has to wonder whether about the value of ‘exclusives’ as they’re only worth bothering about if the game itself is something very special. That said, Rockstar have a fine pedigree indeed with the GTA series, which has migrated to the Xbox 360 now too. Interestingly, a Rockstar spokesperson recently let slip that Xbox 360 owners will get more from GTA IV than their PS3 counterparts due to the extra content downloadable from Xbox LIVE which Microsoft paid a rumoured $50 million USD for...
