GTA 3 and Vice City

[Gamer]

IGN has posted that Xbox and PS2 will be bundling GTA 3 and VC in november. I had heard that both games will be making thier way to Xbox and Gamecube, is this still so? and if so whats the releas date???

[Seth]

Rockstar has so far made no statement regarding the release of the GTA 3 series on the cube. The console packages will be for xbox and ps2 only at this time.

The same question was asked in the ign's latest cube mailbag.

[Canyarion]

Hm perhaps both games don't fit on 1 GC disc. I mean, I'm SURE they don't with all the voices and music files... But that could be a reason they don't port it.

[TheGame]

and the fact that it's button layout on the Cube would be akward.. but no need to argue about it again... it may happen.

[Stonecutter]

Maybe they just don't think anyone will buy it.

[Jonbo298]

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Maybe they just don't think anyone will buy it.

Yeah, probably the real reason. Most companies don't take a chance. Hell, Rockstar can't lose much if any money by just straight porting it. They've made more then enough money off of GTA3/VC on PS2.

[Gamer]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Yeah, probably the real reason. Most companies don't take a chance. Hell, Rockstar can't lose much if any money by just straight porting it. They've made more then enough money off of GTA3/VC on PS2.

No kidding, but i mean, i think there are lots of people who own a cube and would buy it. The controller would work just fine *looks at the game and spits*

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Gamer

The controller would work just fine *looks at the game and spits*

I'm sure it would

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

Maybe they just don't think anyone will buy it.

No, space wouldn't allow it. They have next to nothing in production costs, and the had all the money from PS2 sales already... fanbase has nothing to do with it.

I'm sure both GTA3 and VC would be too big for one 1.5g GCN disc too.. probably three, even.

[Stonecutter]

Of course they're not going to lose money off of their total net profits for the game, that's impossible, but it still costs a lot of money to print up instructions, stamp the discs, assemble the cases, ship the game to retailers, etc. I'm sure if there were any chance of the game making a profit they'd do it.

Good game or not most cube exclusive owners took a "this game sucks because it's not on the gamecube" attitude toward GTA after 3 didn't come to the cube back in 01. NO ONE who owns both an xbox or ps2 and a gamecube would buy this for the cube and if you believe that they would then you're lying to yourself.

As for the game working well with the cube controler.

Does the game require frequent use of either the right stick or the D-pad?

If it does, then it's a crappy game for the controler.

[Jonbo298]

It's probably possible to put them both on 2 discs, as long as Rockstar took advantage of some compression things the GC has. I doubt the graphics would take up much space on a disc. And since its just 1 big area (broken up into sections), its possible. But then again, that all costs money and time, which companies usually don't want to have happen.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

As for the game working well with the cube controler.

Does the game require frequent use of either the right stick or the D-pad?

If it does, then it's a crappy game for the controler.

No... the stick will be just fine, it's just the fact that it uses every damn Ps2 button... L1, L2, L3, R1, R2, R3, Triangle, Square, Circle, X, Start Select, and the sticks/D-Pad. It's not impossible, but it's hard to imagine making it work without serious tweaking.

[Joeiss]

Ya, the game uses all the buttons... It would be cool to see how they would switch up the controls to the GCN though.

[The Duggler]

L3 and R3???

Where the hell are those?

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Ranzid

L3 and R3???

Where the hell are those?

You press down the analog sticks... on Ps2 it's L3 and R3... on Xbox it's L2 and R2