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GTA IV PS3 bundle is coming News

News by Ellie Gibson

10 April, 2008

UK retailer Shopto has told our friends over at GamesIndustry.biz that a Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 bundle is indeed on the way.

"We know for a fact it is coming out in Europe and we are expecting an announcement in the UK any time," said COO Igor Cipolletta.

Apparently the bundle will launch alongside the standalone game on April 29th, and will cost GBP 299. According to Cipolletta, it hasn't been officially announced yet because there's confusion about who will distribute the bundle.

"We are not sure if Gem or Centresoft are distributing it yet, that seems to be the hold up," he stated.

Grand Theft Auto IV is out on PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 29th. Still.

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quantumsheep
10/04/08 @ 12:44
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I Think they'd want to!
JJrabbit
10/04/08 @ 12:47
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I hope MS do. I haven't got either console yet but am forced to now that GTA IV is coming out. At the moment, I'm edging towards XB, but if an XB bundle's on its way then I'll wait for that.
bad09
10/04/08 @ 12:48
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@ JJrabbit

Play.com have GTA4 and premium £199.
ps3_2310
10/04/08 @ 12:50
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That is a real good valuel for money bundle 299 for a PS3 and the game sweet. I reckon Sony will shift a few of these
MrED209
10/04/08 @ 12:55
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Anyone that's been on Shopto this week (well, yesterday morning at least) would know this as they've been offering it as a pre-order. OLD.
JJrabbit
10/04/08 @ 12:57
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@bad09 - I forgot to mention I'd rather get the Elite. I'm jumping on the 'next-gen' bandwagon a bit late, so I'd rather get the first of the new batch, so to speak.
CrumpledPaper
10/04/08 @ 13:00
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WTF, MS? What happened to "owning" the GTAIV launch?!

@JJRabbit - that's a retailer bundle. Official bundles get much more visibility, and this also raises the sceptre of Sony advertising GTAIV just for PS3. Lots of people will then associate GTAIV with PS3.

I can't believe MS would drop the ball like this!
itsonlyme
10/04/08 @ 13:02
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well they still have the cheaper price and dlc, that should go a long way.
FooAtari
10/04/08 @ 13:04
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I can't believe MS would drop the ball like this!

And you for a fact that they don't have a bundle too? It's not like this is an official announcement or anything,
CrumpledPaper
10/04/08 @ 13:06
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"And you for a fact that they don't have a bundle too? "

I expected them to have a bundle, and ONLY them to have a bundle.

I expected, and still expect, all the ads to only have the 360 logo at the end. But this makes me wonder.
octo
10/04/08 @ 13:14
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sold.
bad09
10/04/08 @ 13:15
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@ CrumpledPaper

Why would MS "own" the launch? It's probably the biggest game of the year for BOTH platforms.
FladgeMangle
10/04/08 @ 13:31
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If I spent $50m on something I'd expect to own it.
Quint2020
10/04/08 @ 13:38
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If Microsoft don't release a bundle they are flat out idiots.

Go in to HMV now and look at the pre order display with a MASSIVE Playstaiton logo, look close enough and squint a little, you just might see "and Xbox 360"
itsonlyme
10/04/08 @ 13:40
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maybe microsoft will own the launch in us and sony will take europe.
trebell
10/04/08 @ 13:46
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MS can probably consider themselves utterly shafted by R* if they have given Sony this bundle free, and given them the advetising link and given MS sod all for their 50 million. Pretty crappy contract work their from MS to be honest.
itsonlyme
10/04/08 @ 13:47
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what do you mean by sod all? the exclusive dlc is still a selling point for lots of people
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10/04/08 @ 13:49
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This is probably the last push to get of all the remaining sixaxis controllers since they have stopped manufacturing them.
trebell
10/04/08 @ 13:52
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if they've paid 50 million but their version is not even being promoted.. i'd consider that shafted.
xandoodle
10/04/08 @ 13:59
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Give me an 80gig bundle with BC
And the DS3

And i'm sold. Until then, no way am I giving Sony Europe any of my cash...
CrumpledPaper
10/04/08 @ 13:59
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"Why would MS "own" the launch?"

They said they would, and it makes sense because they inked a deal with T2 for the DLC. Shane Kim said they would own the launch via marketing, and I think everyone pretty much assumed that would mean a blitz of 360 exclusive promotion.
bad09
10/04/08 @ 14:08
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@ CrumpledPaper

Of course Kim will talk it up, they all do the key is not to listen to them :)

OK Sony have announced a bundle for £299 doesn't equate to MS doing the same. Besides without a bundle it'll still be cheaper on 360 so I wouldn't sweat too much about it.
tosta_mista
10/04/08 @ 14:18
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The bundle has been officialy confirmed by Sony Portugal, according to this Portuguese site:

http://gameover.sapo.pt/article.html?id=...

It's in Portuguese but says that Sony confirmed the bundle but gave no further information about it.
Strac
10/04/08 @ 14:52
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to answer the question in the first post, here in Holland at Mediamarkt you can buy a Xbox with Halo3 and GTA IV for free (to be picked up when it comes out)

edit: oh yeah, and no ps3 gta IV promotion there yet. but then again the GTA xbox360 promotion was big but not huge either
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ronuds
10/04/08 @ 14:54
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It's also possible the 360 will come out with a bundle in the US, where they call home. Europe is the PS3's last bastion, so you'd expect them to come out with guns'a'blazin'.
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10/04/08 @ 14:59
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"They said they would, and it makes sense because they inked a deal with T2 for the DLC. Shane Kim said they would own the launch via marketing, and I think everyone pretty much assumed that would mean a blitz of 360 exclusive promotion."

If that's the case then they are idiots (and therefore I don’t believe it). The effect of DLC on pushing GTA IV sales in the direction of 360 will be very limited (insignificant probably in comparison to factors like the 360’s lower price) and anyone with half a brain would know that. The DLC deal wasn’t meant to shift significantly more GTA IV 360 copies but to allow them to make lots of money through actually selling the DLC itself (if I’m not mistaken, a significant part of the DLC revenue will go to MS).
BadBoyBonner
10/04/08 @ 16:45
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An Xbox 360 premium with GTA IV for £199 is awesome value.

PS3 bundle costing 50% more! Come on surely Joe Public is not that stupid!
Darren
10/04/08 @ 16:48
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@BadBoyBonner - The ones wanting a £100 Blu-ray player won't be, no? ;)
rprince
10/04/08 @ 17:04
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Why is their COO named after a small sausage?
david78
10/04/08 @ 18:10
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@ rprince

Major lol!

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