I wonder why E.A want their grubby hands on this franchise????NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I sure hope EA doesnt get a hold of this.  I have been very displeased with all of the EA games that have come out lately.  Other than skate and Rock Band, they have been terrible at making games.  They used to be such a well known and respected company, but they have just gone down hill.  I have personally decided not to purchase anymore EA games.  I have gone to 2K sports for all my sports games, except for mlb 08

I have boycotted EA as well, but I didn't stop at sports games.  A message needs to be (and has been) sent to EA.  I skipped Rock Band, too.  I'm glad the best baseball game around (now) is a 1st party PS3 exclusive (MLB 08 The Show), and I've always played 2K basketball...never liked EA's "Live".

i need to get this on day one but i cnt afford the ecxclusive version ....59.99 or $120 roughly need to get it somewhere! for 29th april damb it!

Awesome News. I seriously cannot wait, although I have to get it out side Australia which suchs balls because of censoreship.

EA knows that RockStar committed to make a new Franchise exclusive to PS3, and Peter Moore ain't having that! EA sucks!

@The_Last_Romeo

What do you mean EA sucks? They were the ones who helped build the PS3 today! Some of their games I do have to admit did suck, but does that mean the company sucks?????

This story doesn't surprise me. I live in small town of about 35,000 and even they did an article on the game.

@ Billy_Bob_Joe, Yes.

I do like a good old game of Fifa online just to disagree with everyone.

Wow!!! GTA4 gets big sales!! who would've taught after the last few gta's. biggest ps3 game so far? Well if anyone needed this article to tell them that than obviously get the aussie version as your too young to play the real version.

@Doylah.... Gta has always BEEN a massive seller so why are u surprised ?

Personally I don't like EA because they're all about the money.  The have a tendency of screwing over game developers after the game hits the market, not to mention after a game hits the market, EA nearly always has absolutely worthless support for it.

EA wont get it.. Nobody of the shareholders are stupid enough (talking to you Mr. Shareholder) to sell their shares to EA. TAKE TWO will sky-rise in value when GTAIV comes out, so EA have to make a really generous offer if there should be any easy-tempted people among..

psn id: gingo.... if EA take over this franchise then this will be the last GTA i buy unless they start putting more time and care into their games

@ ThisIsLivingB3yond

He was being sarcastic, bro...

I don't know why Play.com is "Blown Away". There's 120+ million PS2' users out there and I'm thinking that a large majority of them are going to jump aboard the PS3 train, and this is just the beginning. Grand Theft Auto is Playstation and the GTA series was home on the Playstation consoles and it's just natural that people are going to get the PS3 for GTA4.

 

I can't wait to see how the sales of PS3 and Xbox 360 console unit's fare this month. That Game Anaylst Patcher said that he thought that PS3 unit sales for April would be around 500,000 units and that really surprised me.

 

I hope that the Economic state of the U.S. doesn't affect people not buying PS3's because people sure aren't spending like they used to, especially when gas is $3.50 a gallon and when it's predicted to hit $4.00 dollars a gallon by Summer.

 

 

if play have sold loads what about Amazon??

it was cheaper so it should havd had more orders

I feel guilty now. I have both versions pre-ordered: standard from Target(free console skin+collectible card) and the SE from Amazon(free license plate). Why am I like this? 19 days....

@ Frank Magnet - Hehe, awesome man. I really hope GTA4 outsells the 360 version by a lot. Then M$ would look really stupid for dishing out that $50 million dollars. But maybe they knew that GTA4 would be a bigger system seller on the PS3, so they weren't trying to compete with the PS3, just take away whatever shine they could. Since GTA4 already has so much gameplay the exclusive content isn't really a must have. They should have kept that money and made an awesome in house game.

Cool!

I can't wait to see the PS3 numbers of this title.

I dont care about the DLC anyways because u have to pay for the exclusives its not even a big deal though maybe the DLC is gonna have is maybe extra missions or guns thats all to it.I am going to buy GTA4 for the ps3 even though i have all three next gen consoles im picking it over the xbox 360.Yeah i hope EA doesnt get this franchise because it will probably be lame I havent even bought EA games at all even when i have the ps2 consoles back in 2002 cause they r full of bull**t.

if its selling so well i might need to preorder this.

Ah yes it's time for Ps3 to start really selling out. GTAIV is going to rock!

Except for Army of Two, I have completely forgotten EA.  I just hope the oil companies can pull their heads out of their azses and drop the gas prices so I can buy more games.  Exxon made $40 billion in oil profits.  I think they can drop the price at least $10 a barrel.

I've put my order in with Play.com after it seems as though most UK high street stores wont have copies...  I hope it arrives on time...