Everyone knows that Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas are PS2 classics, however apparently PlayStation made positive they have been unique as a result of it was afraid of Xbox.

GTA is clearly a multiplatform collection lately, however the chances are you consider it as a PlayStation collection. That’ll be as a result of Rockstar discovered its preliminary success with them on the PS2, with titles like GTA 3, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas. And because it seems, these three video games have been purposefully made unique to the PS2, not as a result of Sony simply felt prefer it, however as a result of it was involved concerning the at-the-time upcoming launch of the unique Xbox. Former PlayStation Europe boss Chris Deering (that very same man that made that off remark about how laid off devs ought to simply “go to the seaside for a 12 months”, so not essentially the most stand-up of gents) not too long ago spoke to GamesIndustry.biz trying again on 30 years of PlayStation, the place he particularly spoke of buying the exclusivity rights for GTA 3 and the 2 video games after it.

“We have been apprehensive once we noticed Xbox coming,” Deering defined. “We knew exclusivity was the secret in plenty of fields, like Sky TV with sports activities. Simply as Christmas was approaching when Xbox would launch, a couple of of us went out to our favorite third-party publishers and builders, and we requested them, ‘How would you want a particular deal in case you maintain your subsequent era recreation on PlayStation unique for a two-year interval?’

“And one of many offers we made was with Take-Two for the following three Grand Theft Auto video games. On the time, it wasn’t clear that Grand Theft Auto 3 was going to be as large because it was, as a result of it was a high down recreation.”

Deering went on to notice that “it was very fortunate” for PlayStation on the time, given simply how profitable that collection went on to grow to be. Who is aware of if folks could be checking Rockstar’s socials day-after-day for some form of replace on GTA 6 if GTA 3 had ended up an Xbox unique – as a reminder, the basic console solely bought 24 million items in comparison with the PS2’s 160 million. Although, if it had gone multiplatform, I think about GTA would have carried out simply wonderful, it is PlayStation that would not have benefitted an excessive amount of. What might have been, ‘ey!