Grand Theft Auto V

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Take-Two Interactive’s financials weren’t that good for Q1 2013. The company blamed the poor sales of Max Payne 3 and Spec Ops: The Line for their shoddy performance for the quarter, however they are still targeting significant revenues for this fiscal year.
Pachter analysed: “We can not construct a scenario in which Take-Two can generate profits necessary to meet its forecast for fiscal year 2013 without an imminent release of Grand Theft Auto V.”
He also went on to say that the game needs to ship 18 million units. “We hope the title will sell at least 18 million units, representing about 20% in the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the U.S. and Europe.” The install base for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the US and EU is approx. 100 million units (55 million in the US and 45 million in the EU).
Here’s what Take-Two had to say about the game’s development. “We just haven’t talked about a release date. So I can’t discuss about the existence of a release date we haven’t announced,” Zelnick said when asked by investors.
The company’s net revenue was $226.1 million, down by at least $100 million in revenue compared to last quarter. They had recorded a $8.6 million loss last quarter which was increased to $110.8 this quarter.

http://gamingbolt.com/gta-5-analysts-still-believe-in-2012-release-date18-million-sales-projected

[Fresh Tendrils]

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When does R* year start, April?

[fatleg3]

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http://gamingbolt.com/gta-5-analysts...ales-projected
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I think this guarantees that we will see this game come out sometime between dec '12 to april '13. MP3 came out in May, so if they want to release it during this fiscal year it will have to come out before May.

[Blzer]

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Yeah, but will that come at the expense of a buggier/less complete game, for whatever reason?

The last thing you want them to do is rush this out.

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[Blzer]

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It's funny how I don't have to go back and watch the actual trailer to understand every shot that they're recreating.

[h4mbon3s]

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lol that was freaking great.

It's funny how I don't have to go back and watch the actual trailer to understand every shot that they're recreating.

yep they had everything spot on.

i need a new GTA in my life

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Why GTA 5's lead character could be an FBI agent, and why that's brilliant

This was faintly depressing - a step back from the brilliantly unexpected Niko Bellic and his outsider politics - and the choice of San Andreas as backdrop seemed a little bankrupt by association. There's an unheard-of level of scene-setting in the (probably in-engine) footage, but classic GTA tropes are in full evidence: car chases, glittering vistas, lots of incidental actions on the part of pedestrians and, needless to say, men with guns. Would this be the GTA that stumbled, I thought to myself, the one that contented itself with reliving old victories? Or was I jumping to conclusions?

Turns out I was, indeed, jumping to conclusions. Or at least that's what it looks and sounds like, in the cool blue air of August 2012. The man from the trailer makes cautious reference to a former "line of work" midway through, discussing his reasons for moving to the coast. Last year, I'd assumed this to be some kind of criminal backstory - perhaps even an allusion to a prior GTA, a hint that a previous leading character will return. But as the months pile up, this seems increasingly like proof of a rumour regarding the involvement of the FBI - or as GTA IV cheekily terms America's best-known crime-fighting outfit, the FIB.

Skip to around 45 seconds in. Watch the sequence where three men - one the smart, graying white guy subtly framed as the speaking voice elsewhere - leap from a truck in identical pest control disguises brandishing suppressed automatic weapons, and kick their way into a glass lobby. Seems rather too scientific and coordinated for a mafia operation, doesn't it?

The FIB have featured in every GTA game from the third outing onwards - they're the elite enforcers, coaxed into view when you push the wanted gauge past three stars. But they've seldom had much impact on series storylines, making the choice of FIB agents as core characters both natural and provocative. With GTA 5, Rockstar may be about to make its grandest break from precedent yet. No longer are you some loud-shirted renegade, pitted against murky and unfeeling authorities. Now, you're one of the men on the inside, with years of sinister dealings under your belt.

It's possible to put names to what we glimpse of those faces. Three "FBI" agents number among the characters listed on a Telsey & Company casting call from early 2011, allegedly conducted on Rockstar's behalf. There's the "annoying, wise cracking, highly successful" Mitch Hayes, a sound bet for comic relief, the somewhat faceless Miguel Gonzalez, "a young Mexican American", and last but not least Calvin North, a "clapped out FBI agent who now mostly works offering advice on TV shows".

When the above rumour surfaced (some time before the trailer itself) we thought Gonzalez could be the new protagonist, but it's hard to imagine such a character speaking as the trailer does, with the weight of the world dangling from every syllable. The tired, compromised North is a much better fit.

There are, of course, no end of places this premise could take us, both in terms of the plot and the mechanics. Playing North, we'd presumably have access to the FIB's arsenal and garage, along with its information-gathering and distribution networks - a matter of some significance to GTA 5's online features, perhaps, assuming Rockstar's serious about trumping certain dangerous-looking competitors. The storyline might see North investigating the Epsilon Program, a hilariously vacuous and cynical cult that's a patent spoof of Scientology. Undercover ops, anybody? Offshore drug busts? Interrogation sequences akin to Team Bondi's work in L.A. Noire?

I can't wait to hear more, not least from you lot. Come on. I'm sure everybody reading this has seen Point Break, or at least Men in Black. If you were in Rockstar's shoes, how would you approach an FBI-dedicated Grand Theft Auto? Let your honed criminal minds run riot.

[Blzer]

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I always wanted the next protag to be from the police force. FBI would be cool as well.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I wonder how much (if any) of LA Noire's gameplay will be an influence in this if that rumor is true. This could be foreshadowing their Agent game, too.

[Beantown]

That'd actually be a perfect way to refresh the series. Hopefully his instincts are actually right.

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[BlueNGold]

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Take a closer look at the fighter jet screen. You can see the main character inside.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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The bicycle screen shot is gorgeous.

[rspencer86]

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That Cheetah shot is incredible.

Maybe they'll have random license plates in this edition with some funny personalized plates mixed in. That might make it more fun to collect cars in garages and such.