Take-Two CEO on the logic of GTA on the DS

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Take-Two CEO on the logic of GTA on the DS

Posted Jul 29th 2008 4:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News

It doesn't take the CEO of a massive corporation to figure out why Grand Theft Auto on the DS is a good idea from a financial perspective. Luckily for people who like stealing fake cars, Ben Feder, who is the CEO of Take-Two, has figured it out. In an interview with GameDaily, Feder offered the obvious motivation for GTA: Chinatown Wars.

"There are a number of things going on, but you can imagine we're really excited about one of the best franchises, if not THE best franchise in the business, mapped against the largest installed base in the business."

He also suggested that the company isn't planning to just drop GTA onto the DS as-is, which could be good or bad. "You need to create a game for that platform and that's what we expect to do with GTA: Chinatown Wars for DS." Games being rebuilt for the DS are just as likely to end up as minigame fests as they are Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword-style triumphs.

Tags: grand-theft-auto, gta-chinatown-wars, rockstar, take-two

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-30-2008 @ 1:57AM

iofthestorm said...

Grr.... Ninja Gaiden killed my touchscreen, and it was fun but really repetitive.

7-30-2008 @ 10:01PM

Elmoogle said...

Classic top-down GTA with lush DS graphics would be pretty cool. Too bad, it'll probably just be an extremely ugly version of the GTA3 engine.

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