UK retailers strain under glut of GTAIV preorders

good job i pre ordered mine last october when the game was originally going to be released and never cancelled the order lol

why does it always turn into a fanboy war *sigh* your worshipping a piece of hardware not God not Jesus not Allah not Buddha a piece of fucking plastic with wires and mechanical stuff now do yourselves a favour and grow up everyone and just enjoy your console and/or PC

Just as a note, MCV is leaning toward Sony as things go, so this could well just be collective hype to get more pre-orders.

What kind of game deprived fool is looking forward to Lair 2 or KZ2? Isn't that kind of like saying "hay guyz i cant waite for superman 64 2 to come out its gonna be awsum!!!"?

Take your pick of any system, and it has 100 games that will be superior to the sequels to those steaming piles. I mean, both originals were hyped up games that ended up being pieces of crap, why the hell do you expect any better out of the sequel?

When has there EVER been a hyped up game that fell flat on its face and then came back with a great sequel? I'm sure someone can dig one up somewhere, but I certainly can't think of one.

This is not meant to add any fuel to the fire in the console battle since I have all three, and this applies to hyped up sequels to hyped up games that ended up being sh*ty on any console, but these two are prime examples of it. And Motorstorm 2 and RFOM 2? C'mon, if you want to make a case how about you bring up, I dunno, freaking METAL GEAR SOLID 4 instead of four sequels to mediocre and/or P.O.S. games?

Uncharted is 3rd party, no?

I'm actually asking here, I don't know the answer.

2008 and beyond is all about the PS3 baby oh yeah!

America Fuck Yea!

Does this mean that they're going to delay GTA IV to make more discs in order to have time to satisfy pre-orders?

I'm hearing from many places, still under NDA, that the PS3 version is the better version. Better framrate, better more populated enviroments, faster load times (with the optional install), and the split-screen local play is only on PS3.

Looks like 360 owners have dipped out on the main game, but have DLC 6 months from now, to make up for it.

If you own both systems, it's more complicated, you have a decision to make, buy an inferior version, for DLC in 6 months time, Buy the superior PS3 version, and skip DLC.

Me? I am getting the PS3 version, the main game takes priority over the availability of DLC. It seems like PS3 is getting it's own DLC anyway, with large scale home integration and extra mission packs.

Looks like all the publicity over extreme violence, not suitable for minors, threats to censor or ban etc etc really did wonders for sales.

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Fuck, this story worried me so I went to two GAME shops and a Gamestation and they were all rejecting preorders. This is bad! I will not have the game on launch day!!

word to the uk peeps who havnt pre-ordered , Zavvi stor is still taking pre-orders up until close of play today.

I went in and got a pre-order this afternoon , garennteed for release day- oh you get 3 months free xbox live with it too.

hope it helps