Pachter expects GTA 5 coming in 2010

Did this guy read comments from Joystiq and tell everyone it was his idea?
And, when did analysts start commenting on whether a game is coming out or not?
From what I know, analysts are to state the obvious to stock owners.

Liberty City to Vice City to San Andreas.

I don't see why they'ld break the cycle now.

I think you underestimate the amount of pussy some of us can imagine.

Yeah, he has a shitload of pussy-willows in his garden, who the fuck cares?

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As far as GTA V goes don't count on it. Though patcher is right Rockstar should be working on a new GTA IV (think GTAIII: vice city), but really who knows when it'll be released. Normally Rockstar has released these "expansions" about 2 years apart, but w/ the DLC, and things still being a bit crazy for T2 and Rockstar who knows what's going on there. I highly doubt even those working on the next GTA project can predict when their next retail game will ship.

Personally I think 2011 is a better conservative guess.

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You guys know nothing about the thing and you're excited for it?

Oh...almost forgot it's a ps3 exclusive :P

SPARTA!

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Pachter can also expect a boot u--

asshole

damn it tmac, you broke the combo.

Who cares about games? Pachter said Facebook on consoles is the new big thing!

BioShock 2 will probably do pretty well for itself, or at least do better than the original (even adding in sales from the later PS3 version), since it's had 2+ years for good word of mouth to circulate. I don't expect much from Red Dead Redemption or Mafia 2 in terms of sales, but i could be pleasantly surprised.

Pachter is a businessman, after all, and he knows as well as pretty much everyone else that GTA is the only consistent moneymaker TakeTwo has got in pretty much it's whole stable, and that's why he says this has to happen. It won't, for reasons you all already stated, but it would be better for TakeTwo, financially, if it did

You forgot the crystal ball McElroy... It's the best part about the Pachter articles.

I don't trust Pachter. Ever. Ever ever. I suggest you do the same.

I'll take LA Noire over another GTA.

as long as its better then 4, thats right im sayin what your thinkin, gta4 was a let down san andreas was just to hard an act to follow

Its not unless Rockstar North passes it off to someone else, they are working on Agent right now. The next GTA will have to wait or it will be handled by another group of Rockstar devs.

I wish he was right but I doubt it. Sam & Dan Houser would never do this. More DLc episodes 2K10, sure. But not a new sequel. Everytime gta changes from numbers (not cities) they spike the features and look of the game ie the difference betwen III & IV. We might even see (or at least I hope) to see gta4: vice city (&hopefully set in the 80s again) TOPS!! But even that I doubt will be anounced until the end of 2010. I do agree though GTA 5 will come this console generation though as this gen will last longer than the previous.

my new job is to sit around and make up "expert" nonsense about gaming and then get posted on every gaming blog. analyst is a four letter word.

I hope they do another 80's themed one.

While Pachter is making predictions, could he kindly tell us whether it will be set in San Andreas, Vice City, or somewhere else?

I'd love to see another Chinatown wars or top-down view game. I think Chinatown wars PSP looks great and really returns GTA to its "roots"!

I thought GTAIV was a damn good game, the storyline, the art style, were good. The story did get a little crazy near the end but I would say it was pretty good overall. The characters are just like every other R* game, walking stereotypes which is totally fine by me. The thing that kinda got to me in IV as opposed to SA was that when I started playing IV, I felt like I should try to be more careful, obeying traffic signals and refraining from psychotic rampages through the city. It was almost like Liberty City was too nice to fuck up! The character was a bit more of a feel good story, immigrant coming over, etc... It wasn't until my first firefight when Niko screamed out, "you shouldn't have fucked with me.." that I thought to myself, "okay, now it's on." From then on, I played the game with a chip on my shoulder, it became a gritty action game, with a great looking environment and stereotypical yet likable characters, except when they blow your cell phone up every five seconds.

I liked GTAIV, some people say they took out everything that was fun in SA, I admit, going bat shit crazy is fun, but I can do that in Stillwater. GTAIV was meant to be more than mindless nerd raging with tanks, and apache helicopters, and I think it succeeded in that respect. What we got was a top notch game, from a great studio. I don't think anyone would ever say they regret playing it.

For the next game though, I hope they take me somewhere out of America, let me mix it up in Russia with the KGB, let me dive into the Sicilian mob underbelly, or the Chinese Triads. I am tired of New York and LA being the center of GTA. Vice City provided a relief because Miami in the 80s was sweet. I hope R* can take elements from all of the games so far and really deliver something awesome.

2011. The-End...

Is gta 5 going to be on PS3 only? Some guy said it was and i think he was wrong but can anyone clarify?

It would be nice if the cop A.I was upgraded.

A fifth full GTA IV game sometime in 2010?. I'm sure Microsoft will have bought the exclusive rights to that one as well. In fact I would not be surprised if they arranged a deal with Rockstar to have bought the whole future GTA franchise.