We were all expecting it and finally Rockstar has come through with the announcement:
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is coming to the PS3 and PC on March 30. There will be two ways to get your expansion fix: you can either jack each individual episode --
The Lost and the Damned or
The Ballad of Gay Tony -- through PSN or Games For Windows Live, or you can snag a disc with the new content on there, just like the previous Xbox 360 release. Well, OK, technically it's not "jacking," per se, but work with us here -- it's essential to the mental imagery we're trying to force into your wrinkly thought machine.
Jedi blogging.
A disc will set you back $39.99, while individual episodes will be $20 each. Like the Xbox 360 version of
Episodes From Liberty City, a retail disc will not require a copy of
GTA IV, while the DLC will.
{ Jan 29th 2010 at 12:16AM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
skyblaze @ Jan 29th 2010 12:25AM
does he really think he looks cool in those shades?
BxGT @ Jan 29th 2010 1:07AM
Fantabulas
LionheartAce @ Jan 29th 2010 6:21AM
What are those? Are they like gay Tarantulas?
Ballistic H @ Jan 29th 2010 7:29AM
He's actually looking at you thinking "Hot damn honey! We've got a muffin ready to be eaten here! Mmm Hmm!"
Bobby Kotick @ Jan 29th 2010 12:26AM
I think PS3 owners have something else on their mind for their wallets come March.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:40AM
I don't think sales will suffer too much because of other games. If anything this benefits from god of war being pushed up two weeks. The original date was supposed to be around the 30th, which would have been a real problem for this.
PN04 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:55AM
I think the sales will suffer more from having to wait a year for the freaking thing to com out more than anything else. Also the failure to patch broken multiplayer modes in GTA itself.
klitorisaurus @ Jan 29th 2010 4:28AM
March has somehow become more expensive than the holidays for me! With BFBC:2, GoW 3, Just Cause 2, and now this! Ouch!
It's a good thing GT5 got pushed back, there's no way I could afford a new wheel and the game by early April! :-/
SoulBlade @ Jan 29th 2010 9:57AM
kilt - what wheel are you thinking of for GT?
Acestime @ Jan 29th 2010 10:50AM
U mean god of war 3 right
Blkant @ Jan 29th 2010 12:28AM
Seems the paid for timed exclusive contracts are ending one after another.
Bobs @ Jan 29th 2010 2:17AM
well no shit captain obvious
stealthur @ Jan 29th 2010 2:30AM
lol, Bobs is mad.
Jocaju @ Jan 29th 2010 11:46AM
I hope we can get the Tomb Raider DLC too. When they announced that TR DLC would be exclusive to Xbox, I was like, fu** you Eidos.
TR was always on Playstation, Eidos ruined for fans of the game who owns a PS3. My hope is that this contract with MS it's timed exclusive just like with netflix and GTA IV and someday we can see the DLC coming to PS3.
The good news is that even if this DLC doesn't come to PS3, I don't think the next game will have this crap exclusive to one console, because Warner Bros bought Eidos.
Autobot71Ironhide (2010 Reissue [was awetoebawt]) @ Feb 2nd 2010 6:23PM
I stopped playing Tomb Raider after The Last Revelation.
xyawnx @ Jan 29th 2010 12:30AM
@skyblaze
I think cool is not what is he reaching for, more like fierce or fabulous.
Cool DLC isn't exclusive anymore.
kenny goo @ Jan 29th 2010 12:32AM
Microsoft's already got what they wanted from the original deal. Not only did the 360 version of the game outsell the PS3 version buy about a million and a half copies worldwide, but they put a serious cap on PS3 hardware sales from the announcement that GTA IV was coming to 360 day and date with PS3 with exclusive DLC at E3 '06 until a little while after the game launched in April '08. This also obviously increased their own hardware sales as well.
While this is great for PS3 owners who still have GTA IV or would like to jump back into it, and I'm sure this will sell enough to justify what I can only assume will be a relatively easy port (since the original game and engine have been up and running for a while now), this really is just a way to for Rockstar and Take-Two to boost some admittedly rough financial statements.
Wiizer ($299) Having BC On Your Launch Console? (Priceless) @ Jan 29th 2010 12:40AM
Not a popular statement you made there. You're not a fanboy, but why the paragraph?
It would've been easier to say you're happy this exclusively paid DLC bullshit is over and in the future, consoles should rid themselves of exclusive agreements like these and sell the same game (in its entirety) to everybody.
That Burning Sensation @ Jan 29th 2010 12:54AM
You know in both of those long paragraphs you should have included a point.
kenny goo @ Jan 29th 2010 2:25PM
@ Wiizer
Originally, the point of downvoting was the removing of spam and obvious trolling. Now it's just to make any comment that, like you said, is unpopular harder to read. What I'm saying isn't untrue and it isn't fanboyish. That's the situation with the GTA DLC.
Personally, as much as I may not like exclusive DLC, I get why it exists, and as a consumer, I'm not gonna complain about it. Maybe that's just because I have both consoles, but honestly, Sony and Microsoft are just trying to increase software sales in comparison to their competitor. That's just what this is, and even though the PS3 is getting the GTA DLC, "the damage has been done."
@ That Burning Sensation
And in that one sentence you could have done a lot more then just showing you're a mindless troll. Good job.
Zampano @ Jan 29th 2010 5:24PM
@kenny goo-
I have to disagree with you about exclusive DLC. I understand why console-makers try to secure it - it's a good selling point for their machine - but it seems short-sighted and greedy on the part of developers who agree to it. For instance, when I chose a PS3, I knew it would mean that I couldn't play Halo, Gears, Alan Wake, or any number of other really excellent-looking titles, BUT I could play God of War, LBP, KZ2, Heavy Rain, and the Team ICO games, and that's OK. It's normal, healthy competition. Exclusive DLC is different. I don't like getting some - but not all - of an experience simply because the developer had a fat check staring them in the face. Shouldn't the primary goal of a developer be (beyond being profitable for their shareholders) to serve their fans? Agreeing to provide exclusive DLC shows that R* or Bethesda really don't give a rat's ass about their fans. In my case, it's made me adamant about never giving either of those companies a dime again. I like their product, but I'll buy it from the used bin so they don't profit from it (I figure they already got paid plenty. I'd honestly rather give my money to Gamestop - and that's saying something). As you said, the damage has been done.
kenny goo @ Jan 29th 2010 5:42PM
@ Zampano
Most of the time, platform owners pay the developer to create content that will only be available on one platform and increase the sales there. Making a third party game itself exclusive to one platform usually costs too much money for the platform holder, so exclusive DLC is a good step down but serves the same purpose on a smaller scale, especially for people who have both platforms and don't care where they play.
It may end up screwing over the consumer sometimes, but there are much, much more annoying business practices in the gaming industry in my opinion. I think fighting piracy and used games by screwing over the consumer is *much* worse then fighting competition by screwing over the consumer. To each his own though.
Traceur_Ryuk [First Heavy Rain fanboy] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Jan 29th 2010 12:32AM
"We were all expecting it"
Not this soon I wasn't
haran_elessar @ Jan 29th 2010 12:32AM
wow it took its time but finally I'll be able to play this...come to think of it the PS3 may benefit more with the expansions releasing now, thanks to the price cut and its "momentum", than it would if they had released alongside the 360 versions.
dirk4201258 @ Jan 29th 2010 3:48AM
Thank ya Jebus! Bout damn time that exclusivity deal was up
Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Jan 29th 2010 12:33AM
I actually got rid of my PS3 version of GTA IV.
With only a 40gb the 5gb mandatory install was a pain.
(I know I really need to update my HDD)
While it's nice this is finally coming to PS3
I'm just going to go buy the GTA IV Collector's and this for 360
PN04 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:58AM
you know you can get a much larger drive for the price of a game now right? and it makes your life a lot easier.
den-69 @ Jan 29th 2010 2:24AM
@PN04
But not for the 360 ;-P
WEEEGEEE! @ Jan 29th 2010 2:55AM
You could get a 1TB drive for the desktop for nearly the same price as a 500GB for a laptop or the ps3, Or 250GB if you own an xbox360. "But you don't need a 250GB drive for the 360!!!" i hear you answer, "You are correct but installing the game on the x360 will get rid of that annoying noise that is the DVD drive spinning, plus it makes loading faster as well"
Cloud_ST @ Jan 29th 2010 12:34AM
Finally,I was really really doubting it would happen since so much time went on.
Big D. @ Jan 29th 2010 12:35AM
awesome! I already have it for 360 and to be honest it isn't that great but still cool to see it coming to PS3 finally.
That Burning Sensation @ Jan 29th 2010 12:51AM
OK, I see what you did there.
inevercheckthis @ Jan 29th 2010 12:35AM
I hate exclusives, this didn't make me want an Xbox when it came out, and it didn't make me hate my PS3. I just made me angry that companies just piss all that extra money into screwing each other over, and it's the community that suffers.
Traceur_Ryuk [First Heavy Rain fanboy] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Jan 29th 2010 12:38AM
Without exclusives we wouldn't have some of the great franchises we do today
Wiizer ($299) Having BC On Your Launch Console? (Priceless) @ Jan 29th 2010 12:43AM
Exclusives didn't make the great franchises we have today, developers made the great franchises we have today.
spyker @ Jan 29th 2010 12:36AM
Good news, I was about to get Episodes From Liberty City for my 360, but I've got GTA4 for my PS3.
Well, actually, no reason not to get the 360 disk version, but no reason not to wait for the DLC either.
Alvin_Rod @ Jan 29th 2010 12:38AM
I gasped when I read the title of the article.
JMoney156 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:45AM
Haha, me too
adolson @ Jan 29th 2010 12:39AM
Sony's press release does confirm the $20 price tag of each individual episode.
jordanbrown @ Jan 29th 2010 12:43AM
Awesome. I wasn't a fan of tlad, but tbogt is excellent. Multiplayer additions were cool too. I borrowed it for 360 from a friend, was waiting for this announcement. Like others, can't believe its coming this soon.
fred @ Jan 29th 2010 12:44AM
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
carterk88 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:46AM
Sweet I can't believe this is coming out so soon.I'll stick with the hard copy for this, there's no reason to take space up on my HDD.
fraiden @ Jan 29th 2010 12:47AM
Rockstar, put the episodes on Steam. I refuse to use Games for Windows bs.
HighFiveJesus @ Jan 29th 2010 12:51AM
YESSS
oh ps3 too? i spit coffee at that one.
Granger @ Jan 29th 2010 12:51AM
Can you explore the entirety of Liberty City on the stand alone discs? I've never played Gay Tony, but I loved TLAD... I'd probably buy this, but I don't remember if the entire city was available to you.
Ashkental @ Jan 29th 2010 5:14AM
Yes it is and Gay Tony is AMAZING, a much, much better expansion than Lost and Damned.
Go buy it. Now.
Unnxandros @ Jan 29th 2010 12:52AM
i lol'ed
wcarnation @ Jan 29th 2010 12:52AM
Always knew this was gonna happen, hopefully I can edge in on Gamestop having the PS3 version of the game used for $15 before they do their stupid price gouging.
Developer [Fighter of the Nightman] [Champion of the Sun] @ Jan 29th 2010 12:59AM
I have a hunch said Skipper Grunch, you shouldn't go out to see.
tmacairjordan87 @ Jan 29th 2010 12:59AM
Seeing as there was nothing seriously wrong with the games, you're basically bragging about getting 1 game several months later than everyone else, and another even later.
This is similar to when Bioshock and Oblivion went over to ps3 too. It took so long after the 360 versions released that no one really cared anymore.