Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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Well as you know GTA Chinatown Wars was a game in development for the DS, since to Rockstar it looked interesting platform to develop the game using the Stylus. However some news may make this game even more interesting. It seems another very possible candidate to make a GTA game on is Apple's very own iPhone. Since Rockstar is using the touch capabilities it couldn't be that difficult to port this game to the iPhone and use its touch screen possibilities. At least it seems this way to Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey.
However considering no official word has been released from Rockstar its best to label this as a rumor for now.
With sales of GTA IV slowing down lately, the EA bid for Take-Two officially over, the threat of Rockstar's Sam and Dan Houser potentially signing with another publisher, and Rockstar's own reluctance to bring GTA to Wii, the future of the GTA franchise has certainly been kept fresh in everyone's minds.
And while Wii isn't really being considered at Rockstar at the moment, another very popular platform could be: Apple's iPhone. With GTA: Chinatown Wars coming to the DS and making use of the touch screen later this year, it wouldn't be too difficult for Rockstar to bring the game to Apple's increasingly important (for gaming and other apps) iPhone, notes Janco Partners analyst Mike Hicke
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Considering the ds also has two-screens and considering that the iphone is very limited, i doubt we will ever see the game ported.
I don't hate nintendo, actually im a old fan of nintendo since the NES and SNES. So stop assuming shit, im just telling the facts that the iPhone has far better graphics and specs(hardware) then the DS. Not to mention more internal memory Space, which the DS lacks. All in all the DS version will probably look better then the screens we have seen, but hardly anything that compares to console versions and PSP. Sorry, to have a fullyfledge Grand Theft Auto game its going to need things that the DS doesn't have. iPhone is far better to support the Grand Theft Auto game.
If you had any knowledge of the specs and capabilities of the DS or iPhone you'd see that the DS is inferior. Sorry if you want to debate this further please post on that thread I linked you too, im sure ChiroVette and Steel would love to prove you wrong.
@Linkerd101 Its more then graphics actually, which the DS will not make a great system to have a good GTA. iPhone has better Specs in which it could(moreso) handle a true Grand Theft Auto, probably near the same quality as the PSP games. DS lacks this, its known fact.
@FinalFantasyFanaticc: Why can't the DS stay as a gaming handheld, intead of following Sony and Apple and making a mutlimedia handheld version?
Yea see how that can be switched around.
Back to the main issue: the DS game versus theoretical iPhone version. You stated earlier that GTA on the iPhone would play better than on the DS, which is just plain stupid. The iPhone has no face buttons so how could it possibly control well or play better than on the DS? Really, tell me. Sure, the iPhone has better graphics than the DS, but does that mean that this theoretical game will be better? No.
I don't even know why I'm defending this game; I'm no GTA fan. I suppose it's just that idiotic comments such as these compel me to purge Neoseeker and its affiliates of morons, but every time you post, you remind me that I will never be able to achieve this lofty goal.
I'm gonna try this one more time: GTA on the DS may not, and probably won't, be as good as GTA IV but that's not the point. This is about DS vs. iPhone. No matter how great the specs are on the iPhone, the game would play and control like shit due to the lack of buttons. Is it really that hard to comprehend what I'm saying? How much more do I need to dumb it down for you?
Now while your complaining about the DS's specs, let me remind you that this is a 2D game. I can't think of anything in the DS's hardware that would limit its ability to do good 2D. If you're gonna go around saying it's gonna suck just cause it's 2D, go ahead; that's your opinion. But it's because of pricks like you that 2D games are dieing.
You do know that GTA has been on the PSP and has sold lots?
I hardly see how that has anything to do with my point at all. The touch screen abilities can be made in such a way to have touch screen buttons via game. But, then again, I was merely talking about specs and how the iPhone(theorectically, something you missed again) can handle a fully fledge GTA game.
Hahaha pricks like me? First stop trying to flame me, since you clearly can't make a decent reply without resorting to flame and assuming im a fanboy. Second off, Im in no way making 2D games die, GTA is another can of beans to be dealing with for a game. Did you even bother to read that topic or are you just rambling more garbage assuming you think GTA on the DS could sell well? IIRC GTA 1 and 2 wasn't that great of games, maybe back in the day when it was on the PC, but at this day and age the GTA series are rated on such a level where that style will not and cannot make it great. This is fact. Go read the thread I linked you do and get educated on the fact GTA on the DS will not be good. Stop trying to prove me wrong when you clearly have yet to make a decent reply proving anything but how much you're unwilling yo accept that maybe, just maybe, im right here.
You're one to talk as well. Maybe when you're mature enough to handle a discussion like this on that topic I linked you to(twice already) then we can have a better discussion. You have no clue how Grand Theft Auto games are rated nowadays on the public, and trying to show you the light to someone unwilling to learn facts and come to understand for a fully fledged GTA game, CWs on the DS just cannot handle it due to its limitations.
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