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Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: Marconelly on December 07, 2001, 02:38:08 PM: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_51/b3762143.htm

this could be bad news.
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: Proud To Be on December 07, 2001, 02:46:22 PM: It may boost X-box sales, because microsoft cant do it their damn selves, they gotta go jack one of our developers to make their production grow just like Nintendo did with the Resident Evil Series. I do have a problem with it... It just comes to show that the x-box/gamecube cant stand up to the hype without our help.

The PS2 will stand alone on top.
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: Sublimesjg on December 07, 2001, 03:48:54 PM: well that sucks

what other games besides GTA3 did they make though?
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Post by: fastson on December 07, 2001, 03:59:30 PM: Settlers I, II, III, IV, V, VI :D
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: ddaryl on December 07, 2001, 04:00:30 PM: You know there is nothing stopping Sony from bidding on Take Two themselves

Obvioulsy Sony is not interested, and its smart business for MS.
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Post by: fastson on December 07, 2001, 04:09:13 PM: I heard Sony has a game developer named Dogfish..
They are ex. DMA, Bullfrog workers, and they are supposed to be working on some new game.. (Secret)

Any truth to this? :confused:
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Post by: pstwo on December 07, 2001, 04:34:52 PM: Hey, M$ can\'t keep doing this.......I mean if it keeps happing we gamer will have to make our own games. ;)
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: Proud To Be on December 07, 2001, 04:45:55 PM: I thought Rockstar made GTA3. where the hell did Take Two come into it.
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: fastson on December 07, 2001, 04:47:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Proud To Be
I thought Rockstar made GTA3. where the hell did Take Two come into it.

Rockstar is owned by TakeTwo..
Btw, DMA made GTA3. :D
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Post by: OHMYGOD on December 07, 2001, 07:01:39 PM: I say...who cares? What games did take 2 make anyways? Spec Ops? LOL.;)
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Post by: ddaryl on December 07, 2001, 07:12:08 PM: Quote
Originally posted by fastson

Rockstar is owned by TakeTwo..
Btw, DMA made GTA3. :D

So DMA made GTA3, while Rockstar published the game who is owned by Take Two

My head hurts
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Post by: Sublimesjg on December 07, 2001, 08:58:56 PM: dang ok im confused

so does this mean no more Rockstar since they are owned by Take Two?
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Post by: IronFist on December 07, 2001, 10:56:45 PM: I, too, am confused. So will we be seeing GTA4 on the PS2 (assuming that there will be a GTA4)? And what will happen to State of Emergency? Is that still a PS2 game or is it being reprogrammed for the Xbox instead?
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Post by: Simchoy on December 08, 2001, 03:51:33 PM: The only thing I will say...wait and see. Merger talks have always come and gone. Most of the time, nothing happens.

If Take 2 does merge with MS, well, they are not doing this to help the competition so future Take 2 games will probably be Xbox exclusive if this did happen.
Title: Take two to be merged with M$?
Post by: RichG on December 08, 2001, 03:56:02 PM: We always see these kind of news snippets. Most of the time it doesn\'t mean much.

We got their best title GTA 3. I probably won\'t miss the others except GTA 4 if it comes out for X-Box only due to this merger.
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Post by: nO-One on December 08, 2001, 03:59:57 PM: this is all freightfully confusing isn\'t it.

If DMA made GTA.3 and Rockstar puplished it, will we be seeing GTA.4 on the PS.2 or will it be an Xbox exclusive.???

And how will this affect the much anticipated State of Emergency game???

Is Myamoto, Kutaragi\'s real father???

Find out in the next episode of....Guiding light, the home entertainment edition.
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Post by: Ethan_Hunt on December 10, 2001, 12:41:41 PM: You guys make me laugh, you go on and on about how good GTA3 is and Take Two(or who ever made it!:D ) then as soon as there is alittle bit of talk about MS buying them, you start saying i don\'t care, there not that great anyway.:D

You guys do make me laugh.

Also i really can\'t see this happening, Take two will want to sell all the game they can, they will just bring all the games out for all the systems. So i wouldn\'t worry to much.
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Post by: Simchoy on December 10, 2001, 01:53:51 PM: Yeah, some are typical fanboys...(though I only found 1 here), but many here did and still do love GTA3, and would like to see GTA4 and State of Emergency still. And if they wind up as an Xbox exclusive, they won\'t like that (have to get another system just to plays these games which sucks).
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Post by: Dangerous_Toys on December 12, 2001, 01:09:58 PM: MS tries to take a monopoly on everything...they may very well ruin the videogame business their dirty tactics...nothing against MS cuz I also own an X-Box...but they are vicious when it comes to business.