GTA3 / VC Cancelled!!!

zerolight · 03-11-2003, 21:17

From Amazon.co.uk...

Dear Customer,

We are sorry to report that the release of the following item has been
cancelled:

"Grand Theft Auto III & Vice City Double Pack (Xbox)"

This item has now been cancelled from your order and we can confirm that you have not been charged for it.

Your card has NOT BEEN CHARGED for this item.

Please accept our apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience
caused.

Richard M · 03-11-2003, 21:30

Game over man! Game over!
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ic14 · 03-11-2003, 21:38

WTF??!?!?!
I smell a sony paying off..........

Richard M · 03-11-2003, 21:48

It's still here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...553952-5814225

Jarandco · 03-11-2003, 21:58

Thats cant be true must just be amazon playing up..... we would have been told about it buy now...

03-11-2003, 22:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roger K

Game over man! Game over!

You're mixing your movie metaphors
:p

Tezcatlipoca · 03-11-2003, 22:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by dr wadd

You're mixing your movie metaphors
:p

LOL.

It should be....

"Game over man! Game over!"

03-11-2003, 22:20

Game are not listing it on their site, and since they are happily taking orders for Halo 2 already then perhaps there is some truth in this.

Richard M · 03-11-2003, 22:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by dr wadd

You're mixing your movie metaphors
:p

You're right... http://newton.tamuk.edu/~suson/enter...s/GameOver.wav

I'm sure that Bruce Willis said it in Die Hard too.

Caspar · 03-11-2003, 22:48

Bruce said:

"Yippy-ki-yay mother 'p'ucker!"

...great film!

03-11-2003, 22:51

Seem's to me that this game won't be out in the UK until sometime in the new year, hence the cancellations. Why does the European market get treated so badly compared to the US/Japanese markets - must be one thing only:- MONEY.

zerolight · 04-11-2003, 06:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Seem's to me that this game won't be out in the UK until sometime in the new year, hence the cancellations. Why does the European market get treated so badly compared to the US/Japanese markets - must be one thing only:- MONEY.

OR... it was never coming to Europe in the first place. There has never been an official annoucement. A game like GTA and you'd expect there to be much fanfare about it. But nothing. It wouldn't be the first time that a game would be released in one region and not another.

Sony regard both the PES series and the GTA series as important titles for the European market, particularly the UK. They allowed the WE6FE incarnation of PES2.5 to be released on the GC in Japan, but not the UK, as it was too important a title to the UK. What makes you so sure that they're not doing the same thing with GTA, this time in the US?

Isn't it possible that Amazon and co assumed since it was getting a US release, that it was also getting released in Europe, and so started taking pre-orders? But they've since been told that it won't get a UK release? At the very very least, Sony may have forced them to hold back any announcements till after Xmas, and the retailers have been told that the game does not yet have a planned release date, and may never have.

Part of me suspects that it'll be out sometime next year. However, I have a feeling that Sony may only have changed part of its exclusivity deal, covering the US, but will not allow it to be released in the UK. Just a hunch.

Its now no longer listed on Amazon.

04-11-2003, 11:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by zerolight

OR... it was never coming to Europe in the first place. There has never been an official annoucement. A game like GTA and you'd expect there to be much fanfare about it. But nothing. It wouldn't be the first time that a game would be released in one region and not another.

Sony regard both the PES series and the GTA series as important titles for the European market, particularly the UK. They allowed the WE6FE incarnation of PES2.5 to be released on the GC in Japan, but not the UK, as it was too important a title to the UK. What makes you so sure that they're not doing the same thing with GTA, this time in the US?

Isn't it possible that Amazon and co assumed since it was getting a US release, that it was also getting released in Europe, and so started taking pre-orders? But they've since been told that it won't get a UK release? At the very very least, Sony may have forced them to hold back any announcements till after Xmas, and the retailers have been told that the game does not yet have a planned release date, and may never have.

Part of me suspects that it'll be out sometime next year. However, I have a feeling that Sony may only have changed part of its exclusivity deal, covering the US, but will not allow it to be released in the UK. Just a hunch.

Its now no longer listed on Amazon.

Whatever the politics involved with Sony's deal, this game will eventually turn up in the UK, maybe not this year, but it will come. There's a fist full of money to be made and the developers/publishers will want a slice of the pie.

zerolight · 04-11-2003, 11:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Whatever the politics involved with Sony's deal, this game will eventually turn up in the UK, maybe not this year, but it will come. There's a fist full of money to be made and the developers/publishers will want a slice of the pie.

WE6FE never ever came to the US and UK GC's. Just Japan. Sony have a worldwide exclusive on WE and PES. But they relaxed the agreement, just for the Japanese market. WE6FE would have sold a bucket load over here in the UK. But Sony's agreement would not let them release it. It's looking like VC is going the same way. I can't see any other reason Amazon would send that mail.

04-11-2003, 11:41

Its still on the Rockstar website as released tomorrow in the US and I have it ordered