Comments on: Rockstar Switching Horses, From Amazon to iTunes

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:53:02 +0000

I am sure Rockstar is doing this because they are not happy with the returns from amazon. By that I mean that they think more people will buy music from iTunes than Amazon and thus their associate commission should be much higher.

Otherwise they will move from iTunes to where ever they can earn more, either through an up front fee (like Amazon paying them to link to them and only them) and so on. The fact of the matter is Apple charges 99 cents, but Amazon and others charge less than 99 cents and thus have less to share.

But I don’t think the driving force is that iTunes went DRM free, although that was necessary certainly.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:59:38 +0000

“I’d also like to see the reverse implemented, whereby you can use any of the tracks from your existing iTunes library in-game.”

In GTA IV for the PC you can actually do just that. Well not exactly. There’s a radio station called “Independent FM” (or something like that) where the game pulls music from a directory that’s designated and uses it in game. So whenever you steal a car, you just change the radio station over and any music in that directory will be played.

Sadly it doesn’t work like that for the PS3. I’m not sure about the 360, but I imagine the same holds true.

By: DOG MACHINE

DOG MACHINE — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:12:58 +0000

Now bring out GTA on macs, not some crappy cider port please!