Microsoft recently released some documentaries since the birth of The Xbox, in which someone found an interesting story between R Star and Microsoft, that is, in 2001, R Star contacted Microsoft to make GTA3 the exclusive game of the original XBOX, but Microsoft executives decisively rejected them - so they forced them to turn to Sony, making the game a limited-time exclusive game for PS2.
This operation also allows "GTA" to never leave the ecology of Sony PS, Rockstar and PlayStation have established a close cooperative relationship, the two mutually beneficial to earn huge profits, PS console sales and R Star games are selling very well, until today "Three Men and One Dog V" is often a sales hit on PS5.
"GTA3" is a landmark game, it makes large-scale 3D open world games finally possible, introducing unprecedented game freedom, Microsoft originally in order to expand the XBOX game lineup also acquired a number of studios, R star also had the potential to be acquired, but Microsoft rejected R star, because it did not believe that R star can bring GTA from 2D to 3D, and believed that the previous game was not successful enough.
Ben Turpin, a netizen who shared the funny story on Twitter, said: "I wonder if Microsoft has any regrets. If executives had agreed, Rockstar could have been Microsoft's first-party studio."
According to the point of view at the time, Microsoft's wave is indeed a pity, perhaps the original "GTA" series exclusive can make the XBOX console sales more popular, and it will not be unable to compete with the former Sony. But fate is so mocking, 2021 Microsoft supported half of the game industry, "Horizon 5", "Age of Empires 4", "Halo: Infinity", "Italian Airliner 2" and other works have been praised by players, becoming the benchmark of the game manufacturer, the XGP of Xiangbang has also become the choice of more players, and now the pressure can be said to have come to Sony's side.