For those of you continuing to have Grand Theft Auto IV lockups on your PS3 even after the May 7th Rockstar patch... tough noogies. The latest 2.35 firmware won't specifically help. Sony says that the "minor update" will "improve stability of some PS3 titles" -- then clarifies that GTA IV is not part of the vagary. Nevertheless, Sony does say that they "have a identified a solution that should resolve the issue." So buck up Niko and get on the horn with Sony, God knows the police won't help.
[Via
Joystiq, thanks Warren and Luis C.]
Read -- GTA IV freezing / not loading help
Read -- 2.35 firmware
posted May 15th 2008 1:06AM
Only had it freeze once on my 360, while loading a mission. Speaking of which, does the hard drive install on the PS3 eliminate or at least reduce the loading times? It's extremely annoying.
I just wish they'd fix NHL08 once and for all!! The online play has NEVER worked properly. I wonder if SONY realizes my friends and I (and countless other Canadians) are considering going with the XBOX360 just so we can have a decent online game of NHL08 ??
PS3 will probably have more problems with multi platform release than 360 because most developer uses 360 to developer games and later port into PS3 (and wii). That's the advantage of being out early when developer begin stacking up on next gen tools.
While I've had no problems with lock-ups in GTA4, I have noticed the Divx playback has seems worse. Did the new firmware break something?
I own both a 360 and PS3 and I have to say GTA4 hasn't locked up or crashed at all for me. Guess you guys are having bad luck is all. I have both GTA4 versions neither have crashed.
I've never had any problems with my PS3 freezing. Certainly not during GTA4.
For a software house that has enjoyed so much success to release a game like that without proper QA... unbelievable. This isn't about Sony or about MS. It's not about which console is better. It just showed how bad the developers really are.
i have a ps3 and haven't had any freezing issues, but as for all these people coming in here trying to wage a ps3 vs. 360 war, show me a game on both consoles where the 360 version runs better or looks better, and show me how your 360 is even a better price deal, considering all your games are on regular dvd discs, you can't watch hd movies, oh well you can but hd dvd is dead, you pay for online services, and pretty soon your games will have to be on multiple discs because some systems don't have hd's and regular dvd's just don't cut it, fuck your 360, i sold mine for a ps3.
well....ik this is a really late reply...but....
there are a few 360 games tht already have multiple dics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Odyssey
thats the only one i could find atm. i remember one about a blue dragon or something, too?
ps3 rules....
Okay, 90% success (or 10% failure) is not good stats for the Xbox... that still puts it 9.9% behind PS3...
And for everyone claiming ridiculously juvenile things like "it hasn't frozen once on my 360, PS3 = pwned"... well, hasn't frozen on my launch PS3, nor any of my friends... I still am not stupid enough to claim victory from this small sample though... that would take an idiot.