Sat, Sep 20, 2008 | 08:39 BST

Crago: LA Noire is a year away, 360 and PS3, is massive

Tom Crago, the CEO of Tantalus and the president of the Game Developers’ Association of Australia, spilled some beans on Team Bondi-developed LA Noire at GC Asia yesterday, saying the mysterious Rockstar title is likely to have one of the biggest development budgets of any game. Ever.

Crago said the game’s “got – I’d suggest – another year or so to go”.

He also said that it “could be the biggest budget videogame in development anywhere in the world. It would certainly… in terms of console titles, be in the top ten… LA Noire is a massive, massive project.”

Blimey. Rockstar will be pleased. Not content with that, Crago went on to say the game’s coming out on PS3 and 360. Platforms had been previously unconfirmed.

13 comments

Tiger Walts
20/09/08, 11:01 am

Whoah, I thought this was canned it had been so long since we heard anything.

morriss
20/09/08, 11:08 am

We asked R* about it a few weeks ago, iirc and they kept pretty schtum (sp?), http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/rockstar-no-new-information-on-la-noire/

Gamoc
20/09/08, 1:19 pm

This could be interesting, considering it being Rockstar and all. I’ll be watching. And waiting.
[leans back and tents hands]

ecu
20/09/08, 1:24 pm

Was this the one that people were thinking was PS3 exclusive?

morriss
20/09/08, 1:29 pm

Yeah.

No_PUDding
20/09/08, 3:51 pm

Was this the game people didn’t ahve a clue was ever PS3 exclusive (apart from me ) ?

Seems a shame. Exclusive regardless of platform always makes a better game, just becuase the game is focused on that platform alone.

ecu
20/09/08, 5:09 pm

Well, I think people made that assumption back when PS3 wasn’t doing a bit shit, so they assumed most games would be PS3 exclusive. Third party exclusives on 360/PS3 are a thing of the past now.

Blerk
20/09/08, 5:45 pm

They assumed it was PS3 exclusive based on the rather flimsy ‘the guy who worked on The Getaway is doing it and he worked at Sony’ theory. I always figured it’d be multiplatform in the end, but it’s nice to have the confirmation.

Disappointed it’s so far away, though. Hopefully they’re using the time to make it super fucking awesome.

No_PUDding
20/09/08, 6:33 pm

Peopel didn’t base it that loosely Blerk.

It was also confirmed PS3 exclusive only last fall in Take Two’s roster.

It’s actually shocking that this still isn’t confirmed officially.

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scratchy69
20/09/08, 6:48 pm

This was definitely originally announced as a PS3 game.

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pjmaybe
22/09/08, 10:51 am

Sexy shit. Hope this actually does make it to market and doesn’t suck.

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