Australian Rating Could Mean We're Getting GTA III On Switch

San Andreas is the last one I finished, hopefully they bring it and Vice City as well though I don't think I'll play them again. Not really into these games anymore.

I wish this would happen.

When was this remastered for PS4? Vice City is a straight ps2 Port, complete with, I Guess around 480p res, and horrible controls

Great game for its time...But damn, I know it hasn't aged well, won't be paying money to ruin those memories further.

No thanks. GTA V or bust.

Vice City for $10.00

Without a major control update I’m not all that excited. But it’s always cool to see more games coming to the system.

It wouldn't be surprising, this, Vice City and GTA San Andreas have all been ported to Android and iOS so it wouldn't be difficult. In fact they looked better on mobile than the ports to last gen consoles.

Hopefully they bundle the three together and provide online (I know, unlikely, but I can hope!)

This is to much dated, 4 or 5 at least

Eh, i’d rather have 5. I still think it’s possible to bring it to the Switch.

@Jonasty198460 I was going to say you'd be hard pressed to get 5 working on Switch but then remembered it works even on an i5 with integrated GPU at 720p! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJhBzAKvse4

Nintendo's 3rd party library is basically a reminder why people bought a PlayStation the past 15 years 🙄

At least give the last "old" game. GTAV is like 6 years old at this point

The series has been downhill in terms of plot since Vice City so if they manage that with the full OST then I’m in. GTA3 is also worth a buy because it’s such a laugh to just do the cheats and go on a massive police chase.

GTAV I got bored of after a week. Just doing random police chases didn’t feel half as much fun because the map was so big and I can’t stick ‘gangsta’ schtick in any game.

I thought this game was amazing for around the first 6hrs but when you had to get out the car and shoot you would get killed through no fault of your own and that is not fun and awful game design. If someone ever completed this game 100% they must have had the patience of a saint.

As much as I loved playing GTA 3 when I was a kid, I just don't think the game has aged well. I would rather have a remaster than a port of the old game

I'd take gta 3, Vice city, and San Andreas on switch. While you're at it throw in Manhunt 1 and 2 and Bully as well. Along with The Warriors.

@pblive And that is the 2015 PC version. They can just port the Xbox 360 version from 2013.

They're just going to put everything on Switch, aren't they? Wow. I liked GTA 3, until everything that came after it overshadowed it, especially Vice City, but this is a really old game. It's nice this is happening, I guess, but man. Is this some test to see how GTA V would fare on the console? Why not just put that old enough game on the console instead?

No analog triggers means I'm not playing this on Switch.

If they ported san andreas i might be interested III didn't grab me as much as some of the later games

Pass. The games prior to IV have aged poorly. Bring me IV or V and I buy then day one

I'd take the trilogy, sure.

@Ralizah

No thanks. V ran terribly on the old twins. The Switch would do it no justice.

Switch2 with GTAVI on release (if the Switch2 could actually run things)? Now we're talking.

But in reality, I would maybe grab San Andreas (with updated textures/resolution). I never finished it on PS2 and I rebought on MS Store and never really played much.

I would love to see Liberty City Stories, I don't see why it would be hard to part if it's in the mobile/nvidia shield platforms.

@RadioHedgeFund I agree. GTA V is way too structured and lacks the charm of the PS2 games. I also prefer the more janky controls over the more realistic ones they use in their games now.

@BrettAwesome ps2 classics on PS4 run at a higher resolution than the original games. So they kind of do a remaster on the ps2 classics on the ps4.

@sword_9mm almost all the 3d games ran bad on their original hardware and I've played them all just fine. Id love to have it on the go.

So, I’d buy it...... again. What a fun game!

As great as some ps2 games were, i don't have interest to buy one ported to Switch. I replayed my favorite ps2 games in 2012-2014. My retro window is likely over.

@sword_9mm With some optimization, it would run fine. It's a more capable and modern piece of tech than the PS3/360. The only real issue would be the amount of flash memory it'd consume.

@LegendOfStewart Analog triggers?! Pretty sure I played this one with a keyboard and mouse...

GTA V could have been running on the Wii U with ease. It's a PS3 game after all and the Wii U was just as capable, if not more.

On Switch GTA V is a no brainer... well, if it wasn't for the limited cartridge space: Take-Two Interactive hates those 32GB cartridges even more than the 16GB cartridges.
Huge games like L.A. Noire and NBA2K that needed a 32GB cartridge came out on 16GB or 8GB cartridges respectively. That publisher does Rockstar Games and 2K Games such a disservice.

If they countinue in that direction they will go with the smallest cartridges next and just put a downloader on it, or better yet, they put a download code in the box like Wolfenstein Youngblood did, or don't release it physically at all. :/

Well, I'll be skipping any of that bs and be playing The Witcher III.

A PS2 GAME??? This is pretty weak.

I'd rather see an HD port of Chinatown Wars, easily the best game in the series.

The game was not banned after launch. It was banned outright.

Rockstar were idiotic enough to release the game without a classification, assuming that it would have been MA15+. Once the classification refusal was known after launch, they were forced to pull the game from sale. A monumentally stupid move on Rockstar's part as it is also illegal to sell unclassified games, even if they would be approved for classification after the fact.

A censored version of the game was later passed with an MA15+ rating.

The reason why the game was banned was because the player can have sex with prostitutes, run them down, and then take the money that they leave behind. The Classification Board viewed this as sexual activity being related to an incentive or reward, and since an adult rating for games did not exist at the time, they banned it. The censored version removed the ability to have sex with prostitutes, therefore preventing the ability to run them down and take back the money you had paid them for their prostitutional services, but you could still run down prostitutes without having sex with them, because that is apparently the more moral thing to do.

The (presumably) uncut version of GTA3 is now rated R18+ with the stupidly pedantic reason of "Sexual activity related to incentives and rewards".

Way too old, at least should be GTA4 if they are going to do one. Heck I don't think there should be issues even getting GTA5 over.

The switch can handle GTA 5 easily (as it is originally a ps3/Xbox 360 game) so why not giving us that?!

This was released on Xbox later and ot was technically better. But I'd buy it on Switch. It's part of my backlog.

Why are you reporting on this NL? As far as we know this could be for an XBOX ONE rerelease of GTA 3.

I'm surprised we haven't gotten any GTA games on switch yet. This would be cool, but I'm another person in the GTA IV or V or bust camp. I really liked those last 2 and if they were ever portable that would be nice.

The 360/ps3 DID NOT run GTA V well at ALL.. Full stop. It was horrible.

The PS4/XB1 did it OK and that is the lowest acceptable bar of performance imo.

The Switch also has awful memory latency. Streaming an open world like GTA V would be just bad.

I mean good for those who'd buy it if it came out (it won't) but I wouldn't touch it. There's a minimum level of performance I need and the Switch just ain't there on games like that. It's an indie/N console for me now. Heck the judder in Link's Awakening is pretty off-putting imo. They should've locked that one to 30fps.

I loved this when it first came out but it did not age well. At all.

Wouldnt make much sense to only port this one. It is also the one that aged the worst. I honestly would only care if they released a GTA 3D Trilogy.

why? this game has aged incredibly badly

@RickD And I thought I was the only one!

Where are the new Nintendo IP???

@X68000
ARMS, LABO, Snipperclips, and Sushi Striker all say hello.

This would have to be $10 or less.
It's really old and wasn't the highpoint of the series.

@pblive
It was running on ps3, I think with a little effort i would glad to trippledip it

@Toy_Link seriously!! Except ARMS the rest of those ‘games’ are hardly triple A titles......They are barely download worthy.

Nintendo desperately need to find some new IP that have the potential to be the new Metroid, F Zero, Wave Race etc

GTA3 was released on ios and android long ago so it should be fine on switch. I would think with some downgrade GTA4 and V is possible but it would mean porting engine for switch..?

@BrettAwesome 3/VC/SA had better controls than 5.

Time will tell, although this one might not hit it off with me. I did all but the last mission way back in my student years, and later "claimed legal copy usage" via a Rockstar bundle. As far as Liberty City goes (frankly, my least favourite setting in the franchise anyway, but that's beside the point), I already have my hands full with LCS on Vita and 4 on Steam. Neat as this would objectively be to see on Switch, I don't quite see myself in the market.

To be fair, same might go for VC and SA - the former 100%'s ages ago and the latter almost so. LCS is a maybe - I restarted the old PSP playthrough on Vita and haven't got far anyway. VCS, definitely. 4, yes and would restart as well. 5, friggin' absolutely, especially since I haven't even advanced the plot past the prologue in my PS4 copy... and while I naturally wish for a cockpit cam in the hypothetical Switch port, the flipside is that I could find myself not playing the story missions for a long time here either. 😅

Yeah, still no idea why there is no GTA 5 Switch Edition... It was on ps3 and 360 :S

I have Chinatown Wars on my ShieldTV and it runs flawlessly in 60fps -the Shield also got the TegraX1(the same as the Switch) so I can't see no reason why it wouldn't be able to run GTA3 at the same level. And for those talking about GTA3HD being present on ps4.....-Well thats emulation

Man, I really hope this is happening. III and Vice City are my favourites of the series, they’ve never managed to better those two, although V had its moments (and the two PSP Stories games were great too).

Have Liberty City Stories on the ShieldTV too, that's gotta be my all time favorite -hope to see it on my Switch as well🤘

More rockstar games on switch - take my money now....

I’d love the same retro bundle that’s on ps4

Warriors, 3 GTAs, Manhunt and Max Payne...

I’d take anything and everything...

Warriors and Max Payne 3 would probably be my 2 most wanted. GTA trilogy close behind

I want Red Dead 2 on Switch before any GTA.

San Andreas would be the one for me. Love the soundtrack!

@Trajan
On what platform? On ps2/ps4 you can't even control the camera. It's locked to character movement. Do you really prefer that?

Yes remastered ports of III, IV, V, Liberty City Story, Vice City, Vice City Story, San Andreas, Advance, and Chinatown Wars for Switch would be awesome. Anything over those awful PS1, Dreamcast, and Game Boy Color versions of GTA1 & 2.

I would be happy with Vice City and San Andreas if they keep the soundtracks

Only if the original soundtrack is on here.

@BrettAwesome I played it on original Xbox. I don't remember bad camera.

No thanks. We should get the 360 version of gta v instead, not this. Or even gta iv.

I'm so tired of decades old lazy ports on the switch. Why can't any American corporation treat the switch like an actual console?

@Agramonte
TRUE!!!!!

I would love to get vice city and san Andreas too

@Tao Your not wrong, would rather we got GTA 4 instead, seeing as there's enough handheld ways to playing the old PS2 GTA games...

@RickD Every console is a port console nowadays, the PS4 is basically the same but with Sony exclusives instead of Nintendo. You get 3 or so new titles, every other ones are old title whether ports, remasters, or remakes. A lot of the more hype games coming to PS4 are old titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Shenmue 3 with two new titles Death Stranding and Tales of Aria.

@pblive that's and it's a last gen game

@LOZ_Master95 But Bethesda is bringing Doom Eternal to Switch which is not an old game, not all American corporate are lazily porting games. Even if they are what's wrong with introducing some old classic to the new gen anyways?

Not THAT would be unbelievable if it came to Switch!! GTA III portable?? Bring it!! 😁

The heck is wrong with you all? The game is an absolute classic that holds up brilliantly. Think I'm getting old, lol.

Its interesting outside of the Playstation, the older GTA games don't get rereleased on consoles that often. Given the truck ton of money GTA V made, you'd think they would port all the past GTA games to XBONE (Whether they be HD Remasters or backward compat) and Switch.

@RickD they never hid their intention. Portability

Maybe they'll do like what Square did with Final Fantasy (but with the full version of GTAV and physical option instead of a digital only pocket version). Then they'd see GTAV outselling Pokemon just like in 2013.

Are rock star having a laugh ??!!!!!!!!
If you’re going to bother posting a game over why not gta 4 at least.
Will pass thanks. Being on the Witcher 3.

@pblive Not only that, but Dragon Quest XI runs well on Switch and even the base PS4 couldn't handle that game at 1080p or 60 fps.

The classification rating says multiplatform. No mention of switch. It also says "High impact" for sexual content, which is higher than the violence ... Drug use is "low".

My bet is on stadia. If they wanted this on switch, it would have been done ages ago.

It's probably something to do with that new launcher.

Count me in on that

The more games on switch is a good thing, however I’m not interested in PS2 era GTA, the games haven’t aged well imo, we need V or at the very least IV, the switch could totally handle it, also give us bully and Read Dead 1

I see no reason to revisit this. GTA V or IV though; those would be great.

Nah, pass for me

Lol why not GTA V (or even IV at least)?
It ran fine on Xbox 360, so I should run well on Switch, no?

It's still a classic, so it would be great to get this on the Switch if ported well. A port of the mobile version should be very simple and cost effective on the Switch to port over. They could release it to test demand for later versions......

Really though? They couldn't get us something newer?

As others have said it shoud be the x360/ps3 gtav, gta 3, although a lot of fun in its day was rough at release and remains rough now.

@Cathousemaster : "Multiplatform" means little in the Australian Classification Board's database. Even Super Mario Odyssey and the very specifically titled "Farm Simulator For Nintendo Switch" are listed as multiplatform.

Furthermore, any sexual activity that is linked to an incentive or reward (as I have detailed above) is considered "high" in viewing impact and warrants an R18+ classification, even for the mildest depictions of sexual activity. The same rule applies to nudity. Without the incentive/reward, the impact of the sexual references in isolation would have been considered to be no higher than moderate in viewing impact.

Furthermore, the little chart there details that "violence" and "themes" are strong in viewing impact, which means that those particular elements can be accommodated at the MA15+ category, while the coarse language and drug references/use are mild and, in isolation, can be accommodated at the PG rating (it wasn't until San Andreas that the Grand Theft Auto games would contain strong coarse language). No nudity was detected.

@BrettAwesome They got revamped on the Xbox and later on mobile devices

If I didn't already have SR3 I might be interested.

@CupidStunt "awful game design"

Do you realise how old it is? By todays standards yea, having to get out of the car to shoot is pretty bad, but calling it bad design by todays standards is unfair and a bit ignorant.

It isn't a game that's aged well and I personally wouldnt bother replaying it, but for its time it was a well designed game.

@NIN10DOXD Do we chalk that up to Square not optimizing the PS4 version up to snuff with the Switch? There's no way the PS4 version should be inferior given the hardware behind it. Not that I'm saying the experience would be better on PS4. Definitely not saying that. However, the PS4 from a technical standpoint should be either matching the Switch or better than it hardware wise.

@electrolite77 It doesnt really gauge demand at all though. It's a very old game released on near every console since its release, plus a good amount of people are aware of how poorly its aged.

It only gauges demand in the logic of "if they dont buy this thing they dont want, we're not giving them anything else". That's a dirty tactic publishers are constantly using and if that's why you're buying a game, you just shouldn't, stop supporting such tactics.

Though if you're buying it because you genuinely like the game, all the power to you. Enjoy! I genuinely wish I could enjoy this game the same way I did as a kid. I bloody loved it.

I believe that of all the GTAs, 3 and Vice City are the most likely to arrive (if at all) on Switch.

Nintendo has taken a hard line because the violence is set in a realistic world that is designed to reflect life - not something fictional/mythical - and I understand their approach.

However, given that 3 and Vice City are probably classified as retro now, they’re no where near as immersive as the later entries.

As a 34 year old played this and was quite good. A release of 1 2 and London would be like a glove

@sword_9mm how do you know a SWITCH 2 is coming out? miyamoto stated numerous times NO GTA ever on a nintendo main console

@ryobi85 im 35 whats your point? no one cares

@Emperor-Palpsy miyamoto also stated numerous times never

@whanvee you never developed a game in your life games cost a lot of money to move license and port......look how long it took OW to come over.

rather have Bully please

@GAMER1984dude

Well first of all Miyamoto wasn't the bee's knees. He still couldn't get them to make a real console/deal with the internet.

As for a Switch 2? I have no idea. I don't know if Nvidia even has a chip for them. They are more worried about cars than consoles and the RTX stuff is dumb (but give them credit for getting ray tracing out and in the mix)....

Tegra 2 would be it but that's not much faster. N may be that rock and hard place like MS was with Nvidia back in the XB days. The full reason why they went with AMD/PowerPC. Nvidia and Intel were just bad for that type of thing. Maybe N will learn that.

N needs to team up with Apple. Both do overpriced gadgets that are popular. The A12 would rock games without the terrible thermal limits of a phone/tablet.

edit: and yes.. Bully please! I'd buy it.

@Agramonte What's the difference between the PS and Switch's third-party support?

@Rafie It is possible that the PS4 version had worse optimization since Square Enix had to redo much of the game in a newer version of the engine for the Switch. It does show how good Switch is handling large and impressive games though. I think it definitely shows that GTA V in some form is possible on Switch.

@GAMER1984dude Thanks for pointing that out a-hole. These are rich ass companies I'm sure they could spare the cash you douche.

@whanvee wow name calling? so amazingly awesome. you sure showed me. i hear salt over an opinion. typical nintendo drones.

@NIN10DOXD GTA V is not coming to the switch thats not nintendos demographic. miyamoto said GTA is not coming to a nintendo platform ever.

@electrolite77 im pretty sure he does. he wanted maker in Links Awakening which forced the producer to put dungeon maker in LA. he oversees everything. hes at every huge Nintendo event when it launches. I love when the UK thinks they know more about nintendo then nintendo themselves.

@BANJO GTA III hasnt aged well at all thats like putting Jedi outcast on the switch. its still looks awful and plays terrible

@GAMER1984dude I call em like I see em sir.

If Witcher 3 is possible, so would GTA 4 and 5.
I would be absolutely fine with xb360 / ps3 level performance on a <7 watt machine between my hands!

@PiXeLSteF witcher 3........is on a 32GB card and its still downgraded. go home

@whanvee ok moonwalker HD

@GAMER1984dude wish I knew what that meant so I could feel insulted.

@GAMER1984dude haha and still a big baby

@GAMER1984dude I am already at home. Anyway I would accept it on a handheld with that graphical level. Is GTA 5 bigger than 32gb?

Edit: around 25gb including disc data on xb360. 36gb on ps3... They might find a way to compress that to a 32gb game cart.
But anyway, not sure if developers like Rockstar have enough knowledge on compression, as they probably never had to.

This exactly is why it is sometimes better to have significant system limitations, so programmers have to become very creative to make it happen.

What I see now with GRID on Switch is incredible. There are several race games out for Switch that even don't look half as good and at the same time have significant performance issues. Feral interactive however pulled it off! Great graphics and performance hand in hand.

And think about Panic Button.

These guys can make anything happen!

@Tao No game in which you constantly die by anything other than your own gaming skill faults is good game design. For years prior companies made games without this. The open world was amazing, but getting killed 100s of times over in a game mission through faults in the games design is bad game design. How many times in; for example, a Nintendo game, have you ever got killed through no fault other than that of your own. GTA 3 had some great world design but gameplay outside of the car was abysmal and some missions were nigh on impossible to complete because of it.

@GAMER1984dude That was a long time ago and Nintendo would never stop one of the best sell9ng franchises from coming to Switch. We had GTA on DS, and now Switch has Saints Row and loads of pervy games. It depends on of Rockstar want to develop and release it.

No thanks.

This game has aged like milk in the sun.

Also i doubt it'll be coming to the Switch and the GTA game on the DS is probably the reason... Rockstar are probably still bitter about the hoops they had to jump through to get their game on the DS... nothing's been said to indicate this but i did read about how difficult it was for Rockstar to get Nintendo's approval for GTA on the DS im guessing after that they decided to never work with Nintendo again... which they haven't.

@GAMER1984dude dude you are genuinely talking out of your ass.

Miyamoto never said any such thing.

@GAMER1984dude GTA has been on a Nintendo platform multiple times. I wanna see where Miyamoto said this. Nintendo has no problem with rated M games on their system. They work closely with Bethesda who almost exclusively makes rated M games and published Devil's Third on the Wii U.

@electrolite77 TLDR thanks for playing.

@NIN10DOXD google is your friend. hows that persona 5 on the switch treating you?

@Razer Go home https://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

@NIN10DOXD https://money.cnn.com/2005/06/02/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

@CupidStunt well why isnt on? go home

@GAMER1984dude I can't play non-Nintendo games now? Also, one CNN money article from 2005 that was never properly archived for compatibility with their new site? Opinions can change in 14 years, especially since Nintendo was also censoring games more during that time period than now.

@NIN10DOXD you keep believing that. until then theres no GTA.

@NIN10DOXD I agree for the most part about GTA V. Thing is GTA V, from a technical standpoint, is much more intensive hardware wise. I think the cartridge is why it's not able to fit the game in it's glory on there. Not that the Switch hardware itself can't handle it. If it can go on the PS3 and 360, it definitely can go on Switch.

Microsoft and Sony get the latest and greatest, switch gets 15 year old game? Thanks Rockstar

@GAMER1984dude I never said I thought it was coming only that Nintendo wouldn't stop it.

@Tao Any game which requires luck rather than gaming skill to be able to progress is not good game design. Other games of the time managed to require skill to beat, as did James from previous generations too.