GTAIV delayed until 2008's second quarter

[Darksaviour69]

Taken straight from the press release:

Launch of Grand Theft Auto IV Now Planned for Fiscal 2008

Take-Two Interactive Software today announced revised revenue and earnings guidance for fiscal 2007.

Take-Two is reducing its fiscal 2007 guidance primarily to reflect the movement of the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3 and the Xbox 360 from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2008, due to additional development time required to complete the title. The title is now planned for release in the Company's second quarter of fiscal 2008. Additionally, Take-Two is updating third quarter and fiscal year 2007 guidance to reflect the movement of Manhunt 2 for the PS2, PSP, and the Wii out of the third quarter and the fiscal year.

Things are not looking so good for Rockstar/Take-Two....

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

Let me be the first to say... NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[englishrick]

Well they can go suck my cohunas!!!!!!!!

[Triv1um]

Well that is $#@!.

[F9zDark]

Blame the Xbox360. From what some reliable folks over at the Official PS Boards has said, Rockstar has had to make some cuts to the game so it can fit on a DVD.

Whether its true or not, I don't know. But had Rockstar only have to develop for the PS3, we'd have GTAIV already...

[Darksaviour69]

no offence F9zDark, but that sounds like fanboy rubbish, so far there has been no evidence that DVDs are not big enough to hold next gen games. There are been a few false rumors that DVDs are holding back games for the 360, and I'm guessing that's were the GTA rumour stems from. I was talking to a guy that working on the new sega rally game and hes seems to think that DVDs are not a problem.

Maybe be in a few years we will see problems with the DVD, but not yet

[mike03$$$]

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well my next ps3 game will just have to be smackdown vs raw 2008

[Triv1um]

no offence F9zDark, but that sounds like fanboy rubbish, so far there has been no evidence that DVDs are not big enough to hold next gen games. There are been a few false rumors that DVDs are holding back games for the 360, and I'm guessing that's were the GTA rumour stems from. I was talking to a guy that working on the new sega rally game and hes seems to think that DVDs are not a problem.

Maybe be in a few years we will see problems with the DVD, but not yet

The new project gothem won't fit on a DVD, they have had to make cuts to fit it. Like they had to take out the weather.

[ricki_b]

Yeh theres already been reports of size limits, I dont know if thats the case here but lets face it its gonna be a huge problem in the future. Is the PS3 gonna be held back? or the xbox left behind....

[Sektor]

The PS3 version was behind schedule according to planetgta.com but they were expecting a 2 week delay, not several months. Even if one version was further along than another, they will both benefit from the extra time, there's always more than can be added/fixed in complex games.