Rockstar North wants more time to finish upcoming title - game now due next year
Rockstar Games has announced that its hotly-watched Grand Theft Auto IV has been delayed until 2008.
The game, developed by Edinburgh's Rockstar North, was due to be released this October.
Now, "due to additional development time required to complete the title", the game will not appear until February 2008 at the earliest, moving from publisher Take Two's 2007 Q4 slot to second quarter of 2008.
In the official statement, Sam Houser, founder and executive producer of Rockstar Games, commented: "The new consoles are allowing us to create the Grand Theft Auto game we always dreamed about. Every aspect of the game and its design has been completely transformed. The game is huge and is pushing the hardware platforms to their absolute limits. The top engineers from Sony and Microsoft are working closely with the team in Edinburgh right now, helping us to fully leverage the power of both platforms."
"As always, our goal is to surpass even the wildest expectations of the game's fans, and to create the ultimate high definition video game experience."
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Re: Booo
Lame excuse... "Pushing the systems to their absolute limits"? I find that hard to believe considering that Sony have only released a certain percentage of the machines capabilities.
Are we being led to believe that GTA 4 is the best we're ever going to see graphically and performance wise from the next generation system?
Personally, I thin it's a cop out.
Re: Booo
Yeah, I'm booing too but only in a little comic way with a smile on my face. I'd rather have a top notch game than one bugged to hell because it's been rushed.
Re: Booo
Boo!
Did I scare you?
Just means that retail will have a reiculous boost during the first quarter next year. I think that people will still spent the money they had to one side on another title, so everyone is a winner!!!!
Re: Booo
Well the true reason the game was delayed is that Rockstar North origionally had the word SP***ER in the script and in light of recent events decided to remove the offensive word... Maybe...
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