Grand Theft Auto IV Delayed to Second Quarter of Fiscal 2008 Posted by XanTium | August 2 17:26 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From the press release: [QUOTE] Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. 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 PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system 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 [note x-s: should mean feb-april 2008]. [/QUOTE] Read the full press release on take2games.com

haha surprise surprise

and you think they didnt know this at E3....but let the hype roll in...

... is that still calander 2007? if not then peter moore's triple play isnt looking so hot.

two words F**K OFF....

hey well looks like i'll have more time for halo 3

their fiscal years seems to end on October 31.

so I guess 2nd qt ficsal 2008 means feb-april 2008.

Time to cancel that week off work I had booked in October

Fuckin' Bullshit.

I'm seriously pissed off about this.

This pisses me off too. Itake this as they are going to release this game for both systems at the same time. If it's done for the xbox RELEASE THE DAMN GAME!

Well, with the 360 was getting the 'extra content' around April of next year, so atleast you 360 GTA4 owners won't have to wait as long... hopefully :/

Ken_D, Agree'd... I was going to alienate myself from the world the 1st week of GTAIV

Well hey atleast in the end, GTAIV will be the best it can be then if they rushed for october

I'm not surprised either, with a little over two months to release and they haven't shown much about the game. At least it won't cut into Metroid Prime 3 now

Well that sucks. Games get delayed too often these days. They should just put the release dates out further even if they know it will be finished, maybe they can add some nice touches in the spare time they have or suttin.

But as someone said, at least the game will be 100% done this way.

I wasnt the biggest fan, but was looking forward to it

Gutted! this is my most wanted game. I'm not a Halo fan so this definately leaves a big gap for me. Please someone remind me what else I can look forward to.

Shattered Only game I'm looking forward to on 360.

this comes as absolutely no surprise...

Fuckin cocksuckers!!!! It's pretty much the ONLY reason I have my 360 anymore....well, my 4th one, that is, thanks to the trash that it is. DAMNIT!!!!! TAKE2 can shove it!!

im not really surprised, but im still pissed off to no end.... fucking bastards. ign did a preview like a week ago, and there's no mention of the game needing so much work.

halo 3 sucks balls, there's no other game on any system i was looking forward to this year. garbage, pure garbage.

Funny how they don't have the balls to reveal it to their fanatically loyal fanbase first.... This is a corporate thing I'm presuming, if it's all about money and financial results. That means they knew the info would leak out... I think they should have made an official announcement to the fans at the very least.

Hopefully it's for the best, but seems they want to cash in on more PS3's.

Well it couldn't be a better time to reveal the delay because it's still almost 3 months away so I can take it even though I'm a die hard fan of all the GTA games I'm OK with the delay maybe because I'm drunk.

ps I tried my best to be as gramatical

am the same as you

Every one of the 20+ games they said was coming out this year at E3 (that are actually coming out)

Hmmm i smell something fishy here....

R*/Take 2 have for the last 3 GTAs always been able to reach their October date. Never have they "delayed" something.

I smell a R*/MS deal here for the episodes...

Bioshock, Mass Effect Assassins Creed, COD4, Mercenaries 2, PGR4, Alan Wake, Half Life Orange Box (portal team fortress 2), Burnout Paradise....then next year we'll get GTA IV, Too Human, Fable 2.

Too many good games coming to 360,... but the dealy still sucks.


Edit: I smell a, "we can't get this shit to run on the PoS3" deal going on here.... everything we have seen of the game is from the 360. Like namrrac said "If it's done for the xbox RELEASE THE DAMN GAME!"

I feel smashed into a billion pieces now

I think their should be an investigation into possible financial shenanigans on this. The feds should look for a sell-off by 'insiders' around a certain time frame. Somebody knew something... and somebody found a way to make money off of it. It wouldn't have been so bad if they would have announced this 2 months ago, this is too close to the release date.

If there gonna lock up Martha Stewart, then they should take a look at the lying bastards at Rockstar and Take-Two.

Besides the screwed investors, is there really anything that the rest of us can do?

For my own form of protest, I'm going to backup my copy of Vice City to my mod-chipped Xbox. According to the ESA, this is illegal. Although they would never know, and I'm really not doing anything wrong, at least they will still theoretically be pissed (not drunk Euros).

The GTA4 / Halo 3 combo probably would have sold a load of consoles around the holidays just for those 2 titles. Maybe this will pressure MS to drop the price even further. Not being a hardcore Halo fan, this is definitely a hard pill to swallow. I don't see a whole lot coming out soon that I'm looking forward to.

So the game is delayed. It is one game. Not the end of the world. 360 has more than enough games due out or so everyone keeps saying.

Man this sucks, but i guess it's for the best. Like already said there are plenty of other games coming out around the original release date, so not that big of a deal.

but y comon its now on april 2008