Grand Theft Auto IV delayed from Oct. to fiscal Q2 '08

by Christopher Grant on Aug 2nd 2007 4:54PM

Take Two just announced the highly anticipated (and that's being cautious) Grand Theft Auto IV will be delayed from its originally scheduled October release date until the second fiscal quarter of 2008, or between February and April of '08. Though no direct cause for the delay was cited, Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick said "certain elements of development proved to be more time-intensive than expected."

Additionally, due to the outstanding ratings problems (and surprising no one) they've also announced that Manhunt 2 would miss its planned release this fiscal year. As a result of these setbacks, they're expecting revenue of $950 million to $1 billion for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31; in June, they announced expected revenue of $1.2 billion to $1.25 billion for the year.

The bad news: There goes Microsoft's holiday hat trick. The good news: More time to play the onslaught of great games this holiday season.

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Tags: BreakingNews, GTAIV, GTAIVDelay, PS3, Rockstar, TakeTwo, Xbox-360

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I just swore so loudly that car alarms went off three blocks away.

Port to Nintendo wii confirmed!

if they port to psp then I agree since the wii is nearly on par with it graphically

i demand a demo

WIITF?

That would be sweet.
Hell I'd be happy with a San Andreas port!

It's taking them longer than they thought it would to hide Hot Coffee 2

The funny thing is that this kind of game actually works pretty well on the Wii. See Godfather and Scarface. Average games, but the control scheme fits the Wii controller quite well. Now that Manhunt is on indefinite hold, it looks like Rockstar is going to test the waters with the Bully port. Maybe once the Wii install base grows enough we'll get an original sandbox game from Rockstar. That is if they don't completely self-destruct first. Get it together guys!

I wonder what elements? Has to be something huge for a bump from October to like, March.

I doubt it's any new content-- it's probably just what they state is the problem: something took longer than expected to produce.

Either way, I'm actually sorta relieved--with so many other games coming this holiday season-- it'll be nice to have something new for next summer.

Nah, it's just the best thing to do with your release date if you're not going to be done by the holiday season. If you're going to miss some of the holiday boost, you're better off pushing back to March.

whoa

Sony probably threatened to own all there base if they didn't get the superior version. Prolly making them make a new engine from scratch.

I wonder why all the demos have mainly been 360 and not ps3, I just dont see much real ps3 evidence that it is a good working build yet.

all the demos.. ? there's only been 2 trailers of the game so far.

I think he's talking about the demos they show to reporters/journalists/critics, not demos that regular gamers can download.

I just read this on Major Nelson's twitter page. I'm not surprised and at least that's 60 bucks I can keep this holiday season.

I really didn't see how it could come out in October seeing that we haven't even seen any real videos.

Then again, Halo's coming out in September. Whatever.

This is balls. Except now I dont have to spend as much money this fall season. Rock Band, Halo 3, Mario Galaxy, Half-Life 2 Orange Box, whew hold up a sec let me catch my breath.....ok, Smash Brothers, Bioshock, Metroid Prime 3, Burnout, Assassin's Creed here I come!

boooo!!!!

are you saying boo or 'boo urns'?

Boo Earns?
Well I suppose he was paid for his in game appearances.

I was saying boo-urns...

I lol'd XD

Its probably so they can take out all the code hidden there for hi-def hot coffee

Holy shit.

Hide the kids.

Close the shutters.

Get the popcorn ready, a storm this way comes.

nice pic. i loved brave fencer musahieden the one on ps1 not ps2 sequal

Good to see someone else here at Intel is wasting the company's dollars by reading Joystiq during the day. = D

Yes! Victory to Brave Fencer Musashi!

Yeah, Musashi is one of my favorite games =)

Actually, methinks this is on purpose. There is a mass of other AAA titles this holiday. They could just be sitting on it now.

I had that thought as well. seems VERY likely. except for the "sitting" part. I'd say "refining until the market is prepped and ready for a (more) polished game".

That's a relief... for my wallet.

:'(

U fucking Pinkos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't believe this!!!! On the other hand, all the other GTA titles were postponed 2 months before their release.

You think they'd want it out for the Christmas season. Oh well, like Matt said there are so many games coming out, it's just a little more money I can save, (or more likely blow on another game).

No doubt the delay is due to Rockstar struggling with fitting the game for the 360 on 1 dvd as well as figuring out how to make it stream properly for the 2-3 million 360's out there without HD's.

@manford
What the fuck are you talking about? Yeah the game isn't going to fit so they have to take an additional 4-6 months...you fucking psfanboy douchebag. Oh...I almost I forgot, I'm going to enjoy EXCLUSIVE 360 downloadable content while you still waiting for good games to come out on the PS3.

Thank you. I came in here expecting some "must be because of the ps3 version" posts, but you totally caught me off guard by blaming it on the 360. Well played sir, well played.

Couldn't be the fact that it's just such a huge title in general that they realized it would be better to delay it to get it right; nope, it has to be the fault of one of the systems that it's coming out on.

They are probably scrapping the existing PS3 version and are gonna create on from scratch tha uses blu-ray, cell and the HDD fully while giving the 360 owners a prettier version of San Andreas. They still have the exclusive dlc though.

NOOO NOO NOOO DAMNIT NOOO!

Good. Because my Father will get his Bonus in january which means I can save up for this one and many more games for all threee system xD

Just saved myself 60 dollars this year. Now I can spend it on something else.

Fuck.

My thoughts exactly.

I apologise for my nonsense of a comment but...

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One less game I have to pay for this year so its now Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo 3, Madden 08, Super Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty 4, and whatever other games I am forgetting that I'll buy this year

Wow, I was just about to make a comment about the Unreal 3 Engine but then I remembered that Rockstar is using their RAGE engine. Ack, the fanboys are slowly infecting my thought process.

Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick said "certain elements of development proved to be more time-intensive than expected."

Read: The PS3 is a PITA to develop for. ;)

Lets all sit back and watch all the 360 fanboys talk trash about ps3 now.

So is it
"Goddamn 360 and its DVD9 holding back content"
or
"Stupid Cell screwing up developers and ruining the 360 version"???

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