Take-Two advised its shareholders of two big delays that will impact its earnings for the rest of the financial year. The upcoming Mafia II and Red Dead Redemption have both been delayed "to allow additional development time for the titles and to maximize their full potential in terms of the quality of the player experience and market performance." In other words, the development teams needed a bit more time.
The two titles are now planned for the first half of fiscal 2010, which spans November 2009 to April 2010. This means either of these games can still make the all-important holiday shopping season. However, even without Mafia and Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two still has a relatively strong lineup with BioShock 2, The Ballad of Gay Tony, and Borderlands.
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: May 26th 2009 5:15PM TheDarkWayne said
fuck, guess ill have to endure Call of Juarez 2 for my western fix : (
Even more upset about Mafia 2, really looking forward to taht
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Even more upset about Mafia 2, really looking forward to taht
Posted: May 26th 2009 5:19PM Look At This Suit said
I was actually looking forward to Red Dead Redemption. The trailer alone got me excited, looked like some epic western storytelling.
Also I wanted to shoot things and ride horsies.
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Also I wanted to shoot things and ride horsies.
Posted: May 26th 2009 5:28PM Burritoclock said
Damn, that sucks.
What? That's really all you can say.
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What? That's really all you can say.
Posted: May 26th 2009 6:25PM Franktastic said
That shot REALLY reminds me of GTA IV....
hmmm, i knew i saw that somewere:
http://tech2.in.com/media/images/2007/Sep/img_25161_gta4_450x360.jpg
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hmmm, i knew i saw that somewere:
http://tech2.in.com/media/images/2007/Sep/img_25161_gta4_450x360.jpg
Posted: May 26th 2009 7:50PM zippypatrick said
I'm looking forward to both of these, despite not having played the previous games. Hopefully they put the extra time to good use.
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Posted: May 26th 2009 8:24PM (Unverified) said
Poop!
Mafia II and Red Dead are some of the greatest titles coming out, I suppose refinement and polish wouldn't hurt them...
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Mafia II and Red Dead are some of the greatest titles coming out, I suppose refinement and polish wouldn't hurt them...
Posted: May 26th 2009 10:21PM (Unverified) said
damn!, i was looking forward to mafia,,, looked like a great gta/r6v mashup.. :(
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Posted: May 27th 2009 1:13AM (Unverified) said
I didn't know when either was *supposed* to come out before this delay, so that's fine. Both look excellent. If the difference is anything like the jump in graphics the GTA IV delay brought, I'm even finer. :P
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Posted: May 27th 2009 11:14AM (Unverified) said
I totally understand they wnat to improve the games (and market the games more) but I think that in the process of delaying a game (or 2 in this case) only results in annoyed gamers and not much else.
http://systemfailnews.blogspot.com/
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http://systemfailnews.blogspot.com/
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