Developer: Rockstar North
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Third Person
Release Date: Apr 29th, 2008
Additonal Info: Also known as GTA IV
Developer: Steel Monkeys
Publisher: TBA
Genre: Shooter
Sub-Genre: Third Person Shooter
Release Date: Q1 2009
Additonal Info: None
Developer: DMA Design
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Third Person
Release Date: Oct 22nd, 2001
Additonal Info:
Rockstar Games has delayed Grand Theft Auto IV until early 2008.
The release date has been changed from the original October 16th 2007, and instead moved to "the second quarter of its fiscal 2008", according to IGN.
This means GTA IV will hit store shelves between February 1st and April 30th.
The reason given was simply that the developer needs more time to add the finishing touches. Early hands-on previews by the press showed some concern about the frame rate, for example.
Sam Houser, founder and executive producer of Rockstar Games, commented on the delay:
"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."
GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas were all built on the same engine. Thus, GTA IV is so called because it is built from ground-up, with a whole new engine, for next generation consoles.
Houser continued:
"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."
We'll have more soon.

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I am officially pissed. Well, at least the game is going to get a little bit more time to have all the kinks worked out, but every time the others were delayed it was only by a week. I think that analyst a while back is right. They are just pushing it into another fiscal so that ALL the sales are reflected, after all they've got a new guy running Take-Two, so he probably doesnt wanna take his chances. Anyways....damnit!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This is the news I have been dreading...........oh well another few months wont hurt least it wont be rushed
LOL pushin it to its limit? lol oh yea tryin to squeez all 9gb on that blu ray must be killer, as the xbox is litterally on fire and i set my pop on the PS3 so it can get cold to drink later
ahaha thats why i said ill never purchase GTA THE GETAWAY FTW! and all u kids complaing TAKE that!
uh he said second quarter of 2008 fiscal year, i tought the first quarter of 2008 began on april 1st? someone plz explain this to me a bit better.
LOL< the truth of the matter is, they're to busy counting all that money they got from microsoft. so it's going to take a little longer for them to come back from vacation, before they can finish the game.
so is it delayed on microsoft to or just ps3?
to the limit?...they have never pushed the hardware to the limit..., ok the game looks great but i expect much more on next-gen consoles
" The top engineers from Sony and Microsoft are working closely with the team in Edinburgh right now" this is kinda funy is ms is capable of making any good they would done it them self, and top sony engineers arent there belive me
I cant belive it I knew it was to good to be true (Cursing like a Mofo) I am so fnnnn pissed I cant belive it This game better be super awsome and gameplan and graphics better be good better have some good story now as well.
oh yeah and pushing to the limits my you know what. Maybey 360 but the ps3 I doubt I like this game a lot but compared to other games that are coming it dosent look that good rachet and clack looks better lair.
Good now i only have to spend $500 this year.
This officially means that 08 is a garunteed to be PS3's year, MGS4, killzone 2, now GTA, what's next!
they always have an excuse to delay games, they keep disapointing me, it's marketing that's all what's this about don't come to me saying that ·$!!"%&/! lie... i hope they don't push this one or i'll not buy this $%&"! game i'm getting tired of waiting.
If he says that if they are pushing the consoles to the limit, they are technically both equal, I see a flaw in that statement...
It was always gona happen but i only expected a couple of weeks....(so u can imagine my disappointment upon hearin this.lol) But anyways Rockstar hav always been my fav games co. but hearin them say they are pushin both both consoles to de limit just makes me laugh. Did any1 tell Sam Houser that a dual layer blueray disc can hold 50 gigs???lol....
psn id: gingo.... disappointing but i'm glad it's a delay for all consoles and not just PS3 and "the top engineers from sony and microsoft are owrking closely with the team in Edinburgh" yeah GTA made in Scotland my home country, already knew that but just thought i would tell everyone lol
whats nex, warhawk.... i wouldnt be surprised. :- /
Exclusive MS downloadable content confirmed for 2009! I wonder if the delay was due to them not being able to optimize it on the 360, because I've yet to see the PS3 version. I have a feeling the PS3 version is looking great, but you would want to show the lowest form, as to not get expectations too high.
They need to stop announcing game and relies dates until they are absolutely final this is about the 100th game to be delayed and its truly getting ridicules. I don’t even care if the games are good anymore because one decent game is better than no game at all.
thats not true pushing to the limits cause of the 360 the city is smaller with only 15gb of disk space cant do a lot thats why microsoft payed so much for the exter countent
nostop dont jink it. if warhawk gets delayed i dont know what ill do.
prolly just wait longer for it, not much i can do but i will be pissed
its funny i was just on the 360 forums to see what they are saying and of course they are saying its the ps3s fault and we are saying its the 360s fault. its a war untill we hear the real reasons why it was really delayed
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you cant blow up buildings im gonna be so pissed
i hate this wack man im sick of waiting damn they have like a hundred people working on a tittle and cant get it right damn make some cut hire some pros damn im very not impresed with the industry these days damn it the past years delay delay delay
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/
Well, what a surprise. Hey PSU I hope you actually read what I have to say and stick it up Rockstar because they want to create something in Ultimate High Definition but yet the games only going ot be 720p??? What the F. Seriously if your going to make a game that great and I hope it is please make the damn thing full 1080P and push the PS3 hardware to the max because I dont believe for a second you could push a game to the max on a PS3 if its still going to be going onto the XBOX360 at the same crappy 720P. Get real and welcome to the FULL HD world damn it!!!!!!!
A great setback, I hope it's worth the wait. I have played them all and was looking forward to the new one.
THIS SUCKS BUT IM PROBABLY STILL GOIN 2 BUY IT EVEN AFTER THE 5 MONTH DELAYOR WHATEVER MONTHS THEY HAVE BEEN WARNING US ABOUT THE DELAY AND IT FINALLY DROPPED.NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not happy about this but i'd rather they get it right than rush it as disappointment might set in and that is something which should never happen when playing a GTA game!
NNNNnooooooooo...but by the sounds of it this can only be a good thing. Lets hope they use the more powerfull PS3 :-) as their primary platform and then port it over to the flakey 360
Well, it's not that bad. We still have Warhawk, LBP and Assassins Creed.
And of course they are not pushing the PS3 hardware to the limits. No way they can do that and keep the 360 version equal. 360 fanboys can shut something up their a**es now, I have always been telling my good friends that 360 hardware will get to it's limit soon but they didn't listen. Now we have several titles with disc limitations. Soon we will have reach limits with 360 CPU and GPU while PS3 will not even have started to work 40% yet.
PS3 FTW!!
I kinda thought that the October date was KINDA early for a next-gen GTA.But they won't make "the ultimate high-definition video game experience" as long as MS doesn't incorporate Blu-ray or HD-DVD as their standard disc format or it isn't built exclusively from ground up on ps3.That's my 2 cents
360's funeral isn't far now.Muahahahaha!!!
Oh well... I made my pre-order... It doesn't matter, I just hope that this "touch up" makes the PS3 version mcuh better then the Xbox version.
good, saves me more time to get a ps3 =D
I hope they make good use of the additional time and polish it up to be the AAA title it has been predicted to be.
WTF r u serious, this should have been taking care of before hand, rockstar has just pissed off millions of people, this is just horrible, i pre ordered it an was inticipating this game withing a few months now within over half a year, horrible rockstar way to go
GAYNESS!!.....GTA was never known for pushing a console to its limits, new engine or not. The game is also being made for the 360 at a max of 720p....there is NO WAY that this is pushing the PS3 to its absolute limits, and thats on the grounds of game disc psace, and full hd graphics. Just come clean and tell us all the real reason for the delay.....because a Developer thats not known for pushing consoles to their limits saying that within the early stage of the PS3 release, they are the only ones to push the hardware platform to its absolute limits with a multi-plat game is pure BS!!
DUMB ASSES JUST DONT SET A DATE TILL U NO 4 SURE!!!!!!!!!! GAHHHHHHHHhh
I am Peeved i'm going to buy me an X-Box 360 Elite since every freakin games are being delayed as always, pssssssssshaaa.......
I think it's nice that they want to work with it more instead of we are complaining about future patches for the game, then instead we complain about the game itself, that is a bit more to expect! 2008 is going to be a gooood year....
i just hate you f2$ you you are making m e wait so much , f%$ you
REALLY Fu(k you
Grand Theft Auto IV: Delayed Again Has a nice ring to it...
Cant say i didnt see this coming...
Pushing the PS3 to it's limit? i don't think so, if R* had the guts to ditch Microsoft and go exclusive to Sony's PS3 then they could see what the PS3 can really do...but as long as they have to make it within the limit of the Xbox 360 they won't be seeing the PS3's power...no wai!
this game is gonna rock
Well guess 2 day sto Vegas might bring her back know 2 cause know they might feel like the other developers wanted to create a better game which only meant having more time.... GTA will be good probly real good.... but a more in dept version of Crackdown fully online Sandbox game for ps3 would be sick kinda like City of Villains for PC completely make your own super hero good or bad, maybe add a little of Fable's Originality with negative and positive impacts on self and reaction/outlook on environments.... you know AI.... anyway just make Kill Zone 2 REal GOOD and Pro Street
Remember, any delay is our gain. Not that I was planning on buying GTA4, consider the two cases
1) The PS3 version is crap. This means they're polishing it with only marginal gains on the 360 b/c of no HDD
2) The 360 version is crap. Then the PS3 version is already good, and any delays could polish the game up more.
may be it will be easy for the ps3 due to the blue ray disk lots of storage cappacity
Can't wait for this. Pisses me off knowing I could've been playing it by now since it was originally going to be released in October this year. :/