In the major corporate world out there this might not be major news, but for us right now it's something to cling on... well it's all we have right now. During a conference call held yesterday by executives of
Rockstar Games parent company
Take-Two, which followed their financial report for the quarter ending April 30, 2008 (more on that
here), a question was put forward by video games analyst Anthony Gikas of investment bank Piper Jaffray.
He asked if there's any potential possibility of us seeing a handheld vesion of GTA IV:
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Anthony Gikas, Piper Jaffray
Okay, and then last question on GTA -- any update for us or announcement on a potential handheld version of GTA IV?
Benjamin Feder, Take-Two CEO
Nothing to announce today, sorry.
I know there's not much to it really, but we'll have to see as the year goes by if there's any announcement on a portable version of GTA IV - or another one for that matter. Obviously if it's based on GTA IV it'll have to be scaled down in various ways, but the city can very likely fit. Crazy speculation, I know... but that's what it has come down to. Come on Rockstar!
In ''real news'', the company announced that they had delayed the first
episodic content for the game from their fourth quarter of this year (Aug - Oct), to the first quarter of their 2009 fiscal year (
Nov '08 - Jan '09). They commented by saying that the reason is not due to development issues, but that they're delaying it for ''portfolio balances''. This proves once gain one of the cons of a developer being a subsidiary of a public holding company. Not to be misled by the fact that there could still be other downloadable content released before that date.