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Pachter: EA has incentive to delay GTA IV

Posted on April 7th, 2008 at 05:09 EDT

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has said that Electronic Arts has an “economic incentive” to delay the release of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV, should it succeed in acquiring publisher Take-Two Interactive.

Speaking in GTTV’s Bonus Round, Pachter commented, “I think it’ll be done and will be street ready but I think that if EA takes over Take-Two they have an economic incentive to delay it.”

“If the Housers think that there’s 2 percent more improvement they can make with an extra few months, why not?”

“Take-Two financially has to get that game out… They’re going to be pretty much tapped out on their credit line and their cash position, so they need the money. They need to get it out.”

Pachter also noted that Take-Two is contract bound by Microsoft to release the title on time.

All efforts by EA to acquire the publisher have been unsuccessful.

Grand Theft Auto IV is currently scheduled for release for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 29.

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posted 5:15am EDT - April 7th, 2008
1

I got 2 words, just 2 words... EA sucks!

posted 5:46am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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Yeah too right, I hope when Take2 do decide to sell, R* move on and work with other publishers, i.e. SONY
posted 5:51am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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if ea brings it out i then i am thinking of not buying it if ea gets it on their hands they are defenetly going to poep some coca cola billdoards or other real products only for the money and then screw something

posted 6:14am EDT - April 7th, 2008
4

Even if EA do buy them out I can see it happening within the next 22 days..lol

posted 6:31am EDT - April 7th, 2008
5

Cant EA just dissappear under a rock or something.....the gaming world would be better if they just died...well it would for PS3 lol.

posted 6:40am EDT - April 7th, 2008
6

Sounds like this will be the last decent GTA!

Hopefully TakeTwo can hold out till the end of the month.

posted 6:49am EDT - April 7th, 2008
7

I can't beleive he's bold enough to make that statement.  Basically the $$$ is more important than the gamers.  What a fruit cake!!

posted 7:10am EDT - April 7th, 2008
8

I dare you to delay it til MGS 4's release. Prepair to lose a huge percentage in sales.

posted 7:36am EDT - April 7th, 2008
9

This basically means nothing , its only logical that they would delay it to get their name in the game. And if this happens , then we could see a buggy game because of the alterations. And if that happens i will not buy the game simply because its going to BE buggy and it will be  handeled by EA so yeah . This is Logical news rather then A big breakthrough

posted 7:45am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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EA dont have a very good rep.. thats true, and Pachter is right - if they can delay the game to setup a bigger launch and essentially more money then they'll do it. However i dont believe they're as sucky as everyone keeps saying... EA do have a lot of quality titles under their belt lets not forget people - including Burnout Paradise and Army of Two, just to mention a couple of newbies.

posted 7:49am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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its bad enuf tht its coming on the 360! and now when EA are touching this franchise ...... the memory ill only have is san andreas ;( SCREW U EA!
posted 7:50am EDT - April 7th, 2008
12

EA can kiss a.s.s they will ruin GTA, by the way I cancelled by Pre Order of GTA IV in australia and getting it overseas, so up your Government of australia you cant stop us!!!!

posted 8:38am EDT - April 7th, 2008
13

Not good!

posted 8:49am EDT - April 7th, 2008
14

EA = Enormous ***holes

posted 8:54am EDT - April 7th, 2008
15

Well lets remember when bfbc comes out. Then you guys will be praising EA. lol

 

posted 9:03am EDT - April 7th, 2008
16

ffs ea sucks balls.wtf why they doing this stupid omg i am so angry ---...---

posted 9:19am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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this is why i havent pre-ordered my copy of gta, even if EA accuires t2 il get saints rows just not to support EA  (EA god doesnt like ugly )

posted 9:38am EDT - April 7th, 2008
18

This is sick stuff EA is trying to do. And microsoft is doing the exact same thing to yahoo. They give them an offer and a dealine. The point of the deadline is to give them a chance before you forcefully take it over by buying most of their shares.

Soon we wont have a choice to avoid buying EA games, because they will own the market!

posted 9:43am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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Fine... Release it for Microsoft on April 29th,  delay ours for two more months and make it 2% better then the 360 version.   I'm fine with that.  Either way EA you suck ***!  except for rock band but I blame that all on Harmonix not EA.

 

PSN: DarkJ3JB

posted 10:29am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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this utter bullshi* it better come out on the 29th
posted 10:42am EDT - April 7th, 2008
21
Rockstar >>> Sony EA are Nazis taking away pride of great games since 2000
posted 10:44am EDT - April 7th, 2008
22

@djrussell

I'm sorry but  EA ruined Army of Two. They had a great game and bothched the aiming system. God knows what they will do to GTA.

posted 10:49am EDT - April 7th, 2008
23

Why not just release it on the 29th and then add the 2% later in a patch?

posted 10:52am EDT - April 7th, 2008
24

Ladies and gentleman, our favorite pasttime has turned really ugly.  But you can change it by boycotting EA.  If you don't like it, boycott it.  It used to be the American way.  They will straighten right up.

posted 11:21am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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why is it starting to seem like this is microsoft's game. "they're bound by a contract to release it on time". i guess that if EA does require T2, then Saints Row will become "the GTA killer"

posted 11:21am EDT - April 7th, 2008
26

EA means  Electronic A$S ha ha ( just kidding) why. GTA4 will be release april 29 don't worry ha ha :D

posted 11:37am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... hopefully EA jus buy over take two then when they do rockstar leaves them and sony buys rockstar tht would be the funniest moment in gaming history
posted 11:59am EDT - April 7th, 2008
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Hmm.. Well EA. Please, it will do good for the whole gaming community for you too just go.. just stop doing what our doing and pi$$ off. You know what would be great? If Sony bought EA and fired all them slacking developers. Sony could turn them into a respectful company for once! Well, theres my EA rant for today. =-]

posted 12:11pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
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EA doesnt have the only offer on the table to buy T2 there are other companies out there also who wants purchase T2 hopefully sony is one of those companies and bail them out of this crazy EA scheme to make a small buck

posted 12:26pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
30

I saw the interview on Gametrailers last night, and when I heard Patcher say that there is still a possibility that GTA4 could be delayed because of EA, I almost wanted to scream. I pre-ordered GTA4 last July for god's sake before the game even got delayed and I don't know what I'll do if the game gets delayed again.

 

Well, EA has the economic incentive to delay GTA4, but that doesn't mean that they will. EA needs to keep it's hands off good game developers and work on it's own game development. EA's got Cavemen or Nederthals developing games now because most of them SUCK. Burnout is the only good EA game franchise to me.

posted 12:27pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
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they don't need to sell the company at all, unless its Sony. They could help with money and know how to work with the PS3 and make the next game even better.

posted 3:30pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
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U KNOW WHT SCREW U SUCK EA WHERE THE HALL IS SONY RIGHT NOW HE SHOULD GET TAKE TWO UNDER THEIR WING NOWWWW!!!

posted 5:48pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
33

They want it out in fall, they must be against games coming out throughout the year!

posted 6:15pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
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EA, GO DIE! If they delay, I wont pay.
posted 6:48pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
35

yeah i agree with gingo i hope if ea does get take two then rockstar parts ways and joins sony!!

posted 7:47pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
36

Sony hurry up and buy Take-Two.

posted 8:41pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
37

EA cant stop GTA4 and when that game comes out they wont beable to buy Taketwo at all. I believe this is what the children refer to as

 

PWNED.

posted 10:07pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
38

If EA acquires it prepare for every billboard to be pimped out with all kinds of real world advertising...heck i bet they sell out and put adverts on the radio stations lol.

posted 11:18pm EDT - April 7th, 2008
39

I kind of yern for the days when I didn't hate EA with all the fibers in my body.

posted 11:55pm EDT - April 8th, 2008
40

EA won't care after April 29.  Their dreams of money are slipping away.  They wanted to get in when the didn't have to pay for anythign and want pure profit.  I say Fvck em.  EA can't produce anything more than dog sh!t and they want to try and get something good in their portfolio.

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