Max Payne 3 Targeted for Late 2010
Max Payne 3 [http://www.take2games.com/] will be released near the end of next year.
Fiscal updates are horribly boring affairs. Unless there's some kind of financial shenanigans making things interesting (which, to be fair, isn't exactly uncharted territory [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/75124-Former-Take-Two-Executives-Plead-Guilty] for Take-Two), slogging through non-GAAP earnings per share, goodwill impairment charges, inventory write-downs and other fiscally-sounding nonsense is little more than an exercise in sheer tedium. But we do it anyway, because every now and then something eye-catching does pop up.
Case in point: Take-Two's latest update, which fell below the company's earlier guidance in large part due to the poor performance of the winter 2009 [http://2ksports.com/games/mlb2k9] release date that was predicted when the game was announced in March; Take-Two fairly quickly announced that it wouldn't make that schedule but I don't think anyone expected the game would miss its initial release target by a full year.
Take-Two's fiscal year winds up at the end of October, which means the game should hit shelves prior to that, but I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that it could be pushed into the first quarter of FY2011 to tie its launch more closely with the holiday shopping season. Whatever the case, if you're holding your breath waiting for a crack at the new Max Payne, you might want to exhale.
Take-Two also announced that BioShock 2 remains on schedule for a February 9 release and Red Dead Redemption will come out on April 27, while Mafia 2 is somewhat-less-specifically slated for release in the first half of the 2010 calendar year.
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Max Payne 3 [http://www.take2games.com/] will be released near the end of next year.
Fiscal updates are horribly boring affairs. Unless there's some kind of financial shenanigans making things interesting (which, to be fair, isn't exactly uncharted territory [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/75124-Former-Take-Two-Executives-Plead-Guilty] for Take-Two), slogging through non-GAAP earnings per share, goodwill impairment charges, inventory write-downs and other fiscally-sounding nonsense is little more than an exercise in sheer tedium. But we do it anyway, because every now and then something eye-catching does pop up.
Case in point: Take-Two's latest update, which fell below the company's earlier guidance in large part due to the poor performance of the winter 2009 [http://2ksports.com/games/mlb2k9] release date that was predicted when the game was announced in March; Take-Two fairly quickly announced that it wouldn't make that schedule but I don't think anyone expected the game would miss its initial release target by a full year.
Take-Two's fiscal year winds up at the end of October, which means the game should hit shelves prior to that, but I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that it could be pushed into the first quarter of FY2011 to tie its launch more closely with the holiday shopping season. Whatever the case, if you're holding your breath waiting for a crack at the new Max Payne, you might want to exhale.
Take-Two also announced that BioShock 2 remains on schedule for a February 9 release and Red Dead Redemption will come out on April 27, while Mafia 2 is somewhat-less-specifically slated for release in the first half of the 2010 calendar year.
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