Eagerly waiting to get back into BioShock? Publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that BioShock 2 won’t be releasing in the company’s fourth quarter as previously planned.
While the game was going slated to hit European store shelves on October 30, 2009, at the end of the company’s fiscal 2009, the company has now moved the title to a more vague “fiscal year 2010.”
Now, BioShock 2 could very well be pushed into calendar 2010, missing the holidays completely.
Take-Two blames the delay on the need to “provide additional development time for the title.”
Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two that the delay was “the right decision for the product,” but calls the impact on its changed financial outlook a “disappointment.”
“The decision to shift a release date is never an easy one, especially with a product as highly anticipated as BioShock 2,” Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said in a financial release. “We felt that it was essential to invest the additional time to ensure that this title will deliver what its fans expect and deserve.”
Take-Two announced delays of Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II in May, both of which are expected to ship in the publisher’s fiscal 2010.
