Pachter: EA has incentive to delay GTA IV
- Posted April 7th, 2008 at 05:09 EDT by Mike Harradence
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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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stevenhibs88 |
StevenHibs- 5:46am BST - 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
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the_ghostmen |
the_ghostmen- 5:51am BST - 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
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 6:14am BST - April 7th, 2008
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Even if EA do buy them out I can see it happening within the next 22 days..lol
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frank_magnet |
Frank_Magnt- 6:40am BST - April 7th, 2008
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Sounds like this will be the last decent GTA!
Hopefully TakeTwo can hold out till the end of the month.
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ThisIsLivingB3yond |
akingishere- 7:36am BST - April 7th, 2008
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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
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D3v1lwqer23 |
akingishere- 7:39am BST - April 7th, 2008
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Oh boy EA if you delay this game you are gonna have a s**t storm you will not be able to deal with. You' all going home in a body bag...God help you soulless b*****ds
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djrussell |
djrussell89- 7:45am BST - 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.
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Billy_Bob_Joe |
Nicker600- 8:54am BST - April 7th, 2008
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Well lets remember when bfbc comes out. Then you guys will be praising EA. lol
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ironflag55555 |
ironflag555- 9:19am BST - 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 )
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Reagan1981
- 9:38am BST - April 7th, 2008
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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!
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primalbreath |
jdawg222- 10:29am BST - April 7th, 2008
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this utter bullshi* it better come out on the 29th
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Die-romantic |
Demon_King- 10:42am BST - April 7th, 2008
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Rockstar >>> Sony EA are Nazis taking away pride of great games since 2000
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Odium_Generis_Humani
- 10:52am BST - April 7th, 2008
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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.
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Emo-Mercenary |
Clarky-132- 11:59am BST - 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. =-]
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liquidghost |
LiquidGhost- 12:11pm BST - 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
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AclayPS3
- 12:26pm BST - April 7th, 2008
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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.
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Dmanishigh
- 12:27pm BST - 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.
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blacksharinganx
- 3:30pm BST - 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!!!
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zombieking36
- 5:48pm BST - April 7th, 2008
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They want it out in fall, they must be against games coming out throughout the year!
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sn-plazaskater |
Ask me...- 6:48pm BST - April 7th, 2008
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yeah i agree with gingo i hope if ea does get take two then rockstar parts ways and joins sony!!
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vicam121581
- 11:18pm BST - April 7th, 2008
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I kind of yern for the days when I didn't hate EA with all the fibers in my body.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 11:55pm BST - April 8th, 2008
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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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