Is there ANY evidence to suggest that T2 have been paid money by Sony to stop GTA releasing on the 360 early? No?
How many sales would T2 lose if they could release on the 360, but didn't - purely because of some contractual penalty? Several million? Hundreds of millions of revenue?
No chance Sony paid them money IMO. And definitely no chance for it to be substancial enough to delay one skew if the other wasn't ready.
90% of the game is common to both platforms. The game just isn't ready - too much work to do, and not enough time to do it.
The only thing Patcher got right is that the new management should have announced this earlier. But its not their fault anyway - its still up to the producer to sit down with the management to review the game. And make no mistake - its a huge decision to delay it. Not something you do lightly. Lots of meetings, risk analysis, bean counters involved, etc.
In the end, they did make the right decision. The game will sell whenever they release it - its just important to make sure that its a quality game, and drive sales over the next 2-3 years.
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