Well, that sucks. Game is going to lose out on a lot of sales from not being there at launch. Although this will help fill out the release schedule at the beginning of next year a bit.
Tell you what, I wonder how much of this has to do with the closure of Studio Liverpool & BigBig. My understanding is those 3 NW studios worked really closely on projects. Certainly BigBig almost seemed like a subsidiary of Evolution by the end.
And I tell you what... Psygnosis would've gotten a game out of the door for launch :P