Sin is a GG employee?  I wasn't aware of this.  And he said, "I hope I'm wrong," just a few posts later.  That doesn't sound like a guy right at the source.

 With as many delays as it had already had (wasn't it supposed to be a 2006 game?) I wouldn't be surprised if it was another delay.  In the minds of the producers the sooner they can get that game out the door and stop bleeding money the better.

I love when people pull numbers out of their asses. The ONLY date ever announced by GG or Sony was 2008, and the number first surfaced at Lepzeig. Any other dates were just rumors and speculation thrown about by journalists.

Edit: Sorry if I come off a little annoyed.  The Wardevil delay combined with this rumor have me a bit down. :( 

 Hey, I'm only going by what I've heard people say.  From what I remember this was supposed to be a launch or at least launch window game.  That makes it 2006 or at least early 2007.

C'mon, lets be reasonable here pig. No one knows how LBP is going to turn out, and the style of gameplay is aimed towards BOTH the casual market and core market, calling it a niche game would be the exact opposite of what Media Molecule is trying to accomplish. There are also plently of good games left for Sony for this upcomming holiday season, i don't see how Killzone2 (a game thats already hated by many people) would be enough reason to call Sony's holiday season a "shotgun full of blanks". There's R2 as you mentioned, Socom, Tekken6, The Agency, Motorstorm 2 and possibly Imfamous and WKC....not to mention many consumers would probably really consider BluRay as a incentive for getting a PS3. With GeOW and Fable(bleh) headlining the 360's lineup, I personally don't see how someone would be any less excited about the PS3's lineup.... and the Wii's holiday lineup can only be discribed as.. TBA.

OT: I think it's likely that Sony is pulling alot of financial support from Guerilla and KZ2 developement after realizing that it may get to a point where they can't make their money back. If that's the case then Guerilla may have some tough times finishing the rest of the game with a much smaller cast and reduced budget support.

I agree. Sony should buy Insonmiac and release these POS developers Guerilla Games. I can't recall any great game from these guys. A huge part of me wants it to flop because of all the hype and budget behind this game.

Does anyone believe Killzone 2 will be released this year? It did take them 2 years to reveal their second trailer. There is very little info about this game.

The PS3 will have games coming out (and I'm looking forward to SOCOM in particular), but nothing that's a real blockbuster. It's sad to see a console enter its third holiday season without any proven franchises in any of them. The closest the PS3 will come to it is Resistance 2, and that's only because Insomniac is apparently staffed by endless hordes of coding zombies who churn out games more often than Lindsay Lohan goes to rehab.

In comparison, the 360 has Halo Wars coming (pretty meh for me but it will sell), Banjo 3 (please don't suck, Rare), Gears of War 2, and Fable.

I'm sure Nintendo has some stuff up their sleeve, too. But, in usual Nintendo fashion, they don't plan on letting us know until the last minute. 

So Sony, can you explain to us why you hype your games so far in advance that it may cause pain to the consumers when the game is delayed and you promised it soon?

 That's an easy one: how many people bought a PS3 for the promise of Killzone 2 and the fantastic prerendered trailer?

Once you have the console in your hands you're not nearly as important as those people on the fence so they want to get all those consoles out the door as possible in hopes that more consoles sold means more games.