Oblivion To Miss PS3 Launch, Half-Life 2 Slips
Full, shameful pre-Christmas slippage update inside
Bethesda’s Pete Hines has confirmed today that the PS3 version of Oblivion, one of the greatest single player RPG games of all time, will not make the PS3 launch.
The game is now scheduled for Q1 2007. Bad news for early PS3 adopters in the States of course, but no great shakes for us in Europe, as we don’t get the hardware till March (at the very earliest). With yet more rumours surfacing today that SCEE’s Phil Harrison is not happy to go on record to confirm a March PS3 date for Europe!
SPOnG will be looking into this alarming rumour in more depth in the coming days. Let’s hope, for Sony’s sake, that it’s just Internet gaming forum tittle-tattle and little more.
Following Oblivion’s slip into 2007, it seems that two other PS3 launch titles have been put back, with both Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog and Vivendi’s F.E.A.R slipping into early 2007 - and another, NBA Live '07, has been canned by its publisher, Electronic Arts.
The slippage shame doesn’t stop there we’re afraid. SPOnG’s also just heard from our friendly rivals over on CVG that the next gen Half Life 2 ‘pack of justice’ (containing every version of HL2 up to the new Episode 2 plus two extra games, Portal and Team Fortress 2) has slipped from Q1 2007 to Summer 2007. We've put a call into Electronic Arts this morning to find out the latest on this and will update you as soon as we have more details.
Bah!
The game is now scheduled for Q1 2007. Bad news for early PS3 adopters in the States of course, but no great shakes for us in Europe, as we don’t get the hardware till March (at the very earliest). With yet more rumours surfacing today that SCEE’s Phil Harrison is not happy to go on record to confirm a March PS3 date for Europe!
SPOnG will be looking into this alarming rumour in more depth in the coming days. Let’s hope, for Sony’s sake, that it’s just Internet gaming forum tittle-tattle and little more.
Following Oblivion’s slip into 2007, it seems that two other PS3 launch titles have been put back, with both Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog and Vivendi’s F.E.A.R slipping into early 2007 - and another, NBA Live '07, has been canned by its publisher, Electronic Arts.
The slippage shame doesn’t stop there we’re afraid. SPOnG’s also just heard from our friendly rivals over on CVG that the next gen Half Life 2 ‘pack of justice’ (containing every version of HL2 up to the new Episode 2 plus two extra games, Portal and Team Fortress 2) has slipped from Q1 2007 to Summer 2007. We've put a call into Electronic Arts this morning to find out the latest on this and will update you as soon as we have more details.
Bah!
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RiseFromYourGrave 10 Nov 2006 11:52
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"The slippage shame doesn’t stop there we’re afraid. SPOnG’s also just received word that the next gen Half Life 2 ‘pack of justice’ (containing every version of HL2[i] up to the new [i]Episode 2 plus two extra games, Portal and Team Fortress 2) has slipped from Q1 2007 to Summer 2007."
does that delay go for both the ps3 and the 360?
does that delay go for both the ps3 and the 360?