Por cierto, lo dicho por el analista:
" Sony, Microsoft
Sales of Sony's PlayStation3 will suffer during the Christmas season because the console will be without a tent-pole title, Pachter said.
``It hurts Sony this holiday,'' said Pachter, who has a ``sell'' rating on Take-Two shares and doesn't own any. ``Maybe this gives them an incentive to cut the PS3 price again'' when ``Grand Theft Auto'' is released.
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 may be less affected by the game's delay because the company in September is releasing ``Halo 3,'' an exclusive action-adventure video game for the console, Pachter said.
Take-Two was expected to sell about 10 million units of ``Grand Theft Auto IV'' in its first year, with about half for Xbox and half for PlayStation3, Pachter said in a May interview.
Retail sales of earlier versions of ``Grand Theft Auto'' have tallied $1.1 billion in the U.S., according to Port Washington, New York-based market researcher NPD Group Inc. "
Si mi ingles no me falla, no culpa a PS3 del retraso sino que comenta que el retraso le vendra muy mal a las ventas de PS3 en navidades. Estoy buscando la entrevista donde ponga explicitamente lo comentado en la noticia, pero no la encuentro

EDIT: Encontrada. Efectivamente, dice:
"We think it is likely that the Rockstar team had difficulty in building an exceptionally complicated game for the PS3, and failed to recognise how far away from completion the game truly was until recently," said Pachter.
"We think it is also likely that Take-Two had a contractual commitment to Sony that it would not favour competitor Microsoft by launching the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV prior to launching the PS3 version, and believe that any delay of the PS3 version necessitated a delay of the Xbox 360 version," he added.
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