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Midnight Club LA postponed again

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Sep 4, 2008 3:19 pm PT

Take-Two street racer drifts back to late October in search of a "more favorable market window."

Midnight Club: Los Angeles is having false starts like a student driver trying to master the subtle art of the manual transmission. After being initially announced for a release early this year, the game was pushed to September 9, then again to October 7. Now the Rockstar street racer is being held back once again, as Take-Two today revealed another push for the game in its quarterly earnings report.

If there's any consolation for fans awaiting the game, it's that the delays are becoming sequentially shorter. This latest push is only two weeks, with Midnight Club: Los Angeles and the PlayStation Portable offshoot Midnight Club: LA Remix set for a North American release October 21. Europeans will be able to get behind the wheel October 24.

In an investor conference call, Take-Two chief financial officer Lainie Goldstein said the game was moved back to "a more favorable market window." While Goldstein didn't identify any specific market conditions, online retailers including GameStop and Amazon.com are currently expecting Sony's PlayStation 3 racer MotorStorm: Pacific Rift to arrive October 7.

105 Comments

  • abduba

    Posted Oct 4, 2008 11:21 pm PT

    screw this
    im getting 2k9

  • alaskancrab

    Posted Oct 3, 2008 4:27 am PT

    please I remember when games would get delayed for a year or two, even longer.. a couple weeks won't hurt anyone.

  • tzamisce

    Posted Oct 1, 2008 11:13 am PT

    Naturally I would prefer it if they could keep to their promised release date, and I agree that they should build in some extra time in case they run longer than expected, but I would still rather have them delay a game repeatedly than release it when it's not really ready. EA keeps releasing games that aren't quite ready, and it's starting to make people delay or avoid buying their games.

  • DarkMatters

    Posted Sep 28, 2008 6:30 am PT

    I thought it was like early October.. like 6th or 7th the last time i went to this page.. and now it's the 20th. .. it was just almost a week left, and when i saw this i almost fainted. i cant wait any longer..

  • GOAT_DUDE

    Posted Sep 26, 2008 7:30 pm PT

    maybe they should put the day 1 year after their expecting to take it out so that they could take it out earlier and that way people dont get pissed off because they keep delaying the game and stuff.

  • GTA4360

    Posted Sep 24, 2008 7:58 pm PT

    it comes one day before far cry 2
    and i really want far cry 2
    why do they keep changing the date

  • parmjit

    Posted Sep 22, 2008 10:25 am PT

    i played midnight club 3 dub edition yesterday and it still has the most customization to date
    i love the music wen ur in the garage
    im gonna go play dub edition right now
    man im so hyped

  • Staryoshi87

    Posted Sep 18, 2008 3:22 pm PT

    I don't know if I'll buy it now. October 7th, sure, to fill the void until Oct 21. Now? Meh. Unless it has forza like customization I'm going to pass until a later date if at all.

  • dmjohn22

    Posted Sep 16, 2008 7:11 am PT

    Oh thats cool I hope they go up against EA and their piece of S**T NFS, after the last one MC: LA should blow them out of the water.

  • xgalacticax

    Posted Sep 16, 2008 5:43 am PT

    Anyway, its just a two week push. When I saw the headline, I thought it had been moved till 2009, phew! I hope EA gets it right with NFS this time (bring back the underground) because MC:LA looks good.

  • kos1085

    Posted Sep 15, 2008 12:03 pm PT

    October 21....Wont be getting in now cause I will be playing Fable 2. oh well, i will catch it used later

  • Zoomer30

    Posted Sep 15, 2008 11:31 am PT

    Huh....this is not news to me. I work at Target and the release date we have on the video that plays for the game is the same. Guess this delay was late getting to GS.

    This is just one more reason why its best to look at what the retailers say, either brick and mortar or online. If you see a games release date change on there, chances are its been delayed. All Target Stores have an HD feed that plays via satellite, it gets changed from time to time. Just a week or 2 ago, they added the Spore ad and the MCR:LA ad, and the release date said Oct 21 from the beginning. I was worried when I saw the delay news it would be like 2009 or something.

  • mrjasler

    Posted Sep 15, 2008 8:38 am PT

    they want to put themselves in the same selling window as EA's Need for Speed. Frankly.. even if midnight club is a better game than NFS it still won't sell as much or do as well as NFS.. that is just reality. Past numbers have always proven this.. I think EA market's NFS better and the game is more well known than midnight club. I'm not throwing bias on either one.. this is just how it is.. sadly but true

  • Olaoye_tw

    Posted Sep 14, 2008 7:34 pm PT

    I'm not even sure i'ma get the game in the first place.....so it doesn't really bother me.

  • DoeJohn531

    Posted Sep 13, 2008 8:15 am PT

    Crap. I have been waiting for a couple of months for this game now. NFS is mostly just lousy games with a good one thrown in every third or fourth release.

  • touree

    Posted Sep 12, 2008 10:24 am PT

    It's still passable because it's a different genre of a game, plus it's coming out on 10/07. Fable is an RPG based game: comes out 10/21, Dead Space a linear horror shooter: comes out 10/14, Far Cry 2 "which I can't wait to get my hands on" comes out 10/21. So MCLA still got a head-start on the competition NFSU: which comes out 11/18.

  • FlyingElvis329

    Posted Sep 11, 2008 2:36 pm PT

    "And a week before Fallout 3! 'Cause who's gonna buy that?"

    I'm gonna be buying all four of these games, but this is horrible timing

  • FlyingElvis329

    Posted Sep 11, 2008 2:33 pm PT

    "Hey, let's not release this in an open week. Let's release it... the SAME day as three huge games! I mean, come on, who's gonna buy Fable II, or Dead Space, or Far Cry 2?"

    What are these dudes thinking

  • mdcross

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 6:24 pm PT

    Hopefully this game will do better at open world play then Burnout Paradise did, I am excited, bit it boils down to the controls and sense of speed. I will pick it up on release day..

  • G-Force666

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 5:12 pm PT

    if you say your gonna do something on a day, and then delay it to another day and then delay that day, your gonna risk losing fans. Personally I like Midnight Club so im not gonna ditch out on it but these delays.. honestly get your stuff sorted out!

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