I believe its the result of have 4 games delayed

and I wanted to see what the new Max Payne was all about...sigh

This would be a pretty awful trend for gaming, unless its always been this way and I've just never paid any attention. I'd hate games to get pushed out the door early because stockholders are pansies.

It's being delayed. Whoever owns this stock should just stick it out, like smart people.

Shock and awe.

well having 4 AAA titles released within such a short time frame was a stupid idea anyways. now take-two has NO games to sell during the holiday season.

I don't think shareholders/investors should be *too* worried -- it just means that Take 2 is going to dominate Q1 of next year. Although, I do have to worry about what they'll have lined up for the rest of the year.

Also, it's fascinating that most of the European countries on that chart want BioShock more than Call of Duty.

This should be under "captain obvious" they didn't just delay BioShock 2, they delayed their entire fourth quarter of games, of course the stock holders are gonna call a big "Wtf?!" God Take Two are idiots.

that picture, and caption, are priceless.

I think this is a big reason that game companies, in general, and particularly bigger publishers often make many of the boneheaded decisions that they make. They are either afraid of doing something that will piss off shareholders or they do something that pisses off shareholders and try to backpedal.

Keep in mind here that likely many of these shareholders are a part of the non-gaming general public. In other words, they are entirely clueless about video games (aside from the fact that they're making shit-tons of money now and are, therefore, apparently good things to buy stock in) and have no idea what goes into the creation of them. As such, they get scared/pissed off about things that the developers consider good things (or, at least, necessary things) and that we, as gamers, also realize are probably good things in the long run (i.e. a delay == more polish time, which in most cases is a very good thing, given the number of broken, unfinished games that get released, often because, funny enough, the ones releasing shit early are doing so because of shareholder pressure). Shareholders just see "OMG A DELAY?!! SINKING SHIP!!! I'M GOING TO LOSE MONEY!!! SELL!!! SELL!!! SEEEELLLLLL!!!!" And then, chain reaction, other shareholders follow suit.

Fuck the stock market.