Take-Two recently delayed Max Payne 3 to a May 2012 release, and that makes their release schedule all the more dense and crowded, with the likes of Borderlands 2, BioShock: Infinite, The Darkness II, Spec Ops: The Line, XCOM and XCOM: Enemy Unknown also releasing this year. Considering this, fans have been skeptical of a 2012 release for GTA 5, much less a May release. However, analysts believe the game will still release in fiscal year 2012, that is before April 2013.
“It seems unlikely that Rockstar Games would launch both Max Payne 3 and GTA 5 in the month on May,” National Alliance Capital Markets analyst Mike Hickey said while speaking with Game Informer. “Therefore, we have shifted our original expectation for GTA V to launch in May 2012, into the Company’s 2013 fiscal second-half operating period.
“We remain confident GTA V will ship in calendar year ’12, based on an assumption that ...
