Even though Crytek only recently pulled the wraps off Crysis, the company's next-generation follow-up shooter to Far Cry, they're already being forced to delay the game out of its holiday window and into a vague first quarter slot in 2007.
Last week Microsoft revealed internal development on Windows Vista, their long-awaited operating system upgrade to Windows XP, would finish this year, but a several week delay in Vista's schedule means some computer providers wouldn't have a chance to implement the software into their machines until early next year.
It could partly Microsoft's fault, really, thanks to the delay of Windows Vista. Electronic Arts told that the game never had a concrete shipping date when it was originally announced (late in the year was about as close as they would comment), so the clarification of first quarter 2007 isn't, in their eyes, a delay at all.
Source: 1up.com
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