Sam Fisher is returning to GameCube for at least one more mission, but you'll have to wait until the fall to play his newest game. Double Agent was only recently unveiled in print magazines, but Ubisoft wasted little time in revising the game's ship date. Although the official statement below is vague on the actual ship date, the publisher's financial statements, also released today, mention September 2006 as the magic month.
Today Ubisoft announced that its highly anticipated title Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent will launch in the company’s second quarter of its fiscal year 2006/2007. Splinter Cell Double Agent will be available in September for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo GameCube™ system and Windows® PC.
Ubisoft is extending the launch of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent in order to deliver the highest quality gaming experience. The additional development time will allow for a simultaneous worldwide launch on all platforms and will allow Ubisoft’s development teams to push the technical boundaries on each platform.
Ubisoft is confident that Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent will revolutionize and reinvent the spy action genre by introducing an unprecedented double agent concept and an entirely new breed of game play that adds an exciting new dimension to the gaming experience.
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I'm really surprised that Ubisoft still releases Splinter Cell on the Cube. Who really buys it? The Cube has always gotten the worst version of the game and since the second game the online features have been completely cut out. Anyone who owns a Cube and any other system knows to not get the Cube version. Aside from that the Cube version always comes out late. It's nice that Ubisoft actually gives us the game but they've been jerking us around so much I'm surprised Ubisoft feels the sales are good enough to keep porting.
This sort of thing is also why when it was revealed that Ubisoft was supporting the Rev my response was "who cares?"