Topic: Splinter Cell Double Agent Delayed

[Jonnyboy117]

Tom Clancy's latest and greatest won't show up until later this year, but it's still coming to GameCube.

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.

[King of Twitch]

Right at the end of the Gamecube's life. This will surely sell a million.

[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?"

[JonLeung]

I like some Ubisoft games, actually.  Just not most of the Tom Clancy stuff.  The movies are good, I guess, but it's never the gameplay I'm looking for.

Sequel to Beyond Good & Evil, please.

And Jade is hot.

[KnowsNothing]

Maybe the put the games on the GameCube out of pity.

[joeposh]

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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?"

I actually buy them... mostly because they drop in price so quick and are always a fun one player experience. Granted I don't have a PS2 or Xbox, so that plays a large role in my decision.

[King of Twitch]

I didn't see this part in the PGC summary:

When asked, Ubisoft refrained from commenting on a PS3 version, but the delay points to a potential future announcement and another reason for the push-back, given Sony's fall PS3 release.

--from IGNCube

Did I miss a PS3 delay announcement or is IGN lying as usual?