GTAIV Dated to April 29th

Joystiq is reporting that Take-Two has nailed down a final release date for Grand Theft Auto IV . When they delayed the game last year, they said they were aiming for a February to April target, and they're making it ... barely. "If you've checked out the multitude of previews that dropped this week, you'd know that game is looking really, really awesome, so we're counting on Rockstar to hit its date this time around. What more is there to say, really? GTA IV. April 29."

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1. PC Ports of the games are not only delayed, but also suffer in performance. This has been most visible with 1st gen XBOX with has been a plain PC under the hood and the Celeron 733 powering it, yet the PC ports of XBOX games required 1GHz + processors and much more RAM. Current example is Assasin's Creed which recommends 3GB of RAM!!! No console has that much, yet it work smoothly somehow...

It's a lot easier (and effective) to optimize software when you know exactly what kind of hardware it is running on (which is the case with consoles). On PC's the situation isn't so rosy.

Though Assasin's Creed recommending 3GB when the consoles only have 512Mb is especially crazy, and I expect the result of just a lazy port.