Starcraft Ghost Put On Hold

After numerous previous delays, Blizzard has made the likelihood we'll ever play Starcraft: Ghost effectively nil. They've announced they're putting game development on hold indefinitely, as they're reconsidering options for the next generation of consoles. From the Gamespy article: "Like many in the industry, we've been impressed with the potential of the new consoles, and we're looking forward to exploring that potential further ... In addition to allowing us to determine the best course for StarCraft: Ghost, this review period will help us lay the groundwork for our future console games."

Indefinitely?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not so sure about putting it on hold indefinitely. I heard it was coming out right after Duke Nukem Forever! Man it will be a great time for gaming then!

In other news...

[Perseid]

The sequel to Starcraft: Ghost, tentatively named Starcraft: Ghost Forever, is tentatively slated for early 2007...

Re:next gen ad infinitum

[flyingsquid]

"So, the game that was announced five years ago that was going to run on the then "next generation consoles" (ps2, gc, xbox) is now being put on hold to decide if it will run on the current "next generation consoles" (ps3, 360, rev)

Maybe their production facilities are running low on crystals and vespene gas.

Release schedule

[DiamondLOD]

I believe that makes the release schedule as follows:
1) Nintendo Revolution/Go
2) Playstation 3
3) Duke Nukem Forever
4) Phantom Console
5) Starcraft Ghost

Best ... Advertising ... Ever

[MagicDude]

This is a brilliant move to promote the stealthyness of SCG. What kind of stealth based game would it be if you could see it coming from 6 months ahead of time? Come christmas time, you'll walk into your local Best Buy, and there will be a huge display which just appeared overnight. Even the register biscuits [penny-arcade.com] won't know how it got there. It'll be beautiful.

Re:Damn, just damn

[mrchaotica]

Warcraft 3 was OK, but I liked the scifi feel of starcraft much better.

I liked the "send 400 Zerglings hurtling towards the enemy base all at once" feel better, as opposed to Warcraft 3's "micromanage 2 units" feel.

Re:Curses.

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh-heh-heh.... You said "Dick".

Yay!

[Guppy06]

So now the Phantom will have two pack-in games!

This is going to be the best N64 game ever!