Take-Two’s executive chairman, Strauss Zelnick, has announced at the BMO Capital Market 2008 Interactive Entertainment Conference that the publisher’s plans have changed slightly. More specifically, the change is referred to the new GTA Chinatown Wars, the first chapter of the series developed specially for the Nintendo DS. Initially scheduled to launch at the end of January, the game has been postponed to the February-April 2009 period.

The same fate also awaits the famous downloadable contents for Grand Theft Auto IV. Zelnick has confirmed that the expansion is “close to completed”, and although it was also scheduled for the end of January 2009, it will probably be postponed as well, perhaps to the same February-April period.