Mike Griffith, the President and CEO of Activision Publishing, had this to say:

We are committed to making Blur a great new racing franchise, and we are very encouraged by the game’s design. The additional time will allow the studio to fully optimise the vision they set out to create for Blur including a distinctive and groundbreaking multiplayer mode that will appeal to a broad audience.

It makes me wonder what kind of shape the game is in. This close to projected release it should be pretty much finished. So what did they find that so desperately needed changed? Some bug? A nasty glitch? A system-killing bit of code? Whatever it was, it must have been serious.

That or they’ve been aware of this pushback for some time.