This may or may not be pure speculation, but we are all wondering why.... We all know how successful XBOX (Microsoft) has been... Whats the chance that Bethesda has been so mysterious on the delay because Microsoft is paying them off to try and draw sales? After all, how often have we seen ridiculously long extensions on things of this nature with really no explanation why??? Wouldnt surprise me, because Bethesda has to be more business smart than the they have shown on this issue.

Well, it's a fun conspiracy theory... but there are other ongoing speculation threads where people are tossing around this sort of stuff.

You know, sometimes things maybe just need more work and it is nothing more mysterious than what Bethesda has stated.