Red Steel 2 Stolen from 2009

Ubisoft has confirmed that the much anticipated sequel to Wii launch title Red Steel has been pushed till early 2010.

Originally the studio was set to release the game before Christmas this year, however according to Joystiq it's been delayed till sometime in the first quarter next year. On the Wii front we'll still have Rabbids Go Home, Shaun White Snowboarding World Stage, Academy of Champions and TMNT Smash-Up to be hand-delivered by poor old Santa.

Thanks to wAyNe - sTaRT and Robertd1138.

Update - Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot explains why Red Steel and Splinter Cell are being delayed:

Red Steel and Splinter Cell are going to greatly benefit from the additional polishing time we are providing and will clearly be among the leading brands on the Wii and 360 for the March quarter. The changes on Splinter Cell and Red Steel - it's just a question of polish. The team was asking that they couldn't be with the level of quality on all the maps and all the game for the end of the year, so they had asked for more time to be able to come with a better product, for both of those games. The quality of the games is there for what you've been able to see at E3, but we were not able to have that same quality on the full game of those two products. We really think with the level of quality that we'll be able to obtain with the time we give them we will have a long shelf life for those products. Now, because [Conviction and Red Steel 2] are launching during that quarter, they will not do as many units for the first month as they would have done in November/December, but we think that on the long-term they can achieve more units than what they would've done.