Gran Turismo 5 for Q4 2010 release?
A Sony spokesperson has hinted that Gran Turismo 5 may see a European release before Christmas 2010.
The Japanese release for the PS3 racing sim was set for this March until recently, when Sony suddenly announced that the date was release was to be pushed back indefinitely and for no specified reason.
Sony Europe's James Armstrong, the head of the Portugese wing of the company, has hinted in an interview that the game may still see a 2010 debut.
Speaking to the Spanish site Canarias Al Dias (via Eurogamer), Armstrong said that he expected to see the game on shelves "this year, before Christmas" even though the specific date was "not yet decided".
It isn't the first time that Armstrong has speculated on the fate of the racer though, having said last year that he expected a late 2009 unveiling for the game - a date Sony then confirmed and stuck by until last year's Tokyo Games Show and the announcement of a March 2010 release in Japan. Then that date slipped later this year.
Gran Turismo 5 has now been in development for five years and, as EG points out, cost around $60 million USD to make so far. You'd think Sony would be eager to get the game on shelves on this point.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyIt's just another sign of Sony's increasing arrogance over the last few years. It's like they don't care, because whatever they do, people will buy it in droves.
It would be NICE to see it, but given the pedantic attitude the GT team have taken to just about everything, they'll probably be too busy mapping the individual pieces of gravel in every gravel trap, and its effect on each car they modelled.
On the plus side,at least when this games actually released into the wild i'll be retired and have more time to play it!
Hopefully it will be good enough to justify its stupidly long development time.
sheesh.
I've started to wonder if it will be a PS4 launch title.
The 'moaning' probably stems from the fact that GT5 was supposed to be launched around when the PS3 was first launched.
Here we are 3/4 years later and no GT5.
In that time we have seen TWO Forza games both pushing the bar higher and higher for GT5 to clear.
Oh well hopefully when it comes out the engine performance will have benefitted from a bit of extra time as GT academy showed slowdown and that was with graphics pared back over prologue, it definitely stillneeds work to match the likes of Forzas engine performance, still it was a better drive than Forza is particularly with the wheel.
wonder how many of the cars will be out of date by the time this is out
If people will buy it no matter what, then why not release it now?
I agree with the earlier blog that said the game can't match up to GRiD and they're going back to the drawing board.
maybe they do care and know their game wasn't up to today's standards and therefore wanted to make sure it would be instead of releasing something they would get bad publicity from. Japanese are proud... Sony couldn't be any more Japanese (if that makes any sense)
It's not like Polyphony was working on 10 projects at the same time. They've been working on one project.. they need to get it right
please tell me you are taking the piss with that statement?! no really!
Grid is by far the best racing game for me, although i don't own any consoles so i cant comment on them :P
It's actually Portuguese or has it changed? I'm picking on it because I am one x)
Like Ghys said, they need to get it right... Said once before and I'll say it again, the time Polyphony has put in every GT game gets bigger with every new game. The time frame between GT1 to GT2 is less than GT2 to GT3 and that applies to GT3 to GT4. I have the outmost respect for the Team and Kazunori Yamauchi - the creator. The GT franchise grows bigger with every year and the today's technology had made great improvements to games and maybe just maybe they're making use of it in GT5.
Jokes like Duke Nukem are okay, it helps to digest the delay but complaining and **tching all the time when a delay comes out... You're acting like women xD
Make us wait but make the game worthwhile is what we should ask for.
If I was making a game, I wouldnt let anyone know about it until it hit the shelves.
that would benefit the game actually. increase realism that is needed in racing games. Minus the gravel mapping, just the effects of the gravel on individual vehicles.
Me too. Hopefully by the time it does come out the ps3 will be sub-£200. Think of all those games that will hopefully be budget prices then. That said my new HD tv will be arriving soon, so I might buy a PS3 just for the BD-player.
By the time they release it if, Turn 10 will no doubt have forza 4 waiting in the wings. Give them a couple of months to implement any nice features in GT they see. And then GT is back to square one.