Gran Turismo

[aphexstwin]

with photos displaying a dec'09 release, shopto saying sept'09, the japanese versions' delay (which must surely filter down to us outside of the land of the rising sun), i seriously wonder how many sales sony and pd have lost to the green side.  all the games sites that are multiplatform have users that are now saying 'now forza 3 is out its the second coming/if gt5 is delayed thats fine ive got forza 3 and its the best physics/framerate/ai in a racing game'.  whether this is true, about the physics etc, i have major doubts, i dont call it borza for nothing, and whether its true, about the fans deserting the franchise that hasnt delivered in 6 years, remains to be seen

[Hentis]

 I'd say its more annoying than worrying.

If GT5 is being held back due to pure marketing reasons. Then perhaps cast an eye brow over this.

If I am correct the USA Fiscall Year end is September (someone correct me and blow my theory completely outta the water) and Japans Fiscal Year is March 31st So perhaps, and a big perhaps the release for both Markets ( the US and JP forget about the Eu.... Sony do that anyway)  Will be after their Fiscal Year ends.

So Japan would be April 2010

America Would be October 2010

The Eu territories would be well hmmm Hopefully  somewhen before 2011 but one cannot say for sure how far Sony are willing to stiff us this time......   (sorry just getting fed up with the lame responses on delaying games).

There was a time when games were designed, programmed, marketed and released by Hardcore Gamers... Now look at it!!!

Anyway trying not to stray to far off on another tangent, just to say that I am not a business Analyst but perhaps its to do with Sonys Fiscal year end in each territory to the point as being the delay for the release of GT5. Its probaly wide of the mark but its worth considering?

i'll Grab my coat.

Hentis

RIP Dave T.

[SlimBoyFat]

Some worrying news from over at GT Planet:

GT5 will be released in Autumn says James Armstrong, CEO of SCE for Spain and Portugal in a recent interview in a local newspaper.

Quote:

I think that we'll launch the game in autum, before of Christmas, although we have not decided yet. I don't discard that use the motion controller but I doub it. GT5 is a great hope for SONY, a very important game for the company, which generates much income. We would have like to release it before but we think that the priority we must giving it is to be the best as possible. I'm very confident in this game that we'll launch this year and help us to consolidate PS3 as the great console that is.

http://www.canariasaldia.com/noticia...icia_id=173601

[DrTrouserPlank]

The game is sitting on a machine finished, 100% complete. It was meant to be getting pressed in Japan as we speak but that idea went out the window.

There won't be any more work done on this game. It's now in a never-ending queue of games that actually do have release dates and they need to slot it in somewhere. Evidently, they don't seem to know when this will be.

Even an official announcement on this game isn't worth anything. After the Japanese release got canned, nothing they say can really be trusted. This is just the latest in a string of conjecture and embarrassing uncertainty about the most important game of the PS3's entire life-cycle.

PD may have created a great game, but theirs and Sony's PR division is a real shambles.

[Raybrig_]

OMG.

Not much more to say, i guess all we can hope is that it is more interwebnet rumour sillyness!

[Fink10]

Again,why can't they say why the game has been put back in Japan?The amount of info that is coming out suggests that it's at least a few months away STILL.As I said in an earlier post do not be surprised it it's Christmas before we see this.

[audiman1982]

If this is true then they need to do another update for prologue in my opinion, just to kill the time.

[MastrGT]

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DrTrouserPlank wrote:
Even an official announcement on this game isn't worth anything.

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There wasn't an official announcement for Japan either, just as there isn't one with this rumour.

Just some SONY guy spouting off something to a reporter. He's blown smoke before, too.

After SONY gives us a real announcement, backed up by a press release, then you can say we got a date.

[DrTrouserPlank]

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MastrGT wrote:

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DrTrouserPlank wrote:
Even an official announcement on this game isn't worth anything.

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There wasn't an official announcement for Japan either, just as there isn't one with this rumour.

Just some SONY guy spouting off something to a reporter. He's blown smoke before, too.

After SONY gives us a real announcement, backed up by a press release, then you can say we got a date.

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Well there was an official announcement regarding the delay that is occurring in Japan (this has now been removed from the official site so I can't link it), and if you don't call the creator of the game confirming a March release in Japan I don't know who we're meant to believe. Don't you think that should have been reliable enough to believe? If the guy in charge of the game doesn't know the release date then how can anyone else be expected to?

This story is just conjecture, maybe a sloppy translation, maybe just a remark made without any real thought, but the pattern is still the same; suggestion of a release schedule followed by mass uncertainty and eventual delay.

People have fallen back on the excuse "there hasn't been a release date given" granted that is the case, but anyone with any sense can see they have already bodged two attempted releases of this game already because their marketing department didn't know what was going on (I can't say I can blame them frankly).

Even if you don't accept that statement, you must admit that the release schedule and information pertaining to this and the game has been a bit of a shambles. It seems very much that PD and Sony are not communicating effectively with one another, and the PR department is in permanent darkness (along with the rest of us) on the big plan for GT5's release.

Summarising; The wait for development was tolerable given the quality of the product, but the way it's release has been handled beggars belief.

[Matty_Death]

Tbh I'm getting annoyed with PS and polyphony.

Stop being ***** about the game which could of been launched 2 years ago because if ever emerging improvements.

One of the last push backs was so they could implement damage. This push back is so they can make a 3D version of the game and launch them both on the same day.

Who in their right mind will be buying a 3D TV in the next year. They will be over priced and small sized. Anyway a little off topic sorry.

At this rate they will not launch a version for the PS3 as they will go "oh the PS4 is coming lets convert it to run on that".

Just give us the DAM game