Gran Turismo Sport delayed to 2017

[Devil240Z]

IIRC, the day one patch was mostly for introducing online aspects into the game, and the Vision GT program. Which I think is pretty fair, personally.

Yeah wouldn't the career have been fully there and playable even if un-patched? So a day one patch to add in online features isn't a big deal since you need the internet to use those features to begin with.

 

[gtone339]

Was expecting this yet again from P.D.

Anyway, this isn't the 1st major PS4 exclusive title to be delayed right? Remember last year that Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4) release date was originally scheduled to be launched near the end of 2015?​

Since we showed you our first gameplay reveal of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, more of the game and story have come together, and it’s become clear to us that this game is much more ambitious than we originally envisioned.

After spending so many years with Nathan Drake, he means a lot to the team, and telling the climactic chapter of his adventures is a task we don’t take lightly — this game deserves every bit of the attention to detail, precise pacing, and nuanced storytelling Naughty Dog is known for. So we’ve made the difficult choice of pushing the game’s release date. Giving us a few extra months will make certain that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End not only meets the team’s high standards, but the high standards that gamers have come to expect from a Naughty Dog title.

Thank you for your patience — we know the extra wait will be excruciating, but you’ll see it will be worth it as we reveal more about Uncharted 4 over the next year. The team at Naughty Dog will be heads down working through 2015 making sure that Nathan Drake’s story gets the closure it deserves. Come Spring 2016, you and Nate are in for one thrilling, emotional ride.

It was eventually delayed till 2016 (3 times) due to the title being too ambitious for the studio to handle, and finally it has been released on May 10, 2016!

This pattern has been repeating itself again for exclusive playstation titles lately. Not sure why but next time game devs please don't include a release date on your launch trailers since this may impact on your development time for the game your making for us all to enjoy thanks! 👍

 

[FerrariF1GT]

I'm in the minority here. I'm actually not worried about the delay at all, and frankly, a bit more excited about the delay than the planned release date.

I was confident that GT Sport would land on November 15, yes, but I was worried that I wouldn't get enough cash to get a PS4, a wheel, and the game on that day, as my birthday is on the 20th.

Through this delay, not only will I possibly get more saving money, but I'll also be able to get more into school things as I enter my freshman year in high school and gain more time to clean my basement to make way for (hopefully) my setup for the game, as school and home/family matters are much more important than video games, of course.

Remember, this is just a game. I would love to be able to play it sooner, as would the vocal majority here most likely, but it's not like the second coming of Christ is coming soon. sorry to bring up religion

I'm going to go out on a limb and think that if another delay comes, the reactions will be a lot more negative than what I'm seeing right now.

Over.

 

[Isho]

To be honest, this was going to happen. I dont know when but I read in an article released on here not long ago that Kaz stated the game was 70% finished. That shouldve been an easy clue that there was no possibility of a november release. Im glad I didnt waste my money on a PS4 compatible wheel.

 

[Racin-Rev]

If I remember correctly. New Platform PS2 = GT3 Delayed
New Platform PS3 = GT5 Delayed
New Platform PS4 = we shouldn’t have been surprised by this delay.
I will buy, play, and enjoy the game, but why give release dates that don’t have any possibility of being met. It isn’t just PD — other developers do the same thing. — Still very frustrating.

 

[guywithanAE86]

GOD I'm probably just annoyed from reading so many comments, but man I gotta say. Its only been like 9 hours since I heard about the delay and I'm sick to death of hearing all these whiners.

Games get delayed so often these days it's less common for big budget games to be released as originally scheduled. That's generally why they're lauded as the best of gaming, and Lord knows how long it took some games to be developed and they never published a release date. I'm fine with PD taking their time and making another game that frankly blow the rest out of the water in terms of that perfect mix of variety, looks, cars, realism and that sense of fun you get in GT. Let em, PD at the very least owe us our 60$ worth, and God forbid they want to actually impress us and make the best game they can.

It must suck to be kaz right now, I know it sucks to go back on your word when you promised something. But it must also suck when a good portion of their main forum supporting PD see stuff like "KAZ IS A LIAR SWITCH TO AC OR PCARS LUL". I can't speak for everyone and I don't even know if PD pay attention to this site anymore but I'd understand if they didn't lol.

And now I'm gonna get a maelstrom of comments about how I'm just a dumb PD fanboi who needs to buy AC or whatever. But I'm not gonna waste 70$ or more to just drive my corolla on a game I have no faith in. I've said this before but so far only PD have nailed the driving experience of the AE86, and sure nobody cares since the cars not even in GT S. Whatever, it's my way of gauging a physics engine and how accurate those cars probably are in real life.

Again, that's lame and no one cares what I think. But again delays happen, it's fine and I'm a patient guy. I can wait and I know a good number of GTPlanet can too.

Cool, rant over. Feel free to tear me apart lol

 

[GTchicken]

I think Polyphony should polish up Gran Turismo PSP, and re-release it on the Vita, to hold people over until GT Sport. It would also possibly boost Vita sales too!

 

[J-KiLLA24]

Some of yall comments are killing me

 

[ryzno]

Some of yall comments are killing me

We're killing the Killa!

 

[girabyt3]

Everything I was going to say, I think @FerrariF1GT already said it 👍. Except my birthday is on Nov 30th . And that I'm in college's last year rather than school

I'm in the minority here. I'm actually not worried about the delay at all, and frankly, a bit more excited about the delay than the planned release date.

I was confident that GT Sport would land on November 15, yes, but I was worried that I wouldn't get enough cash to get a PS4, a wheel, and the game on that day, as my birthday is on the 20th.

Through this delay, not only will I possibly get more saving money, but I'll also be able to get more into school things as I enter my freshman year in high school and gain more time to clean my basement to make way for (hopefully) my setup for the game, as school and home/family matters are much more important than video games, of course.

Remember, this is just a game. I would love to be able to play it sooner, as would the vocal majority here most likely, but it's not like the second coming of Christ is coming soon. sorry to bring up religion

I'm going to go out on a limb and think that if another delay comes, the reactions will be a lot more negative than what I'm seeing right now.

Over.

Also I will add, with the BIG roasting risk, the playstation meeting is next week, and we don't know if GTS will be there even if it's a VR game too, but if it's going to, we could have a little possibility of news

 

[Inferno251]

I'm not even sure how day one patch's can be considered bad, in my opinion. In this day and age, in the time between going gold and reaching your console, this allows them work on the game longer. In most cases, thats a good thing.

I suppose it depends on the size of the patch and what goes in it (in proportion to said game's features). In the case of GT6:

IIRC, the day one patch was mostly for introducing online aspects into the game, and the Vision GT program. Which I think is pretty fair, personally.

It was miniscule, and supports your argument @ImaRobot (which I agree with you and @SlipZtrEm), but in the case of a game like No Man's Sky...
...well, the less said the better

 

[scourgehedge]

I'm adding my two bits worth to this conversation startng with why this game has been delayed to 2017, first of all we've already seen parts of this game but PD probably want to show the full game, not a beta build of it.The game currently looks and sort of feels incomplete, I say this because there aren't many tracks or cars (at the moment) not that it's bad thing, but this news just sprung from PD very suddenly which was a shock to GT fans.

 

[daus26]

To be the best GT, it'll need to be released at least 2018, and an actual career mode with tuning.

 

[RC45]

GT6 wasn't officially announced until 2013. It launched, without a delay, in 2013.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/718312/gran-turismo-6-confirmed/

Posted November 11, 2011 - By Stephen Johnson

In an interview with IGN, Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned that his company is working on Gran Turismo 6, saying, "Of course we're working on GT6 already and I think what really will be the separating factor is something that we can't update through a DLC is something that obviously has to be saved for GT6. Things that we can provide through DLC we will, so that's really the market difference."

With this console-cycle nearing its end, and the notoriously long development time for Gran Turismo 5, you have to wonder if the title is planned for the current generation of PlayStation, or will it hit the PlayStation 4?

Source: IGN

 

[freedom1104]

How long it been since GT6 had updates? PD should rolled out some updates or demo of GTS to kept people interested. Its also a kind of compensation for the supporters.

 

[TS050]

How long it been since GT6 had updates? PD should rolled out some updates or demo of GTS to kept people interested. Its also a kind of compensation for the supporters.

IIRC, GT6's last big update came at around October last year, when the Course Maker came out.

Before that, it was June/July when the SRT VGT's came out.

 

[freedom1104]

IIRC, GT6's last big update came at around October last year, when the Course Maker came out.

Before that, it was June/July when the SRT VGT's came out.

Still remembering milking the hell out of that VGT. its genuinely terrifying on the nordschleife seasonal. It make x2010 eat dust. lol

 

[RC45]

IIRC, GT6's last big update came at around October last year, when the Course Maker came out.

Before that, it was June/July when the SRT VGT's came out.

And the course maker took almost 3 years to make its appearance. That was a day 1 promised feature not delivered.

 

[freedom1104]

And the course maker took almost 3 years to make its appearance. That was a day 1 promised feature not delivered.

There was something called GPS course maker which didn't came out totally.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/718312/gran-turismo-6-confirmed/

Mmm hmmm:
https://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-6-revealed-trailer-screenshots-first-details/

Regardless of when Kazunori first made comments about the game, this was its first public showing. Though even if we're going by the November 2011 date, that's slightly over two years from first mention to store shelves. Hardly an unreasonable amount of time for a first-party title.

And the course maker took almost 3 years to make its appearance. That was a day 1 promised feature not delivered.

Less than two years =/= almost three.

 

[RC45]

Mmm hmmm:
https://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-6-revealed-trailer-screenshots-first-details/

Regardless of when Kazunori first made comments about the game, this was its first public showing. Though even if we're going by the November 2011 date, that's slightly over two years from first mention to store shelves. Hardly an unreasonable amount of time for a first-party title.



Less than two years =/= almost three.

Gotcha - I will chalk you up on the gentleman column.

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[Tornado]

So where did the delay come into play?

 

[TS050]

Still remembering milking the hell out of that VGT. its genuinely terrifying on the nordschleife seasonal. It make x2010 eat dust. lol

Oh, don't remind me.

I remember crawling around the Ring in 3rd gear until I got to Dottinger-Hohe.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Gotcha - I will chalk you up on the gentleman column.

Thanks for the confirmation.

The confirmation that you're bad at math? You're quite welcome. I'm genuinely curious: how is 21 months "almost three years"?

@Tornado - we've got another accusation that I'm biased. I've lost count, which team am I playing for again?

 

[KilzoneStrife]

I dont blame people for venting on here, I did earlier too. Its just sad that. . I thought a delay is impossible given the low track and car list for GTSport. Whats worse, I now consider every public appearence by Kaz including whatever races he does as a slap in the face of the fanbase. He seems to do everything but be Gran Turismos game director and PDs president. Heads should be rolling if they cant get this bite size GT Game out the door.
I really hope Shawn Layden gets involved at this point as this is very bad for business.
No doubt in my mind he shut down Evo and he outranks Shuhei Yoshida and Kaz. Yes, Kaz sits on the Sony board, but if Kaz was central to Playstation, he would be on the Playstation board thats chaired by Andrew House and Shawn Layden. I think in the past, given the history and friendship between Kaz and Shuhei, it left Yoshida being very toothless in his dealing with Kaz. But seeing as Shuhei now has a boss he has to answer to, I imagine things may be different now.

 

[Imari]

What would we have preferred? Would we have preferred PD to ship a broken and incomplete game on launch day and have them patch it up thereafter for several months afterwrads, or have them push the game back and release something that's (hopefully) stable and complete? Because realistically, I see those as the only two options.

Admittedly, this is the right choice. But I think it's reasonable that people are pissed after the saga of this game.

"We're looking at having a game out on the PS4 in a year or two."
"It's gonna be late 2016, but we'll have a demo for you at the start of the year."
"No demo, but we're having a massive launch event to show off the game. Still November!"
"No game for you. Maybe next year."

How about they learn for a change an reduce their vision down to something achieveable, or at least schedule their development in such a way that they have a shippable product fairly early, and THEN get to adding the bells and whistles.

You'd think with Forza on the other side they'd be able to see the advantage of frequent releases with relatively small upgrades. Forza may be massively less popular than Gran Turismo, but they've made infinity times more money than GT on current gen.

 

[another_jakhole]

Oh PD, you NEVER cease to amaze me with these things you do.

Imagine if they went ahead and released a sub par GT Sport. That would tarnish the series more than a delay that could be seen as quality assurance. I hear you, but this delay doesn't feel like a letdown compared to GT5's release issues. It's better than being cheated after buying an unacceptably lackluster GT. IMO I think this would have been the case if it were released this November. I'm not saying this isn't disheartening to see yet another example of not following through after announcing features, timelines, etc.

 

[Imari]

Imagine if they went ahead and released a sub par GT Sport.

Yes. Imagine if they released a sub-par game. We sure have never experienced that before. It's a good job that GT5 and GT6 didn't require years of patches to bring them up to scratch.

 

[Samus]

By the way people probably haven't realised but this delay means that either GTS will be the only PS4 GT game or they'll release a sequel right at the end of the PS4 lifetime, leading into the same cycle again for PS5.

 

[CarreraGT]

Pfff, nothing new. From everything we've seen the game looks underwhelming anyway. Same old crappy sound and AI, and the rally component looks like a half baked addon.

I can't help but feel that PD are slipping further and further behind with every release. I'm holding out much more hope for Project Cars 2. And hey, it may even be out before GTS at this rate!