GT5 delayed
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I think they delayed it so they can market the game more, do some real advertising.
I mean the 'real' "We love cars" commercial hasn't even been on TV yet and the game would have been due to release later today. I think the game is ready and made, ready to ship...They just want to advertise it a little more if I be totally honest.
I mean the 'real' "We love cars" commercial hasn't even been on TV yet and the game would have been due to release later today. I think the game is ready and made, ready to ship...They just want to advertise it a little more if I be totally honest.
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Happy GT5 day everyone... oh... wait 
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We are waiting for release date, thank you sony !
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Nah, I think Sony decided to start a much larger ad campaign, but didn't allow enough time, so they're going to use now until the 30th November to advertise it and then ship it.
That's what I believe anyway... Rather - what I hope.
All publicity is good publicity, Sure there is a big bad delay, but this has meant GT5 has been even more of a hot topic recently, the delay won't damage sales because in all honesty, if you were going to buy GT5, you still will.
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When I pre-ordered Resident Evil 5 I got it 1 day earlier then said release date, so I would probably be playing GT5 now if they hadn't screwed things up and given us a DELAY again. Iam so furious at Corny/Polyphon now I could explode. I hope everything goes to hell with them now because if their LIES AFTER LIES! They said we would get a new date BEFORE end of oktober and we didn't even get that!!! WHATA USELESS PIECE OF CRAP COMPANY!!! No, absolutely NO WHATSOEVER respect for their costumers!!!!
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Right so they delay the game for almost a month (and counting) so they can run a large roughly 30 day advertising campain that they have yet to start even and puts the release after black Friday and we are already at the previous launch day...
A dash more logic in the thinking there might help
I have never understood why anyone would put down 100% of the purchase value up front... it makes no sense to me and is like giving the store a 0% interest loan with some potential risks (like the system looses track of your preorder, you loose your receipt, who knows who knows what goes wrong, the store goes out of business...)
I have heard the reasoning like "this way I don't have to worry about if I have the money on launch day, I just walk in and pick it up.) which is some of the strangest logic I have ever heard.
If you prepaid the full amount you already HAVE the money... the only reason you WOULDN'T have the money on launch day is if you spent it on something else. The logic would be that you WOULDN'T spend it on something else unless it was more important than GT5.
Now I don't know about you, but if something more important comes up... don't you want your money where you can get it to pay that off instead of tied up in a GT5 pre order?
So there are only 2 possibilities:
1: Something more important DOES come up before GT5 launches, you need to spend the money on that, hopefully you can get it back from your pre order and then it's spent and guess what, no money for GT5 but it didn't matter that you put the preorder anyway did it?
2: Nothing more important happens, your money sits in someone elses pocket until GT5 launches, you get your game and are not ahead in any way at all and you have missed out on the opportunity cost of money the whole time.
BTW if you aren't aware the opportunity cost of money is the inherent value that having money has. It means that should beneficial opportunities arise, you have the ability to take advantage of them. A possible example might be a bank offers a 10% CD for 6 months. Had you put your money into the CD you would have earned some profit off it and still had it at the end.
BTW the % paid on CD's is directly related to the fact they are paying you to give up the opportunity cost of money
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Ha.. imagine. They could've always just taken the lazy way out if that was the case:
Bronze: press the START button once in career mode
Silver: press the START button 5 times in career mode, in different cars
Gold: order a replacement for the START button on your controller
Platinum: have order delayed for START button
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- Julian_Jazz
Well at least Brian Eno didn't delay the release of his new album, got my copy this afternoon. I was hoping to enjoy it while playing GT5 on its release date but alas that is not how things played out. Looks like I'll also have Stereolab's new album to enjoy in the meantime as well.
Hopefully during SEMA this week they'll use that forum to discuss pertinent info and the release date. I really hope I don't ship out to OCS before this game comes out o_o
Hopefully during SEMA this week they'll use that forum to discuss pertinent info and the release date. I really hope I don't ship out to OCS before this game comes out o_o
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Right so they delay the game for almost a month (and counting) so they can run a large roughly 30 day advertising campain that they have yet to start even and puts the release after black Friday and we are already at the previous launch day...
A dash more logic in the thinking there might help
I have never understood why anyone would put down 100% of the purchase value up front... it makes no sense to me and is like giving the store a 0% interest loan with some potential risks (like the system looses track of your preorder, you loose your receipt, who knows who knows what goes wrong, the store goes out of business...)
I have heard the reasoning like "this way I don't have to worry about if I have the money on launch day, I just walk in and pick it up.) which is some of the strangest logic I have ever heard.
If you prepaid the full amount you already HAVE the money... the only reason you WOULDN'T have the money on launch day is if you spent it on something else. The logic would be that you WOULDN'T spend it on something else unless it was more important than GT5.
Now I don't know about you, but if something more important comes up... don't you want your money where you can get it to pay that off instead of tied up in a GT5 pre order?
So there are only 2 possibilities:
1: Something more important DOES come up before GT5 launches, you need to spend the money on that, hopefully you can get it back from your pre order and then it's spent and guess what, no money for GT5 but it didn't matter that you put the preorder anyway did it?
2: Nothing more important happens, your money sits in someone elses pocket until GT5 launches, you get your game and are not ahead in any way at all and you have missed out on the opportunity cost of money the whole time.
BTW if you aren't aware the opportunity cost of money is the inherent value that having money has. It means that should beneficial opportunities arise, you have the ability to take advantage of them. A possible example might be a bank offers a 10% CD for 6 months. Had you put your money into the CD you would have earned some profit off it and still had it at the end.
BTW the % paid on CD's is directly related to the fact they are paying you to give up the opportunity cost of money
I share the same view as you do with that pre-order case.
It basically boils down to what people prefer to do. Some people like to pay in cash, so they don't do it online where it's only credit card. To each his own, I guess.
That sounds like a good opportunity to invest and I've heard of that from friends if friends, but just not the right time for me. I am a poor, struggling, hustled by loans, college student trying to make something out of my intellectual capacity within the higher education entity. 👎
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Hey, I have my Target sales paper in the mail and it says that GT5 will be in store tuesday apart of there buy 2 get 1 free sale!
lol, I know they probably didn't get to update the paper or didn't get the memo but I'm still going tomorrow just in case they got some early arrivals in! Lol I know I'm wrong and being stupid but...
lol, I know they probably didn't get to update the paper or didn't get the memo but I'm still going tomorrow just in case they got some early arrivals in! Lol I know I'm wrong and being stupid but...
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Hey, I have my Target sales paper in the mail and it says that GT5 will be in store tuesday apart of there buy 2 get 1 free sale!
lol, I know they probably didn't get to update the paper or didn't get the memo but I'm still going tomorrow just in case they got some early arrivals in! Lol I know I'm wrong and being stupid but...
Hey don't even worry about it man. I'm going to be right there behind you. You say you want a revolution??
My goal is to score a gift card at the least
A possible example might be a bank offers a 10% CD for 6 months. Had you put your money into the CD you would have earned some profit off it and still had it at the end.
BTW the % paid on CD's is directly related to the fact they are paying you to give up the opportunity cost of money
Can you give me the name of the bank giving 10% on a 6 month CD? My bank offers about 1.3%.
I had this idea back in January,simply save money until GT5 releases,thus far I manage to buy a 250GB PS3 and pre-order a standard edition of GT5,I found it today and I decided to save more money until GT5 releases to see how much can I manage to save(maybe for a wheel)is sort of depressing to get back to this but anyway,my only hope is that not becoming a millionaire until GT5 releases.
PS: sorry for the quality of the camera,and the quality of the logo(Kaz approved).
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💡 Release a demo, please!!!!! 
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- Revelation1115
Still no release date and it's already the day of the "original" release date.. I'm starting to agree with the others about the 2011 possible release date.
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This. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a "Spring 2011" in large purple letters in the release date thread sometime soon.
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2012 will come, the world will end, and GT5 will be still under "development"
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I had this idea back in January,simply save money until GT5 releases,thus far I manage to buy a 250GB PS3 and pre-order a standard edition of GT5,I found it today and I decided to save more money until GT5 releases to see how much can I manage to save(maybe for a wheel)is sort of depressing to get back to this but anyway,my only hope is that not becoming a millionaire until GT5 releases.
PS: sorry for the quality of the camera,and the quality of the logo(Kaz approved).
If I started after GT4, I could probably buy a real car with all the coins.
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