WOW! I finally got my account to work on this site! I've been following gtplanet updates and specifically this thread since like... Page 80 or something. But for some reason everytime I'd try to log in, the site would forget who I was a minute later... So I couldn't post.
Not a single person on this site knows if that's actually what caused the delay... They don't want that information getting out, so they make up a less damaging excuse. Don't take everything you read so seriously, these are business men trying to tell you what you want to hear.
Ahhhh someone smells it. See guys, every company out there is in the business of what? No, not video games, über cool three dimensional televisions, or new fangled motion controllers; they're in the business of figuring out a creative way to take your money. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but programming a game for five plus years straight would start getting old rather quickly if I wasn't compensated for my efforts... Right?
Now, GT5 is a creative way to take my money. I don't mind if Sony/PD/Kaz/the pizza guy takes my money so long as I have the software. However, what we should all start realizing is that some higher up (probably at Sony's end) sees "opportunity" in this delay. Otherwise there would be no delay. Whether it's to avoid competition with another game (call of duty?) or to allow a more passive aggressive approach to sales (i.e: sorry, we don't have GT5, but why don't you buy our vast array of
other racing games) there is a definite method to all this madness. Somewhere in one of Sony's buildings, one exec. consultant, analyst, economist, whoever- told someone else to delay the release. The security or bluray issue is just a load. I think we just need to face the facts and believe that GT isn't as easy a sell as something more mainstream and more of a guarantee... Like shooting games, motion controllers with flashy ping pong balls and space ship TVs that operate in other dimensions. somtimes i think everyone at sony is busy raving when they're not at work.
In alot of ways though, I think this whole GT thing is turning out to be a big nightmare for Sony. They can't cancel it because they're already waist deep with it's investment, and they can't release it because they're just as paranoid about it not selling well. They don't know what to do with the game, and it's hilarious! But firmware mandates to compensate for software piracy and corporate insecurity? Gross.
"Sorry guys, but because lotsa peeps like to jack our s***, we gotta release firmware whatever point five... Oh and by the way, the bluray guys don't really like us too much so they ended up giving us the finger when we told them we gotta reschedule (because of course bluray printers call the shots and not Sony execs. [managment issues much?!]) . But uh... It'll be out for the "Holiday Season".....
(crickets).... Yeah. Holiday... Season...
(crickets)....Uh. Yeah."
Man, you gotta love being optimistic! 
