GT5 delayed
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Not hard to believe. MS will market the hell out of Kinect and thay don't want it to take away anything from GT5 so a delay till maybe December was better financially for them.
A release in December, will practically mean owning December for Sony because they don't have to worry about the crowded November month with Kinect, Black Ops, Ass. Creed, NFS, etc
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I've read it and it doesn't make sense to me at all ( even if that indeed turns out to be the reason ) as once the game was to be released at the original date they could have hyped it up for the second time before Christmas I reckon unless there's something they fear will be an enormous letdown once it releases ( Standard cars perhaps? ) and spreads from word to mouth.
If so and their tactic seems to be a massive amount of sales during the holiday season peak worldwide and less on consistent sales during a long lifespan they wouldn't be very confident about this product now would they?
If not and they somehow fear to be crushed by a huge Microsoft Kinect campaign diverting attention from their GT5 campaign shows they probably seriously underestimate how many people look forward to GT5 and will buy it the second it comes out regardless which company campaigns what, and even when they want to persuade the casual gamers who may not be aware GT5 is coming why wait after a huge campaign by your main rival which may persuade potential PS3 customers?
Again if GT5 indeed is the game worth waiting for ( ahem ), why not have a second campaign ( big and/or clever ) once the holidays arrive?
You would still gain new customers without pissing off the existing ones but then again what the hell would I know of marketing?
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Millions have been spent by many companies on advertising GT5, all based on a November 2nd release. I would imagine Sony and some heavy hitting retailers will be baying for blood right now. I'd expect because of this the delay will only be a few weeks in it's timeframe. If it's anylonger than this then GT5's release will be to a quieter PR fanfare which will cost Sony and PD heavily it terms of revinue.
To this end I doubt very much any sugestions of "new features" being added and rather bug testing has thrown up more than was expected which PD want to address as much as possible before release rather than patching the game afterwards.....but again I'd expect the time frame to sort this out is only a few weeks and then any other problems will need to be patched, PD will still have a number of weeks before release after going gold.
If however They do drop the ball on this and release misses the "holiday season" then it will be a huge financial bombshell for PD as the casual gamer market will to an extent be lost. There not stupid though and will be working to avoid this.
To this end I doubt very much any sugestions of "new features" being added and rather bug testing has thrown up more than was expected which PD want to address as much as possible before release rather than patching the game afterwards.....but again I'd expect the time frame to sort this out is only a few weeks and then any other problems will need to be patched, PD will still have a number of weeks before release after going gold.
If however They do drop the ball on this and release misses the "holiday season" then it will be a huge financial bombshell for PD as the casual gamer market will to an extent be lost. There not stupid though and will be working to avoid this.
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yes gt5 is worth the wait no matter how long but W.T.F is the hold up perfection is not and will never be posible so realese the game.
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Perfection is unobtainable. They gave that up when they said that only 20% of the cars in this game were completely done.
At this point, and if they still plan to release this year, the issues must be bugs, or minor polishing, because any programmer will tell you that as soon as you change ANYTHING in the code, you need to back to the QA phase to test every last aspect of the game to ensure what you changed didnt break something else.
Watch the behind the scenes stuff on the making of Forza and you'll see that the QA phase is brutal. So theres no time to make major changes unless they are willing to push it to 2011.
Its either that or the game is basically done, and this is all just strategic, either trying to avoid black ops or kinect. Who knows.
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Some possible explanations for the delay....
Some idiot ran off with the golden disk and is asking for a ransom
They realized that the game does not fit on a the disk
They found a major bug that will take time to fix
Kaz thought of another feature that he'd like to incorporate
Main server crashed thus losing most game data
Trying to make it jailbreak proof
Hold it until holidays to max sales (most likely)
this would make a nice pole
Some idiot ran off with the golden disk and is asking for a ransom
They realized that the game does not fit on a the disk
They found a major bug that will take time to fix
Kaz thought of another feature that he'd like to incorporate
Main server crashed thus losing most game data
Trying to make it jailbreak proof
Hold it until holidays to max sales (most likely)
this would make a nice pole
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If they can just keep it in november pleeease gawd we need a new date hurry up sony, we all know you read these forums!
Anyway so sometime this month the release of the release date.
Sometime before Christmas the new release.
72 days till Christmas, compared to 19 days till Novemeber 2nd.
Thats about four times more wait... so for every four days, its the equivalent of one day now..... lets stay positive, breaking down the problems like this is how you cope with the wait.
Anyway so sometime this month the release of the release date.
Sometime before Christmas the new release.
72 days till Christmas, compared to 19 days till Novemeber 2nd.
Thats about four times more wait... so for every four days, its the equivalent of one day now..... lets stay positive, breaking down the problems like this is how you cope with the wait.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and venture my guess here this is Jailbreak protection related.
Anes
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Yup that's what I think as well.
I been thinking about it among other reasons like kinetic launch and call of duty competition,Sony wants GT5 to be the smasher product of the season,forget about 3DTV.
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Why? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy? ARGH 🤬
Why? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy? ARGH 🤬
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couldn't they just have a patch for that?
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Jailbroken PS3s cannot go online... thus they cannot get any patches.
The only way to prevent GT5 from falling prey to jailbroken consoles is to force it to require 3.42 or higher firmware.
Currently MOH requires 3.42 but I am sure people are working feverishly to strip out that requirement.
It seems quite possible Sony is holding back their prized product from release until they can be (more) sure that jailbroken PS3s will not be able to play it. If ever there was a product with which to try and force 3.42 on people, GT5 is it...
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