Thanks, analog. And, well... GOW III will be out in a few days, at least in America, but you know what I mean.
As for this stuff:
As for the release date a lot of Sony CEO's are confirming a fall release and to be honest although how unreliable they may sound, If GT5 is only 3-4 month away then at least we would have had a release date and some confirmed features.
I'm thinking, not necessarily.
It's possible that Kazunori sensei could be ready to pull a fast one on us. Everything about GT5 so far as been a big surprise, from GT HD being available for free, to Ferrari being included, to 1000 cars in the list, to Prologue, to NASCAR and WRC licenses, to the amazing TT demo physics...
And then there are all the other issues we're brooding over for any whisper of info on, such as depth of damage modeling, weather, time of day, livery editing and race modding, online features, etc... heck, we don't even know for sure if there will be used cars in the game.
Will the release date be any different?
I don't know. SONY needs GT5 to be a big seller, so there may be months of marketing hype before it ships. However, a huge marketing campaign would be expensive, and Gran Turismo does seem to sell itself...
Just think. If GT5 showed up on store shelves unannounced this week, you know the net would melt from all the chatter about it, and it would make the news as 1% of the worlds population, or more, flooded stores to grab a copy and pounded net retailers' websites with orders. That obviously wouldn't happen, bit if it did, GT5 would still sell hundreds of thousands of copies in one or two days as word spread like fire in a fireworks warehouse.
When Kaz is done with it, GT5 really could release at any time. MGS4 was released in early summer, and it didn't hurt sales much at all, and there were a lot of PS3 bundles sold too. GT5 will sell like tacos, no matter when it's released. Now, marketing will have their hands on things too, and having GT5 for sale when the 3D TVs hit the market would be a great synergy to push HDTV sales, as Fool Killer points out. But it doesn't
have to be summer to still be an effective selling tool. Summer is the midpoint I'd consider, though I'd think the window would swing between Halloween (Oct 31) to the end of May. "Soon" and "earlier than you think" undoubtedly means before the holiday sales season, which would be October-ish. I personally think that E3 is going to be reserved for a big blowout, unless SONY wants to jump the gun and release early. Or if Kaz puts his foot down and demands an early release. After all, GT4 was available Feb 22 or so in America.
Until The Big Unveiling, whenever that is, I do also expect more teasing, so get used to it.
And just one more point:
You can make a perfect model
Yes, you can make a near perfect model of something. But you
cannot make it behave perfectly in every situation running in a game engine. It just doesn't happen.
There is no perfect physics engine.
There is no perfect lighting engine.
There is no perfect rendering engine. And you perfectionists need to realize this.
👍 couldn't agree more, some seem to be even more perfectionistic than Kaz himself, or should i say nitpicking......
