In a statement posted on Polyphony Digital’s website today, they’ve announced the Japanese release for Gran Turismo 5 has been “postponed three months”. Originally set for March, this now suggests a June release – which just happens to be the most logical time we expected the game to hit North America and Europe. In other words, it looks like Sony just might be gearing up for a simultaneous, worldwide release and marketing campaign.
While it’s frustrating that we may have to wait a little longer to learn more about the game’s details, it’s not the worst news we could have received. When I asked how many of you planned on importing the game from Japan, most of you said you’d wait for your local edition, and I don’t think this will have any affect on how soon you guys get to play it. For those of us ready to place our Japanese pre-orders, however, it looks like we won’t get to brag about our early copies of the game…
@yoh Yet it’s still by far the greatest driving game of all time.
To be on the safe side let’s just say it will be out when the PSIV is released with DUKE NUKEM FOREVER.
@ cuco:
“as awesome as GT”
u shouldnt have said that in GTP.com ;)
World wide release is okay but, not December or November 2010, come on , thats to much. What hurts more is Turn 10 already has a project for this year. My goodness if it takes them 6 years for gt5 just imagine Gt6, it might take them 10 years. But I rather see them call Gt5 as Gt6.
My goodness all those 6 years and still no Porsche, no skid marks, trees looks like card board boxes. sigh…
Disappointing news is disappointing… good thing I’ve got another similar racing game that is just as awesome as GT. Great to be multiplat owner.
Luke, just a joke because theres so many of them.. :)
I dunno, I understand this is just a game but so many of us are really excited about it. I’m not surprised a delay has been announced. I just hope it’s done right and that PD gets rid of the horribly cheesy tire skid sounds that sound the same no matter what speed, tire compound, or angle. Hate to admit it that Forza 3 does a way better job of sounds than GT. Never thought I’d say that.
Damn Fack me!! what a Comment!! i did get the Facking though.. :O)
Haha anytime we Won’t LOL should say anytime we WANT! sorry for taking up digital paper..
rRgarding KY saying we can release it, any time we won’t, isn’t weird at all, or even the truth, the the best answer he can give, at any question regarding The release of the Title,
we all say the right things when asked..
EX:question VS Answer
Can you beat me on Suzuka in p700 online – Of course you can!! If i get punded or I’m being to lazy.. ( Hell I don’t know! But i will for sure say No You can’t anyway!! hehe)
To work around the real Truth is the day Of Finances, Honesty is important, but manipulating the truth is a tool for keeping the truth alive.. :P
One thing is, that the product is finished and can be released in His Company, the other thing is the Big Huge programme of releasing a Title like this, now that’s another table of discussions, that KY only has 1 Voice in, definitely not the final saying and that’s for sure.. He is also working under Sony no matter how you Put it!!
Anyways, when he said, that they could release it at anytime, he also said, that in the meantime, they will continue the work on getting it better en better, and add more new ideas to the Packets, so in the end we should win!!
just My Honest opinion.. :O)
[Dan Greenawalt impersonation]
We’ve almost done forza 4, and we’re confident that it is the best racing game of all times, not even when GT5 comes out we’ll be owned…..Mwhahahahahah….. :evil:
[/Dan Greenawalt impersonation]
Someone must kidnap a Sony’s executive and force him to release the game NOW..Gentleman, any volunteers?
@Nixo
New skyline ? The GTR is the “new skyline” and they already had that car in prologue, or is Nissan already working on the next on ?
Well they’ll release GT5 right when PS3 USB Loader comes out, if you know what I mean.
Well as much as this sucks, we can only hope we’ll end up being completely floored, I guess their following in footsteps of Blizzard on game delaying, But blizzard always blows us away so im sure this will do the same. When is StarCraft 2 coming out? lol
Hi all; I’m going to be optimistic and hope there will be a simultaneous worldwide release for GT5. I’m patient- gives me time to save up for the ps3 bundle when its out =) as for all the negative people I would send a whaaaambulance but unfortunately the snow here in the UK is hampering things!
Perhaps it will be released in February? Did they actually say “delayed” or just changed the date to “TBA”? Regardless of what time Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 is released we all will be ready and willing to pay for our own copy on that glorious day.
The only drivers allowed to complain are those who, for any given reason, will not be able to drive GT5 due to the release date changing. And those complaints will likely be fickle and loyalty will return to Polyphony within minutes.
We should be thankful that we have GT5P to hold us over.
I’m waitiiiing…
The 24h of LeMans takes place June 12.-13. (another 13th!) I bet, the track will be fully decorated with Sony/PD ads. Perfect release-date imo
why the hell blame sony ? didnt KY said release anytime we want, so it is up to him ? :-||
Wow, the legions of morons and selfish illogical thought here is astounding, even more so then the F1 vs Nascar arguments and those are pretty idiotic. Again for you idiots blaming PD, its not their faults. They don’t decide the PAL release, the NTSC release or the NTSC-J release, that is up SCEE, SCEA and the main Sony Computer Entertainment headquarters. You want to bitch and moan about the damn release date, blame Sony. Has it also occured to you people that GT5 isn’t the only game coming out for PS3? There is a huge amount of Sony exclusive releases that happen be in March. Grow the hell up and get you heads out of your asses for once.
And jedaye, enough with the damn stupid jabs at Amar. You think you can do any better? Unless you can, shut the hell up.
must be some new skyline models coming out, so they had to add them to gt5..
Kazunori
“We can release it anytime we want” hoo hoo hoo
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Laughed hard :D kkk…
I guess they are affraid of GT5 will be the One to buy, in stead of all the other new Sony titles, because GT5 will not suffer in the fight for which Game to buy, so it’s probably a more secure thought from Sony, to actually sell more of the other games.. I don’t get it, GT5 isn’t any other Game, all the others are.. Sad really..
But I will continue climbing the ranking in GT5p, and have my fun getting punded Online by the Ppl that should be the other Games instead, and leave us the Hell alone.. :O)
In KY I trust!! :O) And Sony is just getting the Nutty finger..
Could simply be it will be released earlier, or in April (Sony’s next financial year).
My guess is it was due in December, they needed time to finish something, they gave themselves until march and they worked so hard they finished it early.
Or
When the techcrunch interviewed KY and they said now we know it will have dynamic weather, night racing etc I think KY looked a little uncomfortable/unsure of himself so maybe they have delayed to implemented this? Around 48 minutes on their video.
Someone at Sony Marketing should get shot. This game’s hype is close to zero at this point.
One man said that this delay is to stop importing from Japan…I think his right!
(but again why not to release other versions earlier…ugh!all that because of money!!!just my thoughts…)
Slowly i`m getting less and less excited about GT5.
I bought a PS3 for it about 2 years ago (yeah nuts i know)..
If we get another message from PD saying “We are also adding ____ to the game!” i`m gonna cancel my preorder and wait for the reviews before i buy it.
Which is a shame since any Gran Turismo from 1 till 4 was Pre-order waaay in advance and take a day off to play it.
Now?…. they are raising the expectation bar so high that its bound to fail.
Which will totally and completely suck.
Sony probably wants a world wide release date.
Caasimun_18, This says it’s been delayed, not “changed”…. delayed.
http://www.gran-turismo.com/hk/news/gt5/d8887.html
We can speculate all we want, but the reality is that we are either getting the game in June when we were expecting, or not until later. I think it’s pretty safe to say we won’t be getting it earlier as It doesn’t make any sense to release in this congested first quarter.
“We can release it anytime we want” hoo hoo hoo
Hello to all. It was my first thought that it wouldn’t be released in March because GoW3 was to be released and I thought of that way before I read it anywhere online. Although I hate it, it makes sense. My girlfriend was telling me her good news of the day and I told her about when GT5 was to be released, because that was big news for me as well. I was almost counting backwards, and yes I have a real life as well :P
As someone said above, sony panned beautifully for 2010 with lots of exclusives spread throughout the whole year, so that they are continually breaking good titles in the market that may compete with games from other consoles. Needless to say, PS3 exclusives are way ahead of everything else..
maybe they should just start updating the graphics for a ps4 release, sell us an expansion pack to prologue and stop stringing us the hell along.
Final Fantasy XIII came out in Japan on December 17th – the Japanese release of GT5 and the Western release of FFXIII have nothing to do with each other.
2010 Q4.
@ Dan_<< I just happen to be an optimistic guy but also a really reliable source…am not joking…rumors were coming in and by my opinion, including what alucard0712 just said it must be true that march has to many game titles coming out, and i know one thing for sure, PD completed there work on GT5…thats what they said…"its 99% complete…" and the 1% is legal registration and advertising…thats what they are working on…the game is done…so they say so hopefully this game comes out next month…hopefully.
@rofajole
I guess it’s the fact that I care so very, very little about every one of the games GT5 is theoreticaly being delayed for. The notion is upsetting and I engage in unreasonable thought. You’d think that after 6 years and unprecedented cost of development they would want to sell the game once it was complete.
rofajole Says:
January 13th, 2010 at 11:29 am
I think it’s clear why this game was not going to be released in March. Seriously, who wants to release a game in the the month where there’s GOW3, FF13, Battlefield BC2, Yakuza 3, Just Cause 2.
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It’s not.They can release all these games in one day and it’s EVEN BETTER that way.Just because we can buy any game in any time later AND we can choose what game to buy first.All knows that if you want game – you buy it anyway (maybe later).And you forgot that many ppl can buy all of these games at ones.Just no reason to delay game because of other games.No one other game do this…
@caasimun_18 <<- You may be the most optimistic guy in the whole world, or you're just joking but, where did you hear the rumor of a suggested February release by Kaz? It would be great, but too much to be true indeed…
This is a big game, wait for it. I remember how long I have waited for Stalker and it was worth it, one of the best games and probbaly the best atmosphere of them all.
People u have miss understood the quotation…it hasn’t been delayed it says the release date has been changed, meaning they may delay it or…for Godsakes they move it to an early date like next MONTH!!! To me it seems like next month, i played the game at ces, and that was incredibly amazing…roumers were spreadin that KY suggested a Feb release date but no one is sure…someone had an interview with KY and it seems true to me…so people dont get frustrated, this might be good news…..i hope!
Frustrating…..
At least give us the CES demo and maybe we forgive you PD. >:(
@Fredzy
Think more logically. You think it’s cheaper to delay 3 or 4 games or one only?? And more, Sony wants to release GT5 completely alone, without any other major games being released anytime close to it. They want FULL attention on GT5 on w.e. month they are planning on releasing it on. You have to realize GT5 is one of, if the not the most, expensive racing game ever made, they NEED that money to cash back in, they want it to sell at least 8 million copies in its lifetime.
Marketing, give me a ****ing break. If any games are going to be delayed for marketing reasons, it should be the other March release games. The world has waited over 5 years for GT5. All the other throw away games coming out in March should wait for IT.
Exactly what I’m thinking rofajole.
PS. I think Sony is planning this year brilliantly, and they are really going to give it all this year which is why there’s going to be delays to keep the sales of both consoles and exclusives rolling.
I think it’s clear why this game was not going to be released in March. Seriously, who wants to release a game in the the month where there’s GOW3, FF13, Battlefield BC2, Yakuza 3, Just Cause 2. And in February there’s Heavy Rain, now in January there’s Mag. Seriously, releasing GT5 this early in the year would be terrible for the other games’ sales. I’m expecting late May/June worldwide release (or with small differences of like 3 or 4 days)
marketing my butt. PD is the laughign stock
I hope one disk from 3-disk box contains full-lenth film about why game is much delayed…And again it’s delayed even more because this film…
And without joking if GT5 delayed because of marketing (God of War 3,FF XIII…) why GT5 is pushed back?Why FF or GOW3 not delayed?Maybe it’s really PD – not SONY marketing?
Sony might want to release gt5 inline with their new 3D HDTV’s.
well i been playing this game since gt1 and it was very hard for me to get this in jamaica . and now that i live in the states it now seems even harder with all this delay bs. this game better be in my house b4 i turn 19 because i am really sick of waiting. 6 years ? really dude wtf are u making that ur not trying to telll us abbout cause if this game turns out to be just a prettier version of fm3 omg dude. i dont think i will waist my 70 dollors on another one of yur creations. so u need start lettting us no wat we going to be waiting 4 cause this is rediculous
PD are fast becoming a total laughing stock.
true that RocketCaron
Wow . . . -_- No reason why? KX has been saying the game is done for a while now.
Guys guys guys… They need that time to make it perfect ’cause if you take the online demo and Prologue they are a bit late physic and soundwise compared to that other X-Box competitor that I’ve been playing quite a bit lately.
Yeah I know you all think this competitor is inferior and so did I until I tried it intensively for 3-4 days. I’ll tell you my good GT Planet friends, they are definitely in front right now. The competitor is no looker, but its a player…
So just let Yamauchi do his things ’cause we would not like to loose the crown would we?
Four words: “GT5 Prologue Part 2”
This just takes the piss now
Dimitris Says:
January 13th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Well let’s hope it’s released before the end of the world in 2012…
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Exactly my thoughts!!!Let’s hope we play it until december 2012…
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! you guys following this game, its hilarious to watch. I knew 2011 was going to be the release date. lol, PD = fail
There would be other games to keep us occupied for the time being so stop whining! I’m a very frequent GTP visitor and on my iPhone it shows how many comments there are before I can read the bit of info, and it’s funny how many comments there are on bad news that just came out lmfao Just give us a nice sized demo and we’ll be ok for the time being. I still wanna know what the hell this “major advancement” is!
^^^^^^
Mind reader!
I dream about the day i will come to this site and the headline will say “BIG NEWS! GT5 RELEASED WORLDWIDE EARLIER THAN EXPECTED”
Expected to see it no sooner than late summer here in the States so I guess I’m not too concerned/surprised. EBGames shows GT5 preorder to release in November of this year. It would make a great early Christmas gift so I could live with that as well.
Gives me time to sell some stuff on ebay, check out the new 3D TVs, and get a G27/Vision Racer setup. On the plus side we have the GT5 TT demo, which honestly, I would have paid for its so much fun. If this delay gives PD time to adjust the FF during braking and at the limit (of traction) then it will be well worth it.
To many excelent titles coming out in the early part of this year, so launching GT5 around June worldwide only makes sense.
Well, that’s not how I wanted to start my day. Here’s to hoping they give us confirmation of all tracks or a track editor to ease the pain.
Or, a world wide release date.
Let’s be honest, it won’t be coming out on Dec 31st 2010. That would be about the most stupid date you could release a game. If the game was delayed such that it missed a June 2010 release, rather than release it after Christmas they would hold it back until March-July 2011.
When’s it coming out? A couple of weeks ago, one particular reputable seller cited a date at the end of June. They wouldn’t have moved to this date without information from some official source; that’s not how they work. The problem now is, was the information a result and in hindsight of the recently announced delay? or was it information obtained prior to any such problem occuring?
Ultimately, if it’s coming out in June, we’ll get a date in the next couple of months. If no date is forthcoming as we creep into May, then I think we can kiss a summer release goodbye.
Dimitris Says:
January 13th, 2010 at 9:34 am
I just figured out the reason of delay… They need to add few more Skylines & GTRs in the game because WE REALLY NEED THEM… LOL
correction not just a few A HELL OF A LOT maybe the final cars in the game are going to be over 2000 1800 of them will be skylines with different colors wheels and exhaust’s
i will never forget the GT4 Nissan SKYLINE GT R Special Color Midnight Purple 3 R34 ’00
I wrote this before, and here is again>
Reputable Canadian retailer Future Shop in their web site> Releases 31 Dec/10. Gran Turismo 5 is the fifth edition of the Gran Turismo series.
For me is fine, I just had a baby (1 month old), so when she is 11 months I will have more time to play. Give the best GT game ever PD!
@ Dimitris
come on, fine-tuning is what makes it great. it wouldn’t be Gran Turismo without those finer details. if Polyphony bring a game out within short amount of time (to beat competition), it’ll be like any other driving games, it’s all about patient and doing the right thing. if you are a fan of GT series, we should support what their doing than judging what we hear.
I just figured out the reason of delay… They need to add few more Skylines & GTRs in the game because WE REALLY NEED THEM… LOL
It’s in the UK national paper the Times today.
They say it’s likely a Sony strategy.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6985939.ece
Well, it was kind of expected I guess. GT veterans know you can never trust a GT release date. GT5 isn’t finished and we all knew it. It’s like when you sit in an airplane and the flight captain says it will only take 15 minutes when he knows it will actually take 2 hours. It’s was only 2½ months left to release and we have barely seen anything new since Gamescom. They haven’t shown the new damage model, the day/night cycle, dynamic weather or any of the new major features.
Maybe they have time to improve the sound as well, who knows.
Well it’s not like the US or EU was gonna get it any later, so I don’t think this will effect us.
What particularly gets me is that during that live CES interview, Kazunori Yamauchi nodded his head and said that it was coming out in Japan in March. Are you telling me he didn’t know about this only a few days ago? He’s a liar.
Hummm… not big deal.
Whateves, no surprise, I wasn’t going to waste my cash on an import anyway, but they sure as hell better have a worldwide release! If it only comes out in Japan in the summer, and Europe and America months afterwards, I’m gonna be at a level of pissed off that… whatever I’ll still buy the game, who cares.
KoosSpeeTerreur is right i wouldn’t accept statick day and night or statick weather or 500 nissan skylane gtr’s 300 mazda rx-7’s and 200 other cars IT just wouldnt be a succes
BUT I BELIEVE IN PD AND KY and i’m sure there is a reason for the delay and the long 5 year development IT BETTER BE A GOOD REASON
OH GOD…now my co-worker isn’t looking so foolish after all when he jokingly told me that the game will be coming out in 2011………..He told me this two years ago. *sigh*
Maybe they’re fixing the terribly stiff camera, or hiring in some advert people to promote the game properly, instead of leaving it up to His Vagueness as they’ve done for the past 6 years.
Seems like the Japanese release will be postponed only for a month: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gran-turismo-5-faces-new-delay
How much dust does my 2 year old Logitech GT5 wheel have to gather? I guess i’m going to have to go ahead and do something that goes against all my instincts, buy Forza 3. Unless this is going to be a delay so it can be released worldwide in say….. May, i’m done with waiting on this.
Im not quite sure why people feel it is needed to come on here and bash people for there opinions. Gtplanet is designed to be a community of honourable Gt players/fans with a mannor of integrity. People are entitled to say how they feel. I for one understand that the US/EU date has never been release so most likely the case is that the US/EU dates has not been delayed. If im being honest with myself and I hope you can all agree with me we all are a little dissapointed in some respect even Jordan. Looking on the positive side we are still waiting for a release date in the west of which has never been released. Also we can still look forward to the brilliant coverage of the production of the game via gtplanet….
Sucks. Blame God of War III and Final Fantasy XIII. Sony wants GT to get it’s own attention and not be lost in a crowd.
This says Sony official press release says GT5 has been pushed back a month, an official date coming soon. “Official”, yeah right:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gran-turismo-5-faces-new-delay
It will be released in 2012. But wait, thats when the world is going down!! Damn…
Haha, funny how Djcorrosive says he is waiting for the crybabies when he is the one the the majority of the posts in this section.
@sharif ali
jajajaja, they are working from the beginning … source code from gt1, gt2, gt3, gt4, gt5p and gt5tt are ONLY in the same server where KY typed
> rm *.*
> del *.*
> format c:
> format d:
…
LOL the end of the world is the released date of GT5 21/12/2012 XD
I doubt this is leading to a worldwide release. The more logical thing to have done is released the EU and NA versions during the same time in March. Why move the Jap date farther down the road?
LOL now this is the ultimate delay simulator! We should have known about this for a loooong time.
Meh more of the same
Ok, NA & EU release in 2011!! That’s enough, I was saving money for a g25 and a wheelstand but now it’s over, I’m gonna buy heavy rain, god of war 3 and every other SERIOUS game that comes out next year
i think gt5 postponed because of KY accidently deleting all files from server.. :P
From all the good news from GOW3 comes to bad news well im not surprised Kaz is always notorious for game delays and lies, remember GT2 and GT3? Delayed a lot of times. But it is really funny, a racing game taking 6 years, which does not even have story, characters, moving background, interaction like fps or rpg.
Well good luck, Turn 10 already has a new project. My goodness I thought seeing still being at E3 is a nightmare , It might be worse that we might still see this game this TGS 2010, because by that time the game is still not launch, WTF.
Can they just convert this game as a GT6 prologue or a launch title for PS4?
I don’t know but I have this feeling that Mr. KY and his people are wasting time on finetuning details that no-one would even notice or care about…
WE NEED THE GAME NOW!!! SO MUCH HYPE , SO MANY PHOTOS, SO MANY VIDEOS AND DEMOS AND STILL SO FAR AWAY….
They can always continue with minor updates via the internet like GTP…
5 years in the making is raising expectations so high we could be let down in the end..
i agree, in march here in europe will be release gow3, sony don’t want that gt5 import from japan will be a problem for that game selling
And more news from Sony…
“This information on the GT release is only applicable for the Japanese market,” the company said in a statement to Eurogamer. “SCEE will announce the launch date for this game in the PAL territories in due course.”
L’Inq : http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sony-europe-comments-on-gt5-delay
Absolutely the correct decision. Sony don’t want a March release in Japan and risk having people import it. March is a critically important month for Sony in US/EU and they won’t want headlines coming from Japan. This game will launch worldwide in the summer like it should have originally.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE60C06C20100113?type=marketsNews
Sony blames ‘Production issues’…
Perhaps this means they cant physically print enough copies in time for release? If thats the case it may only be a short delay – while they get their printing presses up to speed?
KY – Send me the ISO, I’ll burn some copies for the UK market :-)
I hope Forza 4 isn’t out first :-/
Lets call this game launch title for ps4 hahaha, My goodness i give up about this game, a racing game taking 6 years hahaha, maybe they did this because they know a lot from EU and Na will import the game from Japan, so they will delay it. Expected from Pd from there history from gt 2 to gt4. It is so funny, it is just a racing game not a fps or rpg taking 6 years.
I think that if they have postponed it in order to go for a simultaneous worldwide release, then this would make sense to me.
The number of people who would have imported if there was more than a month or two difference between Japan and the rest of us would probably have been significant enough to effect sales figures. Which, I can image are hugely important to Sony for what should be one of the biggest releases of the PS3’s life span.
*so april and not march
sorry for my english
according to SCEJ, it seems that it will be released a month later, so april and don’t march, and the posticipation don’t affect europe like i have read on spaziogmes.it (but here, the release date is unknown, so it’s logic that don’t affect the EU release date).
for the news of the 1 month posticipation:
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-457049.aspx
i hope that this is useful ;)
greetings from Italy to all of you!!!
it doesn’t say delayed three months on the Japanese GT site
it only said it is delayed, but the date is unknown.
I am gutted, but it’s not the end of the world. Sony sure is planning something strange.
@ KoosSpeeTerreur
almost 3 years between GT5P and GT5. Most game studios develop games from scratch in 3 years or less, but then again we are talking Gran Turismo.
I just love how really fickle some of you are one minute your jizzing your pants with joy and the next minute your having a cry.
sorry for the double post. there is something wrong with my browser
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I live in Australia so it doesn’t bother me one bit when it comes out in Japan.
I’m at a point where I don’t even bother anymore.. Now that’s an accomplishment PD!!! Sadly the only accomplishment in 5 years of development time!
If this game doesn’t deliver on all it’s promises and even exceed them, this is gonna be a major joke!
Oh and think about the time between GT5P and GT5, that’s just ridiculous..
i live in Australia so it doesn’t bother me one bit when it comes out in Japan. hopefully the EU and NA version is still schedule as soon after march.
Marky264, in the scenario of a Japanese release in June it would be longer than a month’s delay for a EU/NA localised version due to the translation time, and the simple logistics of pressing and distributing the discs to wholesalers.
I don’t think they’d impose an arbitrary 1 month delay where the English version basically sat in a warehouse ready to go as that wouldn’t make any sense. Any difference in the Japanese and English release would have to be localisation issues, but that’s more likely to be the three months previously expected.
My personal feeling is that a global simultaneous release is now more likely than previously, but quite when this will be is anyone’s guess.
Well let’s hope it’s released before the end of the world in 2012…
well… i hope at the very least they do a worldwide release :(
And let the whingefest begin… oh wait its already happened.
I’m with you Mad Mike
Hope they give us the demo of GT5 form CES to download form PSN for consolation;-) I’ll be very happy.
I dreamt this last night and to my shock I cant beleive I was right. Pretty annoyed. I dont want to wait anymore. If they do a Worldwide Release then im happy enough with that but if they plan to release GT5 in Japan in June and then the rest of the world a month later I wont be. I’m just getting a little impatient now just a bad news day :(
SUX
maybe Q4 2010 or 2011 don’t surprised from SONY
5 years working in one game I hope it will be perfect game, but I don’t think so!
or maybe 2012…
March 2011 ;)
/clap…hooray PD, you f’d up again.
Hope they give us the demo of GT5 form CES to download form PSN for consolation;-) I’ll be very happy
Better late than never? Ugh………………
I agree with “DrTrouserPlank” there will always be room for improvement, and KY is not a man that can be trusted when it comes to releasing dates and comments about what the game will include (I think that has been showed on several occasions both with this and the earlier versions of GT).
Polyphony should really hire a prober mediaman that can handle the press because KY obviously can’t! He has lied with several of the earlier versions of GT.
If you have read any of the interviews (postet here on gtplanet) you will get the impression that he is a scared shy man that wants everything according to his head, the man doesn’t even speak English! Honestly, in a global world with a international gamecompany. To me that speaks lazy and unserious.
How can you call something a driving simulator without weather, damage and night racing??
ie. (I know that now it has come to GT finally!)
The strike for perfection is just pathetic, and in that strike GT ends up hurting it self.
Look at the colours of the surroundings in prolouge and the demo, it just isnt simulatorworthy, it is more japanese arcadeworthy. And that is fine, if that was what the game was aiming at. To me, it wants to be something that it isn’t.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m gonna play the GT5 when it comes. but every time there is a new GT coming out we have to go through the same thing with delays and strange comments from KY. Me and a lot of my friends are tired of this.
Maybe I should write an email to Polyphony:P
Why am I not suprised at this it’s quite useful actually because i am still paying off a DSLR i bought at crimbo so I have a bit of a cashflow issue for the next few months anyway.
I just worry in some respects that this could continue to miss release windows.
brilliant news IMO.
more time to polish the game and its a smart move from Sony to release world wide simultaneously, this would be a huge boost in sales. go team Polyphony!! i don’t mind waiting. :’)
Ah Christ here we go again.
Would they delay it in order to obtain a simultaneous global release? It would mean doing the localisation work which could indeed push the release date of the Japanese version back. I still don’t think it’s their style to delay the Japanese version though for the “benefit” of the rest of the world. If the game is ready to go, why would they not release it and localise it afterwards?
More clarity or transparency would be appreciated. Please don’t tell me they aren’t going to be adding more stuff to it, as that will entail a delay longer than three months by the time they have coded and pressed the discs for despatch.
As far the the EU was concerned, this was due to show up late June. It is still not beyond possibility that we will indeed see the localised version by this date.
You can tweak a game forever, but in the end all you are creating is vapourware if you never release it. This game should be out there by the middle of the year. Whilst there will always be things that you can improve, there has to come a point at which you step back and let the masterpiece be viewed. Gran Turismo 6 is really where any minor faults that exist within GT5 should be addressed instead of repeatedly stalling on the release date.
Eeek
I bet that KY went back to Japan after his mammoth cruise around the globe (driving in as many racing disciplines & trade shows as humanly possible), and found that his developers had been slacking without the boss being there.
I bet it was like that night-club scene from Blade 1 – blood bath!
KY is a perfectionist, I think this is probably good news.
I think, it isn´t the first time, they delayed GT%. There was a first release date for November/Dezember 2009, that was early delayed by PD.
And the words of Kaz: “We can release it whenever we want” now is a useless sentence. Tey cann not.
http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/13/scee-gt5-eu-date-in-due-course-jp-delay-only-applicable-for-the-japanese-market/
SCEE: GT5 EU date “in due course”, JP delay “only applicable for the Japanese market”
Oh no I can’t take it anymore, I’m commiting Harkari !
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/index.html
You can see that Sony’s 2008 fiscal year ended on march 31, 2009.
So Q4 of 2009 is supposed to end on 31 march 2010.
@gt3luke
Fourth quarter of 2009 could have designed fiscal year. I think that Sony’s 2009 fiscal year ends in March 2010.
I just forgot about it but there may be a conference or interview by tomorrow since Polyphony Digital will be on a car show in Belgium ?
“August 23, 2009 – Printed material distributed by Sony at the GamesCom 2009 conference clearly indicate the game will be released during the fourth quarter of 2009.”
So this is clearly a second Delay(and not the first) I just don’t understand why KY told us in 2009 that the game is finished and that they can release it whenever they want. When they actually releasing it far away probably the third or fourth quarter of 2010.
That’s wat pisses me off.
But i still have the patience, because this game is so good that i’ll be playing it for the same time as they developed it.
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This game better rival any console racer in terms of sound. I’m hoping/expecting a global release now.
I can wait, but my expectations will be even higher… PoDy, your game will have to be perfect !
This now means I will be 30 when this some out, and thus to old to play computer games. Damn it.
It can also be a month earlier . well, I grab the opportunity to post a wish concerning the long awaited game and that is that I really hope that you will be able to compose a championship of 3 to 20 or so races of all kinds of disciplines so you can race all night in for example a private room with your friends . Just like the DTM/TOCA series that Codemasters once had, their online features are still unrivaled . It would be great to race for championshipspoints in a mix of nascar, irl, rally, super gt and what more may await us . Well, that all and improved tiresquealing, realistic dirt on the track like skidmarks, rubber on the track that stays there until the race is over, more raw engine sounds and the entry of Porsche . Does anybody know what the exact reason for their absence is? Why wouldn’t you wanna be in GT? It’s not a damage-issue is it? Exclusive contracts with others?
The reason for the delay could be anything from needing time to polish the game to Sony wanting to do a worldwide simultaneous launch. GT5 is a system seller, it’ll shift thousands of PS3’s as people will buy one just to play this game. A simultaneous worldwide release would give the PS3 sales a serious boost a nd Sony might have decided that releasing around the world at the same time would have a bigger effect than a staggered release. Which would mean pushing the Japanese release back so they can finish the EU/NA version.
They are planning make GT5 a rival of DiRT 12 and FORZA 18… wait and see !!!
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TBO .. not realy fazed. have learned long time ago not to get any hopes up ..
il get excited the day i open the copy witch i have in hand .
it just sucks that, that day is not today ;)
This is surely a good thing as they kept saying the game was more or less done and it could be released whenever and then came out with a release date. This hopefully means that something they decided not to include has been given the go ahead but needs more work, and maybe it’s something pretty major for them to delay the game release. Unless it is to do with marketing I assumed most of the cars and tracks etc were done so i’m interested to see if unknown things like track editors, livery editors and dynamic weather actually get added.
On the upside it’s not necessarily 3 months delayed…
On the downside that doesn’t rule out LONGER than 3 months delayed…
sighs of relief
see update: no three months postponing, I suggest only a minor one, otherwise PD would have launched a press release I think
Didn’t somone once say “Good things come to those who wait.”? I for one am paitently waiting, there is nothing else we can do. Crying about why you want it now is only upsetting yourself. Take a deep breath, everything is going to be ok. I promise.
man i hope this is good new not bad new.
Cool.
Man if they delay it a little more they’ll have to find another cover car!
May i suggest the McLauren p11?
I feel like I’ve just been slapped in the face. There go my plans to pick up the game when I was on holiday in May :( The next time I’ll be able to get it will be xmas 2010 :grrrrrrrrrrrr:
I seriously need a sim racer now. GT5 prologue is a hell of a lack i can’t play it anymore. And GT psp is a serious waste of time since i can’t but the cars i want. If the game is ready then why can’t we have it right now for god sake!!
What are you talking about jedaye? The game gets delayed three months before it’s released and you’re mocking Amar for providing us with what was accurate information more than 9 months ago? That is absurd and incredibly unreasonable – you are going quite far out of your way to put him down.
Well, it doesn’t really change things for us in the States. I guess a Summer release would be better for me atleast, so it doesn’t distract me from my college classes! P.S, I think these comments should be for GTP members only. I’m seeing alot of broken rules in these comments from non members.
Hmmm… US GT5 is now listed Q2, 2010 in Play-Asia…
Haha! There goes Amar212’s 100% accuracy.
Wishing thinking ;)
Maybe they do this because they saw with the demo that the european market is more important. So MAYBE we’ve swopped places with japan, europe gets march and japan june
or is that just positive thinking?
No one knows if it’s a world wide release. It’s all speculation, don’t read it with full confidence, take it with a massive grain of salt, it’s only delayed in japan remember, nothing said about world wide release ever, Jordan just speculated
Well now we know when to except in north America.
Ohh god !!! anyways because of school I will not be able to play more than 3 or 4 races per week until the break and guess what , my vacations start on may ….. I think … science it`s a semester=) well I`m not sure but I`m sure may is closer than march .
But I feel sorry for all those japanese gamers , If i lived in japan i would really be pissed of !!
Hmmmm, I think I will get Dirt2 so I can get my race fix.
Gives me also more time to collect all cars in GTpsp :D
sad lol. Had to say it’s only the first time they delayed it for GT5.
Zenith it’s only ever been delayed once, and that’s now,
and I’m GLAD it is!!! I hope they don’t release it till early next year!
I thought PD had no word in saying something about release dates??
But this kinda of sucks, but again we could have sort that out earlier: “planned for 03/2010” not release, no no they planned.
Now i don’t think i’ll get the import… simply waiting for xmas2010
Wow not exactly shocking news from Polyphony. They really are building an infamy for themselves by delaying games so often, then not even following through. I remember GT4 was delayed 1 year to put in the online play. Guess what? NO ONLINE
Polyphony promises a lot, but fails to deliver on time. “Up to Sony’s marketing”. Yeah sure…
I am quite happy at this, i will have to wait longer for the game (maybe, no eu date yet) but at least i’ll have the money for as i can’t afford it in february and March or april for that matter for the bundle of other games im buying
Fairly understandable. People may complain to the high heavens that it’s delayed again. I have patience in all of this even if others don’t.
Hahahahha this is awesome!!! I hope they release it end of year or start of next!!!
not three month.
release date now “TBA”
“3月” means March, not three month
(I’m Japanese)
Wow. That’s a downer. I really hope it gets released simultaneously out of marketing reasons (maybe after the one million download TT) rather than technical difficulties or unfinished stuff with the game.
wtf