Gran Turismo 5 Release Date: November 24th in Europe, US

Jordan Greer · · 309 Comments

It’s official – as just posted on the US and German PlayStation Blogs, Gran Turismo 5 will finally be released on November 24, 2010 in both the United States and Europe. Get your pre-order in now, if you haven’t already!

UPDATE: The game has now also been confirmed for November 25th in Japan (thanks, Yui-san!).

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Comments (309)

  1. Tyger

    Just want to say big thanks to Jordan for bringing us this site, and for always staying cool and objective (well as much as possible!) when keeping us updated

  3. Dark-Cloud4

    ”(({{So where are all those people who kept saying “it can’t be released on any day that is not a Tuesday” and ” it will release next year ” }}))”

    now they are saying i always said it will come this month but i get confused ( or something like that ) XD …
    forza fans : i always loved gt but i ……. ummmmm …….. just a second ……… oh , but a friend makes me hate gt5 , i love GT5 !!!! *.* ” XD ………..

  5. BWX

    LOL – I went to local GameStop to put another $50 on my CE. I ask the guy,”so are you going to have a midnight release for GT5?” The guys says yeah next year. Isaid it was just announced that it’s coming out the 24th. He’s like nope it’s coming out next year. I kinda argued with him for a second.. then I just said maybe they’ll update your system tomorrow. So the guy at GameStop was informed of the 24th release by me, 8 hours after internet. He won’t know it until tomorrow though.

    Oh BTW, WEAK TRACK LIST PD……. WTF!?!?!?

    1. vertigo

      I also think the tracklist could be better, but since the game finally will hit stores after 5 or more years of development, i also believe that we can expect a lot of DLC’s to come :)

    1. burti35

      hxxp://www.merlininkazani.com/dosya/GranTurismo5_CarList_EN.xlsx
      i saw this car list. what is meaning “Premium” or “s” ? i will have all cars or i will have not premium cars in the game ?

  7. boblikepie

    I wish it was coming out this Thursday then I’d go pick it up before my exam that day play till I have to go do my exam and then come back and play some more :D Oh well gives me time to modify my cockpit so the pedals mount doesn’t break/pedals slip away

  9. Foxiol

    HAHA…what a change since yesterday…we were really mad one day ago and now we are the most happiest of the entire world.

  14. Sigmaviper11

    I suppose all the people who said Games only release on the 23rd in the US are kinda kicking themselves. Ok. I told you so moment over. Specially since they’re probably going to wipe the track with me. Hehe heheh hehe.

  15. GT'ireland

    sad to see no sierra or escort cosworths in the list,one of my top ten cars,but what a list none the less,cant wait

  16. bachy

    Don’t want to pee on the parade, but I’m not celebrating just yet.
    I’ll be happy when In have the game in my hands.

    What was it Dubya Bush said?
    “Fool me once, shame on…. me?… fool me twice… fool, we can’t get fooled again.”

    Yeah, somethin like that…

    1. Magic Ayrton

      I would pre order a bundled GT5 ps3 as you stated, we are still not 100% sure that it will be released then. Good luck.. oh and buy online maybe??

  19. Strikey182

    Huh, does anyone remember the french site that said the 24th ages ago? Perhaps it wasnt ever meant to be the 2nd? hmmmmmmmmmm, food for thought :)

  29. ken_b

    Dudes and dudettes, Jordan and the GTP Posse, thank you for your willingness to allow me to complain about the previous delay on the site. :-) Now lets party!! This is great news, although I’m pist it wasn’t Nov 23rd, lol, just kidding. No seriously, this is brilliant, can’t wait to race with ya’ll on the online!!

    Just by chance a Sony rep does read this, yeah thx, I sure hope Kaz treats himself to a nice ribeye and some 1999 Opus One! Peace.

  33. David (PSN: KopparbergDave)

    Been in work all day, not had a chance to get involved in all this excitement :p Fantastic news, not least of all cos I’m back from a 10 day holiday starting Monday and GT5 should hopefully be waiting for me. (please Amazon no extraneous packaging!)

    Thanks to GTP and Jordan and congrats to Kaz, gonna keep me very happy during the dreary winter months :)

    1. Xerxes

      Please ignore my previous post, that December date is not for GT5! although the source article was for GT5 the date was for another game and I failed to read it correctly. The official Australian release date for Australia is currently TBC.

  36. guyc1161

    I dont post very often,i mainly check on the latest news and read the comments.Having said that i just wanted to congratulate Jordan on the excellent work he does on gt planet in a proffesional manner. Hats off to you Jordan ,keep up the good work.

  39. Ferrari

    This is it guys….. the king is about to walk the earth.

    I just wish there were more Ferrari’s and not so many S2000’s -.-

  40. pawno

    Any official word on an Australian release yet? Would assume Nov 26 but since UK is same date as US have I’m hoping we’re the same too!

    3. boblikepie

      November 25th we’re getting it here same time as Japan so it looks like they’re going like with and releasing it world wide on the same day which is the best way to do it in my opinion.

    1. 'Round the Bend

      Hahaha, so was I.

      I know this sounds like a dumb question, but does this mean GT5 will be in Australia Nov 26? Or will it come out same as Europe date?

    2. boblikepie

      according the the European blog it’s going to come the 24th for europe and Australia and New Zealand. Which means we may be officially playing it first

  46. jakeBG19

    im gunna post this again incase anyone knows

    does anyone have any idea when we Canadians will be able to pre-order from “The Source” or “CD-Plus”?for some reason they haven’t been notified of the new date according to the reply i got from “the source”,i literally have no-where else i can order it from :(,and they said they have no idea when they can accept pre orders….they also called “gran turismo 5″ “gran turino 5″,idk where they got that from but OK

    1. AlexLeighton

      Where abouts do you live? I know the Eb Games mine is pre-ordered at is still taking them, they’ve had alot of people cancel aparently.

    2. jakeBG19

      i live in southern Saskatchewan,all we got here is “the source” and “cdplus” and they keep telling me they haven’t got confirmation yet and won’t take any pre-orders

  49. pk_090

    is today october 30/10/10…?
    *looks at calender….12/11/10…*

    hmmmm maybe theres something going on here why wait 12 days just to confirm it and even more so whay tell us “have a decision by end of october” and yet we get it today…has the japanese calendar got 12 more days in october than my one?
    im not trying to put a downer or anything on this news but is anyone actually slightly hacked off that PD and sony can treat us like complete idiots..i mean its been along time for this and to be completely honest it wouldnt suprise me if it gets delayed again, if theres no further development or DLC or anything..

    end rant….hopefully until GT6 is delayed…

    1. Victor

      we’re all flabergasted like you, but honestly I don’t care about that whole debacle anymore. At the end of the day, it’s not a big deal anymore, and we look to the future. What they did was not respectful to us, but they may have had good reason for what they did. Or they might not have. The point is we don’t know and although they caused us a lot of frustration, they had every right to do what they did (from a business standpoint).

  53. bucketseat

    I’ll get back to the States the evening or 24 Nov just in time to drive my jet lagged carcass to Gamestop to pick up my CE GT5.
    While the turkey is cooking I’ll be bleary eyed from staying up playing the game Wednesday night; even though I’ll have just finished flying back from Taiwan!
    Would have been bummed if the game had released next week as I wouldn’t have been able to play before the 24th anyway!

    1. Vulcao

      It will be close to the US date, as the discs go from the US to Brazil. You’ll have your copy less than a week after the American release.

    1. Victor

      because it’s one day closer to thanksgiving and black friday which may help in driving sales. also because it’s more of a worldwide release date which shows no early release bias toward any country. just my speculation.

  57. jakeBG19

    does anyone have any idea when we Canadians will be able to pre-order from “The Source” or “CD-Plus”?for some reason they haven’t been notified of the new date according to the reply i got from “the source”,i literally have no-where else i can order it from :(,and they said they have no idea when they can accept pre orders….they also called “gran turismo 5” “gran turino 5”,idk where they got that from but OK

  62. GT'ireland

    this is the news thats really picked me up after the day ive had,kaz,sony and jordan youve done a fantastic job and have not been crìtical once,i knew it was worth the wait,im sure the rest of the forum are also happy,roll on november 24th.hope to play online with you all.

  63. Rios

    So after Black Ops, but in time for Black Friday. Yeah Sony didn’t have this planned all along or anything. (Sarcasm)

  67. tyv2448

    Woohooo! Great news!
    Sad about a few things on the car list though, mainly the absence of an e30 M3. It’s okay though, with that many cars I don’t think we can complain.

  71. DoctorFouad

    Finally after all those years of waiting !!!

    Thanks GTplanet / Jordan for all the news on GT5 for all those years !!! yes it has been 5 and a half years !!! wow !!!

    Keep the good work Jordan, GT5 release is just the beginning !!! we must organize tournaments !!! and wait Give feedback for kazunori yamauchi and polyphony digital for GT6 LOL

    1. Tim

      I agree finally some good news , i have decided to part chop my X360 and get the signature edition , Game and gamestation have said they will treat my Arcade as a elite because i have a 120GB HDD.

  73. johnandbuddy

    NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OMG F#@% I’m going out of town on the 22nd and wont be back till the 28th FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU<<<<<<<<KKKKKKK WHY ME!! well im happy for everyone else, but damn im so pissed. :c

  74. Russiansize

    Jordan, did you hear something about Russian release date? Did they (PD) solve translation problems? (Sorry for my English – :)

  76. mik_69

    At last!!! I do believe this one will stick!!! :)

    Thursday & Friday booked of work, all night session from the 24th through to 28th!!!

  77. mocheelz

    Do you guys think there will be midnight launches of this in the US? I would like to get my hands on this game ASAP. If I can get it at Walmart since its open 24 hours. If you guys know a place that will be doing midnight launch, please keep us informed. I’m really excited now.

    3. mocheelz

      then I need to cancel my order from newegg, unless newegg can guarantee delivery on release date! I never ordered games from there before, so I’m not sure. Sigh. Not sure what to do now.

  82. NASCARFAN160

    one word: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!!
    And right after NFS Hot Pursuit 3!!!!!!!
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!!

    1. NASCARFAN160

      oops… I meant after Monster Jam PoD….. whatever… still YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!!

  83. Red_9

    November 17th: “we’re sorry, but GT5 has been delayed so we can make the game perfect; wait a little longer.”

    but let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

    1. AlexLeighton

      Don’t even joke about that man, we’ve all been through enough emotional strain.. I don’t think I could take more heartbreak!!!

      Great news though, great great great news!

  86. z06fun

    So where are all those people who kept saying “it can’t be released on any day that is not a Tuesday” lol. Great stuff! Amazingly I also just got an email from best buy updating it to the 24th also, that was fastttt

    3. Dark-Cloud4

      ”(({{So where are all those people who kept saying “it can’t be released on any day that is not a Tuesday” and ” it will release next year ” }}))”

      now they are saying i always said it will come this month but i get confused ( or something like that ) XD …
      forza fans : i always loved gt but i ……. ummmmm …….. just a second ……… oh , but a friend makes me hate gt5 , i love GT5 !!!! *.* ” XD ….

  87. occasionalracer

    Dope… thank you Sony and PD for your efforts and not surprising us with unwanted news. It’s going to be GT5 holiday season after all.

    2. blitz5593

      To Jamie-C: happy birthday! it’ll be my b-day too on the 24th! and it will be the best one ever!
      To Kaz/Polyphony: thx for picking this special day to launch the game, and free copies of GT5 to us b-day boys/gals would be nice;)

  101. Foxiol

    JORDAN JUST TELL HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS MAN!? 5 YEARS WAITING!!AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! AND I´M WRONG…YEAH I SAID NOVEMBER 30…WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!! WELL MAYBE I HAVE TO TRAVEL NEXT WEEK AND I CAN´T BUY THE GAME FOR SURE UNTIL DECEMBER…OH $·$·!!

  107. cohetedor

    The 24th in the US could make for a mad dash since most stores close early for the holiday, most are closed by 6pm. If you happen to work that day and didn’t preorder,, those that don’t get off till 5 might miss playing it on the holiday.

  112. dearlybeloved

    This is the day I warned my wife about. First I told her she can have me until the 4th of Novemner and then when she found out about the delay she was over the moon and she keeps on asking me when is the day arriving? I tell I don’t know so keeps smiling knowing she still has my attention. But now that the 24th is almost here I have to tell her her days with me are going to be numbered. Sad day for her indeed.

    Peace out.

    3. GT5_delayHATER!

      @dearlybeloved Same here.
      i just told her: GT5 24TH CONFIRRRRMED!!!! =DDD
      She was like: aww… ok. Good to you.
      That´s life anyway! =)

    4. Spaghettimonster

      just saying it again, so everybody can be a little envious. my girlfriend is buying this game for me when it comes out. :)) she keeps on aksing when it comes out and stuff. its just great. i feel truly blessed with her. and you know what – when time comes, i want to marry her. ;-)

    1. CleanUP-CharliE

      I live in Central America and i’m traveling to Miami from Nov 18th to Nov 28th!

      Driving Force GT included! Yay!

  116. whiteman

    oh god not 2 weeks, another game i play any time updates new aircraft, tanks, or ships are announced the time given is 2 weeks. which turns into 6 months.

  117. McSmith

    I was literally screaming like a little boy:D And I got the feeling this is gonna be it, they can’t postpone it again. The game is probably already in stores just waiting for me…

  118. Stune

    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    :D

  120. HaVoK_

    HHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TURKEY + GT5 = bliss

  122. Corey

    Hopefully it will be out in the UK sometime around that date as well. If only the UK was considered to be part of Europe…

  125. Ray R

    im so happy that its out but ive got one whinge, the car list, it has eleventy million duplicates. the realistic number of cars is about 1/2 of what they quote.

    but, as i said im happy its finally released (or going to be). bring it on :)

  138. twinspark24

    I’m definitely getting a week off work to play it 24/7
    Please don’t mess it up again, Sony, PD, shipping companies and anyone else in the chain

  142. neosin

    OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!

    I’ll be at uni studying summer course but FK THAT! I’M GONNA PLAY GT5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  147. Thor

    Let’s see how long it takes for retailers to update their dates. I’ve had my CE pre-ordered from Best Buy for months now. When I get the e-mail saying the game will be available to pick up 11/24 I will do a little dance, a little dance of joy!

    1. Dunavantj

      I just called Gamestop and I told him the new date and he said, “uhh I still have the date for January.” I just hung up the phone.

  148. Wuestenmaus

    Apllause. I live in Germany and I’m very happy that the US and EU have the same release date. But what is with Japan?

  153. New Delay

    Hahaha, now lets hope this doesn’t change AGAIN!!!!

    Crapp, I dont have much time left to finish my cockpit

    DAMNNN!!!!!!

    just kidding hahaha. Looks like I am going to be terribly ill on the 25th and 26 there for calling off from work.

  157. SavageEvil

    Just as I said, this month and it’s just before the Holiday shopping season. This makes good sense as it will get a whole month of exposure due to christmas advertising, watch Best Buy and Gamestop start showing off GT5 in their commercials along with PS3.

    1. CaliBoy1990

      I was hoping for the same thing, but I wasn’t too sure if we’d get lucky…………..but I guess we did after all! ;)

  158. Sephiroth

    Hell yes, finally we can enjoy this masterpiece in a few days. Thanks GTplanet for all the years of perfect support to GTfans. We won’t see each ohter again so fast^^, just like anything else is totally secondary after GT5’s release.

  159. Ner0_sol03

    well there shouldn’t be no more delays if other people are playing the game so thats not what you should be worried about. I personally think i am going to have to wait extra long because the game-stops in Orlando HAVEN’T HAD f1 2010 since its been released and the guy didn’t even know about the new WRC game so idk how this is going to work

    1. Stomach ache

      Can you not order it online and get it delivered?? I’m sure other more civilised areas will be happy to oblige XD

    1. SavageEvil

      Actually some stores in the US in metropolitan areas like NYC get stuff up to a week early. When Resident Evil 5 was about to launch I got the game a full week before it officially launched. NYC and large cities tend to get their shipments in pretty early as they tend to have the most sell through and will make major coin from the start.

    2. brettjr25

      Well I’m not taking about stores that break the street date but rather or not the 24 is actually correct or not. I’m about to take a day off from work so I just wanted to make sure.

    3. CaliBoy1990

      @SavageEvil: “Actually some stores in the US in metropolitan areas like NYC get stuff up to a week early. When Resident Evil 5 was about to launch I got the game a full week before it officially launched. NYC and large cities tend to get their shipments in pretty early as they tend to have the most sell through and will make major coin from the start.”

      I’m only a hop, skip, and a jump from D/FW, will I be able to as well? Or is it just an L.A., N.Y., etc. thing? =p

  173. MAidioPT

    WHAT DID I SAY !I KNEW IT 24 NOVEMBER YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA that GENKI really killd all xD

  180. emponator

    Funny thing. In the related news, there’s a screencap of French Sony stating the 24.11.2010 date. And the article is from june.

    1. Khaddar

      Sadly it probably will be the 26th. It would be nice, given the three week delay, if they’d actually let us have it the same time as the rest of Europe this time around.

    2. Crispy

      Yes hopefully. I don’t see why the UK usually gets different release dates to the rest of Europe…seeing as it is IN Europe, go figure!!

    7. Stune

      Well if they are releasing Europe and US at the same time there is no reason why UK has to trail behind like usual. For once maybe someone has got their act together and making a worldwide release happening :)

    9. Hentis

      The EU blog has said the Uk is November 24th as well as EU and US…. Hold on a minute, whens the Japanese version out then?

    10. Crispy

      @Bram87, very true my friend, we are indeed on an island, but on a clear day you can see France from the south coast and we are linked via the channel tunnel and various shipping ports to the rest of Europe, so there’s no real reason the UKs dates should be any different, not just in GT5s case, but all games on all platforms. Fortunatley GT5 gets released here the same day so it’s all good :)

    3. Joe J

      Not a problem. God, I’m so happy. Surely they can’t have time to even delay it in the next 12 days if they wanted to!

  187. LTX

    Online price for game, $120
    Sipping costs, $15
    Wheel, camera and other accessories, $300

    Cracked by the 25th, PRICELESS!

    1. DarthTurismo

      Right there with you Chris…. i can shake this feeling atm…. 5 years development time and it’s merely a pit-stop to GT6… yes i’m being an A$$ but i don’t have that sense of relief i was hoping for…

    2. AGNT009

      About effing time. Geeze Sony, was that SO HARD to do?

      Ok, so, already off 25, 26, now time to make some trades and deals with coworkers to see about being off the 24th, cause theres no damn way Im getting any work done the 24th waiting for the end of a 12 hour shift to come so I can go buy my copy.

    13. P-Z_Y_L_)A

      this is actually better than the nov 2 release date. on the 24 i have a half a day in school and then no school on thursday or friday so its going to be a fun 4 and a half days lol

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