Sony Re-Starts GT5 Marketing on Speed TV Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVabq0WeVs

Sony may finally be ready to re-start marketing efforts for GT5. As spotted by long-time GTPlanet user DaveTheStalker, Gran Turismo 5 will be sponsoring Speed TV‘s prime-time lineup of shows next Thursday. Although it is not entirely clear what this means, we’ll almost certainly see our first television commercial for the game here in the United States (let’s hope it can measure up to “We Love Cars”).

More importantly, this is the first major sponsorship since Sony teamed up with Schick razors back in October, and should only help fuel rumors of the game releasing even earlier than expected…

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Comments (24)

  1. John Marine

    “Gran Tu-reesmo 5″… I don’t want to sound like “you say to-mato, we say to-mah-to,” but at least pronounce “Turismo” right. Anyhow, I’ll try to check out the GT5 marketing. I know I’ll have plenty reason to be excited to see GT5 on my TV 15 to 30 seconds at a time.

    1. Red_9

      Gran Turismo is Italian (translates to ‘Grand Touring’), therefore “Tureesmo” is probably more on the money than any other pronunciation.

  2. z06fun

    Funny how under the GT5 logo at the very end it says “coming soon”, they could have also wrote “coming, maybe, at some point, we think” :)
    Cool that they are putting this on speed channel though

  3. DaveTheStalker

    My question is, why did they start running this at 3 in the morning? I have SPEED on by default most of the time. I’ve seen it 3 times now. Hopefully the game will get some talk time during these last two NASCAR races and the F1 finale.

  4. Corey

    This is good. However, I think it would have been better if GT5 was a commercial during the final F1 race on Sunday

    1. pawno

      Spot on. Sony would be crazy if they didn’t buy spots all over the world for the final F1 race which will decide the championship…go Webber!!!

  5. Falango

    I hope we get the “We Love Cars” commercial here!
    I actually want to get the song now, it’s so happy and cheerful!

  6. LTX

    “Gran Turismo 5 will be sponsoring Speed TV’s prime-time lineup of shows next Thursday.”

    By postponing them to the Thursday after? Perhaps the Thursday after that? We’ll get back to you.

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