GT5 delayed. Release date now TBA

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The PD team is hooked on playing Forza 3 they don't have time to develop GT5 hahah

How is this person allowed to post on GTPlanet? All his comments are negative in nature towards PD or Sony for that matter. He clearly doesn't have a interest in GT5 except to troll it on GTPlanet.
 
Yep, SONY happened. I would happily bet that the status of the game had nothing at all to do with this delay, and is purely down to SONY wanting to push the game out beyond other big releases, and to get it into the 2010 - 2011 fiscal year. Now, if this means they work a bit more on the game as a result, so be it.

I never thought of that, its a very good shout and does make sense!

Which raises the question... Who are you and what have you done with TokyoDrift?

:)
 
Would someone tell me what the delay actually is? I've read 3 months, TBA, and 1 month. I know the 3 month one was a mistranslation but what is the actual delay?

It doesn't really matter to me, since I wasn't importing it anyway, but would like to know.
 
I really doubt PD would drop a feature from the game, that's just absurd. They've spent an estimated 60 million plus on the game, I doubt they'd waste vast sums of money in development on something they developed and then did not release.

I seem to remember Kaz saying the programming on the weather is complete but he hasn't made his mind up if he's going to put it in
 
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This is what I think happened:
PD was working feverishly to get GT5 finished for Japan in March. In order for them to think this they have to have had the game at least 90% completed. After Marched passed they would worry about EU/US localization and region specific stuff. But something, I am going to guess there was a major problem with online or frame rate (ie something big),threw a wrench into those plans. A March target is now completely out of the question. As a result PD realized that they are now approaching the EU/US release window (I would say Q3 2010) and that a WW launch now makes more sense.
You think something so big, so late, would only push the game back by just one month? I highly doubt it. Forget EU and US - nothing at all, apart from the box art, has been confirmed for those regions. They may still get the game when they originally planned, but we'll never know because we do not know what they had in mind.

I'm not sure why people are going on about worldwide launches in Q3 2010, when the original launch period was March 2010, and the new launch period (according to the press release) is April 2010... If EU and US do get it in Q3, it won't be along with Japan.
 
私は、6月にリリースの日付が出てくるグランツーリスモ5だと思う。
私は知らないが、私の考えです。
 
so it's now mid jan, if the release was start of march, they need about a month for production activities, then what ever problem they have they obviously think they can not fix it in 2 weeks. So this may mean it could be a few weeks slip or many months work.

I wonder what it is? Bugs, features not completed, they are on the verge of implementing a nice to have and believe it will be worth waiting rather than patching after release.
 
私は、6月にリリースの日付が出てくるグランツーリスモ5だと思う。
私は知らないが、私の考えです。

Is that Japanese? I don't know how to read Japanese. :dunce:
 
You think something so big, so late, would only push the game back by just one month? I highly doubt it. Forget EU and US - nothing at all, apart from the box art, has been confirmed for those regions. They may still get the game when they originally planned, but we'll never know because we do not know what they had in mind.

I'm not sure why people are going on about worldwide launches in Q3 2010, when the original launch period was March 2010, and the new launch period (according to the press release) is April 2010... If EU and US do get it in Q3, it won't be along with Japan.

Yeah I do. Read the Kotaku article. Batman AA was delayed 2 months to stabilize the frame rate and eliminate load times. While PD may not be doing the same exact thing, I would be willing to bet it is something similar. Sony probably wants a WW release anyway.

I also believe GOWIII and FF13 have a large part in this as well. GOWIII will take up a lot of marketing space (TV, web etc). Marketing both GT and GOW at the same time is a bad idea. Sony probably let PD have March for JP because GOW is not as big there.

Again all of this is speculation.
 
@ Paskowitz

Very true. Also don't forget MAG this month, Heavy Rain next month, of course GoW3/FF13/BF:BC2(not exclusive but i want it!) in March. Those are some pretty big titles to bunch together.
 
私は、6月にリリースの日付が出てくるグランツーリスモ5だと思う。
私は知らないが、私の考えです。

Why not june?
 
Yeah I do. Read the Kotaku article. Batman AA was delayed 2 months to stabilize the frame rate and eliminate load times. While PD may not be doing the same exact thing, I would be willing to bet it is something similar. Sony probably wants a WW release anyway.

I also believe GOWIII and FF13 have a large part in this as well. GOWIII will take up a lot of marketing space (TV, web etc). Marketing both GT and GOW at the same time is a bad idea. Sony probably let PD have March for JP because GOW is not as big there.

Again all of this is speculation.
Batman AA vs GT5...apples and pears. I doubt it's anything technical like that, but we can debate this all night.

However, I do believe that marketing is the reason, not wanting to overshadow GOWIII and FFXIII. Pushing it back also puts it into the next fiscal year, which is a huge plus for SONY.
 
Oh im sorry.I think it will have April 2nd Release date.
I heard it somewhere but i dont know where?
 
Oh im sorry.I think it will have April 2nd Release date.
I heard it somewhere but i dont know where?

We can only assume thats not far off, but I would assume that Sony wanted to release out of the current fiscal year and into the next, which would start in April I believe. Just to keep a steady flow on their sales charts, one can only assume :crazy:
 
I think it's delayed because of the release of other titles as some of you said earlier.
Several games will be out in the coming months and these may be considered as platform sellers. Check this out :

Heavy Rain : February (worldwide release)
Final Fantasy XIII : March for NA/EU
God of War III : March for NA/EU

Sony obviously can't release GT5 before april or even may. Well, they can but in order to make more money, it's clearly not their best interest.
Now the only reason because GT5 don't have the priority over other titles may be because Polyphony was still working on it while other studios were maybe farther in the development process.

It's still 🤬 boring anyway :D
 
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We can only assume thats not far off, but I would assume that Sony wanted to release out of the current fiscal year and into the next, which would start in April I believe. Just to keep a steady flow on their sales charts, one can only assume :crazy:

They have said due to production problems I believe.
I wouldn't have them building an extension on my house lol.
 
This sucks... GT5 (in Kaz words) is basically ready since at least November and as soon as Sony decide on a date, they will deliver it.

But GT5 is a "sure shot", will always sell millions, and will always be delayed to maximize other sales, of games or hardware...

I "suspected" this about previous GT but didn't want o believe it, now I'm less naive.

The all mighty $ (or € or yen or whatever...)
 
Sony obviously can't release GT5 before april or even may. Well, they can but in order to make more money, it's clearly not their best interest.

Why is it so clear that is not their best interest?
If they put it on the shelf, people will but it. Some may have to wait until the next month because they bought another new release in March, but they will have bought it. My point is if someone wants GT5, they will buy it. No other release is in the same genre, so all this speculation about other releases pushing GT5 back in unclear in my eyes.
 
I guess I'll have to buy some more whiskey then... AND get a girlfriend. Yep, that'll make the time go faster. But seriously, I hope GT5 doesn't become Duke Nukem Forever, I might not live that long.
 
Damn. I was all geared up for importing.

Reminds me when GT5p was supposed to come out in October 2007 and ended up being December.

Just hope for worldwide release or a shorter gap between the Japan and Eu release.

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I guess I'll have to buy some more whiskey then... AND get a girlfriend. Yep, that'll make the time go faster. But seriously, I hope GT5 doesn't become Duke Nukem Forever, I might not live that long.

The whiskey is enough, you will just have to dump the gf as soon as the game does come out as you will no longer have enough time for her! :sly:
 
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