Amazon: GT5 Launches In Europe On September 30?
See Full ImageOkay, now that we know Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed in Japan, we have to keep trying to dig up evidence that points to the actual release date...for any region.
European site PS3Gen says they've received an e-mail from Aamzon (presumably the European branch), which provides a ship day of October 1, 2010. Previously, we had learned that GameStop's US launch date was November 2, so perhaps a fall release is coming into view, here. You can check Amazon.com if you wish but we already have; the North American branch is apparently behind the times and still lists GT5 with a March 31 release date. As for Sony or Polyphony, we only have word from SCEE, which confirmed the Japanese delay yesterday; we've heard nothing concrete since that time. There is the possibility that given the huge PlayStation 3 exclusives slated for the first quarter, Sony may have been looking forward to the holiday season with glum faces. Perhaps they needed something to fill a void there, so they decided it should be GT5. Remember when series creator Kazunori Yamauchi said it's almost entirely up to Sony, that they could finish GT5 whenever they wanted...?
That may have been jumping the gun a bit on his part, but it also might not be far from the truth. The PS3 enjoyed its single biggest holiday season ever last year and it was due in large part to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Maybe Sony just wants to insure that another big exclusive title is in place for the PS3, come the 2010 holidays. Just a theory.
Related Game(s): Gran Turismo 5
1/14/2010 10:24:51 AM Ben Dutka
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lMephisto
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:00:06 PM
At this rate, they might come in a bundle.
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Solid Fantasy
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:07:11 PM
I hoping for the GT5 / DK Forever / FFversesXIII
triple combo pack.
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lMephisto
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:30:37 PM
Where can I pre-order that, pal? :)
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Solid Fantasy
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 3:20:22 PM
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Qubex
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 8:03:46 PM
Q!
"i am home"
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Mr Bitey
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:53:13 AM
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It doesn't make sense for Sony to have MAG, Heavy Rain, White Knight, GoW3, The Show, and GT5 all competing against each other. Plus all of the huge 3rd party releases.
September sounds like a reasonable time frame.
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maxpontiac
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:54:41 AM
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Highlander
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:02:42 AM
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Gabriel013
Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 2:00:39 AM
Delay one of the others instead Sony.
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Sir Shak
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:55:16 AM
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Arvis
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:57:40 AM
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Hard for me to continue caring. GT5 will be amazing, and I'd love to play it sooner, rather than later... but... the way it's going, I;ve pretty much resigned myself to the attitude "I'll play it when I play it."
-Arvis
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Banky A
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:39:00 PM
Especially if you plaaaay it on day 1.
Haah ;)
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Arvis
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 4:29:42 PM
I've been waiting three full years for White Knight Chronicles, and now that the game is ONE MONTH away, I have to make a conscious effort to be excited. GT5 is in the same boat.
Still, Day 1 purchases for me. :)
-Arvis
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Highlander
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:01:55 AM
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I still don't care though. This is precisely what several people said would happen a few months ago. Delayed again. Last spring we were all speculating that it might release in the autumn 2009. Then the news of the PS3 slim and PSP Go came along and we learned that the PSP version would launch with the Go. Cue the speculation of an October 2009 release of GT5. Well, that came and went without announcement so everyone figured on a holiday release.
After a while so many cynical thoughts form about this. GameStop's November 2010 date looks quite possible now, if Europe gets the game in September, then why not November here in the US?
Whatever. I'll believe I when I see it. I'm sick and tired of the whole saga, it's almost as bad as the continuing FFXII crapolla. PSP owners waited 4-5 years for GT on the PSP, and we got an inferior product. It'll be darned near 4 years when GT5 hits the PS3, why am I scared now?
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maxpontiac
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 7:48:57 PM
Gran Turismo HD - Nothing more then GT4 on the PS3. Something to get the fans imagination going about what GT5 could be.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue - Like all previous Prologue's, something to for the GT fans to enjoy. Allows transferable garage to GT5.
Gran Turismo PSP - Some dislike it, but all in all, it was GT5P on the PSP. Sure GT mode was missing, but the game features 800 cars and 35 tracks. Once again, everything you do here, is transferable to GT5.
Gran Turismo Time Trial - Graphics were not up to GT5P's standard, but we were treated to an impressively realistic physics engine, and for those good enough, a chance of a lifetime.
Each one has offered nothing more then a hint of the goodness that is to come, yet still maintaining secrecy of what GT5 is. With GT5P and GT PSP, I honestly believe that they were nothing more then a game for the fans, and BETA of sorts. People gave feedback a plenty on forums such as GTPlanet, and it seems that PD has listened.
- PD has opened a secondary studio for the near secret online funtionality of the title.
- They have listened to US customer demand of damage modeling.
- PD has secured the license's of WRC, SuperGT, NASCAR, and now IRL. KY has stated that many more manufacturer deals are in place and for the future.
- The oft-rumored track editor is mentioned in the the Motor Trend interview, and in the Time Trial demo, you can see an X and Y axis grid around the Indy track. To a CAD operator as myself, I see a grid in place for pre defined blocks.
- For the first time ever, a car can be visually customised.
- 1000 cars. Modeled inside and out. Enough said.
If there are features that you, or anyone else has has not seen, please look at it as a game of poker. When Gran Turismo made it's debut in 97, they were a genre first. Fast forwarding to 2010, it would be foolish for KY and PD to show their hand, especially when GT5's competition has nothing more then 2 pair.
I just picked up OPM with GT5 on the cover, and I am even more convinced on the genre defining experience that is heading our way in 2010. If you have yet to, and are a fan of all things GT, I urge you do so. I hate to be cliche, but good things come to those that wait.
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Highlander
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:38:37 PM
I'm sure it will be all very nice when (if) it arrives. But for now, I am disappointed and annoyed that Polyphony/Sony can't get their act together sufficiently to launch the game.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:06:18 AM
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bigrailer19
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:16:40 PM
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lMephisto
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:39:32 PM
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NoSmokingBandit
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:08:32 AM
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NoSmokingBandit
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 4:18:18 PM
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Simcoe
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:25:35 AM
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A2K78
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:29:48 AM
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JackC8
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:49:54 AM
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bigrailer19
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:17:25 PM
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IronFace2
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 11:58:06 AM
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HeXeN
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:17:06 PM
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bigrailer19
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:19:06 PM
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The only games I can count on now are Heavy Rain, GOW3, and possibly MAG. Wont be getting Bioshock 2 for awhile since im in the middle of the first one, with DMC 4 to finish still and The Fallout 3 expansions still.
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Scarecrow
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:19:45 PM
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Really wanted this Summer to be GT-based...
Oh well, it's still not an OFFICIAL release date, so I can still hope.
If it's true though, it means we'll get more content*
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jlch777
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:31:53 PM
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b3mike
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 12:52:45 PM
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rogers71
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:01:09 PM
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The only thing I am worried about is the possibility that I might start getting arthritis before the game is actually released.
Oh well, I guess I can watch my son play it.
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BikerSaint
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:14:52 PM
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Soon you can dust off that brand new steering wheel you threw into the closet last fall, and start getting yourselves all hyped up for racing those brand-spanking new-fangled 1958, 1959 & 1960's Ford Edsel's that everyone's talking about.
BTW, I also hear that in the future, GT5 intends to include DLC for Chevy's upcoming new 2-seater sports roadster, called the Corvair.
And I've also been told that Corvair's standard model will be packed with a million and one safety features.
Yowzer!
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Highlander
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 4:02:04 PM
;)
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Banky A
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:43:13 PM
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RekeHavick
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 1:48:00 PM
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telly
Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 2:47:42 PM
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___________
Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 1:16:49 AM
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my heads spinning a mile a minute!
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BikerSaint
Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 6:23:43 PM
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The director of "The Exorcist" was just here looking for you.
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Simcoe
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 @ 10:41:09 AM