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Sony Hoping Gran Turismo 5 Will Be Out Next Christmas

Gran Turismo purists should know better than to get your hopes up about GT5’s release date, but then, you’re a Gran Turismo purist. You can’t control yourself.


In an interview with Spanish financial site El Financiero, SCEE’s James Armstrong has said that the company expects Gran Turismo 5 to be out next Christmas.

Now, what Sony expect and the traditionally fastidious Polyphony Digital deliver might be two completely different things. But hey, they might not be.

By then it will have been nearly five years since the release of Gran Turismo 4. They can’t develop it forever.

España reduce las previsiones de crecimiento de Sony un 6% [El Financiero, via Evil Avatar]

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  • Garo

    @Garo:
    missed...

    Garo

  • Garo

    @Badben:

    Seems you mist GT4 P

    Garo

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    @Monsignor: yeah but why charge for a demo?

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    @CRODEMON: yea^^ should we call it "pulling a GT" rather than "pulling a duke" now?

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    I have zero interest in this game now...

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  • dgkz0idberg

    they probably are broke because not enough people bought the demo of the game... why the hell do they charge for some crappy demo anyways? any other dev would melt in the flamewars.

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    there had better be a coupon for a free car of your choice with this game

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  • OUberLord

    @OUberLord: *cars, obviously

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  • OUberLord

    @TimDJ84: So it has a lot of models, many of which will handle similar to the layman, and it will run at a resolution that has already been done now.

    Tell me again why this has taken at least five years? Could they not trim that list to a more modest 600 cards and release the game already? They could just release the 300 remainder to nickel and dime you after purchase, just like the prologue has already.

    OUberLord

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  • OUberLord

    @Pyrefly: Yeah, I mean if a chunk of it went towards preordering the end product it would be a fair deal, buy GT5P for $30-$40 and $20 goes towards the final game or something similar. I just find it silly to purchase a limited copy of the game, only to repurchase that same content as part of the larger package down the road.

    OUberLord

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  • Uno514

    @dgkz0idberg: I guess you missed the part where Tekken is coming to the 360...

    Uno514

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  • Grive

    @Tenshigure: Actually, if I recall correctly, they were toying with that idea, back in the GTHD days.

    Grive

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  • KEELr

    @OUberLord:
    If Its anything like the previous games there wont be anywhere close to 600 cars.
    I mean, should the same car, make and model, just with 4-5 different engines really count as 4-5 different cars?

    KEELr

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    lol im playing GT4 now. i suck at it. :(

    but i beat GT5P already. weird... so im getting GT5 probably. i hate how it gives you a slow start.

    Akmed

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