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The associate producer for Gran Turismo 5, Chris Hinojosa-Miranda, announced that the racer will be released sometime during summer 2010 outside of Japan, while confirming the country?s March release.

Hinojosa-Miranda also stated that he was planning a trip to the states in order to photograph cars for reference material, but told D?toid that it was not for the current game or DLC but to stock up on material archives.

He also told the site that DLC was still being considered, but had nothing to announce at this time, same goes for any differences between the Japanese and Western releases.

A demo for GT5 hits PSN next week, and the full feature list, according to Hinojosa-Miranda, will be announced soon.

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They'd only ever announced March in Japan.

Ah, I see. I was under the impression that it was the global release date. :/

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tbh i think PD have screwed the pooch by taking so long, it might be the best game in the history of man but most people are not going to play it for more than a month and sales wont be huge either, they could have released 2 or 3 full ps3 games in the time they spent polishing gt5 and giving each other celebratory hand jobs

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tbh i think PD have screwed the pooch by taking so long, it might be the best game in the history of man but most people are not going to play it for more than a month and sales wont be huge either, they could have released 2 or 3 full ps3 games in the time they spent polishing gt5 and giving each other celebratory hand jobs

How is it possible to even make assumptions like this?

People play and buy good games, no ones holding a grudge over it's development time scale once it's out if it kicks ass.

As it's been pointed out many times Gran Turismo 1 took 5 years. Once it's released it will have taken 3 years of the PS3s lifespan though, not 5.

The waiting is well... waiting... but I seriously don't understand the hive mind attitude that waiting and x amount of games coming in between can affect how good the game is once released if it is.

I guess the old school gamers can be patient, today's kids need everything within a year because that's how quickly Modern Warfare is pumped out :laugh:

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So much for the March 2010 release date.

Eh? March was Japan only, always was. The EU/NA release dates were never announced till now. Sad thing is this is only for the NA release, which means the EU release could be a few more months yet....which means the rest of us may not see GT5 till close to the end of 2010 (unless you get impatient and import the JP or NA version that is, which is easy thanks to the lack of region locking of games).

I knew they were going to do this, I know some were sure of a worldwide release but going by previous GT releases they always stagger it and I saw no reason why they wouldn't this time too.

tbh i think PD have screwed the pooch by taking so long, it might be the best game in the history of man but most people are not going to play it for more than a month and sales wont be huge either, they could have released 2 or 3 full ps3 games in the time they spent polishing gt5 and giving each other celebratory hand jobs

So you rather they rushed the development of the game and release a couple of bug ridden/unfinished games because your too impatient? cause that is what your asking. In fact they did do that with GT5p and people still bitched and moaned that the game wasn't finished...so Polyphony can't win either way. Considering they are building this game from scratch and tag on the development of GT PSP on there as well and the difficulty of developing for the PS3, I'm not surprised it's taking this long and we all know the wait will be worth it.

EDIT: To those who will argue Turn 10 made 3 high quality games in the time it's taking Polyphony to make 1, don't forget Turn 10 has MS behind them (all Polyphony get is Sony) and the Xbox/Xbox 360 are much much easier to develop for then the PS3. Also I don't think Polyphony is a very big studio, that fact GT PSP basically stopped development of GT5 shows they probably don't have that many employees to begin with.

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EDIT: To those who will argue Turn 10 made 3 high quality games in the time it's taking Polyphony to make 1, don't forget Turn 10 has MS behind them (all Polyphony get is Sony) and the Xbox/Xbox 360 are much much easier to develop for then the PS3. Also I don't think Polyphony is a very big studio, that fact GT PSP basically stopped development of GT5 shows they probably don't have that many employees to begin with.

And? What is the significance of that? They aren't free to spend as much as they want. Even if they were, I bet GT5 has cost more than all 3 Forza's put together. The longer a project lasts the more it will cost.

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And? What is the significance of that? They aren't free to spend as much as they want. Even if they were, I bet GT5 has cost more than all 3 Forza's put together. The longer a project lasts the more it will cost.

No idea of the Forza costs, but I believe it was mentioned not too long ago GT5 has cost $60,000,000

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No idea of the Forza costs, but I believe it was mentioned not too long ago GT5 has cost $60,000,000

And that's pretty decent for a game going for 5 years with the amount of content it has in it. It wouldn't surprise me if the total for all the Forza games made in the same time span is similar or a bit more, you're booting up new projects each time even if you're heavily borrowing assets from the previous game.

GT5 Prologue has covered that alone, it's sold over 4 million copies. What price did it release at, ?30 and $40? Just going by dollars that's $140 million:pp And you wonder why Sony give PD some leg room?

It really baffles me how some of you don't see the hype and pressure for GT5, every other game has sold 10+ million, and PD are expected to take things to the next level, as I've said before releasing a game with far less features/cars would just give you supposed fans (ones always whining about development and bringing up Forza every thread) another reason to bitch. It frustrates the fans of the game to wait, but we all know what PD done with GT1-4, and don't expect anything less than how hugely those titles impacted on the PS1/PS2.

It would be "OMG WHAT 720P/60FPS? 8 CARS ON A TRACK? HALF ASSED DAMAGE? ONLY 400 CARS? IN A PD GAME? LOLOLOLOL SO MUCH FOR YOUR PERFECT DEVELOPER SONY FANS". All we need to put up with just now is people seemingly scared about the potential size of GT5, as you keep trying to say because it's taken 5 years everyone will have forgotten about it and it's not going to sell:laugh:: If anything the hype levels are through the roof, and while most developers buckle under that PD live under it each time they develop a GT game.

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There's no way the Forza series has came close to 60 mil :laugh:

Not even Halo has that type of budget.

It took more than 300 game developers three years to complete this final installment of the trilogy, working with a huge development budget of ?30 million

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3354...g-spoilers.html

Not far off $60 million, which isn't surprising considering how much MS spend marketing Halo and branding the likes of Burger King and what not.

Forza 3 on it's own is probably $15-20m, I was thinking of all the Forza titles put together, seeing as you know when arguing against GT5 you have to always bring up the fact Forza has released 3 titles in 5 years:pp

Either way my point still stands to have something in development for 5 years and not haemorrhage more than $60m isn't bad, Halo 3 above was 3 years and almost spent the same.

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now i have to wait until the summer :(

If the menus are in english i am going to import this.

Nah, probably won't be. I don't know whether I'll import a standard version to get a feel for it, see if it's good, sell it and then get the European special edition, assuming there is one.

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now i have to wait until the summer :(

If the menus are in english i am going to import this.

The menus for the JP release will be in Japanese of cause :p. Still you don't need to wait long for the NA release, few extra months won't kill you :)

I'm really looking forward to GT5, the inclusion of the Top Gear Test Track alone has made it a done deal for me :) (but even without it, still would be getting it as I'm a fan of the series). I do wounder what else Polyphony is going to do in terms of Top Gear? will they just stop with inclusion of the track (I read somewhere they are replicating the camera angles used in the show for replays on the track :woot: ) or will they do more? perhaps have as the final test for each license have it you gotta beat the Stig around the track? or perhaps something else, the mind boggles :)

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3354...g-spoilers.html

Not far off $60 million, which isn't surprising considering how much MS spend marketing Halo and branding the likes of Burger King and what not.

Forza 3 on it's own is probably $15-20m, I was thinking of all the Forza titles put together, seeing as you know when arguing against GT5 you have to always bring up the fact Forza has released 3 titles in 5 years :p

Either way my point still stands to have something in development for 5 years and not haemorrhage more than $60m isn't bad, Halo 3 above was 3 years and almost spent the same.

How the hell is half almost the same? :rofl: I know we're dealing with currency conversion here too, but even then it's still more than 10 mil away. That's not change, most games these days come close to costing that alone, GoW1 for example was reported to cost MS 10 mil.

And it's not really fair to include the budget of marketing of Halo into the budget of the development itself. We'll never know the proper breakdown of that, but seeing as GT5 has had very little advertising you can bet only a couple of mil were spent on it so far.

And yes the 3 games vs 5yrs for 1 must always be brought up (Y) :p

I'm writing all these laws down into a GH law-book :p Makes for a great stocking filler :D

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How the hell is half almost the same? :rofl: I know we're dealing with currency conversion here too, but even then it's still more than 10 mil away.

And it's not really fair to include the budget of marketing of Halo into the budget of the development itself. We'll never know the proper breakdown of that, but seeing as GT5 has had very little advertising you can bet only a couple of mil were spent on it so far.

And yes the 3 games vs 5yrs for 1 must always be brought up (Y) :p

I'm writing all these laws down into a GH law-book :p Makes for a great stocking filler :D

Because in 2007 the exchange rate from pounds to dollars was almost 2, it was like 1.97, at the start... went over 2 later on in the year.

Source: http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist-graph3.htm

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