The rumors surrounding Gran Turismo 5’s release date has taken yet another turn. Days after Sony announced that the game would be due out in Japan on March 2010; Polyphony Digital - a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. - said that the game could make its highly-anticipated release at the start of 2010.
According to PD boss Kazunori Yamauchi, the US and Europe release dates shouldn’t be too far behind the Japan release, a turn from the traditional practice of having Japan get its hands on new games months before any other region in the world. Yamauchi also said that the GT5 release date would all depend on Sony’s marketing campaign for the game.
We find it unfathomable to believe that Gran Turismo 5 – a game car nuts have been clamoring for the past couple of years – needs any more marketing. Isn’t it a foregone conclusion already that as soon as it hits the stores, it’s going to be swooped up in mere seconds?
These guys need only to look at how sales of GT5: Prologue went to know that the game doesn’t need any more marketing. It markets itself already.
Nevertheless, we’re all still guessing as to when the actual date really is.
While Sony did say that March 2010 was the date, it’s not like Polyphony Digital doesn’t have any credibility either. They are, after all, a subsidiary of SCEI so their comments should have some weight in them too.
Gran Turismo 5’s official US release is still up in the air despite what some sites - hello, Amazon! - will make you think. But one thing has been made official (at last!) by Sony execs regarding the fifth-generation racing simulator; GT 5 will hit the shelves on March of 2010 in Japan.
The March 2010 release is six-months after the game goes out on sale for the PSP. But the one thing on everyone’s mind – especially to us on this side of the world who doesn’t speak nor understand Japanese – is when the game will hit the Western world.
Sony has yet to announce a specific date – thank you for keeping us all hanging, by the way – for the US release, although if history is any indicator, we might not get to see it until a few months after its Japan release.
It looks like the wait for GT5 should become more and more excruciating, especially when you take into consideration the fact that GT4 was released in 2005.
Yes, it’s been THAT long, and to be honest, we don’t know how much longer we can wait before we go crazy.
Let’s make it clear: when picking between Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5, you can’t go wrong with either game. Exclusive game platforms aside, both games offer the purest form of racing you can find out in the gaming market so picking between the two is like picking between apples and oranges: both are awesome in their own light.
But what Forza 3 seems to have a leg-up on GT5 is this: 29 Ferraris. That’s
right; the Xbox-exclusive racing game comes with a truckload of your favourite prancing horse-badged super cars. From all time classics like the 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO to the ultra-modern exotics like the 458 Italia, Forza 3 has addressed your Ferrari craving down to the last drop.
It’s easy to get carried away by all the Ferraris you can choose from in Forza
3 so we clearly won’t take it against you if you scoop a copy up as soon as it hits gaming stores all over the country.
As we count down the days leading up to the highly-anticipated release of Gran Turismo 5, the game is generating a ton of buzz regarding what super cars will be made available in the game. A few days ago, we couldn’t contain our excitements after we learned that the Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing would be a playable car in the game.
We’ve barely had time to settle down when news broke out that another super car that’s made its way into the top of our wish lists would also be available on GT5.
That’s right, Ferrari junkies; the all-new Ferrari 458 Italia is headed to GT5!
If you don’t believe us, then you should know that pictures – or videos – are worth a thousand words.
We’ve been talking about Gran Turismo 5, Forza 3 and Need for Speed SHIFT so much we kind of feel bad that we’ve left other racing games out to dry.
In the midst of the hoopla surrounding the three aforementioned games, one game we haven’t gone on record as worth playing is Vertical Run, a racing game you can find in Sony’s Playstation Home community. The game is the first to be developed by ‘Audi Space’, which, if you don’t know, is Audi’s new virtual community inside the Playstation Home.
While it’s not in the class of GT5 or Forza 3, Vertical Run is a pretty fun game to play, especially if you’re the type who considers yourself a card-carrying member of the Wipeout franchise. The objective is pretty simple enough: all you need to do is win a race while zooming past a vertical course – hence, the name Vertical Run – while gathering the most electrical energy in the process. Simple enough, right?
The game becomes all the more exciting because of the presence of one car, the Audi E-Tron concept, which we first saw at the recently-concluded Frankfurt Motor Show. We don’t know whether or not the actual Audi e-tron concept actually makes it to production, so this may be the only chance we’ll ever get to see the car in a racing situation.
If you’re a fan of the Volkswagen Scirocco R like we are, then you’ll understand our giddiness in finding out that Volkswagen is releasing the ‘Scirocco R 24-hour Challenge’ for the iPhone.
If you don’t know, the Scirocco R 24-hour Challenge is a free downloadable game from the Apple App store that allows you to drive your own Scirocco R in a series of different play modes, inclufding qualifying mode, a 24-hour mode, and a multi-player mode that players can play together using Bluetooth.
It may not be as realistic as the video we showed a couple of days ago featuring the aforementioned Scirocco R and the Golf R20 taking in a few laps at a race circuit, but it’s a pretty good racing game to have, especially when you find yourself in need of scratching that racing itch every now and again.
If you’ve always wanted to drive your own BMW M3 but have no financial flexibility to even get as much as a sniff of the car, then here’s your chance to win a BMW M3, courtesy of Need for Speed.
The oldest and most successful racing game franchise is giving you – yes, you! – a chance to win a BMW M3 through their Need for Speed M3 Missions Sweepstakes.
The competition is, of course, free and you’ll only have to use Twitter and follow NFS’s @NeedforSpeed account to participate. All you have to do is continuously monitor their account where they’ll be posting five daily missions for you to join. The more missions you accomplish, the better odds you get in winning the M3.
Sounds simple, right?
Click after the jump to check out the rules and guidelines for the contest.
As if we don’t have enough reasons to buy Gran Turismo 5 as soon as it hits stores on December 29, Mercedes has given us one more.
It’s just been brought to our attention that the most eagerly-anticipated racing game ever will be featuring no less than Mercedes’ new super car, the SLS AMG Gullwing. If that doesn’t make you salivate for another three months, we don’t know what will.
The car was successfully unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show and it sure lived up to all the previous hype it was getting around the industry. The Gullwing comes with a monstrous front/mid-mounted 6.3-liter V8 engine capable of producing 571 horsepower with a top speed of well over 300 km/h. Now, we can go all day just drooling over the specs of the Gullwing and it probably still won’t be enough to contain our excitement knowing that it will be a playable car on GT 5.
Hey, it’s not like we can just head over to a local dealership and pony up a quarter of a million dollars to buy the real thing. So, we’ll settle for the next best thing. At least we’ll only have to shell out 60 bucks for that.
After years of pining, craving, drooling, and yearning, the wait is finally over. Gran Turismo 5 is headed our way on December 29.
While no formal announcement has been made, Amazon does have a history of pre-empting things by posting soon-to-be-released items through pre-order and the new GT 5 game for the Playstation 3 and the PSP showed up on Amazon sooner than Sony would have expected.
The December release date – although it happens post Christmas – is nevertheless the perfect time for us to sit on our couches with our holiday bellies and plow through the game we’ve been waiting ages to be released.
It took longer than any of us would’ve wanted but if the game does live up to the astonishingly high expectations we’ve all given it, then you can bet your 60 bucks that it’s going to be an action-packed, pedal-to-the-metal holiday season for all of us.
In a time when racing video games are about to hit the shelves, one game is coming out for a gaming console that’s not the Sony Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, or the Nintendo Wii.
That’s right, folks. The Rush Rush Rally Racing game is coming out for the – wait for it – Sega Dreamcast.
It doesn’t matter that the Dreamcast was a hit about a DECADE ago, the developers of the RRRR (easy to type, right?) are releasing the game for a mere $22 a pop at Amazon and eBay. Now, it doesn’t quite boast of the jaw-dropping game play of Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 3, but what it does is take you back to a time when car games didn’t have licensed cars and official race tracks.
And of course, how can we forget the less-than-realistic boxy graphics.
We don’t exactly know what the developers of the RRRR are thinking by releasing a game around the same time as GT5 and Forza 3, but supposing they can justify that, how in God’s green Earth can they justify the fact that the console to be used for the game went obsolete ten years ago?
We have the faintest clue.
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