In a recent interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, game creator Kazunori Yamuchi said that he was hoping to have it ready by next summer. Of course, he’s probably talking about the Japanese release – and as Eurogamer points out, previous GT games have taken three to four months to show up in Europe.
If you’re dying for some next generation GT racing before then, download the GTHD Concept which is available free from the Playstation Store. If you’ve already finished that, then you’ll have to wait for GT5: Prologue, coming later this year.
ouch,could mean that we(UK) could be looking at oct/nov or maybe even christmas 2008!!
i hope they will release another demo before then,and hopefully one where you are actually racing other cars
Comment by metallicorphan — Aug 13, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
GTHD Concept is a little disappointing. It looks great but the cars don’t handle very well. Yes. GT5 is a long way off but there will plenty of good games out in the meantime to keep us busy.
Comment by reakt — Aug 13, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
It’s just more of the same old though. The visuals were absolutely incredible but its nothing new anymore. Even if you threw in flying cars it wouldnt make me shell out money for it next year. I’ll just sit and twiddle my thumbs until littlebigplanet comes out i think.
Comment by Arthur The Magnificiant Squirrel — Aug 13, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
It will have to have some pretty good new features to make me fork out for it, if not I’ll just stick with GT4.
Comment by Alexsutton — Aug 13, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
So I believe what is being said here is that the real GT5 won’t be out until Summer of 2008, and possibly later for Europe. However, there is a GT5:Prologue (basically a demo) that should be coming out in a few months.
Comment by Travis — Aug 13, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Am I right is saying then, that there will have been 2 “concept” demos before the actual game is released? It’s getting a bit ridiculous…had the console since March and have only felt the need to play Motorstorm!
Comment by stuart b — Aug 13, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
well the first GTHD is just to show off the graphics in HD, whereas prologue will be a cut down version of the full game, ie a handful of cars and only a few tracks. probably have to fork out a few quid to, as history shows with GT4 Prologue and GT3 Geneva + concept
i think anyway
Comment by Ben W — Aug 13, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
Great another year of waiting. GT would be impressive if it was out now, come next year I expect there to be a lot of excellent racing games, they had best be making something very special because hype only keeps people interested for so long. As for Prologue, or whatever it is I’m not paying full whack for some demo, is it going to be PSN download or what? Seems a bit pointless, why mess about marketing some demo when they could just get the full game out.
Hate to say it but I’m losing faith in Sony, they promised so much yet have delivered very little.
Comment by Terry — Aug 13, 2007 @ 11:09 pm
Honesly as a big fan of Gran Turismo, I definitely could wait 2 years as long as the game comes out extremely HOT!!!!! with new cars, tracks, new modes, awsome grafics (more real) and of course online compability.
PLEASE keep us inform of any news about the developing, trailers, screenshots, and demos. Thanks
Comment by Junnior — Aug 14, 2007 @ 3:13 am
What you failed to mention from the interview with Kazunori is that he’d like to do a Formula 1 game after GT5, now that would be something to savour!!!
Comment by Garth Marenghi — Aug 14, 2007 @ 10:07 am
As long as GT5 has support for the Clutch pedal, some changing day / night and real time weather effects… I beleive they now have working headlights as shown by the spotlights on the new GTR in the GT5 Prologue B movie…if they scratch the F1 game altogether and scratch the WRC game and use the licenses in Gran Turismo that would make GT the “Real driving simulator”.
We all know deep down that this is going to be the best racing game for any platform. Thankyou Kazanouri and Polyphony and Sony.
Comment by dbarrade — Aug 15, 2007 @ 4:15 am
The problem is that by the time GT5 is eventually released, it will look dated.
The “HD concept” demo available on the PS3 store looks awful. The car models are okay (although they suffer from dreadful aliasing), but the track is bland and the background scenery is just a simple bitmap!
The previews of GT5: Prologue I’ve downloaded from the PS3 store look lovely, but all they show is the replay mode. Again, the cars look great, but may suffer from aliasing while you’re actually playing. There are no weather effects or crash damage effects either, which other modern racing games have managed to include. There are also parts to that preview movie that I strongly suspect are not actual in-game footage, but instead have been rendered on a much more powerful computer than the PS3.
Comment by Mothra — Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
I agree with Mothra above. All these videos we get palmed off with on the PSN store are not in-game footage of the games, rather cut scenes or rendered scenes or in Gran Turismo’s case the replay footage you can watch in the game. Also in the demo the car handling was terrible, even in the slowest car you had reduce your speed to almost 0mph to make it round a corner. GT5 MUST be a lot better than this or it will totally fail.
Comment by Tony Capone — Aug 15, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
To Tony Capone, if you turn off or at the very least turn down all the driving aids in the demo, the car actually corner a lot better, until I did this I was thinking exactly the same as yourself.
Comment by deathchurch — Aug 16, 2007 @ 10:16 am
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