You might think you’ve heard everything about the Gran Turismo 5 delay tonight, but you’d be wrong. According to the New York Times, who are citing a telephone interview with Taku Imasaki, the game’s North American producer, the decision to delay the game was made just yesterday.
“We’re really close, but this was an executive decision that was made yesterday,” Imasaki said. “Realistically,” he continued, “we thought we had a good date. We’re not happy over here.”
The Times says that Imasaki is “is shooting for it to be out by the holidays” and that we “won’t see too much more delay.” These comments don’t sound particularly concrete to me, the producer not committing to a specific date suggests there’s a little more work to be done to the game before it’s ready.
Discussion is floating around this evening that Sony might be wanting to ensure firmware 3.50 is required for the game, locking out potential piracy. There’s no evidence to support this, but the New York Times suggests another theory: that the company might not have “sufficient supplies of the game to meet demand”.
You can read my personal blog on the situation here.
Severn2j
Whatever the reason is, its a very dangerous move, imo. They lost all their hype after the last lot of delays, they don’t want to risk losing it again after building it back up..