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Gran Turismo 4 to Make Holiday Release...Offline

Posted by Zonk on from the gran-turismo-by-your-lonesome dept.

sm4kxd writes "EuroGamer is reporting that in a press conference at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony representatives stated that Gran Turismo 4 is still on schedule for release. They're looking for a December 4th Japan release, followed by a near December 14th release date in both the states and Europe, but it will be exclusively offline. There is to be a follow up GT game with online capabilities that has a speculated release sometime in 2005."

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  1. PStwo + GT4 Online... by Drakonite · · Score: 4, Insightful
    A PStwo and GT4 online bundle for christmas would have been a HUGE seller and made a huge impact on PStwo and GT4 sales, and a huge boost to the amount of people playing online.

    This seems like one of those "Someone is going to get fired" screw ups to me.

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  2. The New XMas Bundle by blueZhift · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that the online part of GT 4 was the big new thing, I think that Sony now has big time egg on their faces. So I'm going to make the big ol' guess that they will want to do something to make up for it in part. I wouldn't be too surprised to see GT 4 bundled with the new PStwo for XMas at some discount. And to sweeten the deal a bit, I'm guessing that while there won't be online multiplayer, there probably will be some kind of online goodies, like leader boards and stats, and maybe some downloadable cars later. They might even have downloads of player data for ghost races.

    Now to toot my own horn, I speculated on this several weeks ago in my blog!

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  3. Re:Shocking... by incubusnb · · Score: 4, Insightful
    GT3 was far from Perfect my Friend, GT3 was the rushed re-hash and re-tooled GT2 engine, it was rushed to meet the PS2's launch date, which it missed anyways. GT3 was originally called GT2000 as it was supposed to be an expansion of GT2 but Sony decided it would be a better marketting Strategy to call it GT3.

    GT4 on the other hand, is a complete redesign and reimplementation of the engine, its not just a "re-tooled" GT3.

    as for online... if it was implemented i would probably use it for a while, until the skill-less cheats took over, then i'd happily play offline anyways, the loss of Online is no big deal to me, i play GT for the cars, and to challenge myself, not to get told i'm not "ub3r 1337" by some 12 year old wannahack

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