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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. Bad Link. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=56 697

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Re:what's the point? by blueZhift · · Score: 4, Interesting

    True fans probably will buy the online version too. But my guess is that they'll have to wait until the PS3 comes out for GT 5. Why? Because I think the online play was dropped because the PS2 doesn't have the horsepower to present the photorealistic GT we're all spoiled with now, and handle online multiplayer. There are other online racing games for the PS2 like NASCAR and Midnight Club. But those games have far less overall modelling detail than GT, and even at that you're talking about 4-6 car races with 4 being the best you can do performance wise generally.

    So I'd say look for GT 5 to a PS3 launch title in late 2005 or early 2006. If they do it right, it should blow everyone's socks off!

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  5. Makes you wonder about the netcode by llevity · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Something must be seriously wrong with it to push it back this far. I mean, they've known from the beginning that they wanted to make it online, so it's not like it's been a last minute hustle to try to shoehorn the game online.

    The game has been already oft delayed enough as it is. I could understand if it were delayed to add more track, cars, or improve the AI, but to this news implies that the major delay has been related to the online piece of the game. Considering that GT4 Prologue edition has been released in Japan and Europe's markets earlier this year, it's obvious that the engine is done.

    I am now having my doubts on how well it will perform online once the online version comes out if they haven't been able to nail it down after all this time.

  6. Great! by contagious_d · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Am I the only one that thinks this is a good thing? The Gran Turismo games are, IMHO, the best thing since Tetris. If I want to play against a bunch of assholes, I will just invite my friends over. That way, when they park their cars sideways on the corkscrew in Laguna Seca, I can kick them in the nuts instead of yelling/typing at them. Seriously though, I have always enjoyed single player GT more than multiplayer, and I am kind of glad that they are releasing these as different games. I doubt I will buy the online version.

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  7. Heh. by Nexzus · · Score: 5, Informative

    5 years ago, there were reports of delays for Gran Turismo 2. It wouldn't make it out for Christmas '99, and would be pushed to February 2000.

    Through some miracle though, (I heard it was 120 hour work weeks), they were able to release it a week before Christmas, to the surprise of almost everyone. Of course, you could only complete 98.2% of it.

    So, I guess I haven't lost hope yet.

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  8. 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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