Gran Turismo 4 to Make Holiday Release...Offline

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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Bad Link.

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Makes you wonder about the netcode

[llevity]

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.

Heh.

[Nexzus]

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.