Gran Turismo 4 Delayed Until 2005 in Pal Regions

AndyDavies writes "Sony has announced that the highly anticipated Gran Turismo 4 will be delayed to a 2005 release in PAL regions due to the localization process. The game is still on schedule for a 2004 release in North American and Japan."

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Re:Ortho-wossnames?

[TiggsPanther]

Easy. I think it's a case of "Why if they take to long to get the languages translated can't they use some of that time to stretch the screen so we don't get that stupid letterboxing?"

Especially seeing that if you factor in both the extra wait and the possibility of a non-fullscreen display then they're going to have a hard time expecting people not to import/bootleg the NTSC version.

I'd personally expect localization to include optimising the game for the local hardware. Especially for those of us who speak English and therefore don't actually see any of the lingual localization - except for the occasional respelling of words we're used to seeing in the American spalling anyway.