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Gran Turismo 4 Goes Gold
ViperG writes "Gran Turismo series producer and Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi announced the completion of Gran Turismo 4's development at a special party dedicated to the game yesterday. During the party, Yamauchi took to the podium to make a number of comments on the game, and also mention a few things about the future of the racing series.
"Going gold" means the gold candidate, or the final version of the game/software is ready for release.
It is what is after alpha, bets and release candidates. Gold is the version the public sees.
GT4 has not been released yet. There was a few demos you could get from Toyota and other places, but the full version was still under development.
Now as far as super duper, re-releases of games as in releasing a Quake 2 Ultra Gold Edition or something like, I completely agree. As in finding a way to remarket the same game and make another $50.
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I'm a bit confused..I thought the game was delayed yet again in order to put the online mode *back in.*
Let me guess...Sony forced them to release something in time for x-moose. Something tells me that with the release of an online version, which is what just about everyone interested in this game was waiting for, the sales for a non-online version will be limited to x-moose gifts from the same kind of parents who gave their kid the Twid Pod Cloud Car instead of a TIE Fighter or Snowspeeder Star Wars toy.
IIRC, GT4 is one of the few games to support (but not require) the PS2 hard drive. I dunno what it'll do, probably just load faster. Maybe with the online version, there will be downloadable cars and tracks, but who knows?
Anyway, an advantage of the "old" PS2 is it supports the HD, while the new thin one does not.