Gran Turismo 4?

[Norcalracer283 10+ year member]

Every please enlighten me on the new news on this game. I have been waiting forever, and i want to know the most current news on its release and all...

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[solox 10+ year member]

the latest list is around 520 cars. The lastest release date I have seen is 11/1/2004

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

The dates that you will get from EB and GameStop are not correct. I know, because I work for GameStop. At the national manager's conference this past weekend, the store managers were told that the game wouldn't make the November release, but they were still fairly confident of a pre-Christmas release.

Also, the list of cars has gone up to over 700 now, which is just insane.

 

[gellis4 10+ year member]

i might have to invest in another PS2, either that or just keif my friends.. muahahaha

 

[ANeonRider 10+ year member]

Heard the date has been pushed back to early December due to problems with Online play.

 

[Logikalliquid 10+ year member]

acording to Gamespot:

Gran Turismo 4 coming to US December 14, minus online



Upcoming racing sim to be offline only; online driving will be part of another GT game planned for next year.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/granturismo4/news_6108402.html

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

Online play was scrapped to reach the Christmas release date.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=56697

Polyphony Digital's long-awaited PS2 racing title Gran Turismo 4 is on track to meet worldwide release dates in early December - but at the cost of online play, which has been removed from the game.

At a press conference at the Tokyo Game Show today, Sony representatives confirmed that the game will launch in Japan on December 3rd, followed by a launch in the USA and Europe around December 14th (which probably means Friday December 17th in Europe).

However, the title will now be an offline game only, in a surprising move for the company - which had previously vaunted online play as being one of the key selling points for the new game.

The plan is now to launch Gran Turismo 4 with offline play this year, while a new Gran Turismo game with online play is provisionally scheduled for 2005 at some point. We don't know much about the new title as yet, although we'd speculate that it might be a budget-priced release, similar to the post-GT3 Gran Turismo Concept.

Strong rumours from within Sony and Polyphony Digital had suggested that online problems were the primary cause of the delay to Gran Turismo 4, with the team encountering serious difficulty in getting the online racing modes up to scratch.

It seems likely that Sony took a decision to simply drop that functionality entirely from the game in order to ensure that it hit its Christmas release date.

 

[95RAM 10+ year member]

this may be off topic but, have you seen the new ps2. I think it would be perfect for all you guys who put ps2's in there dash.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/549/549938p1.html -click here for article..

 

[Norcalracer283 10+ year member]

Link doesnt work

 

[95RAM 10+ year member]

well that blows. Try to go in manually go to ign.com -->click on PS2 button ----> click on news button ---> for date put in september 2004. ----> go down to september 21st and click on the article that says "TGS 2004: sony announces new ps2"

hope you find it; its pretty cool.

 

[davesexplorer 10+ year member]

works for me? its itty bitty!

 

[95RAM 10+ year member]

The only thing is it cant have a hard drive, and i think the final fantasy 11 is like the only game that uses it.

 

[awalbert88 10+ year member]

See, if it supported the HDD, I'd be all over that. GT4 was supposed to support the HDD with downloadable content, but I guess that's irrelevant now with online play eliminated.

 

[eFertLIS 10+ year member]

Yeah and Socom 2 will have a few new levels for the HD in December...but apparently you have to buy a PS magazine to get the CD to get the levels. 3 months mag will have 3 different levels.