Your next taste of Gran Turismo may come a bit earlier than expected. Following an impressive showing at E3 last week, Polyphony flew back to Tokyo in time for today's PlayStation Premier event where it announced that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be released to the Japanese market in October!
According to reports from gpara.com, Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi announced in the event that it will release Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in October.
I think that news of a delay at this time could help gran turismo. ps3 is waiting for a possible price drop and the release of a few big games to increase sales. What this does is ensure that if there is a price drop before christmas that it and christmas sales have taken their effect and then they release GT5 to a wider audience thereby increasing their sales projection.
Most people would think that releasing the game in a drought would be a good thing and that is good for middle of the road games as they have little to compete with but for something like the GT series it can be released almost any time and have good sales bar when it is at loggerheads with another big release. So maybe their analysts looked at this and found a gap in the time period and thought...bam, if we release here we can sell more and thus make more
I think also has to do with a lack of liquidity with this stock. Notice that the price is high, but there aren't many shares in this trading range offered by the market maker or any players. A 150k short sell would probably drop the price right back down to 600DKP
Joe80, it is possible that many people see any news as a good sign for the game, especially coming directly from the director himself. Also, Yamauchi (the director) gives a reason for the possible delays with the game and explains the reason for not implementing the damage into the game. Since he then cites that damage to the cars might be available later through a patch, it gives people hope that it is possible. I already though this game would sell around 6 million over its lifetime (if the PS3 can get out of its sales slump) because the past games have all sold quite well and this game (along with Metal Gear Solid 4 and a couple others) is a system seller, or at least like GTA, many people will consider picking this up when/if they buy a PS3. Also, is it entirely possible that damage to the cars may not be that big of a feature to many people when considering whether to buy this game?
I think most people already thought that GT5 would not have damage in the game, so to many it may not have been much of a surprise, but the fact that a general release date was given (or a possible delay to that release and a reason for the possible delay) may have caused people to get a positive from the news, even though from a neutral perspective this seems like bad news. Possible reasons why this stock went up even though the news (to some) may have seemed like a negative.
Huh??? I report that GT5 is not coming before Spring 2008, probably not until the very end of 2008, with no damage to cars in the game; and the stock price skyrockets? Damn, I sold like off thousands of shares after I heard that news. I must be missing something?
Kazunori says it won't be released until at least Spring 2008. If the game needs more polish it could slip to a Holiday 2008 release date. It is taking 180 days to model each car, downloadable cars are definitely going to happen, and GT 5 will feature no damage, except possibly through future DLC.
According to several posts, everybody seems to agree that the translated article revealed that...
* GT5 will include all cars and tracks from GT4
* There'll be downloadable carts and tracks post release
* Four different driving views
* Car damage
* All Ferrari models, even F1 cars
* New city tracks
* Online racing for 12 to 20 drivers
* Dynamic weather during races...............
"One very interesting bit of information that you can find in the show, which has made its way online (legally or no), is that modelers are currently working vehicle interiors which would be used for in-car cockpit views."
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