Gran Turismo 5 Delayed Again

After promising that GT5 would be released in 2010 after missing its initial March Japanese release date, Sony announced at E3 2010 that Gran Turismo 5 would be officially launched in early November. For those of you who thought they couldn’t wait till then, well, it looks like you will have to wait a little longer.

Several days ago, it was revealed that the game would not meet its November release date and would instead be released later in the “holiday season.” Sony producer Taku Imasaki said that the reason for the delay is that series creator Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital want to “make certain they are creating the perfect racing experience.” In addition, the Sony spokesman Makiko Noda said that the reason of the delay is due to production reasons.

Kazunori Yamauchi, CEO of Polyphony Digital and producer of the Gran Turismo series, publicly apologized via his Twitter account and explained that with such a complex game, a lot has to be ironed out. He finished his tweet with, “Wait a little longer”.

It was later claimed by a well-respected forum moderator at Blu-ray.com that the delay was due to Sony’s decision to release the game under the newer 3.50 SDK firmware standard (to combat the jailbreak hack), rather than 3.41 as originally intended. From everything we are reading and hearing, Gran Turismo 5 should still be out before Christmas.