CITING PRODUCTION PROBLEMS, Sony and developer Polyphony Digital has announced Gran Turismo 5 will miss its scheduled March launch in Japan.

While Sony would not be drawn a new Japanese launch date, gamers in the West remain no closer to a definitive date than they were six months ago.

Late last year, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Chris Hinojosa-Miranda said the company is hoping for a Summer 2010 (US) launch - around June or July at the earliest.

With Japan's anticipated March release now delayed, a June/July Western release would seem unlikely.

Only yesterday, Nissan and Sony announced that the second instalment of its popular GT Academy Time Trial had reached one million downloads.

Speaking with Reuters, a spokesperson for Sony said this week that despite the delay, the company has not altered its software sales targets for the Japanese financial year ending March 31.

In total, more than 53 million copies of the Gran Turismo games have been sold since the title's launch on the original PlayStation in 1997.

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  FX says,
  2 years ago

  I know this is news that all GT enthusiasts will not want to hear, but i think since i have waited this long for the release of such an amazing title, i will wait longer so that they have sorted out all their issues. I know its worth it. And if waiting longer means a cheaper deal with the PS3, due to the strength of the higher Aussie Dollar, (hopefully within 6 months time to parity),than by all means I shall wait patiently. In the Mean time, the Xbox 360 and Forza 3 that was at $199 and $79 respectively shall do the job for now
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  Brewski says,
  2 years ago

  Going by the look and feel of the GT Academy Time Trial, I'll be sticking with Forza 3 and not wasting my money until proven otherwise.
  
  This game has taken way too long to be released, they should be looking at releasing GT6 shortly based on time lines from previous releases.
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  Mark says,
  2 years ago

  Should of binned this long ago it's just not for the PS3, PS2 was it's end., Play the time trial demo to see just how bad this game is....
  Forza 3 has put the nail in the coffin of this game and with Turn 10 releasing cars,tracks and updates and also now the devs of PGR 5 it isn't looking good for GT5.
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  Matt says,
  2 years ago

  Sounding like Duke Nukem Forever lmao