chuckd21

After details leaked out of Europe this morning, Sony has officially announced Gran Turismo 6 for PS3 this holiday.

"I'd like to announce today that we are developing GT 6 for the holiday season this year on the PlayStation 3," said Polphony Digital and creator of Gran Turismo Kazunori Yamauchi moments ago.

"10 million copies of [Gran Turismo 5] have been sold," according to the Toyota Europe communications team, which did a better job of tweeting the reveal at the Silverstone Circuit in the UK than Sony Europe. "GranTurismo is most successful [PlayStation] franchise ever - over 70 million copies sold to date, almost 50% in Europe"

chuckd21

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astrochimp

They should have just said during the holiday season and not bothered saying which year.

htfdwhal

This sounds like it would be perfect for a ps4 release instead.

chuckd21

Yep. I think releasing on PS3 during the PS4 launch is a mistake.

Tarantino

They never said they wouldn't release it on both.

Maxflier

What's the odds it will get released this year anyway? Didn't the last one have several years worth of delays?

cruzness

I would think the odds are pretty good that this will be released this year. I'm guessing they could re-use all the assets for the cars that were used on GT5. They may only have to redo 30-50 new cars. I'm guessing they don't have to rewrite all the comlicated PS3 code and will use a modified engine based on GT5. I'm pretty sure most of the core team has already been working on this for about 2 years

redcat

Yeah - to the point that they released GT5 Prologue a year or two before the full release, I guess just to prove that they were actually working on a game.

Drexl

I'm actually glad it won't be a PS4 game. As I've gotten into PC gaming, I wasn't really planning on buying a PS4 any time soon. But I do like GT, and if GT6 was a PS4 game I'd be tempted to buy one sooner. Now, I should get 3-4 more years to decide.