10 More Video Games Delayed To "Get It Right" (That Still Got It Wrong)
8. Gran Turismo 5
Gran Turismo 5 may just have one of the most low-key bizarre development histories of all time. I mean, how many games do you know being announced by showing another game?
At the 2005 Sony E3 conference, Polyphony Digital revealed Gran Turismo 5 as “Vision Gran Turismo” by playing an altered version of GT4 with new cars and new maps. Man there’s a really obvious joke here about sequels to racing and sports games but I don’t know what it could be.
Four years later, director Kazunori Yamauchi said in 2009, that “we could release Gran Turismo 5 at any time, it's just a matter of timing”. It took a further a year and a half before the timing was right apparently as the game debuted in November 2010.
With all of this time poured into the game, fans had hoped that GT5 would be the most definitive racer to date. Whilst it was overall favourably received, it didn’t really make the leaps and bounds some were looking for. For example, Gran Turismo 5 did include 1000 cars but only 200 of those were given the “premium” rendering service and the others were simply upscaled from the PS2. Package in awkward interface controls and long load times and the five year wait seemed unnecessary.