Gran Turismo Back On for 2004 Release, but At What Cost?
At the Tokyo Game Show today, Sony confirmed that Polyphony Digital's highly anticipated racer, Gran Turismo 4, will be released in 2004 after all, but online play has been removed.
The game will be out December 3 in Japan and around December 14 in Europe and North America.
It comes down to how badly you want it now (or if you're willing to pay for GT4 twice), because it looks like the full online-enabled version will eventaully be released. It isn't certain that this same game will come out in 2005 with online play, but that seems to be the most likely scenario. In any case, there will almost definitely be online GT in 2005.
The rumor is that problems implementing the online functionality were what was holding up this title, and this move seems to confirm that.