Gran Turismo 5 Coming November 2nd, 2010 July 17, 2010

Sony has announced that the most anticipated racer on the Playstation 3 finally has a release date.

This announcement ends one hell of an epic story about the development of the series on this console generation. Gran Turismo 5 has been anticipated since even before the release of the Playstation 3. Before the PS3’s release, there were two GT games in development at Sony, Gran Turismo 5 and Gran Turismo HD. HD was going to be released inexpensively and offer the player extra content in the form of DLC, allowing them to purchase extra cars and tracks. Gran Turismo 5 was expected to be a return to form of the classic series, a full priced game with all the cars and tracks released with the game.

Gran Turismo HD was cancelled before the PS3’s release, and it’s content consisting of one track and a dozen cars was released for free on the Playstation Network to the PS3’s early adopters. It was taken offline some time before the release of the Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB PS3 bundle, although anyone who downloaded a copy of the game before it was taken down is still able to re-download it.

Gran Turismo 5 on the other hand has been in a very long development. To tide gamers over, they actually released Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in 2007 and charged $39.99 for both the disc and downloadable version. It included only a few cars and a few tracks, and the Blu-Ray version contained an exclusive documentary on Gran Turismo.

A Collector’s Edition has also been announced to be released on the same day. It will retail for $99.99 US and will include a scale replica car, a custom key chain, codes for five downloadable cars, a 300 page book, and a numbered certificate of authenticity. More details about it can be found here.

Gran Turismo 5 will be coming November 2nd, 2010 exclusively for the Playstation 3.