US GT5 Prologue to include extra content?

  • Posted February 21st, 2008 at 04:27 EDT by Mike Harradence
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According to reports, the North American release of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is to feature additional content not found in the Japanese version of the popular racing sim.

News comes following a report on website Siliconera, which was able to squeeze the information out of a Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEA) PR representative.

However, despite committing to new content for the US release, no details were available as to what this may include; although, the inclusion of extra vehicles and tracks certainly seems a possibility.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is scheduled for release in North America on April 17, with a European release due slightly earlier on March 28.

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  1. jicaley | UKMF-Jay

    • 4:32am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Finally us Brits get something before you guys : )

  2. chilledbreeze7

    • 4:46am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    hummm I just hope the extra content is released in the European version too!

  3. jicaley | UKMF-Jay

    • 4:51am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    @chilledbreeze7 - Good shout!

  4. Sniperwithacause | Sniperwithacause

    • 4:52am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    will it have Clan Support?

  5. IONIXX | IONIXX

    • 5:17am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    hm, well im not british, but i do live in "europe" ill leave it at that, but yes it is nice to see us get a decent game befor america for a change

  6. mayhemmusic | mayhemmusic / stonepig / philmadog1970

    • 5:31am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    I still dont understand the huge delay between the Japanese launch and the Euro/American one, Surely licencing can not be the issue, any ideas anyone??

  7. Gomersoul | Gomersoul

    • 5:46am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    it must be becuse for the european release it has to be released in several different languages. english, french, german, italian etc.. but i have no idea why american release dates are far after the japanese

  8. Azu | Azu-san

    • 6:08am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Some online store had a description of the US version on their pages, which seemed to imply that GT5 Prologue's US version would have one new track and (IIRC) some new cars also. Whereas the Japanese version was "5 tracks & 60 cars" the online store says "6 tracks & 70 cars" (note: this is an example, I don't remember if there were 70 cars, just 65 cars or the same number of cars there were in the Japanese version) for the US version.

  9. mondshein

    • 6:51am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Don't be so happy, any new content probably will be available to the importers by download, since the online component is the same for all.

    When you import you are playing instead of waiting.

  10. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 6:56am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Scratch extra vehicles,just give me proper damage.

  11. Jono-PK | Jono_2007

    • 6:59am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    For once we get something before the the Americana!!!

  12. richkaos | richkaos

    • 7:00am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Lets hope europe gets this content too, we need an equivelent UK version of PSU as so many articles are north amercan based, and yes i know its an american site before some clever ar$e points it out

  13. djduke316 | DJDuke316

    • 7:03am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Gomersoul, nowdays they can release games with different languages in the same markets. I just want the game!

  14. RotaryMatt | RotaryMatt

    • 7:46am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Give me more cars screw damage. that doesnt make the game any funner just a nice feature to have. Cars Cars Cars or even better no  more cars but let me mod something.

  15. SilentHillSam | SilentHillSam

    • 10:46am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    i'll pre-order this game! i hope the EU and US versions are the same.

  16. Dave-The-Rave | Dave-The-Rave

    • 11:32am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    America is last cause the game is more popular in Japan and Europe

  17. gingo | gingo

    • 11:40am GMT - February 21st, 2008

    psn id: gingo... yeah really hope this extra content gets released in european version although is it not only UK version that is gettin the top gear episodes and stuff

  18. jamisonsalamande

    • 12:43pm GMT - February 21st, 2008

    In my opinion, GT5 Prologue is the stupidest idea ever. They're taking their time to make a demo of a game, yet the demo is big enough to make it an actual game. They could have finished the actual game by now. I don't understand why they feel the need to do this, it's rather stupid

  19. hush404 | hush404

    • 1:14pm GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Everyone is entitled to their opinion Jamison, but mine is the opposite of yours.  Having the content and making the demo really doesn't take much more time away from developing. They're obviously not done with all of the assets of the game and are giving people a taste now which also benefits with collecting data on online play etc.

  20. Gero | Gregero

    • 2:29pm GMT - February 21st, 2008

    Look how long we had to wait for the EU and NA versions of Prologue. It juts more to add to the fact that Sony likes the Japanese better than they like poeple from EU and NA. I'm really starting to see Sony as a company who has favorites.

  21. psn_frov | frov

    • 3:32pm GMT - February 21st, 2008

    I may want to get this

  22. InfernoReaper | GrimDarkling

    • 12:57am GMT - February 22nd, 2008

    It's nice to get extra content but I hate driving sims myself.

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