Rememberwhen Sony first announced Gran Turismo 5 back in 2005? Remember when the company said it would♛ be coming out in 2009? Or how about just earlier this year when Sony madea bunch offanfare over having a specific November 2 release date? As skeptical 🦩as we've become about Gran Turismo 5 announcements, the game's producer now says that it's actually, really100% finished.

"The discs are being stamped෴ as we speak," ༺said Gran Turismolead Kazunori Yamauchi in an interview with This comes after the developers missed the highly publicized November 2 launch date.

Recently,online retailers listed the game's release date as being sometime in 2011, butthat was because they hadn'treceived updated🐟 information from the publisher. Sony quickly came forward to say thatit was still expecting a holiday release, but no onehas giv💙en us an actual new date at this time.

If we believe Yamauchi, though, then the game should actually be on its way to stoඣres very soon.

Gran Turisꦿmo 5 is of course aiming to be the most sophisticated driving simulator ever. Nearly a decade෴ of development has gone into the game and an unbelievable budget of $60 million has been allocated to its production. Sounds like a pretty impressive game... if it actually ever comes out.

Nov 3, 2010