SCEA has just confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will not make the previously announced release date of November 2nd 2010. However, Sony is expecting the game to be released sometime this year over the Holiday season. The reason for another delay was not detailed, except that development team want to make sure the game delivers the perfect racing experience.
Media Molecule has announced that the release of LittleBigPlanet 2 has been delayed by a few months. The title was originally scheduled for release in November of this year but has now been pushed back to January 2011. The title has been delayed worldwide due to allow the development team more time to complete the game.
Zipper’s Senior Community Manager Jeremy Dunham has confirmed that SOCOM 4 has been delayed until 2010. An post of the official SOCOM Blog details the Move-enabled squad-based shooter has been delayed to allow the developers to “deliver the best and most immersive SOCOM game [they] possibly can.”
Ubisoft’s Driver: San Francisco has been delayed until 2011, according to the publisher’s financial statements released last week. Ubisoft’s principle reason for the delay is the “competitive market at Christmas”. The game will now be released in Ubisoft’s fourth financial quarter, between January 1st and March 31st next year.
The new Firmware update for the PS3 was scheduled to be live yesterday, but Sony has confirmed that the release is bring delayed by a week. Firmware 3.40 will now be released on June 29th 2010, the same day the PlayStation Plus subscription service is released.
The Flower soundtrack, originally scheduled to hit the PlayStation Store this week has been delayed due to “technical difficulties.” The soundtrack was pulled from the European PlayStation Store at the last minute after failing the Quality Assurance tests from Sony, and will now be released at a later date.
Sony’s Motion Controller was supposed to be released this Spring, according to Kaz Hirai, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in his keynote speech at the Tokyo Games Show. In a press release this morning, Sony has delayed the launch of the controller to Autumn 2010.
