{"id":63,"date":"2004-11-20T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-24T19:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T00:43:57","slug":"gran-turismo-4-slips-into-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/11\/20\/gran-turismo-4-slips-into-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran Turismo 4 Slips into Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another email update from EBGames, and another Gran Turismo 4 delay.  This time we learn that GT4 will not even hit store shelves in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are writing to let you know that we have changed the projected ship date for Gran Turismo 4 to 2\/5\/2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are hundreds of thousands (dare I say a couple of million) of casual fans will still buy the game and will not care about the delay, but one really has to wonder \u201cwhat is the point?\u201d  At this point, why not scrap the game altogether and wait for the PS3 (or whatever it will be called) and use GT4 as a launch title?  Who am I kidding?  There is too much money to be had for Sony, but surely they are disappointed that they missed the Christmas window.<\/p>\n<p>I am seriously disappointed that Sony cannot get their act together on this one and get the damn thing released already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another email update from EBGames, and another Gran Turismo 4 delay. This time we learn that GT4 will not even hit store shelves in time for Christmas. We are writing to let you know that we have changed the projected ship date for Gran Turismo 4 to 2\/5\/2005. How disappointing. I know there are hundreds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/11\/20\/gran-turismo-4-slips-into-obscurity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gran Turismo 4 Slips into Obscurity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,39,32],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-gran-turismo","tag-ps2","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}