*Updated* GT 5 Prologue's price tentatively announced
by Colin Torretta 
{ Sep 11th 2007 at 7:00PM }
According to IGN, Sony has stated that the 45 Euro price is 'categorically incorrect' and that cost has not been decided yet.
The Netherlands based site PS3 Only have received pricing information from Sony in regards to the Blu-ray version of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. According to the site, Sony has stated that the retail version of GT5 Prologue will run a slightly-expensive 45 Euros (about $60 American).
Though it might seem like a lot of money for a glorified demo, Sony was quick to point out that GT5 Prologue really is a full game, with over three dozen cars, five tracks and online play with up to 16 people. Also just announced was a cool new feature called GT TV, where gamers can download auto-enthusiast TV programs along the lines of Top Gear. According to PS3 Only, the programs will also be tailored for different regions -- so Japanese, American, and European gamers will all get localized content.
The addition of GT TV definitely adds some value to GT5 Prologue, but while it clearly has way more gameplay than GT HD it will be curious to see if gamers are willing to drop that much money on what amounts to GT5-lite. Gran Turismo fans are pretty hardcore though, so it's hard to tell.
[Via N4G]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
paul @ Sep 11th 2007 7:03PM
i would buy it just because the blu-ray version seems to have damage
Louis @ Sep 11th 2007 7:06PM
Will there be a GT5 Prologue Demo Demo? Though, I'm a sucker for GT, so I'll buy it.
mshimer5 @ Sep 11th 2007 7:23PM
How much will GT5 cost if the prologue is $60?
DownwardMonkey @ Sep 11th 2007 7:25PM
er, wasn't this meant to be free?
Eric @ Sep 11th 2007 7:30PM
$60 for a bloody demo? I doubt the downloadable version will be free at this point. There was a time when people payed for demos and that was when most people had dial-up and had to get there fix via a gaming mag with a demo disc. We now have Xbox Live and PS Store as well as PC over broadband. It will be interesting to see how this goes over with gaming community. Just my 2 cents.
MYPS3KilledMy360 @ Sep 11th 2007 7:34PM
this is probably for hardcore fans to ease the wait(im not a hardcore fan) but $60 wtf. isnt the real game gonna have 1000 cars how much is that one gonna cost if this was the demo.
Joey_Numbers @ Sep 11th 2007 7:42PM
Gran Turismo is the sex. Just look at that sexy pic. I can't wait to hand over my $60.
ryano @ Sep 11th 2007 7:50PM
that's ridiculous having to pay full price for a demo. and then having to pay it again at full price. Just hand over a demo with a couple of cars to give the people a feel for the game, geez!
x silence x @ Sep 11th 2007 7:51PM
@Joey Numbers
Sorry to burst your bubble man. That screen is totally prerendered. Watch the video, that is NOT ingame.
phattie @ Sep 11th 2007 7:57PM
They will probably do a Warhawk like distribution... $40 for PSN and $60 for BD at retail with some sort of additional hardware or content.
Orion @ Sep 11th 2007 7:58PM
Actually, the game does look that good in game. However it is ridiculous to make people pay that amount of money twice. What they should do is charge less from people who bought Prolouge, so it would be more of an expansion than buying a different game. Doubt any but the religiously faithful GT addicts will consider this.
ruibing @ Sep 11th 2007 8:38PM
I might just get it since I've got every single Gran Turismo since it came out. Though $39 or $49 seems a bit more fair since I could just wait for the full game for $59.
wonway01 @ Sep 11th 2007 8:15PM
I spent more then the console on a Playseats seat, G25 wheel setup and buttkicker gamer rumble stuff. I've played the crud out of GTHD and GT4 for PS2. Im ready for more even if I have to pay!
Pixelantes Anonymous @ Sep 11th 2007 8:23PM
This isn't good, not at all.
I don't think I'm gonna be buying it at this price point.
Skyfire360 @ Sep 11th 2007 8:29PM
Last time I checked, $60 is not free.
http://www.psu.com/Gran-Turismo-5-Prologue-will-be-free-News--a1105-p0.php
Zaphod Beeblebrox @ Sep 11th 2007 8:46PM
@ x silence x
That IS in-game. Go to gametrailers.com if you dont believe me.
This is the Euro price, for the U.S. it will probably be 30-40ish. And your cars and accomplishments will probably transfer to the completed game.
JL @ Sep 11th 2007 9:27PM
This is complete BS! Im just going to wait a few months and buy the full game. Id give about 10 bucks to download this. Maybe 20 but no f'ing more.
Dahk @ Sep 11th 2007 9:57PM
Haha that IS in-game footage x.silence.x.
In any case, I'm ALL for it. Shows like Top Gear/Fifth Gear are HUGE and people who are car enthusiasts and watch these shows (primarily in the UK) would love it.
$60 IS a tad high though, comparing to what you're supposed to get with GT5 as a full game.
Kspraydad @ Sep 11th 2007 10:04PM
Maybe that is the price with a RumbleAxis?
toad404 @ Sep 11th 2007 10:16PM
who cares gimmie gt prologue i love the game so much i would pay more but thats me hey give credit where credit is do right?
ck @ Sep 11th 2007 10:17PM
GT Prologue has always cost money, though $60 is a bit much... id wait to hear from SCEA on how much GT5 Prologue will cost. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say Prologue will cost $30 psn & BD. Look at GT4 Prologue, GT3 Concept 2001 Tokyo & Concept 2002 Geneva all which cost half the price of the original. GT5 will be worth it though, loads of cars, tracks and options + 12-16 player online to tide us over until the real deal -- its not that bad to pay $30 this year and another $60 in a year or two!
ryano @ Sep 11th 2007 10:24PM
um, it is pretty bad considering 30 bucks is half a game now a days. it's not like the prolouge content won't be there when the final game arives. demos should be free.
Popfrogs @ Sep 11th 2007 10:23PM
Not buying a 36 car demo for $60 or even $40 for that matter. Let me know when the full version is out.
And wtf, this was announced as free a month ago.
Gereral Lysis @ Sep 11th 2007 10:28PM
wtf i hope this is a bunch of kids moaning bout a measley 60 bucks and not grown azz men! Take your panties off and stop ur bitchn. Never seen so many people gripe about the cost of games! Are you all livin in trailers or something?!!! 60 dollars is the going price for all the new nexgen games and everything else...man up and stop crying. If you cannot afford the games you should not have bought the system...Its like buying a Hummer and then complaining about gas prices. If you have to worry about how much gas cost with a Hummer maybe you can't afford one. Go get a Wii you nambi-pambi's
momma @ Sep 11th 2007 10:31PM
makes me glad i stopped waiting for GT and went xbox. i'm a huge GT fan but with the lack of other quality exclusives i had to go for it. i alsmost waited for prologue thinking it was gonna be free or very close to it, glad i didnt what a rip off. GT and uncharted are the ONLY awesome looking games coming out for playstation exclusively anytime in the forseeable future, before you leave me a big list of ok games that just dont turn me on, know that i already know EVERY game coming out soon. i have done my research, he only bad thing is the whole ring thing but hey i'll get a 65 nm eventually if it goes out which should clear it up.
Aex @ Sep 11th 2007 10:32PM
Wow, thats a lot for prologue... They did charge for the previous prologues, but full price for a glorified, tho we already know it will be super awesome, is just too much for me :(
I'd do $15-20 on PSN or $30 on Blu-ray, but full price just a weeee too much.
momma @ Sep 11th 2007 10:39PM
i dont live in a trailer, actually my house is quite nice. but 60 bucks is crazy. your obviously a GT fanboy or something as am I but no way i'm paying 60 bucks for a demo that is supposedly "a full game" when there is only 60 cars compaired to the real thing that will have well over 10 times that many. i'm sorry but i'll wait for the real deal which will be out after i buy mine after next summer when the PS3 will be cheaper. in the mean time you guys can waste 60 bucks for a demo and i'll spend my 60 on say halo 3 or maybe a fill up on gas in my boat, or one of the many other things i can do with 60 bucks that doesnt involve me going through an entire game in a day or 2 max.
Bluebrake @ Sep 11th 2007 10:56PM
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will retail for fifty-nine US dollars
fifty-nine US dollars
fifty-nine US dollars
Hector Martinez @ Sep 11th 2007 11:22PM
momma, no way I'm getting a 360, that red-ringing piece of trash. By the time they fix it with 65nm PS3 will have plenty of great exclusives. But Sony missed the boat in not having online in GT4 on PS2. Paying $60 for five tracks is a waste. Give us the whole package Sony, so you can finally have the killer app. You'll make it up in royalties later!
kingofwale @ Sep 11th 2007 11:25PM
As a PS3 owner, I think I deserve an explanation...
How did this go from "free Demo" to 60 bucks game?
As someone who defended PS3 and Sony for an entire year, You are seriously pushing my nerve, Sony.
RAizzle @ Sep 11th 2007 11:50PM
I'm willing to pay for this. 40 cars times 180 days for each to be made (not just one at a time, of course). That's hard work, and this is not a demo. How many demos have 40 cars, online support, etc.? Look at all these games like Ferrari Challenge, and Ford Racing. How many cars do THOSE games have? And are they anything close to the quality this game is? Is any racing game at this quality?
Mouser @ Sep 12th 2007 12:00AM
"According to PS3 Only, the programs will also be tailored for different regions -- so Japanese, American, and European gamers will all get localized content."
Oh great; Europe will get something awesome like Top Gear, North America will probably get some drag race bullshit, and Japan will be all drifting, all the time. Actually, the way SCE has been shafting Europe lately... maybe we'll get the Top Gear and they'll get NASCAR. nyuk nyuk
mccomber @ Sep 12th 2007 12:14AM
Umm... no.
P @ Sep 12th 2007 12:19AM
There seems to be more clueless idiots whining in here than people (majority being yanks!) who know what they're talking about!
1) Stop whining about the price, since when did you lot pay the same damn price for anything we've got!? $60 for Europe neatly translates to about $40-45 for USA, take into account a PSN version will almost certainly be available, and that may drop some more (doubt it'll be much unless the BR version has something extra). Considering in Europe we're paying $80-100 per game, $800+ for the console, you'll surely get it cheaper than $60/45 Euros.
2) Its not a demo, you want a demo, go download GTHD and STFU! THAT is a demo, GT5 Prologue is no different to any other Prologue/Concept thats been released before, if you want it, you buy it, its that simple. The fact that this version still has the GT Mode that allows you to purchase cars, upgrade them and enter race series, makes it considerably more than a demo, coupled in with this GT-TV however good that may be, and labelling it as a 'demo' is as accurate as labelling the whiners as 'intellegent'.
3) Free?? FREE?? Oh yes, the RUMOUR that it would be free, just like most RUMOURS they're false stories and end up identifying idiots who take it as fact.
At the moment, even this information is coming from an external source, when *SONY* come out saying its free and then demand $60 weeks later by all means moan, but they've said sod all.
Either embrace it as a stop-gap, at a price thats cheaper than any full-price title (as you'll see once a TRUE $USD price is given) or dont, the fact of the matter is that if they are charging 45 Euros as they have in the past for a prologue, it'll be on the basis that it sold plenty of copies in the past, if nobody had bought them then it wouldnt be worth their hassle, they know their audience, you dont, so let them be the judge of whats best.
Neil @ Sep 12th 2007 1:10AM
I'm a BIG GT fan...it and Metal Gear are the reasons why I got a PS3 over the 360, but Sony is crazy if they think I'm gonna drop 60 bucks on half backed version of GT5....I think I'll wait for the real deal.
If anything they should have made it a timed demo, that timed out once the full game came out.
rockmanjoey @ Sep 12th 2007 2:26AM
I really doubt it will sell for $60, the article is stating the price converted from Euros
Its probably the conversion rate as 45 Euros to the UK Pound is around £20 which is nothing as the games here are £39.99-£49.99.
I reckon it will probably be at a budget price for all regions, I dont know the US Budget price for greatest hits but it won't be $60 for GT5P
Mummi73 @ Sep 12th 2007 2:53AM
Can`t say I like the 45 Euro pricetag, but I`ll buy it the second it comes out.
UltimateNinja9 @ Sep 12th 2007 2:41AM
I don't think it's gonna cost $60. This rumor sounds just as bogus as the rumor about GTHD making you pay to download extra cars.
Livi70590 @ Sep 12th 2007 2:41AM
Considering games in Europe are 70 euros, this can be considered cheap.
seedaripper1973 @ Sep 12th 2007 3:46AM
bloody spot on @36 'p'
nice to hear some sodding common sense, i tippith my hat sir!
Egster @ Sep 12th 2007 6:28AM
In this case 45 euro = 45 dollar usually.
But the PSN version will be much cheaper.
Neftali @ Sep 12th 2007 7:09AM
Here is my $60, o merchants of exploitation!!
... i'm w/ Joey Numbers on this one!!
Ang @ Sep 12th 2007 7:12AM
Don't care how much it costs, first day buy for me.
Ang @ Sep 12th 2007 7:12AM
Don't care how much it costs, first day buy for me.
Neftali @ Sep 12th 2007 7:19AM
... when did b*tching become the norm?? The GT Prologues were never free, get over it!!
i'm buying mine first day like Ang!!
All of you need jobs, decent employment where a $60 purchase won't make or break you... or cause spontaneous whining!!
vinny @ Sep 12th 2007 9:41AM
haha @ $60 for a demo, thats just gold
vinny @ Sep 12th 2007 9:42AM
haha @ $60 for a demo, thats just gold
ShadowHawk01 @ Sep 12th 2007 9:48AM
3 dozen cars and only 5 tracks for $60? A glorified DEMO for the same price as a full retail game. What is Sony thinking? They seriously need to reconsider this price point. I realize that most racing demos only offer 3-5 cars and maybe 1-3 tracks. Since this DEMO offers more than most demo's I can understand $5. Maybe even $10; although that would be pushing the limits as well.
The sad reality is that if they get this on the shelf before Christmas a lot of people (who do not read gaming news) will pickup a copy thinking it is really a full game. This will make the Sony Exec's think that people like paying for a demo. That will then mark the END of free demos.
This is not the way to satisfy the community. BTW, when is the 'Real' version suppose to come out anyway?
djroberts @ Sep 12th 2007 8:12PM
Hmm... Not for $60, that's a ripoff. I love GT but it needs to stack up against the competition to charge $60. I'd pay about $25 for this, otherwise I'll wait for GT5 which better not cost more than $60.
Mr BoomStick XL @ Sep 12th 2007 12:38PM
Sony continues to smoke crack!! This is outrageous, to offer an incomplete game for that much money is sad. I think that they are looking at the sales numbers for War Hawk and saying to the pricing teams "Well, WH sold fine and we didn't bother offering a single player mode, why won't people buy a game half done!!" 3 dozen cars and ONLY 5 TRACKS? BTW, GT TV was done 2 years ago with the OTHER racing francise called Project Gotham!! Hey Sony, how about having an original idea of your own!!
PS: I own and support ALL 3 systems!!!