This whole GT5 release date confusion might actually be a good thing.

[GameAnalyser]

This whole confusion do resemble the same one instigated by an Indian director for his high budget movies, by postponing the release date for his movies, the hype keeps building up till it can explode to record breaking booking even on premieres. The recent one being:

http://koimoi.c2w.com/2010/10/07/endhiran-–-robot-breaks-all-box-office-records-for-opening-weekend/