Gran Turismo purists should know better than to get your hopes up about GT5's release date, but then, you're a Gran Turismo purist. You can't control yourself.

In an interview with Spanish financial site El Financiero, SCEE's James Armstrong has said that the company expects Gran Turismo 5 to be out next Christmas.

Now, what Sony expect and the traditionally fastidious Polyphony Digital deliver might be two completely different things. But hey, they might not be.

By then it will have been nearly five years since the release of Gran Turismo 4. They can't develop it forever.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=51063

I thought it was supposed to be out "A lot sooner then we expect" and someone at the company laughed at a 2010 date.

Christmas 09 wouldn't seem like laughing at a 2010 date.

I remember when everyone expected it to be Christmas 2008.