Gran Turismo 4 Mobile

Infobox VG|title = Gran Turismo 4 Mobile


caption = "Gran Turismo 4 Mobile" box cover
developer = Polyphony Digital
publisher = Sony Computer Entertainment
designer = Kazunori Yamauchi
series = "Gran Turismo"
engine =
released =
genre = Racing
modes = Single-player, Multiplayer
ratings =
platforms = PlayStation Portable
media = UMD
requirements =
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"Gran Turismo 4 Mobile" (also known as "GT4 Mobile") is a PlayStation Portable game developed by Polyphony Digital. The game was announced at the E3 Sony press conference on May 11, 2004, the same conference where Sony announced the PlayStation Portable. It has since been delayed repeatedly and its completion has been pushed back until after "Gran Turismo 5 Prologue" is finished. [cite web|url=http://www.gamepro.com/sony/ps3/games/features/137948.shtml|title=Feature: New features for Gran Turismo 5: Prologue; PSP version still in the works|accessdate=2008-02-27|date=2007-10-03
GamePro: Is the team still interested in working with the PSP on a GT game?
Kazunori Yamauchi: Probably after GT 5. We are working on it, and we will get around to it eventually. ] The game is intended to be an exact port of the PlayStation 2 game, "Gran Turismo 4". [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/513/513565p1.html|title=E3 2004: GT4 PSP Is Real|date=2004-05-11|accessdate=2008-02-27]

Details

"Gran Turismo 4 Mobile" was originally intended to be one of the flagship games of the PlayStation Portable. When it was announced, many could not believe that such a vast game could fit onto Sony's proprietary UMD format, and also that such a game would be able to run on the hardware of the PlayStation Portable. Now, due to its numerous delays, many believe that the game will never be released or is in development hell.

Despite this, "Gran Turismo" series producer Kazunori Yamauchi has been constantly reassuring the press of the game's existence. The last of such events occurred on September 25, 2006, when Kazunori mentioned that reasons for such a vast delay of "Gran Turismo 4 Mobile" included the development of next-generation "Gran Turismo" games for the PlayStation 3, primarily "Gran Turismo HD" (originally a full game for retail and PlayStation Store download, which has since been reduced to a smaller free game with a few cars and for a limited time only on the PlayStation Store) and "Gran Turismo 5". Kazunori claimed that the fundamentals of the game had been completed as of August 2004, with only the adjustment of "makeup" remaining.Fact|date=February 2008

Development

History of delays

Despite the game being announced during the same conference as the unveiling of the PlayStation Portable, "GT4 Mobile" has yet to be released in the foreseeable future. In fact, the frequent delays had led IGN to question whether or not the game had been quietly cancelled. [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/845/845123p1.html|title=Gran Turismo 4 Mobile Cancelled?|date=2008-01-11|accessdate=2008-02-27]

The game was initially revealed to have a release date sometime in April 2005; [cite web|url=http://cars.ign.com/articles/546/546244p1.html|title=GT4 and GT4 Mobile Release Dates Revealed!|date=2004-09-09|accessdate=2008-02-27] however, the game was notably absent from the vgy|2004 Tokyo Game Show [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/546/546880p1.html|title=Sony Updates PS2, PSP Slate for TGS|date=2004-09-10|accessdate=2008-02-27] and then from E3 2005, a year after it was first announced. [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/616/616873p1.html|title=E3 2005: Wherefore Art Thou, GT4?|date=2005-05-18|accessdate=2008-02-27] At the end of 2005, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the game would be pushed back to sometime in vgy|2006. [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/660/660900p1.html|title=Gran Turismo Delayed to 2006|date=2005-10-24|accessdate=2008-02-27] Despite no news for most of 2006, "GT" producer Kazunori Yamauchi assured audiences that "GT4 Mobile" was still in development and on its way. [cite web|url=http://psp.ign.com/articles/735/735035p1.html|title=Yamauchi on Gran Turismo PSP|accessdate=2008-02-27|date=2006-09-25]

In April 2008, Yamauchi stated that developing Gran Turismo 5 on the PlayStation 3, "took much more time and effort than we had first imagined" and that it was unlikely "GT4 Mobile" would be released in by the end of 2008. [cite web|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=130136|title=Yamauchi: GT PSP unlikely this year|publisher=Eurogamer|author=Rob Purchese|accessdate=2008-04-05|date=2008-04-04]

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