GT5 delay due to PS3 crack?
Yesterday, Sony announced that Gran Turismo 5 would miss its previously announced street date of November 5th. Sony gave a vague reason as to the cause of the delay, saying only that "creator Kazunori Yamauchi and the team at Polyphony Digital want to make certain they are creating a racing experience of the highest quality."
But a senior moderator with alleged ties to Sony at Blu-Ray.com's forums, has said that the scheduling slip is due to the recent PlayStation 3 jailbreak that opened the platform up to piracy.
As a countermeasure to the jailbreak, Sony updated the PlayStation 3's firmware to 3.50 and mandated that any game released after October needed to be compliant with that update. According to the post, which has since been removed, "The problem arose when [Sony Computer Entertainment] mandated [Software Development Kit] 350 on all games releasing after October," says the poster under the alias "Maximus".
