During an event held in London yesterday dedicated to Gran Turismo Sport, the launch date for the racer was finally announced, and it's set to land in November.
Many people expected that during the reveal event, Polyphony Digital would also announce the beta test promised last October when the game was officially unveiled during Paris Games Week.
Unfortunately, the beta hasn't been announced and, according to the creator of the series, Kazunori Yamauchi, the beta will never see the light of day as it has been cancelled in order to allow Gran Turismo Sport to come out later this year:
"That's something that I'm very, very sorry about," said Yamauchi. "In order to do a beta test we have to make a gold master of the beta test code, and for us it actually takes as much effort as to finish the real master code of the actual game.
"Just because it's beta we can't just throw it out there. It's required that in order to do an open beta we have to create a proper master for it, and considering the release timing that we announced, we decided that we just don't have enough time to do two gold masters for the game. By omitting that it saves us about three months of time."
When he was asked if this meant there would be no beta, Yamauchi added: "Most likely I don't think it would be possible. I'm very sorry but that's just how it turned out."
Gran Turismo Sport will be available exclusively on PlayStation 4, on November 18 in the UK (on November 16 in Europe). You can read our impressions of the event here.
Thanks, VideoGamer.