GT5 Prologue priced: ¥4,980 on Blu-ray and ¥4,500 download

via joystiq

Tucked away, quietly, within the pages of Sony's TGS press catalog, is the final pricing for the Japanese release of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Now scheduled for December 13 (as indicated by Famitsu earlier this week) the game is listed as ¥4,980 ($43.10) on Blu-ray and ¥4,500 ($38.95) for the downloadable variant. Though the game features many of the functions of the full product – scheduled for a 2008 release – it's still considered to be a sampling, in part intended to "keep people aware [Polyphony Digital is] still around" (as told to us by the game's designer, Kazunori Yamauchi). We're not sure if this price will extend to the European and North American releases of GT5 Prologue, but we've asked Sony for clarification.

I'm confused. Didn't they state before that the Prologue was to be free?

I aint gonna be paying for no demo.....they can dream on!!!!!!!!!!

There will be a free demo of the prologue, but it obviously won't include that much stuff. The full version of the prologue will be a real release, very much like the prologue for GT4.

Another dumb decision on their marketing -___-

Only $4.15 less for a downloadable version vs a physical copy?

If I had a PS3 I know which one I would be getting.

why do they keep doing this.

They suck. GT can bite my balls.