Don't get your hopes up kids.

Do games go gold without release dates often, or is this a rare occurrence?

Strange, maybe they want to make a special announcement before the weekend...

It's rare. Usually release dates are announced well before a title goes gold.

Production should take around 2-3 weeks, so a late November release seems likely.

Also:

http://imgur.com/pmJEf.gif

Something will come up.

Sure of it.

Also have a bet with a friend that we won't see GT5 until 2011.

I don't care about the game hitting gold. Just release it geeezz..

didnt they say this about duke nukem a few years ago to?

all i can say is meh.

No, they only say this about games that are going to production - Duke Nukem Forever never got that far. It's interesting news because, as x3sphere said, the game is still without a release date

Yeah. I guess the players just have different viewpoints onthat stuff than the devs do. If I were them, I wouldnt announce it until it was 90% finished and the final touches were going in. Just saying.

The fact that the disc is being stamped, meaning the cover, doesn't mean at all that the software is being burned, so actually Yamauchi has said absolutely nothing.

In other words, you can stamp all the BD with the GT5, but then you have to burn the software and it doesn't means that both things are being done at the same time or one immediate after the other...

The wait will still go on and all the retailers at publishing dec 31th just because they say "it will be some date in 2010"...

They say we will have a date by the end of october... and still waiting...

Retail Discs are pressed not burned.