According to Sony at E3, it appears that we PS3 owners will finally be able to get our hands on Gran Turismo 5 on November 2, 2010.

Of course, there have been release dates before, and they’ve come and gone. I’m hoping this one sticks. Prologue felt half finished, and while I had lots of fun with the time trial demo, it was one car, one track. And, GT4 doesn’t work on my ‘backwards compatible’ console.

I’m more than ready to jump behind the wheel again and lose hours trying to shave a tenth of second off of my lap time. ModNation Racers is a blast, of course, but as far as console racing games go, GT is a level above*.

I’m going to assume the anal-retentive developers at Polyphony have spent the last several months tweaking the physics engine again and recording more exhaust note sounds, and driving that rented Skyline GT-R around the real track one more time to make absolutely sure that the body roll code module is completely authentic…

…and really, who could blame them?

What probably really got them off their ass though is the fact that the Move motion control ice-cream cone gizmo** was announced, demonstrated, marketed, priced, and scheduled for release in a fraction of the time it’s taken them with this game together.

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* – …even if you can’t build driver avatars that look exactly like Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme and publish them for others to download.

** – Which I will probably end up buying, because it’s cheap, looks like it’ll be a little bit fun (but not groundbreaking – most Wii games barely work, after all), the tech is interesting, and the kids will like it. And, unlike the Wii, it’s an additional interface, rather than the only interface; and it won’t look blocky and washed out on my big expensive HDTV.