GT5 Signature Edition costs €180

By Robert Purchese Published 5 August, 2010

Toy car! Leather wallet! USB key!

For those who have everything there's the Signature Edition of Gran Turismo 5. It costs €179.99 and packs an SLS AMG toy car, black leather wallet, coffee table car art book, magazine with driving and tuning tips, USB key, key fob and a fancy "Obsidian Black" case.

What's more, that wallet contains a card that grants entry to a competition to win a real-life SLS AMG car.

The Signature Edition also offers nearly a dozen extra in-game cars. Half are pre-order "Stealth" cars, and the other half are "ChromeLine" vehicles from the Collector's Edition. These have "enhanced performance", according to the European PlayStation blog.

The Signature Edition must be the Ultimate Edition Amazon France blew the whistle on last month.

The Collector's Edition costs €80 and packs the magazine, a "commemorative" slip case, five art cards and those ChromeLine cars.

Gran Turismo 5 will be released on 2nd November, exclusively on PS3.

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  • Bitkari #1 2 years ago

    I suppose that's one way to pay for a massively protracted development...

  • Mcstrife #2 2 years ago

    Wasn't that 'toy car' from some expensive brand or something?

  • Mildew #3 2 years ago

    God help the people who buy all of these special editions - need a separate warehouse to store them!

  • PuppyFiddler #4 2 years ago

    I read "coffee table" and thought wow that's actually worth the price but then I read "...book".
    Rip off.

  • HisDudness #5 2 years ago

    The fewer who buy it, the better chance of winning the car, which in turn makes the signature edition a better value.

    Is the wallet real leather? Because that could be the tipping point...

  • ryohazuki1983 #6 2 years ago

    Wait for it to drop to £30 after a few months if you really want it.

  • El-Dev #7 2 years ago

    Pre-ordered yesterday...I wonder if the release date of 2nd November 2010 is accurate? Hope so.

  • Stifler #8 2 years ago

    f o o k o f f

  • X201 #9 2 years ago

    I think they'd be stupid not to milk a global release date.

  • Mkwone #10 2 years ago

    I just want the Appex book. Hope they sell it seperatly... or a varitation of.

    In which case i think i'll just get the £60 collectors edition
    Edited by 2 at 05/08/10 @ 10:25

  • frunk #11 2 years ago

    Sigh... Sony...

    How to do Special Editions... LBP2
    How not to do special editions... GT5

    They CAN do it right - they are just their own worst enemy at times

  • urbanrider #12 2 years ago

    It's €179 or £149 depending on your currency- didn't see this listed in the article od

  • Malek86 #13 2 years ago

    Looks really useless, like pretty much 100% of the "more than Collector" editions out there.

  • Darren #14 2 years ago

    Assuming GT5 turns out to be worth the long, looooooooooooong wait then I'll happily pay up to £40 for it but not a penny more. Paying in excess of double (or triple in this case) for a collector's edition is just a complete waste of money IMO since the extras are superficial at best and everyone ends up with exactly the same game anyway. And with the main game having over 800 cars already does anyone honestly need a dozen more?!?!?

    These 'special' editions are just an excuse for publishers to charge waaaaaaaaaay over the odds for them because the additional contents cost a lot less than what they're actually worth. Most of the time these contents are poorly made or cheaply produced in my experience, hardly collectible at all, which is why I've stopped buying them unless they're just a steelbook as that doesn't take up any more storage space than the standard one and the few extra quid you pay is worth it. Certainly with Blu-ray movies I pay the extra £2 for steelbooks when I can (I've got the Psycho one coming from Play.com as I type).

  • spiritsnake #15 2 years ago

    i hope those extra cars dont give an unfair advantage when playing online,otherwise its just the people who ordered this edition who will be dominating in online races.

  • Dark_Era #16 2 years ago

    not been a great fan of special editions and collector's editions of games, cos most are trashand have never paid top dollar for any. The few that i have were presents(2 actually, lol). But something about this one says "get me get me, and i can't help it.

  • beastmaster #17 2 years ago

    If it came with a lush steering wheel and/or a ticket to one of those drive a car around a track thing then fine.

    But this one is taking the piss.

  • sfp_noodle #18 2 years ago

    The last collector's edition I bought of a game was the one for Final Fantasy 8 way back in 1999. It cost £100 but it was well worth it and had some fantastic merchandise packaged inside. Collector's edition these days are utter rip offs in my opinion. The one for Final Fantasy 13 was terrible and probably had stuff worth around £5 yet it cost £60 on release! The Halo bundles also come across as rather rubbish with nothing really collectible about them. The fact that a Final Fantasy 8 collector's edition went for over £400 recently on eBay speaks volumes. I really can't see any current gen CE's going for even a quarter of that price in another 5 years time.

    Also, what's the idea behind making the game cases bigger the more you pay? The Halo Reach packaging gets bigger as the price rises and so does the GT5 ones. It's in no way indicative of the content on offer though. It's just more plastic tat to soak up shelf space.

  • patch #19 2 years ago

    They've missed a trick here; surely just putting "Signature Edition has exclusive Top Gear test track and Kia Cee'd" would have guaranteed sales.

  • ryandsimmons #20 2 years ago

    If that toy car was remote controlled I'd be tempted...

  • chrisjm #21 2 years ago

    ok noel, im ready.

    no deal.

  • th3duckst3r #22 2 years ago

    £160.
    just not viable really take £100 of that maybe worth it.that extra £100 will be to pay for your entry to win the real slr.which we all know u wont have a cat in hells chance of winning.

  • FogHeart #23 2 years ago

    At that price the black Obsidian case had better be made of real Obsidians! From Obsidia!

  • Tyronne #24 2 years ago

    The only special thing about this are the people who are going to buy it...I would never in a million years pay that kinda cash for any game regardless of what it came with.

  • alimokrane #25 2 years ago

    No, no and no. thank you.

  • paulf #26 2 years ago

    or buy the game and a decent wheel for the same price
    or buy the game and use the other £100 to buy lottery tickets then win and buy the car
    or ...

  • MiniAmin #27 2 years ago

    If I buy this it'll be the standard edition. I don't mind the odd limited edition but 180 is far too much.

    That wallet does look damn sexy though, so i'll be trawling eBay following release.

  • linksdad #28 2 years ago

    These have "enhanced performance"


    Pay to win - how very lame. - Unfortunately this seems to be the slippery slop we find ourselves at the top of.

  • IkariW #29 2 years ago

    Jeez, and I felt ripped off when I paid £12.99 Last Ninja 2 on the speccy with free rubber ninja star and ninja mask!

    This is too much...surely?

    Ikari

  • Retro_ #30 2 years ago

    How many of these signature editions are there going to be? If numbers are very limited then it'd be worth picking up for investment purposes. Look how the MGS4 CE edition with statuette has rocketed in price.

    Still a no though, sadly, £150 is FOUR new games on release day or SIX two weeks after release.

  • HiredMan #31 2 years ago

    They're taking the piss... aren't they?

    Is that more than the console that plays it?

  • Retroid #32 2 years ago

    "Toy car! Leather wallet! USB key!"

    Mortgage!

  • X201 #33 2 years ago

    Toy car! Leather wallet! USB key!"

    Mon-tage

  • telboy007 #34 2 years ago

    Come on, its not as if you haven't had long enough to save up for this!

  • makeamazing #35 2 years ago

    There are just too many good games out this year to be spending all this money on special editions..... going to buy the normal edition me thinks. The only special edition i might get is LBP and Dead Rising... as i need to get more games, not less :)

  • youhavenomail #36 2 years ago

    I won't have much use for that leather wallet once I've paid for this.

  • M4RKYB #37 2 years ago

    Does the wallet contain a hundred quid?

  • darleysam #38 2 years ago

    No, no it isn't.

  • BuddyChrist #39 2 years ago

    No matter how you look at it.... It's a game. One game. Trust Sony to loose sight of that. I'd expect a day of driving in my favourite gt5 car to be included in that package....

  • Caimbeul #40 2 years ago

    Thats a bit steep!

  • Bumbuliuz #41 2 years ago

    Im still waiting to hear about an official release date for Europe. Until then, I aint pre-ordering nothing.

  • rodpad #42 2 years ago

    Needs for Dacia Sandero.

  • davisorle #43 2 years ago

    Yesterday, before I get to work, I paid 130 for the Razer Mamba mouse and 40 for the Destructor mouse mat. Thats not even 180 Euros for the best equipment of PC gaming when it comes to a mouse etc. Ask me... PLEASE ask me if I would trade them with the GT5 Signature for a plastic toycar. The least I can do is laugh at you the same way I laughed the momment I read the price from this article :) Funny funny people. Delay it another 6 years and I will have to pay 360 Euros to pay their expences maybe?

    BTW I have it less that 24 hours and Im in love with the mouse+pad :D

  • PearOfAnguish #44 2 years ago

    I thought, nobody will be stupid enough to buy this, then I remembered how many copies were sold of that MW2 map pack.

    "Yesterday, before I get to work, I paid 130 for the Razer Mamba mouse and 40 for the Destructor mouse mat"

    Er, someone who admitted to paying that much for a fucking mouse mat shouldn't be mocking others for their poor purchasing decisions.

    Razer mice are shit, btw.
    Edited by 1 at 05/08/10 @ 18:15

  • valli #45 2 years ago

    rodpad, for that money you can buy a real Sandero :)

  • Miths #46 2 years ago

    Well, it's a lot less than I've spent on iRacing this year, but still a hell of a lot more than I'm willing to pay. Good thing they'll have a standard version as well (or so I assume at least :)).

  • Grievous1976 #47 2 years ago

    How Much....! Should be re-named ' A Grand Turismo'

  • gjgjg #48 2 years ago

    for that much i thought maybe it'd be for a gt5 steering wheel ...

  • Vedfolner #49 2 years ago

    I'll take that thank you very much. Can't wait!

  • ipressbuttons #50 2 years ago

    Toy car? What do you take us for? Dumbasses? It's a model car you leave in the box...

    On a less critical note, what a package! I must say I'm contemplating it...

  • nasanu #51 2 years ago

    The car is a kyosho brand car, usually worth more than the cost of a game alone. With a leather wallet and everything else, I am certainly buying this pack.