Japan will see a downloadable demo of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on the PS3 on October 20th (which happens to be this editor’s birthday). No word on the rest of the world, but I’d expect it to hit the US and Europe a few weeks later, as that’s the standard we’ve seen previously.

Translated from the latest edition of Famitsu:

• release Dec 13
• demo version from Oct 20
• mysterious disguised GT-R will be driveable in the demo version
• first time Daytona has been in the GT games
• watch car info programmes from around the world on GT.TV
• use points you gain from offline events in the final product to buy fascinating cars

Sounds good to me. Hopefully we see the demo and final release close to the same time Japan does.