Bathurst Circuit Scanned for Gran Turismo 6
Following on from the GTPlanet blog post late last week, GTP members have been back to the famous Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst to catch the Polyphony crews at work.
GTPlanet member Froudeybrand was on the mark to tell us the original news and has gone further to grab these pictures, supplied by a relative, of the track modelling teams on-site. Meanwhile GTPlanet newcomer jjh101 filmed this short video as he drove around the circuit yesterday, spotting crews around the circuit. He’s managed to trump that with a second video, accosting a photographer for a chat!
Although the photographer isn’t seen, we can hear their conversation:
jjh101: G’day. Seen you guys here for a few days, wondering if you guys are here for a game or something?
Photographer: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah… A [?] game… Err… Gran Turismo?
jjh101: Oh, Gran Turismo?
Photographer: Yeah, yeah.
jjh101: Is it an update or… Do you think they’re making GT6 or…?
Photographer: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah… Gran Turismo 6 [?] Bathurst
jjh101: Oh really?
Photographer: Yeah, yeah, yeah
jjh101: What sort of camera you guys using?
Photographer: Canon… EOS… 5D
Assuming the photographer is correct, this means GT fans probably won’t get to see Bathurst in DLC for GT5, disappointingly. However it also means that Gran Turismo 6 is at least 2 years away, given earlier remarks from Polyphony regarding the time taken to recreate each real track for GT5, giving us a first glimpse into any kind of timeframe for the next full game in the series.
Many thanks to jjh101 and Froudeybrand for their information and investigation!
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April 15th, 2012 at 1:24 pm - #ENFORCER 98
what do you the australian touring car championship finishes up and the world touring car championship is next year !?
V8 Supercars is its own thing has NOTHING to do with the WTCC -
April 15th, 2012 at 1:24 pm - #ENFORCER 98
what do you mean the australian touring car championship finishes up and the world touring car championship is next year !?
V8 Supercars is its own thing has NOTHING to do with the WTCC -
April 15th, 2012 at 1:26 pm - #ENFORCER 98
oops sorry for the double posi it said page not found so i thought it didnt post
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April 1st, 2012 at 4:33 am - #ScotteDawg
BRING IT ON!!!
As an Australian, I want the Mount Panorama circuit as DLC and am willing to pay up to AU$20 for it!
I also have a lot of American friends who know of and have seen Bathurst who also want it but, alas, would not pay as much for it!
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March 22nd, 2012 at 4:51 pm - #Giom_racer
Oh yes, now I remember why I swhitched to Forza4.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 2:03 am - #TomBrady
I really can’t believe you’re going to title the article “Bathurst SCANNED FOR GT6″ based on the “evidence” you have. That’s about as inconclusive as the video of bigfoot and UFO’s floating around the internet. Seriously, the guy hardly spoke english, I guarantee you if he had asked if it was being scanned for GT5 he would’ve said “yes GT5″.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 1:07 pm - #Esgaloth
Might i remind you that the makers for Gran Turismo are japanese, so the fact that they even speak english to some extent is a miricle. Although I don’t rule out your judgement, its just that it seems to make sense if his english isnt the best.
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March 17th, 2012 at 4:43 pm - #BirelChris
Judging by the confidence the man was talking with, it could just aswell be for GT5. He didn’t even know what he was talking about, it was just him doing his job.
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March 18th, 2012 at 1:03 pm - #Flagmo-T
Ya- It’s like listing to the old Yello Magic Orchestra Joke – Ahhh I only speak English ahhh Little Little Hahahahah Ok Mr.yohida :o)
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March 17th, 2012 at 8:17 am - #Thenextbob
Im not understanding something:
Why PD dont update an put in this track at GT5?And why have PS4?Is the PS3 updates keep coming i think we wont need PS4 :/-
March 18th, 2012 at 12:59 pm - #Flagmo-T
Thenextbob – the only reason why i mentioned a new PS4 is that, they can’t update the Hardware in PS3, and i do think that Nvidia and more stuff in the PS3, is more or less outdated regarding new methods of dealing with the Polycount and shaders and so on.
It’s true that more updates for the PS3, will still make it better, but the Limit is reached for a lot of things.
And i would of course rather be with out the need for a new Playstation, Who wouldn’t – because it’s expensive and will only make our GT series being a lot more expensive to buy :o)
I agree Thenextbob, lets have all the Tracks we thought would be a part of the GT5 release and also forthcoming tracks like Bathurst, Silverstone, Albert Park, Hungary ring, uhhh still to many tracks to mention :o)
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March 16th, 2012 at 4:51 pm - #Flagmo-T
Well Lets have a new updated Playstation 4 – before we even considering GT6 – GT5 looks OK, but Not really amazing, the only thing which is looking great and amazing, is the Car models from the top draw, and the PS Rendering and a few tracks ( 80% ok looking ) There is to many lowpoly stuff on Standard Cars and Tracks overall – EX: Spa ( which is the Latest track) Has so lowpoly Trees around, that even Rfactor Mods is looking better DoH!!.. ( I know they bla bla otherwise and so on)
I like GT5 a lot as a Race Game, but I’m quite disappointed in many ways in the developing of GT5 and has been that for ages – It’s not really Good enough in my Book..
EX: All standard Cars with stickers and Race stripes and so on, should be updated, or should have been updated before GT5 even was released, same goes for lot of stuff in the Tracks, and The shadows and sprites ( smoke Dust gravel ) it’s looking ridicules when thinking PS3 2012 – It’s not good enough!!
Happy weekend if you are able to have one after reading my Reply .. ( Sorry!! I don’t wrap things in )
BtW – Bathurst is very welcomed and that is anytime, But this is PD and Sony we are talking about, so don’t expect to much friends even you FanBoy guys.. which will hate me even more now :P – So be it, * I’m a payer and not a friend of PD/Sony * .. :o)
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March 16th, 2012 at 3:48 am - #Stevo
Buy an xbox!
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March 15th, 2012 at 1:49 pm - #gt_spec86
If they are gonna have this track in GT 6, they should at least have all the australian cars as well, including those legendary Walkinshaw HSV’s from the 80′s and Ford Falcon!!!
Old AND new!
And I will seriously abandon this game if they don’t have all the cars in premium by then and more options in terms of upgrading.
In forza, I can swap engines between the same marque, my old Datsun 510 has over 600 bhp!!!
Tire pressure, camber, height… Gran Turismo has been a big disappointment and i don’t think 6 will be much better.
GT 4 is actually better, it’s a fact!-
March 22nd, 2012 at 1:14 pm - #Esgaloth
GT4 was the biggest dissapointment in the series. Although, i can say the updates have broken GT5 beyond repair, i’ll stay on GT5 before I EVER go back to GT4 or Forza. Forza is unrealistic as hell and GT4 fealt like i was playing Mario Kart. Tell me, what do you have your track settings when you race online? Cause you definetly dont play real as can be from the sound of it. I personally run Le Mans Endurances every friday.
LMP, GT1, GT2
Grip: Real
Slipstream: Weak
Tyre Wear: On
The only thing we dont use is damage cause that system is broken.
Also, i can live with a standard version of the car. Its hard enough to get rights to a premium Oreca Viper when sony’s up your butt trying to get your game out. If GT5 had been released in 2011. it would have had at least 500 or more premiums.
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March 14th, 2012 at 8:33 pm - #e30 freek
I’d rather wait or it will be a rushed job besides I like anticipating…
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March 14th, 2012 at 5:30 am - #Rushton1996
I’ve been checking GTP for nearly every day in the last week and a half. But no new news about the update and dlc. Please PD, announce something PLEASE!!!
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March 14th, 2012 at 12:26 pm - #Foxiol
I think PD being a Sony company had to wait for the release of Journey this week, and maybe is the main reason for not giving us DLC this week. (or maybe has nothing to do with that) Most of people play more games not just GT5 24/7 and if they want to sell some other things like this game which is a downloadable game they have to give it a ‘window’ so people that enter in the PSN see it and maybe buy it. If you have a 20 PSN card for example and you play GT5 all day long but yo also play other games and the DLC is available with this game but the DLC for GT5 is 10$/€ and the other game 12$/€ you need to decide which one to buy and probably get the GT5 (old game) DLC and not the new released game.
And for Sony that sucks and the people who made the game of course.Exclusive games help each other or in that case don´t interfere with other releases.
Could be that or PD is preparing a little big huge DLC to compete against Forza´s Porsche DLC. PD announced only the new feature for us to share our GT5 photos in a web site…but what about the rest because we know that with the next update comes the DLC content.
My bet is that next week we´ll see some news or even get the DLC.
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March 14th, 2012 at 1:02 pm - #TokoTurismo
Your right Foxiol. You know what. I think some others including me, should wait just a little long. Who knows, the GT4 Track Pack and cars, with the newest update maybe something super. :D I hope the update and the DLC will be bigger then Forza’s own to be honest. Don’t give up Kaz and PD, show em what ya got. No rushing now. ;)
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March 22nd, 2012 at 1:17 pm - #Esgaloth
I honestly wouldn’t be suprised if GT5s next dlc was Porsche, after all, theyve wanted proper Porsches in GT for a long time, no thanks to EA. Honestly, i’ll jump in a 911 RSR as soon as it hits Gran Turismo
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March 13th, 2012 at 11:30 pm - #SaintSaiya
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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March 13th, 2012 at 4:00 pm - #Teej123
Well hopefully gt6 has a better gearbox ranger like the use ofa clutch and hopefully a lot more cars that us younger people would have.
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March 13th, 2012 at 3:51 pm - #Amac500
GT6 they better just take the time to get it right. Better damage, tire punctures, tire barrier impact, mechanical failures like suspension or gearbox, etc. Then release GT6 and just stay on that and sell us DLC stuff. And if we are working on GT6 I want a track maker, not generator, and some kind of livery maker or editor. We can’t complain about tracks if we can just make what we want ourselves! And Forza has had a livery maker since Forza 3, that’s the area Forza beats GT5 in!
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March 14th, 2012 at 2:45 am - #BkS
Forza has had a livery maker since the very first instalment. But to carry on what you said, I’d like to see tire pressure tuning available as well as upgradeable brakes and a BMW E30. I honest wouldn’t care for engine swaps but if they put them in, that would be rad. I’d love to see better cinematic replay cameras too. The ones on GT5 suck ass.
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March 14th, 2012 at 5:04 am - #jensen198
“they better take the time to get it right”. With gt5 we had to wait ages and ages, and when they gave us a game that wasn’t close to perfect it was so annoying. I reckon they had better get it right, and not take 5 or so years to do it!
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March 15th, 2012 at 8:33 am - #slick1ru2
Don’t forget multi class racing. That is the heart of many series and GT not having it is a glaring omission.
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March 15th, 2012 at 3:42 pm - #Amac500
Yes yes yes slick1ru2, class racing is a simple thing I’ve wanted forever! I mean, if the ultimate point in the game is Le Mans racing we need class racing, and 16 cars like in arcade, not 12, a prototype and GT class, so simple! They should add WEC, that’s what they should do, because it still feels a bit in complete if I can’t race against other cars of the era. Then like how we have endurance races, we should have a class race folder and move Le Mans into it, etc.
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March 22nd, 2012 at 1:19 pm - #Esgaloth
I dont mind the livery crap. but give us diferent skins to use on our RMs and TCs, same boring ZR1 skin, UAGH
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March 13th, 2012 at 3:45 pm - #Amac500
So what’s the plan then, we are getting one new track added and that’s it? What happened to 2 years of GT5 before working on GT6? Disappointing, but that’s just me.
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:06 pm - #NikoBellic
GT6 in 2 years!? damn. I hope since GT6 is taking so long all cars will be (P) :)
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March 16th, 2012 at 3:51 am - #Stevo
In gran turismo’s make believe world 2 years is actually 5-6 in our terms
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March 22nd, 2012 at 2:08 am - #TomBrady
Stevo, if GT6 is on ps3, you’d have to be insane to think it will take 5 years, even by PD’s time it won’t be even close to that long. Some people just have no clue, gt5 didn’t take 5 years but even if it did, it was the first game on this new platform, GT3 took a while to make and was low on content for the same reason, gt4 came out quickly with much more content because the ground work was already done. Not to mention in this “5 years” that everybody claims gt5 took, they produced 4 games, where have you been seriously? I shouldn’t have to explain this, it’s day 1 stuff bro
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March 13th, 2012 at 1:16 pm - #kultclassic
gt6? when? in 5 years? what a joke.. so were now back in the gran turismo loop of waiting for a new game to bring us all the things we wanted from the last game…
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March 12th, 2012 at 8:21 pm - #Froudeybrand
If you jump in the forum and read jjh101 does Motorsport tafe class or some such and his teacher was informed about it getting scanned for a possible game the whole gt6 is indeed a speculation but whos to say that these guys didn’t get a briefing prior to the project. I would assume they aren’t taking random photos that at the start of the week or hell (if it is a PD crew from Japan.) prior to flying out to Oz that what game it will be for how they are going to attack the mountain as it were.
Maybe someone should jump in the forums start a thread about speculation and alike in there.
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March 12th, 2012 at 6:12 pm - #raceur
This report does not follow GT Planet’s usual high standard of reportage.
Firstly, the title claims without qualification that the circuit is for GT6. The basis of this is a hasty conversation from one source. While the source said GT6, that doesn’t preclude a DLC option in GT5, and PD may also change their mind.
Then:
“However it also means that Gran Turismo 6 is at least 2 years away, given earlier remarks from Polyphony regarding the time taken to recreate each real track for GT5, giving us a first glimpse into any kind of timeframe for the next full game in the series.”
again leaping to a conclusion. PD may have improved their track creation techniques. Maybe Bathurst is DLC for GT6? Who knows.
Previous posts have done a very good job of reporting rumour. This isn’t one of them.
All that is known for sure is the track is being scanned for GT.
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March 12th, 2012 at 5:48 pm - #SmileyOr1
OK, so what tracks did they scan two years ago taht we might expect to see in GT5?
:D
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March 13th, 2012 at 2:00 pm - #GRAFX21
“All that is known for sure is the track is being scanned for GT.”
Could of ended it short right there. lol.
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Oh yeah, why would Bathurst have been mapped for GT6 if GT6 ain’t due out for another 3-4 years? Because, my friends, it will come out as DLC for GT5! Bit of a no-brainer that, huh?
“Oh, but GT6 is already finished and will come out with the PS4!” I hear you say… We said the same with GT5! Two years AFTER the release of the PS3 and GT5 make its appeaance. It’s all about timing for both Sony and PD, not, I repeat, NOT what we want!
Something to keep in mind is the fact that, at the end of this year, the Australian Touring Car Championship finishes up and next year is the start of the World Touring Car Chmpionship! This will put every Australian track on the world map and every man and his dog overseas will want to race at Bathurst.
For some, that dream will come true, for the rest of us, we have GT5!!!