Gran Turismo 5 Weather, Track Editor Confirmed
Jokes were made when our inside man, amar212, first mentioned a track editor coming to GT5 more than a year ago. Today, he gets the last laugh, as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has confirmed “track creating and sharing”, “go-karting”, and a “weather system” is coming to the game in an interview posted directly on the official PlayStation UK website. Here’s the relevant portion of the article:
What can we look forward to when Gran Turismo 5 releases on PlayStation 3?
Gran Turismo 5 will offer gamers an experience more rich, more in-depth and more exciting than they might expect – even from a series as closely identified with innovation and invention as Gran Turismo. Not only will Gran Turismo 5 deliver an even more comprehensive set of cars and courses than gamers saw with previous iterations, it will also feature new game-enhacing graphical effects such as damage, night racing and weather.These innovations are twinned with the option to join millions of like-minded individuals globally within the Gran Turismo community and to find a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races. Who, where and what to drive is completely down to the individual.
This time around Gran Turismo is likely not just to be the definitive driving experience but a definitive gaming experience full stop.
Thanks to owen.c93 for the tip!
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August 8th, 2010 at 7:47 am - #Brian
If Go-karting is in this, I hope the karting place in Kent (London) named Buckmore Park is in it. I absolutely love the look of that track.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 8:17 am - #Craigles
Will ken blocks car be in it, or the airport he goes around. that would be brilliant not to mention the weather changes and Track creator
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July 27th, 2010 at 6:34 pm - #Mikeyy
GT5 Track Editor is very cool and intresting and could well be the abilty to connect any corner from any track together to create your dream circuit takeing into acount that these will only be corners from the tracks featured in the game. also i think you’ll be able to adjust the cambers and gradient of the bends and straights. I cant say this is true but what i can see the track editor being like on a game of this quality.
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July 21st, 2010 at 6:36 pm - #aaron
some one make the parkling lot drift track from tokyo drift
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July 12th, 2010 at 2:02 am - #James
I cant believe this game is going to be only $60(for the game only)I think with all the features we are getting that it would be worth $100 plus.
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July 7th, 2010 at 2:55 pm - #d dog
SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE SOME NASCAR TRACKS THAT ARE NOT IN GT5
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June 29th, 2010 at 5:42 am - #JrEngineer
Firstly, glad to hear about the track editor, let’s hope it’s sweet! You know what I would really love to see though, even though I’m 99.9% sure it won’t happen, is the ability to download data from races/free practice to motec. How cool would it be to analyze A) your driving, B) the setup of the car with motec? I know pc sims like rFactor have this capability, and think it would be absolutely rad to see it in GT5. But yeah, I’m not getting my hopes up..
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June 26th, 2010 at 10:58 pm - #LoneWanderer
I think the track editor was expected as part of Sony’s campaign about “Play. Create. Share.” Obviously, the track editor covers this campaign.
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June 26th, 2010 at 10:08 pm - #VenomHitman
when they say that all cars will have working lights. it would be cool if the skyline pace car had working emergency lights
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June 26th, 2010 at 3:54 pm - #Flagmo-T Aka Team_MoFF-No2
as in so many other things with Gt5 news, we will have to wait to see what it is all about, before we go to conclusions on how these things works, weather system can be limited as we know that Kaz pointed out, that we shouldn’t get our hopes up for a total volumetric weather system :O) and regarding the Track editor, it would be anything from wast creations to very limited editing.. Lets wait for a 100% info on how it works and on how it will be useful, same goes for the weather system, is it only for visual effect or will it be a Driving effect..
I have my concern on how low they will go with this version of GT5, to get as much people to buy it, it’s not a 12+ game any more, it’s a 3+ <– That scares me a bit
But don't get me wrong, I would love to have some professional approach to the matters of weather system and Track editor, and they have the skills to make it unique, but we can't be sure,about what they end up doing with it.. sadly enough though! because we sure have been disappointed many times in this long waiting ..
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June 24th, 2010 at 5:45 pm - #Black Chamber
All this talk about Yoshida telling lies and spewing misleading information – come on!
He is the PRESIDENT of SCE’s Worldwide Studios – don’t you think he knows everything everyone is doing all the time?
Kaz is just irritated that he spoiled the surprise, that’s all. Kaz wanted to spread all that info out between the Gamescom in August and the TGS in September.
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June 25th, 2010 at 12:25 am - #Fritz
Where could I find this tweet? I don’t see it on the twitter Honda site.
And since he is the President of SCE’s worldwide studios, aware of all, would spoil be the right word? He must’ve thought what Yamauchi chose to reveal wasn’t enough.
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June 24th, 2010 at 1:42 pm - #Jai
@Chad D i completely agree.. I want Akina :)
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June 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm - #Chad D.
Akina/Haruna Downhill anyone? (for those who dont know, Mt. Haruna is what Akina in Initial D is based off of) i just wonder how elaborate the track editor will be, or if we can do Point to Point races, that would be awsome
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June 23rd, 2010 at 9:58 pm - #Black Chamber
We want rain.
That is all.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm - #Chad D.
you didnt get the weather part did you dude? weather means rain, lol
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June 23rd, 2010 at 1:27 pm - #Dom
So Kaz did not confirm the info? If it’s not true, oh boy, I am sure, he will be PISSED. Let’s hope the best, but I can’t believe it until I see it.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 12:18 pm - #nick
worth the wait
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June 23rd, 2010 at 9:15 am - #jerone
THEY NEED 2 FIX SFX!!!!!!!!!! e3 vids still show piss poor sound
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June 23rd, 2010 at 9:01 am - #Paul Mc
I see KY isnt too happy with the leaks about GT5 and is putting the blame squarely at SCEE, rightly so. No suit should be tweeting unannounced features, it should be up to PD to announce them.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 3:27 am - #David L.G.
Well… I would like very much if a track creator is possible, but you must think as a programmer.
Developing a track editor for a console… all can be done. But it would be very very difficult to build a track like the PD ones.
You will need a keyboard or at least a mouse, like others said, or it will be very time consuming (or the playstation move!). And I think that it will be the same track editor that Poliphony uses, but streamed down.
And you will have memory limits for the track; you can’t put as much trees as you want or a track as long as you want, there will be system constrains, PD don’t want low quality things in it’s perfect game.
I think that this is very difficult to happen… I hope I’m wrong. (and excuse my english, I’m spanish).-
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:04 pm - #Chad D.
i think it would install the tracks and the editor directly to the hard drive to limit the lagginess, and if they do, i’ll have to clear a bunch of stuff off of my ps3 to make room, i mean, gt4 took up about hal of my memory card on the ps2, i cant imagine how much space gt5 will take, but yeah, i dont think it could be that elaborate, i mea, with all that they put on the disk already, it be hard to fit something like this on an almost full disk
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Complex String,you will reborn in GT5,the track creator is one of the best things on this masterpiece.