Gran Turismo 5′s New DLC Set for Release June 27th
Gran Turismo 5‘s new downloadable content, which was leaked to include Twin Ring Motegi and the Scion FR-S, has just been officially confirmed via the official PlayStation Blog.
The new content will become available this Wednesday, June 27, 2012; though specific timing of updates to the PlayStation Store vary around the world (it’s already live in the U.S. PlayStation Store). Twin Ring Motegi and its four variations will be available to purchase for €4.99 / £3.99 / $5.00 USD. The Scion FR-S will be available for free.
New high-resolution screenshots of Twin Ring Motegi and its variations have also been published. Note the Gran Turismo Café, the world’s only official Gran Turismo-themed restaurant which opened at the circuit in 2009, is visible inside the track’s facilities. Thanks to pipi_r6 for the tip!
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:23 pm - #Magzire
works out the same. ever hear about the exchange rate?
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:33 pm - #AntinOz
Yeah, have you? US$5 is currently AU$4.94. I am tired of people explaining this BS away with “exchange rate”
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June 27th, 2012 at 11:04 pm - #STIGGY_34
i know right pfft put into perspective i got a steak for $12 lol
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June 28th, 2012 at 1:58 am - #daics69
yeah I thought it was a bit much at $8.95. considering the game itself costs prolly 40-50 bux now, if that. for almost $10 I personally would’ve loved to have seen a TRACK PACK!! everyone’s begging for the old GT tracks, which technically we’ve already payed for in the past, HOOK US UP PD!!! rather than just starving for more income. and twin ring motegi?? it’s an OK track, not even close to a great track!! anyways, whatever, they’ve got my money now so there’s no point complaining. recommendation for individuals who think almost 1 bux is too much, go online and find a lobby running the track. save yourself the money and go buy something worthwhile. peace
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June 29th, 2012 at 9:37 am - #BMfan
Yes PD i paid for some of the tracks with GT1,so i don’t want too pay for tracks i played from that game onwards.
I’m a cheapskate and i don’t want you to make any money for the work you do.
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:57 pm - #BHalpen
Well in my opinion this track is a better dual oval road course track than say either daytona or indy. In that it does not use any part of the oval for the road course, making it a seperate track. Just using the same location!
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:47 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
I’m afraid I have to agree with you. The infield course at Daytona is sort of bland. Mind you, I do like the superspeedway quite a lot, and when I do race on the road course (which is usually, but not always, with prototype cars), it’s a lot of fun to be able to let the car eat without having to worry overmuch about drafting lines and keeping an eye on the mirror. The best par of any race on the road course is the unique feeling you get when you slingshot past someone on the superspeedway.
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:55 pm - #xXMann07
FORZA 4 is like Apple Computer.
GT5 is like Research in Motion.Forza 4 slick new ideas, 114 cars from DLC since game was released, GT5 whatever!!
Forza4 is Like and Ipad or Iphone – GT5 are taking things for granted like RIM, pretty soon it will be gone; Pooff!!
How many car packs is Forza4 is releasing compared to GT5.
I have every to right say what it is I have to say, I am a consumer of this product and I paid for it.
Please that is all PD/GT5 can give is one stupid lame car (Scion FRS)Forever sleep PD/GT5/Sony
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:28 pm - #tpark103
Please voice your opinion in the complaint department thread!
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June 28th, 2012 at 8:09 am - #ElGreco
If you don’t like so much GT5 then just don’t play it !! Go play Forza and go to the forzaplanet.com !! I guess that’s what you want and stop complaining about a game you don’t like !!
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June 28th, 2012 at 11:12 am - #linupix
- GT5 07 GT-R Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times 7:29
- Forza 4 07 GT-R Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times ??????GT5 has accurate tracks, no one else has the Nürburgring Nordschleife laser scan. If you know one other game please let me know.
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June 28th, 2012 at 2:09 pm - #Uppmas
iRacing has all tracks laser scanned.
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June 28th, 2012 at 2:13 pm - #linupix
Never heard of Nürburgring Nordschleife in iRacing ;)
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July 1st, 2012 at 12:59 pm - #sibbystiggy
Have u lost ur mind? u really r a Forza fanboy…cus basically, Gran turismo is gran turismo…its never thought, “hey look, nfs hav this features lets have it too”…gran turismo is it self, not going after somin else, gt is a legend cus its origional & won’t b left dwn,
Tell me about 1 game which has 1000cars & every car is different & all behave very realistically?
Tell me about 1 game that that has epic origional tracks?
Tell me about 1 game which is made by somone who loves racing & is famous at it?
Tell me about another game pubically mass produced which has lead gamers into the real thing?
Tell me about 1 racing game which has more realistic tracks?
Tell me about 1 racing game which is most online played?There are less DLC’s cus it takes sooo long to model a car, lack of people but mostly cus the cars are incrediably detailed, physics & graphics
Let me put it to u this way…Forza calls itself a SIM, but it isn’t & will never be, its a gimmik, ff drifiting, honda jazz quicker than enzo, WIDENING tracks,
Nurburgring in GT4 is hardly any different from gt5, in other words, GT4 had more realistic tracks compared to Forza 4 -
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:42 pm - #MuoNiuLa
@sibbystiggy: You’re just as much a fanboy as he is.
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:53 pm - #xXMann07
FORZA 4 is like Apple Computer.
GT5 is like Research in Motion.Forza 4 slick new ideas, 114 cars from DLC since game was released, GT5 whatever!!
Forza4 is Like and Ipad or Iphone – GT5 is is taking thing for granted like RIM, pretty soon it will be gone; Pooff!!
How many car packs is Forza releasing compared to GT5.
I have every to right say what I to say, I am a consumer of this product and paid for it.
Please that is all PD/GT5 can give is one stupid lame car (Scion FRS)Forever sleep PD/GTD/Sony
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June 28th, 2012 at 1:59 am - #tofudrifter
My iPhone sucks … Just like your logic
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June 27th, 2012 at 5:26 pm - #King1982
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June 27th, 2012 at 5:22 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
I just drove the FR-S in game, and I have to say it’s a fun little car. The handling is nice, it’s fairly quick (especially for a $30,000 car), and it looks cool. Yes, it’s a badge-engineered 86 with left-hand drive, but I don’t think it detracts from the experience a bit. If I had the dough I could easily see myself buying one in real life. I don’t have Motegi yet, but I can see how it could be an enjoyable drive there as well.
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June 27th, 2012 at 5:20 pm - #Jpen
Okay so here is the scoop. I am a die-hard fan of this series. I started playing really young on the FIRST Gran Turismo. You guys have to remember that the workers at PD are working around the clock to provide for us. Yes they may charge some for a track or a car. Even if you don’t like the car or track.. you do not HAVE to buy it. I am sure the guys at PD are doing their very best. I do not know what exactly goes into developing a new car in the game but I am sure it is not easy. If you do not like what they release then don’t buy it. If ya do.. then awesome. There is really no point in complaining so much as they really dont have to do this for us in the first place. With their knowledge I am sure they are not solely bound to the video gaming business. Be appreciative and let them do their thing.
Done ranting.
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June 27th, 2012 at 6:00 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
I can tell you reasonably well the financial side of it.
(Let’s assume they have 150 computers in their office. They probably have more, but this is an even number, so it’ll make math easier.)
They probably have some really high-end equipment there in order to be able to be able to model cars and tracks and calculate light bounce/refraction and other graphical things; I’d place the hardware alone at around the $2,000 range per computer, so that’s $300,000 already. Yes, when you order a bunch of them in bulk – as PD frequently does, no doubt – they do cost less per machine, but even with this discount I wouldn’t go below $1,500 per comp – $225,000. Then, they have to buy loads of software development kits (SDKs) in order to write and compile GT’s code, such as Microsoft Visual BASIC/Visual C++, and commercial SDKs can run into the hundreds of dollars; I recall reading somewhere that a full version of Visual BASIC was $300, so assuming Visual C++ is the same price, installing both of them on all computers would cost PD $45,000, and there are probably more SDKs that PD has that I don’t know about. And then, for the modeling, they’ll have to have Autodesk 3DS Max, which is a whopping $3,500 per license, so for 150 copies of 3DS Max, you’ll have to pay $525,000.
So, just to sum up:
Computers: at least $225,000
SDKs: $45,000
3DS Max: $525,000Already that’s $795,000. And that’s not including employee salaries, licensing deals with car manufacturers and track holding companies, replacing broken parts on the computers, travel costs in order to scan in tracks and test cars, the equipment which they use to scan tracks and test cars, marketing, supporting online servers, bug testing maintaining gran-turismo.com, or any of the countless other expenses I’m sure they incur developing a new GT game or creating DLC for GT5, the combination of which runs into the tens of millions of dollars. I for one will be buying Twin Ring Motegi a) because I liked it in GT4; and b) because I want to support Polyphony and say thanks to them by working so had to bring us such a fantastic game series.
So yeah, kids, be grateful that PD is busting their butts and spending such colossal amounts of time and money developing the GT series, rather than yelling at them because “I don’t like this” or “I want this in the game.” There are very few game companies out there who are willing to work so hard for their fans, so be thankful for it. It ain’t easy to develop a game, especially one so huge as any of the games in the GT series.
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:17 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
and say thanks to them *for working so *hard. :)
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June 27th, 2012 at 8:15 pm - #Jpen
This goes to show the effort put into the game itself. Very well said
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June 27th, 2012 at 8:51 pm - #TeamCZRRacing
Thanks. :)
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June 28th, 2012 at 2:04 am - #daics69
maybe you should do the math about how much income they would have accrued since the release of the game, you can go back to GT1 if you like. write a short novel about that!!
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June 28th, 2012 at 5:46 pm - #BkS
@CZRRacinfg – PD is like most gaming, video eidtors, modellers, etc. They have decent machines which will have something like a 2nd generation i7, with 4/5GB of RAM, and a decent GFX card. This way they can run high-end resource eating applications, such as Cinema4D, Avid Media Composer Adobe After Effects, etc. Then once they’ve finished either a model, or video, they’ll render it out using their render farm, which is just a bunch of computers speficially programmed using software / code scripts written by PD themselves which uses the CPU & RAM to their fullest. My suspision is that their render farm probably has around 100-300 computers running Linux, with 64GB of DDR3 1600Mhz RAM, with 2 Intel Xeons. No graphics card required. The servers themselves would cost around 3-4K each. The local computers which the models, patchers, video editors, etc… use would cost around 1-2K each.
You’re looking well past the 2 Million mark, just in computing power & software alone. :)
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June 30th, 2012 at 9:24 pm - #helix_9
@ BkS
All you need to render gt5 is ONE PS3. It’s realtime.
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:34 pm - #LtLeadFarmer
I’m not really up for paying $5 for Twin Ring Motegi and different variants of it. But hey, at-least we are getting DLC again. Thanks for the free FR-S Polyphony, even though it may be the same as the 86, it’s still a free car :D
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:27 pm - #KilzoneStrife
@Elite
no weather at all on any of the Motegi layouts
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:00 pm - #Elitekilla29
Is there weather changeablity on all of the twin Ring Motegi tracks? I didn’t buy the tracks yet becasue I got to pick up a psn card. Thx pd for giving us these tracks. The scion frs is kinda of good.
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June 27th, 2012 at 3:52 pm - #ViperSRT10ACR
So when do we get newer non-Japanese cars? I’d kinda like to drive a 2012 Corvette. There’s also a 2013 Viper coming soon… newer Shelby Mustangs maybe? Newer Dodge Chargers? There’s also the Lamborghini Reventon, there’s only 5 premium Lambos, one a DLC. There’s a lot more that’s been made in the United States and Europe.
This new Scion is basically Scion’s version to the Toyota 86 GT ’12.
I don’t know if the guys at PD have noticed but there are a lot more cars being made outside of Japan, and they’re not just cars that have already been placed in GT but with minor changes.
We want new cars, not new versions of the same car every time. This games lacks non-Japanese cars, and that better change when Gran Turismo 6 comes. In the mean time, if we’re going to get a new DLC, let’s get American and European cars, because I personally am tired of getting Japanese remakes.
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:39 pm - #sangdude82
I agree with you. I mean GT is known as ‘the real driving simulator’ so it should be covering the most of well known super cars & sport cars across the world. e.g. new BMW M5, Koenigsegg Agera R, Mercedes C63 coupe & SL65 Black Series, Camaro ZL1, 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 and so on. I’ll say that the 2012 Nissan GT-R Black Edition is my favourite car in GT5 but like you said, I would like to see some more variety of (also up-to-date) cars as future DLCs in GT5. if not, please put them in GT6.
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:53 pm - #chevelleSS396
I agree with you totally. How about the anniversary Z06 convertible, Cts-V,2013 Viper, 2013 GT500, ZL1 Camaro & M5 F10…..etc!!!
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June 27th, 2012 at 5:15 pm - #chevelleSS396
Haha Sandude82 I didn’t see your reply. I’m glad someone feels the same as me. Also all the 70′s muscle cars should be premium by Now-70
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June 27th, 2012 at 7:08 pm - #sangdude82
no worries :) i really hope that Kaz & PD will get licensed with more car manufacturers in the future for GT6.
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:48 pm - #sangdude82
*both Mercedes C63 coupe & Mercedes SL65 on Black Series
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:58 pm - #HarVee
I won’t make you mine, I will continue to wine
Anytime night or day
Only trouble is, gee whiz
I’m complaining my life away…I dislike you so that I could die
I hate you so and that is why
Whenever I don’t want you, all I have to do is
Compl-ai-ai-ai-ain, complain, complain, complain
Compl-ai-ain-ai-ain, complain, complain, complain*Just a little song for all them complainers.
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June 27th, 2012 at 3:36 pm - #montecarlo87
Us diehards have a right to complain. Just the same as being a die hard fan of a football team. If they are doing stupid stuff while their rival is starting to beat them in every phase, we as fans need to let them know how we feel. Otherwise how would they improve their way of doing business. The best way to keep diehard fans diehard is to keep a winning formula. PD has been failing to do that only paying attention to their precious GT Academy and ignoring the gamers that really matter.
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June 27th, 2012 at 3:51 pm - #hairystig
Switch teams!
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June 27th, 2012 at 5:13 pm - #Amac500
That was cute HarVee, really cute. So negative feedback means a compaint? I though that when such a large group is all “complaining” about the exact same thing that they usual have a point about the product they bought. That’s how buisness goes, feedback is how the company knows if consumers are or aren’t pleased, and the vast, vast, vast majority of are not pleased. Buy the poem was cute, reall cite. How much time did you take righting that?
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June 27th, 2012 at 6:15 pm - #tpark103
I have a hard time distinguishing the difference between complaints and plain old whinining. It all sounds like whaaaa!!!!! !!!!!!!whaaaa!!!!!
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June 27th, 2012 at 11:35 pm - #DuskTrooper
Haha, cute little song their buddy. But seriously, the consumers deserve the right to complain though.
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June 28th, 2012 at 8:32 am - #RobDoggy05
@ montecarlo87:
Bloody good way to put it!! And I agree with you 100%.
PD can only cry wolf so many times until its too late
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:51 pm - #Gturbo5
why they no get reward GT Academy?
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June 27th, 2012 at 3:22 pm - #tpark103
Hahaha so poetic
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June 27th, 2012 at 3:29 pm - #tpark103
The lack of appreciation and maturity is disappointing. We all feel your pain some of us have been GT fans for several years. Put on your big boy pants and whipe those tears. Leave that whining for the baby.
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:40 pm - #hazellnut134
Someone needs to do a Super Speedway 150 miles revival…
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:28 pm - #e30 freek
Yehhhhhh B-)
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:27 pm - #sangdude82
I just tried Twin Ring Motegi Road Course & East Course on a 2012 Nissan GT-R Black Edition and the track was awesome. it looked like they’ve upgraded the graphics of the track since it’s been used in the GT academy.
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:23 pm - #hairystig
The lack of weather changability is disappointing.
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:12 pm - #stigum81
Now avalible in the psn store Norway ;)
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:05 pm - #Jason_B
It’s very simple, if you don’t want it, don’t buy it. It’s 4 new tracks it doesn’t matter that it’s the same venue, it’s still 4 new tracks. If you want to pay whatever every month for Forza then so be it. If you want to pay a little every now and then for GT, go for it. I probably will buy an X-box this winter just for Forza to tie me over until GT6 or whatever comes out. And to be honest, Microsoft and PD have their hands in a lot of different racing things right now. So I would not be expecting to see too much crossover in the type of motorsport related DLC. The bottom line is that they do not NEED to be releasing new DLC at this point, but they both still are.
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:01 pm - #Jhwang
I’m ok with the scion, but it will been better if we got the track for free, after all of us been through in the Gt academy gettting all gold.
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June 27th, 2012 at 2:07 pm - #HarVee
In a way, I agree. The people who got Gold in all the academy events should’ve gotten a ‘free pass’ on this track.
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June 27th, 2012 at 1:50 pm - #Finduszip
Nevermind, silly me forgot to install them :3
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Wow, us Aussies got ripped. Over $8 for a DLC?