The web-based portion of Gran Turismo 5’s social networking features revealed at TGS 2010 have been quietly launched on Polyphony Digital’s official Japanese and Hong Kong websites. Fortunately, the Hong Kong site is entirely in English and is fully compatible with all PSN accounts from around the world – sign in here to give it a try.
You can view your in-game profile, stats, message board, logs, shared photos, shared tracks, and those of all your friends – just as you see you in GT5’s Community section. You can also read and send in-game mail from the comfort of your computer keyboard. So far, it appears to work very well, though the ability to control B-Spec races is still absent (for now).
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Online must still be in beta phase..not working for me. Doesn’t show cars in my garage. Hopefully they will add more functionality to site! Cool idea!
I can’t see my cars T~T why?
Is this free
When on the canadian granturismo website the link for GT5 My Home is in the top corner, so I’m guessing its not just those two countries anymore. Although, it says its down for server maintenance.
This is a really nice thing, just waiting for B-spec to be available :)
Note: This option is now available through all Gran-turismo.com sites, not just Japanese and Hong Kong :)
Can someone please tell me how you can put a picture on top of your PSNID on GT5
like where the dog is.
please someone tell me=[
Yeah, just go to any of your pictures while in the game and hit the triangle button and set it as your profile picture.
Love it!!!
I would really like a iPad app!
I just love that someone used the dog as their profile picture
Anyone using the PSN app on FB?
I have my PSN account upload my activity.. Right now my facebook page is full of gran turismo trophy updates. :)
I lol’d at the puppy face
I lol’d at the Loch Ness monster photo. Have exactly the same one myself :)
But can I host races from my created tracks?
Thought so.
Is there a reason why there is a 2 after my username when i sign in? Not here but at gran-turismo.com.
I’ve used the same dog for my profile photo
Thanks for the heads up Jordan.
Great. Another tool to waist my time in GT5. Thanks, Polyphony… now can I have my life back?
Please?
…my wife doesn’t even remember who I am anymore, lol.
EPIC AWSOMENESS!!!
my gf hates having to rip me off my DFGT at 6am every night.
this is a pretty neat feature at the moment. Kind of limited as of now, I cant wait to see how they start expanding on it.
It works. And it’s AMAZING.
PD rox.
Awesome
I tried logging in and it says, “There is no record of this ID having been used to access Gran Turismo 5’s online functions, so you cannot view the online users’ page.” Weird. I’ve used the online messaging and everything before. When I go home tonight I’ll log in to GT5 again and see if it works then.
Oops! I just reloaded and now it shows me. Cool.
A pretty epic feature I think.
Really good work PD. Thinking outside the box with this one.
100% EPIC!!! This feature is mind blowing, something PSN itself needed 3years ago like Xflop live has, thankfully GT has brought this to reality for PS3 owners.
Just posted on my wall, posted messages to friends, check out profiles and can now save all my images to my Mac, EPIC sums it up well GTWelsh.
Im over the moon with how PD are progressing the game.
Remember the statement that was made on the GT site that they were changing things so that all the different language sites would hold the same content, so that you didn’t just go to the japanese site for the latest info, I never believed it for a second.
And here we are.
I take it things that were supposed to be implemented in game at launch will slowly trickle down our way…
Probably so. The good thing is they can’t delay the game any longer to implement them ;)
Very nice. Do you think they are still going to have the ability to control B-Spec races on there?
How exactly would that work anyhow?
I like having the ability to view my Photo-mode pictures on there. Too bad they aren’t full quality, since transferring them to the hard drive is a bit more of a hassle than it should be without being able to batch transfer.
I would love to see this. Though my productivity will go down substantially at work lol.
The My Home thing seems to work pretty well. My career stats are all up to date but none of my cars or B-spec drivers, or photos show up so it’s not working as well as it should be. Hopefully they get everything ironed out cuz this is a cool idea!
Haha, I wouldn’t think it would be that time consuming – I’m running a B-Spec endurance race right now, and ran one last night while I was sleeping. I love being able to auto-pit!
It just seems unnecessary to have to run my PS3 for all that time just to have the AI race for me, especially when I get into the 24hr races.
Anyone with a PS3 fat might have to worry about getting a YLOD. And if GT5 was on the 360, all 360 owners would have to worry about their consoles exploding lol.
Yeah its hapening to me too…my cars dont show up and also my driver doesnt appear…Still this feature is incredible…great work PD!!
You have to set the cars to Share to friends inside the game.
You won’t be able to drive it while shared..
I think the same might apply to drivers.
Nice…hope it realeases soon for de east
It’s no different, you can still use it.
OMG I can’t use this either because I can’t play online since GT5 needs some weird port on my router. Every other game I ever owned worked perfect online but I can’t play the game I waited 6 years for :(
WWOOOOOOWW this is awsm we can copy photos from here!!
@ G T Allegeita
Ouch! You should look up how to fix that ASAP!
Thanks for understanding viejaloca. Unfortunately there’s nothing I can do but to hope that PD will change something.