Gran Turismo Tech Demo Shown Running at “4K Resolution”
Polyphony Digital has announced they’ll be showing off a special version of Gran Turismo at Sony’s “Dramatic 4K Experience” in Japan.
The game will be running at “4K resolution”, the new video standard which touts four times the 1920×1080 resolution of current HDTVs, and is powered by four PlayStation 3 consoles.
Sony and other electronics manufacturers are hoping the future video standard will drive new purchases from consumers, and the PlayStation 4 itself is widely expected to support the high resolution.
Astute Gran Turismo observers will recall this actually isn’t the first time Polyphony Digital has shown this technical demo of their game running at 4K; in 2008, at the DownShift 2008 session celebrating the series’ ten-year anniversary, a copy of GT5 Prologue was shown at 4x HD resolution, while another was running at 240 frames per second.
The “Dramatic 4K Experience” is open to the public and can be found in the “OPUS Communication Zone” at the Sony Building in Tokyo throughout the month of October.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 10:41 pm - #helix_9
GT5 doesn’t run at a native 1920×1080 anyway, right? If so, shouldn’t they work on that first? This just looks like Sony marketing crap. It would be awesome to see though.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 9:47 pm - #ADDiCT3D_2_BASs
I love Play Station and will still buy the ps4 but why cant PD make this game for PC too! By the time the PS4 is out it will no doubt be only as powerful as a current PC :( 4K is already been supported, come on PD make a PC version :P
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October 3rd, 2012 at 9:39 pm - #lalaurentide
So while Turn10 is releasing new cars every month and got Porsche back in their game, PD is hard at work putting forth that bs.
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October 4th, 2012 at 12:56 am - #Gran_Turismo
Thats because Daddy Microsoft has TONS of money for PD to use for gain licenses for cars. Sony does NOT have that ability right now.
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October 4th, 2012 at 12:59 am - #Gran_Turismo
Excuse me. I meant to say Turn 10 and NOT PD. lol
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October 4th, 2012 at 12:01 pm - #Abdu
@ Gran_Turismo.
what a load of BS. you know GT is the best selling racing game every gen? GT is way successful than ANY simulator.
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October 4th, 2012 at 1:49 pm - #jah24car
@Abdu its not really the money, its that PD has been working with Nissan, Honda, and whatever cause its asian companies and thats why they got alot of asian cars in game cause its closer to them and they get easier access, but in the states its different, Turn10 gets these other cars cause they are already in code but they take a while to generate them and get the actual sound of the car, its not the money, its the way they get the car, and then the time to generate it, Forza 4 don’t have all these bugs, and glitches SUPPOSEDLY and they make the car in dlc sound real and look great. @lalaurentide PD just wants to be as good looking as Turn10′s Forza games, the detail does look real at times for GT5 but yeah we could have more cars, but its sony’s people and PD saying they wanna try stuff out for the next game, they have less people working at PD than Turn10 cause they get more people hired, and they won’t release a car pack this month due to Forza Horizon cause I haven’t seen news on the next car pack for Forza 4, which has the worst handling if you took forza’s cars put them in gt5 it’ll handle better.
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October 5th, 2012 at 12:34 am - #Pit Crew
^ Its always about money. No one does bigtime business ventures for free or friendliness.
Abdu GT5 is a simulator, and other sim racers like iracing offer an equally involved experience, for a price. Just because GranTurismo series is a cash cow every gen doesnt make Gran_Turismo statement wrong or “BS”. It also doesnt relate to his point which seems to be that MicroSoft can foot the cash to throw at their Race game to keep it fresh, in their logic, not to mention T10 staff is probably close to or more than 300 programmers where as PDs staff is 150 Programmers.
jah24car the short answer is GranTurismo series was originally designed for the asian market until Kaz negotiated with other car manufactures who wanted in.
You do realise GranTurismo series was first to the market and GT5 cars (Premiums) are highly detailed visually, better then Forza 4. Doubtful PD was looking at forza for ideas on how to design GT5. Where did you get your information? jeesh
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October 3rd, 2012 at 9:35 pm - #riph
4k resolution? i bet we can see the “attention to detail” of standard cars
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:41 pm - #SaintSaiya
Kool,but what good is it if gt6 for ps4 will use gt5 premium cars as standards and only 20% will use for Ultra premium LMFAO
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:43 pm - #sangdude82
Lol, I hope not.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 8:35 pm - #Revoy
Lmao that was hilarious
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October 3rd, 2012 at 9:20 pm - #HarVee
The sad thing is, that if GT6 was a PS4 game, there is a high chance of a scenario like that happening.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 11:19 pm - #frankthegreat
In gt5, polyphony didn’t want to make the same mistake with the standard cars imported from the ps2 gt4 game, so they scan the cars at a much higher resolution than the ps3 could run. After that, polyphony lower down the quality of the cars model to be the prenium cars in gt5. So they can use the model they done in gt5 in gt6, because they already though about it when doing gt5.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:41 pm - #Rushton1996
So this is another of the ways PD is wasting their resources and time. Before anyone tries to get back at me, I am not saying this is useless, I’m saying there are other things which are more of a priority than this which PD should be working on. I mean GT5 looks good enough for me on HDTV with HDMI cable. So PD do more work on the gameplay which GT needs to improve most on.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 8:01 pm - #Smuttysy
My exact thoughts when I read the first part of the article
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October 4th, 2012 at 2:58 am - #MeanElf
Sony owns PD and is the one calling the shots – they may have no choice in the matter.
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October 4th, 2012 at 1:54 pm - #jah24car
Sony is in control of their companies, just like Microsoft and their games, for each update goes through a test at what we call big shots, dlc they want goes to the big shots for approval, the content and resolution testing on current games with bigger better look for next gen (like maybe 4-5 years before cause ps3 and 360 still good right now, why you want ps4 its just gonna be rubbish like ps3 when it release before psn and what not got updates and newer models), its just simple CAPITALISM for the companies, so if PD is working on cars they don’t want to tell us, cause then it won’t be a surprise to us, but GT6 is beeing worked on to so more time to get the names and sounds and whatever right.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:35 pm - #e30 freek
Im starting to think gt6 is being made for ps4 even though i want it on ps3
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:32 pm - #SimonK
PS4 will not have 4K gaming, not unless it’s going to cost £600+. Which it isn’t.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 9:45 pm - #ironman44321
Oh yeah? You know this because?
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October 3rd, 2012 at 10:05 pm - #SimonK
I know this because a HD6970 GPU which costs £300+ can’t do 4k resolution so a PS4 GPU would have to be more powerful and more expensive than one of those, and I highly doubt it’s going to.
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October 4th, 2012 at 2:14 am - #pporshahidy
understand that its a amd gpu…. nvidia always has something up their sleave… and sony and toshiba help nvidia in making the gpu for the ps4 with the high dev budget… and that 4k tvs is the next thing up… and sony would want to include it in the ps4 so hard core gamers can buy their own 4k tvs when it becomes affordable… understand that sony is out there to bring the most powerful console to the market so it will have a long life in the market… so sony is going to eventually make a profit from putting 4k on the ps4… my guess is that it will have it… final thought is that sony is now starting to try to bring 4k tvs to the market… why wouldnt they add the ps4 to have 4k and give the customer confidence that it wont get old… like the xbox was when they suddenly removed it form the market and added the 360 forcing customers to upgrade..
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October 4th, 2012 at 6:52 pm - #ryzno
I dont know how much 600 pounds is (i think that symbol is pounds) but the ps3 was around $600 and i thought that was expensive. so i waited till gt5 was supposed to be released in august (lets not go there), but any way i bought it for $400 and still thought it was expensive. Anyways call me cheap or poor but i aint got that kind of $$$$. So if and when its released ill see yall when the price is more reasonable.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:46 pm - #ZedMan1996
basically the resolution will be soo sleek and the graphics for GT6 soo good that you’d SH*T yourself bad if you crashed.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:26 pm - #JDMTuningJZX90
But the thing is if you crash in gt5, well its like your driving a bumper car… Hit a wall at 300km/h Your rear end lifts and your bumper has a mild dent… Polyphony need to step up their game.. Forza is the freshman and it’s already beating the big boy
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October 4th, 2012 at 1:56 pm - #jah24car
@JDMTuninJZX90 its sad that I guess PD (never really) worked hard for desinging the cars, but hopefully GT6 has full detaile DAMAGE, I mean yea PD does but a scratch on a white car in forza turns it black I seen real cars colored white get scratched up from hitting or getting scratched don’t leave a big black mark, thats why I hate forza’s damage its real then its not.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:45 pm - #rocketcaron
LOL, 4K graphics with 8Bit engine sounds…
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October 4th, 2012 at 3:01 am - #MeanElf
yeah, yeah…and a 2 bit comment.
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October 4th, 2012 at 11:48 am - #rocketcaron
Oh! MeanElf… You are a mean opportunistic Elf. And take a piece of paper and write 0 in binary code. Look at it closely. Its the value of your sense of humor.
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October 4th, 2012 at 1:13 pm - #MeanElf
:)
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:41 pm - #SonicConqueror
What GT & PD should do is recreate the famous Ghostbusters car: the Ecto-1; as either a DLC add-on for GT5, or as a very expensive special model for GT6.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:36 pm - #japlkofk69
Sounds like PS4 will kick ass LoL
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October 4th, 2012 at 1:58 pm - #jah24car
and crash miserably then decide that all just release consoles don’t work right, they get recalled, newer model works perfect, yeah it doesn’t not really wanting a ps4 if they make a ps3 gt6 and ps4 copy I’MMA STICK TO GT6 ON PS3!! its not like PS2 and 1 they are the dinosaurs.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:24 pm - #SonicConqueror
All your negativity about GT and it’s design & development makes me sick. STOP TALKING BS ABOUT GT!
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:08 pm - #panjandrum
Just in case anyone from PD reads these…. For the love of God fix the freaking game and make it complete FIRST, then go back and play with cool stuff like 4k.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:04 pm - #Jaydon
I just want my game to be fun and enjoyable. Not take 100 years to finish and be half assed
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October 4th, 2012 at 3:59 pm - #MeanElf
Slight exaggerations maybe?
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October 3rd, 2012 at 4:48 pm - #teppischfresser
Actually it’s not 4x better than 1080. It’s 16x
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:09 pm - #Heavenly King
1080p = 1920 x 1080 => 2073600 pixels
4K = 4000 (3840) x 2160 => 8640000 pixels or 82944004K resoulution = 1080p resolution x4
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:24 pm - #gamerdog6482
Heavenly King is wrong.
4K is 4 K’s. 1080p=QFHD, which is slightly thinner than 4K. 4K has more pixels than 1080Px4, which is QFHD.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 4:47 pm - #rocketlauncher5
It’s the beginning of GT6
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October 3rd, 2012 at 4:38 pm - #RobDoggy05
I really wish PD would spend time on things we actualy want to see…
This is like a concept car, cool technology and cool to look at, but pointless and not practical (most times)
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October 3rd, 2012 at 5:01 pm - #Xamado7V
^This exactly.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 6:33 pm - #TokoTurismo
I know right? I really did wish PD did real work like the other developers who’re making racing games, and focus on trying to make the game FUN. Instead of trying to make everything real when the engine sounds sound like vacuum cleaners and the scenery looks blend and standard, like standard cars.
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October 3rd, 2012 at 4:36 pm - #HarVee
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the purpose of 4k? I mean, 4k is just nothing more than a bigger resolution. Hardly anything “Innovated” about that..
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Something inside me just wants to shout out at Kaz’s ears “We need a totally new Gran Turismo from the ground up.”
What I’m saying may sound off topic but in the grand scheme of things it isn’t. I’m a car, racing, and car game enthusiast. But this is the same transition we saw from GT4 to GT5 and that is disappointing. 4k. ok. but we need a totally new Gran Turismo in the form of GT6