We Drove a Nissan GT-R With a PlayStation Controller — And It Worked

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We Drove a Nissan GT-R With a PlayStation Controller — And It Worked

This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on October 10th, 2017 in the Car Culture category.

 

[Broda]

Officially a simulator using a controller now. Knew I held out for a reason.

 

[Topsu]

Funny how the game doesn't have Silverstone.

 

[Lain]

Used chase cam, sim value invalidated.

 

[TT92]

Why no dash mounted camera and using a monitor in a dark room somewhere?

 

[vrossi]

But the A.I. still sux.

 

[ribloGT]

Funny how the game doesn't have Silverstone.

And it doesn't have Nissans Too

 

[mokalovesoulmat]

Literally a very expensive RC car toy

 

[ZEROTHEKNIGHT]

A crossover between reality & video gaming

 

[Greatbee]

My childhood dream lol

 

[user3392345]

probably same lap times like with this one......

 

[syntex123]

If Mythbusters couldn’t do it, they couldn’t have done it. I call fake.



Irony. This looks awesome.

 

[nowcontrol]

He should have asked the chopper pilot mid-flight if he'd like to swap controls and have a quick go of the GTR.

 

[Moby45]

It's not realistic to drive a car with a controller.

 

[daan]

That looked so much fun. Everyone in the video was having a ball.

Good job @Touring Mars didn't get a go. He'd have fallen out of the helicopter!

 

[gigio79]

you played with a PS4 pad a racing game? Shame on you, nothing else to say.

 

[Famine]

you played with a PS4 pad a racing game?

No, we drove a real car with a PS4 pad. It's as clear as it can possibly be in both the title and the article, and we cover how the real car was made so that we could do it, how tricky it was to drive, and all the photographs show that it's a real car...

Just in case, here's me actually driving the real car with a PS4 pad from the passenger seat of an actual real Nissan Qashqai (also mentioned in the article) while following it, at actual real Silverstone. Really:

 

[IfAndOr]

I hope you charged up the controller fully before playing. Wouldn't want it to run out mid lap.

 

[Sutsagrd]

I think they missed a trick here.

They should have designed this so that we can actually be in the GTR but instead of the steering wheel and peddles you have the controller to drive it..,and a comfy armchair

 

[crooky369]

I think they missed a trick here.

They should have designed this so that we can actually be in the GTR but instead of the steering wheel and peddles you have the controller to drive it..,and a comfy armchair

Men in Black 2 style?