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With GT7's rally physics being what they are, my hype for Pikes Peak is well contained.
 
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#GT_Memories 004
Pikes Peak
This original dirt track is based on the traditional hill climb event in the USA.
Track Length
4,181 m (2.60 mi)
Race up the narrow, winding mountain road from the base all the way to the summit.
#GranTurismo #PikesPeakHillClimb
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People are going to focus on the obvious, but I just want to say that this is a tidy reminder that engine sounds have come a long way.
 
TheCracker
The 2026 event is on this weekend, so it's more likely just a nod to that. I think the last update also included a Pikes Peak photo scape location too?

It would be great to have the full Pikes Peak as a circuit (well, time trial location) in both paved and semi gravel forms in GT7, but i'm not going to hold my breath for it.
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Should it ever be added, Circuit Experience for it would be a nightmare...
 
TheCracker
The 2026 event is on this weekend, so it's more likely just a nod to that. I think the last update also included a Pikes Peak photo scape location too?
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Add to this a Suzuki Escudo engine swap, a reverse Circuit Experience at Fisherman's Ranch, and a new race event at Fisherman's Ranch too.
 
Feels like there's enough smoke now.

I'm leaning towards they are setting something up.
 
GlamFM
Feels like there's enough smoke now.

I'm leaning towards they are setting something up.
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I genuinely think it's the opposite - they don't usually add Scapes for a track unless they add the track alongside it, so I think them adding the Scape before the track is a sign the plans to add the track to 7 have been canned.

I would love to be wrong but I don't think PD are the type of company to build up to it like this.
 
Surely we are not doing it this year again, especially since we now have solid reasons to believe it's not happening?
At least before we had this whole Hyundai partnership and the mystery of missing Scapes
But there's nothing this year, or is there some leak I'm not aware of?
The addition of Pikes Peak Scapes is not a hint at them adding the track, it's the opposite (the track and the scapes for it always get added in the same update, even fictional tracks had the scapes for real world location of the track)
They are still sponsors of Pikes Peak event, the post is 100% a nod to that and nothing else
The chances of Pikes Peak actually showing up in GT7 now are incredibly close to 0
 
GlamFM
Feels like there's enough smoke now.

I'm leaning towards they are setting something up.
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Interesting that would be the first and only point a to b track in GT7

Not sure If they are setting something up. There was so much speculation about „this time we will get it” etc and everytime it was false that I lost my hope about pikes peak. On the other hand, PD is really surprising recently with hypercars amd GT3 machines.

But I would be more ready for it in Spec IV than some random update.
 
VlackSiper12
I feel like if PD does add Pikes Peak into GT7, then I feel like it would be a PS5 only track or mode in GT7 but who knows at this point.
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As it currently stands, the PS4 can handle basically every circuit without lagging. The only times the game doesn't get constant high frames is on certain tracks with other cars around the player (Nordschleife with heavy rain at night, and Yas Marina, for example).

If Pikes Peak was implemented as a Time Trial track, there wouldn't be other cars around. So if the concern is performance, that wouldn't really be the reason to not have Pikes Peak on the PS4 version.
 
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Not that I necessarily think this would be affected by PS4 limitations, but did Kaz once say that he wants to simulate engine power loss at altitude if he was going to add Pikes Peak back to the game?
 
SoulSilvera
As it currently stands, the PS4 can handle basically every circuit without lagging. The only times the game doesn't get constant high frames is on certain tracks with other cars around the player (Nordschleife with heavy rain at night, and Yas Marina, for example).

If Pikes Peak was implemented as a Time Trial track, there wouldn't be other cars around. So if the concern is performance, that wouldn't really be the reason to not have Pikes Peak on the PS4 version.
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Have you played the game on both consoles, especially going back to PS4 after being used to PS5? It absolutely lags and is not a nice experience. Should be left behind, we’re way past that point.
 
GlamFM
Why?
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Technical limitations, especially with Pikes Peak and it's altitude causing power reduction at higher altitudes.
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Not that I necessarily think this would be affected by PS4 limitations, but did Kaz once say that he wants to simulate engine power loss at altitude if he was going to add Pikes Peak back to the game?
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Maybe, but I can see PD using Pikes Peak as a guinea pig to test those types of things in GT7 and perhaps get it ironed out by the time GT8 arrives.
 
Greycap
To put it into perspective, the PS4 is about two years older at the moment than the original dark grey PlayStation was when GT4 was released. Ancient doesn't even begin to describe it.
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And it had the Jaguar, an extremely underpowered CPU that was borderline obsolete even in 2013, never mind now.

PS5-PS6 cross gen is likely just going to be "PS5 is a bit less pretty", but the gap between PS4 and PS5 in terms of CPU is huge and it's frankly impressive ambitious modern stuff is running on it at all. It must be severely constraining to still be supporting it in 2026.
 
NAXEHT
Have you played the game on both consoles, especially going back to PS4 after being used to PS5? It absolutely lags and is not a nice experience. Should be left behind, we’re way past that point.
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I don't have a PS5, nor have I ever played GT7 on a PS5. Again, just like I mentioned in my post, GT7 on PS4 only lags in certain conditions, in which Pikes Peak would likely never be under. That was the point I was making.
 
SoulSilvera
I don't have a PS5, nor have I ever played GT7 on a PS5. Again, just like I mentioned in my post, GT7 on PS4 only lags in certain conditions, in which Pikes Peak would likely never be under. That was the point I was making.
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Well... you’ve played one version of the game so you’re missing an entire perspective in this discussion. I’ve played both. You’re under the impression it flows fine because you haven’t experienced it on PS5. I did one of the recent TT’s (alone on the track, Monza that particular time) on PS4 because I was away on holiday and no, it doesn’t flow particularly well. It looks considerably worse and it’s playable (ish) but that’s it.
 
Nakano219
The problem is, the "limit to one brand of F1 car" rule always felt like it was unofficially limited to the early '90s or so, and anything before that was considered a classic that was allowed to be freely licensed.
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I was under the impression that this rule wasn't the case until recently because, IIRC the two classic F1 cars from Forza 5 came thru some kind of deal with the Rush movie (and I could be completely wrong about that but I remember discussions back then talking about how the Lotus 97T was GT6's lone F1 car whereas Forza was able to get those two cars alongside the latest Lotus F1 car).
 
NAXEHT
Well... you’ve played one version of the game so you’re missing an entire perspective in this discussion. I’ve played both. You’re under the impression it flows fine because you haven’t experienced it on PS5. I did one of the recent TT’s (alone on the track, Monza that particular time) on PS4 because I was away on holiday and no, it doesn’t flow particularly well. It looks considerably worse and it’s playable (ish) but that’s it.
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I mean, I've played the game since launch on PS4, nearly every week. I think my perspective is perfectly valid, and playing on the PS5 wouldn't change my opinion.

At the end of the day, PD would likely only phase out PS4 updates if they wanted to expand the game's life cycle, for example. They could've started doing that before (Spec III update, for example, which added two tracks), and yet they didn't. So I don't see them doing that now, 4 years into the game's life cycle.
 
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Gerarghini
I was under the impression that this rule wasn't the case until recently because, IIRC the two classic F1 cars from Forza 5 came thru some kind of deal with the Rush movie (and I could be completely wrong about that but I remember discussions back then talking about how the Lotus 97T was GT6's lone F1 car whereas Forza was able to get those two cars alongside the latest Lotus F1 car).
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By Forza Motorsport 6, they also had both the Ferrari 641 and McLaren MP4/4 together.
 

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