The PlayStation Blog has confirmed the game will launch in 2016, with a “Spring 2016” window for Gran Turismo Sport’s beta. During his presentation in Paris, Kazunori announced that the game will begin open beta testing with “everyone in the game community” starting “early next year”. What does this mean, exactly?
Since the launch of PlayStation 4, several major titles have public beta versions of their game on the PlayStation Network, including
Star Wars: Battlefront and
Uncharted 4. They are essentially pre-release demos, which offer an early look at the game.
Gran Turismo, of course, has a long history of such previews – older fans will no doubt recall
Gran Turismo HD which released as a download-only title on the PlayStation 3 back in 2006. It gave us our first look at the Eiger Nordwand circuit along with online leaderboards and a small collection of new cars. There was a similar demo for
GT5: Prologue, though it was
only released in Japan.