In a dash of bittersweet news, we can all collectively stop hoping for an “Update Available” message to appear one day when we fire up Gran Turismo 5: Prologue. The game’s “US Producers”, Chris Hinojosa Miranda and Taku Imasaki confirmed that the team is now completely focused on getting Gran Turismo PSP and GT5 out the door in this Q&A session on the official PlayStation Blog.
Before you get too excited about them answering questions, though, let us be the first to warn you not to expect much. They did confirm GT PSP will not feature damage or DLC, and that only 4 cars will be on track at a time, but Yamauchi already told us that last month. While it’s encouraging to at least see more communication about the game, it’s hard to understand why they selected selected some of the questions when they obviously had no intentions of answering them.
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alan is 100% right
Yeah, that’s about as unreliable as it gets.
i would like to know who has put on the gran turismo 5 page on wikipedia, as 25th of september 09 as a release date! that has to be an unreliable resource surely?
I agree with Emmanuel, we dont care about gt mobile, just give us the release date for gt5 and stop f**kin us about, in the time it took me to write this message a hundred people went out and bought an xbox with forza, pd your taking too long
HoffY is right…
It’s hard to imagine just how many people bought the PS3 just for GT5…
I’m also fully expecting a let down, none of their multiplayer features have worked well – or even existed when promised.
I’m from a PC / Battlefield 1942 gaming background, I used to be in games frequently with 32 players running as smooth as baby’s behind, easy to set up, fast to get in, not that difficult to build clans/communities… I did all this 6 years ago!!!!!!
Why does it seem such a black art for Polyphony???
Online gaming is last generation, this stuff should be easy to incorporate…
Makes you wonder if it’s Sony/PSN that is really the bugbear behind GT’s lack of online functionality.
edit: GT4:2006
why are everybody nagging that it’s gonna take to long that GT5 is coming??…the release dates are: GT3: 2001, GT4: 2005, GT5: 2009. and you can choose not to buy GT5P. and GT3 and GT4 are on the same system: ps2
There is a simple answer to all the negative comments: MAKE YOUR OWN GAME. take for example Forza: they wanted SUV’s in race games, damage, fully customization on body and engine etc. you can publish negative comment’s on what polyphony digital not have and what they doing wrong etc. but you also can make your hands dirty and make your own game or hire some people to make your dream game.
I’m happy to now that in the future I’m gonna be able to race in an McLaren F1 GTR longtaile (for sure) with other 15 cars on Le Mans and Norschleife in sunny, raining and dark conditions with cockpit view in HD :D:D. and the other features are bonuses to me.
I’m ready with my HAND build simulation and my logitech g25 with 26″ full HD screen
sorry for my English
/rant
I have lost most of my faith with PD. sure they end up making a “fun” game. But they always leave it just shy of being revolutionary regardless of how many sales numbers they get. After all the public only has the option of buying it or not. So either you buy it to get *some* enjoyment and put up with the frustrations or you don’t buy it and miss out all together. Rock and a hard place.
Sure some die hards may go off at me for saying this. But i’ve been around GT since the first and played since the 2nd. Heavily played GT3 and played GT4 (not as much as 3 unfort, life).
I am always disappointed with PDwith their recent releases of GT. They implement a feature and it is only half assed! Nothing was more disappointing then finally getting 2 PS2’s, 2 TV’s, 2 copies of GT3 in one room. Only to find out when we tried to connect we could only play multiplayer on severely limited levels with severely limited cars! And all of that when you have a full PS2 processing each player to boot!!
That is to name but one disappointment which i really can not understand can be released to a simulator gaming market in that time of multiplayer popularity. Come forward to the year 2009 when multiplayer isn’t a feature.. its an expectation… an assumed feature in just about every game (and rightly so). And i bet the bastards release half arsed, limited crap again.
I really hope they don’t as i love the foundations they lay with the GT games and the challenges the licenses and races create. But they rarely deliver on anything actually ground breaking outside of pretty graphics (that only exist on the car’s.. nothing else in the game like a circuit or the finer details like slippery when wet roads, and depth to features in the game that really matter (full blown statistics, user friendly replay/file manager!, not limited network/lan/multiplayer etc etc).
I bought a PS3 on release day for one game and one game only. GT5. I do like what they produce. I’ll have to.. i have no other option to get as many real life tracks with a physics engine thats less “arcadey” and more realistic. But i’ve got to say aside from the excitment i know my chances of being disappointed are nearly guaranteed (especially when GT5p doesnt even have skid marks!).
excuse my rant.
Very soon indeed…
Trust me on this… SOONER THAN YOU THINK
Vivian-i couldnt agree more! well when Yamauchi s says ‘soon’ about the release date, well, how soon can it be?
if they say: we working to get GT5 in customers hands. how long will it take to buy GT5? the only things are: burn on bluray, create a picture on the cover and publish to the shops….maybe make an ad. but that’s it…right?!?
sorry for my english
@JAGUAR1977
“PD are being destroyed by Forza 3’s PR!”
atm they are but as soon as PD release the info and release date that will all change we all know that.
I would not blame PD for the lack of info, i feel this is Sony’s doing, i reckon they’re keeping tight lipped to ship a few PSP GO’s then drop the GT Bomb before or around october
That turn10 guy, whats his name, greenwalt, he’s eyed up the competition on the start line and realized he’s not driving as good a car nor has the experience to, so he feels he has to resort to underhand tactics to try to win. we have all seen these moves on the track that is why we should call him… Dan The Punter
@Dom, well said my friend. Could not agree more. “Emerging track grip” is an idea I personally hadn’t thought of. It would add yet another dimension of realism, and they could easily implement it by using the “rubberband effect” in a different manner. Would also be nice to see loss of grip due to weather change/track temperature drop, with changing conditions, etc. Would make for interesting qualifying sessions if PD should decide to include qualifying for better more realistic online racing. Qualifying worked extremely well in Formula One Championship Edition, which I felt had the most exilerating online racing experience.
my first ‘part’ of my comment…i just missed part from my previous comment
GT5 will thrash forza in terms of realism! i mean forza 2 which i was playing against my mate had crap lighting and gt4 just blitzes it-i mean tracks such as laguna seca-gt4 just done it beautifully and forza it looked so crap! have faith people on gt5! i dont care if anyone criticises my first of my comment but gt5 will be better than forza in my opinion-so let forza fan boys read this!! i agree with one comment on how PD lied about prologues features such as damage and how they feel cheated!! Dom is totally correct about his fists comment!
Jordan, I can tell you why the selected questions they didn’t intend to answer. It lets us know that they aren’t ignoring us, but they aren’t ready or able to answer the questions yet. I see people all the time say that they at least want someone to say they are aware and don’t have an answer at this time. This is what we got.
And David, you said, “I paid half the price of a full game for GT5P because it was promised that it would be updated all the way up to GT5’s release.”
You will have to provide a link because the only person I ever heard say that was a Gamestop employee. To my knowledge that promise was never made.
GT Mobile, what a huge waste of time and resources!
PD are being destroyed by Forza 3’s PR!
@alaM0000: There is only one version of the game, it will look the same no matter which version of the hardware you play it on.
Physics: the feeling for the car is great in prologue, but it’s not very interactive. There is no tire wear, temperature, dust…that all change and effect the behaviour of the car. I personally would love to see an emerging grip level on race tracks. Also the AI needs to change and I hate it when people improve their lap time by hitting other cars. Some videos of GT5P look like auto-scooter. I would also love to see soft tire barriers, traces in the gravel and more.
In terms of graphics, I really feel that it’s to clean right now. The tracks could be more “alive”. I don’t want to complain too much. If we look at the GT5 trailer, the lightning looks much better there. Much more the way the Nordschleife really looks like. It’s a dark (green) place. It’s not surfers paradise, if you know what I mean. Same for Suzuka. Even with sunshine and blue sky, the circuit has it’s history. Don’t get me wrong, the layout is perfect, but right now it feels “artificial” in some ways.
It’s ok the way it is. No judgements before we see the final GT5. Maybe we have to wait another 5 years for GT6 to see more of what I imagine.
I believe it’s good to be critical with GT. PD has always been critical with existing solutions, otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are now.
Dom, what planet did you just come from? You want a whole new physics and graphics engine for GT5?! ROLMFAO!
hopefully they release the game before Q3 2010
No, the new Forza looks like crap again. Not the screenshots, but the gameplay vids are terrible. I fear they have no clue on what they claim, after all. If you look at some of the real racetracks, it’s obvious they have no sense for realism, otherwise you can’t make the tracks that “wrong”.
I ain’t going play the PSP GO version,I’m going play just the regular PSP version not like these graphics i see for the PSP GO??!!!
here
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/07/14/gran-turismo-psp-your-questions-answered/
is anyone losing faith with PD now?
I believe GT5 will be just an fully updated GT5P with rally and some damage in certain race types. I personally want a massive upgrade, not just an expanded GT5P.
I still love driving on GT5P, but overall I think an all new physic and graphic engine would have been nice. Maybe it’s not worth it, cause the texture limit of the PS3 won’t give the game more quality in terms of racetracks.
Well, a big “told you so” to those who were convinced a Prologue update was coming. Common sense is enough to know that such an update would be a complete waste of time. When there are full games like the mobile version and GT5 to get finished, why would they bother with updating Prologue?
Sigh.. I’m getting mad about them making all of those promises about GT5P and not fulfilling them; what if they do the same with GT5?
They gave basically no information at all. The no update for prologue news is nice, but not exactly unexpected. Given that Kaz has said GT5 is basically finished why would they waste time on prologue?
Seriously wondering why they bothered “answering” some of those questions at all.
“Our car selection is pretty broad — there is a lot of candy, that’s for sure — but as far as flavors, you’ll just have to wait a bit more.”
That’s just insulting the guy/gal that submitted the question.
There are going to have a lot of cars IMO that is where all the space went . That is probably one of the reasons for only 4 cars on the track. atleast we are getting 800+ cars and 35 tracks.
Wow, 4 cars on the track? They should be able to squeeze out at least 6. Come on, PD, you know how to use LoDs.
I hate it when people say “oh I didnt want any more updates to GT5P anyway” because to put it simply PD lied and I personally feel cheated. GT5 is going to have to massively excel in my view because I paid half the price of a full game for GT5P because it was promised that it would be updated all the way up to GT5’s release.
KY confirmed we would see damage in Prologue, even if it was on one car and this never happened. This was even confirmed last xmas.
He said that would see weather or day night in Prologue, never happened.
Private rooms online, that never happened and online barely ever worked anyway.
I bought prologue because it was going to showcase all of GT5’s key features with just less tracks and cars. Basically what we got is what we bought (the extra cars in spec 2 were a given because the game retailed with hardly anything).
Im going to wait and see how much GT5 really offers because PD always lie about everything, features, release dates, everything! GT4 was supposed to have HD support and have online and looked what happened there! + a year late.
Good news to me as they should be focused on GT5, not that i expected another update anyway
They do have a point on not updating GT5P anymore. Since the full GT5 will be released soon, the team must not get distracted.
Dissapointing to say the least. If it turns out there would be some quality integration between gt5 and gt:mobile I’d go and buy a psp to go with it, but this kind of reply makes me less interested in the whole thing altogether. Bring on GT5.
Re:GTO_VR4
I agree..did the same thing too..still have the psp 1000..in my drawer..packed away waiting silently….
I give a damn about GT mobile. Thats the reason why I purchased a PSP 5 damn years ago!
downloadable content
DLC means “Downloadable Content” – in other words, new tracks, cars, and other updates which could become available by updating the game via the Internet. This is not going to be provided for the PSP game.
What’s DLC?
we don’t give a damn about gt mobile!