The PlayStation 4 is here! If you were one of hundreds (thousands?) of people waiting patiently in line to get your hands on the PS4 at the stroke of midnight, there’s no doubt you were excited to get back and play whatever selection of titles that interested you most. Now that the PS4 is here, there is one thing we all should be aware of: where one countdown ends, another begins – Gran Turismo 7 is imminent.

Sony’s latest console, the PlayStation 4, went on sale today in North America (Nov. 29 in Europe), officially kicking off the next generation of gaming hardware. (You can order one via this affiliate link, if you’d like to support GTPlanet.)

A peek at one of the first cars in the Vision Gran Turismo project has just been revealed on Mercedes-Benz’s official Facebook page.

The latest Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, featuring a series of two racing events exclusive to front and rear wheel driven cars with no more than 450PP for this week’s time trial and Comfort/Soft compounds for both trial events.

Enjoy this gallery of 179 high-resolution images of cars featured in Gran Turismo 6. For a complete listing of all 1,197 cars appearing in the game, check out the full GT6 car list.

In last weeks’ GT6 info blowout, a radical and exciting new feature was quietly confirmed to be coming in an update for the game and its companion mobile apps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Pd-zway8gE

Last week, GTPlanet was invited to Willow Springs Raceway to try out Gran Turismo 6’s new GPS Data Logger functionality. We also got another surprise – the “full” version of the game was on display, and those of us at the event would be the first people outside of Polyphony Digital to get our hands on it.

In last week’s GT6 info blowout, a large collection of menu screenshots were released which show some of the game’s new features in action.

As you might have noticed when looking over the GT6 car list revealed last week, the game is set to feature one of the most significant and unique vehicles in the world universe.

Instead of waiting until the very end of this article to find the members responsible for this week’s featured images tucked away in the footnotes, I’ll save you the trouble of doing so, especially due to there being two individual images used for this auspicious occasion. The image of the 670-4 SV that greets you is another fantastic panorama put together by HaerBev, and the stellar image of the majestic Ferrari F40 belongs to The R!CE Guy.

Amazon.com and GT Academy have teamed up to giveaway a 2014 Nissan 370Z NISMO Coupe, with an approximate retail value of more than $43,000.

The 11th annual GT Awards were held in Las Vegas last night, where a car on display at SEMA was chosen to be included in a future Gran Turismo game.

Gran Turismo 6 may be closing in, but there’s still life left in GT5 and that much is proven with the availability of this week’s latest Seasonal Events, featuring a series of five expert level racing events exclusive to Japanese Kei cars with no more than 355PP and no better than Comfort/Soft compounds or less.

The 2013 Gran Turismo Awards are at SEMA in Las Vegas this week, and the finalists have just been revealed.

Uh oh! A bit of drama may be in the works regarding the Nissan DeltaWing in Gran Turismo 6.

As part of yesterday’s GT6 info blowout, Polyphony Digital released a short trailer which highlights the game’s new weather system, time transitions, and astronomical simulation features.

The official Gran Turismo website has just been updated today with an information blowout, highlighting some of the major new features of the game:

The official Gran Turismo 6 car list has been revealed, featuring nearly 1,200 cars which will be appearing in the game.

Another new car carrying the special dark blue 15th Anniversary livery has been announced at SEMA 2013 in Chevrolet’s latest press release.