Yamauchi provided a summary of what's known about GT HD so far, including the split in modes between classic and premium. Just to avoid confusion, we'll repeat the details here. Classic mode is GT4 in high definition and with a few additional visual enhancements. The mode will be playable exclusively through downloadable cars and tracks. Premium mode is a single player preview of Gran Turismo 5, featuring a full-fledged PS3 graphics engine and detailed tracks and car models.
YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared two videos, showing Gran Turismo HD Concept and Yakuza: Dead Souls running on the PC thanks to the best PS3 emulator, RPCS3. While emulation is not perfect yet, these two titles can be described as a bit playable at this point.
Revealed late last month, the Gran Turismo clothing range is now available to purchase in the UK. The launch of the Gran Turismo Boutique marks the arrival of a sleek range of clothing inspired by the Real Driving Simulator, with a unique collecting of t-shirts, jumpers, jackets and more priced from £20 - £169.
As long as these jackets don't have pixelated smoke :)
The premium stuff is gonna look great though :)
Some nice stuff, but it seems a bit overpriced..
And there isn't much to show that there even from a GT clothing range other than a tiny logo at the bottom. Maybe I'll get the T-shirt for £20 though lol.
The jackets/coats look nice, but the t-shirts are a bit poor. Just plain t-shirts with GT logo sewn on.
Sony recently announced that Gran Turismo 5's release in Japan has been pushed back an additional month from it's March release.
The Goozex Report looks back at the Gran Turismo franchise, which revolutionized the gaming industry in 1998 with its amazingly fun and deep racing simulation.
But can the often-delayed grand daddy of racing games still hold its own more than a decade later, against a slew of highly-rated racing games that have put their own spin on the racing genre, like Forza Motorsport 3, GRiD, Project Gotham Racing 4, Burnout: Paradise, and Pure.
"But can the often-delayed grand daddy of racing games still hold its own more than a decade later, against a slew of highly-rated racing games that have put their own spin on the racing genre, like Forza Motorsport 3, GRiD, Project Gotham Racing 4, Burnout: Paradise, and Pure."
ANSWER:
GRAN TURISMO 5: PROLOGUE (overpriced demo of GT5) = 4mil+ sales
And GT5 has only been delayed once.
Judging by these comments, I don't think anyone is actually reading the article, which is very good.
Is GT still relavant? The 4+ Million people (including me) that bought the glorified GT5 demo, GT5P seems to think so. Hell, there probably isn't any other Racing Sim franchise on Consoles that can put up those kinds of numbers on a "Prologue" version of the full game.
"If GT5 is released in the coming months and doesn't offer a similar "accessiblilty" to a game like Forza Motorsport 3, will anybody outside of the hardcore simulation fans and Gran Turismo enthusiasts care?"
There really aren't that many people outside of hardcore sim fans and Gran Turismo enthusiasts that have bought GT games to begin with... I don't see why GT5 needs to be more "accessible" to any other audience because the franchise has been a 50+ million seller without it, and there's more than enough people that have consistently bought GT games over the years to ensure GT5 will be a major success.
GT is still VERY relavant, regardless of what any other competing Racing game does... the visual attention to detail and overall scale of every GT game, something that has yet to be matched by any other Racing Sim on consoles is just one of many things that make GT standout from above the rest.
so there it is, online is free because of this? That kinda sucks...I can't believe their charging for tracks and cars for this game, when it's not even a new release
And when one reads this about Forza 2 in the hands on:
"One excellent feature we witnessed was the car damage system. Slamming into a wall caused deformation on parts of the vehicle including tiny spider web cracks across the windshield. Another knock against the wall took the rear bumper clean off and damaged car parts that stayed on the course until the end of the race. When you completely total your ride it's possible to take pictures of the wreck and post them on Forza.net to be shared with the online world. Forza 2 is also being developed in conjunction with the soon to be released wireless racing wheel which features both force feedback and rumble."
A gamer knows Forza 2 is gonna own GT4 HD with the damage model, on graphics, on sounds, cars (which don't cost extra in Forza 2, you'll get them when you buy the game in contrary to GT4 which will drain dollars from you), rumble in the controller and force feedback in a racing wheel...
I heard the game itself is going to be incredibly cheap and they're just going to rely on microtransactions to make profit off of it. The article on ign says the game itself will only cost a few dollars:
http://ps3.ign.com/articles...
Hopefully this will make the wait for gt5 in 2008 a little more bearable. Until then at least we have this and Motorstorm.
You guy's don't be ridiculous. The Mart is right everybody knows Forza's the next-gen sim of choice the reviews prove it. Forza 2's gameplay will revolutionize next-gen racing sim gameplay. It's why only the hardest Sony gametrolls/Super-fanboys will defend it and say GT4 is better. Forza 3 in 2008-2009 will look real! it's the color" it's the mirror's it's so clear. lol
Why would the guy even speak. There wasn't a single positive statement in there. They even took the staggering 750+ cars and 50+ tracks available for download that were already put in negative light for being a pay item and made them worse by saying that they are only a play and don't exist. This game only has 51 items and they wouldn't even say how many of those are tracks, i say 5 which still leaves a horribly low number of cars.