Jokes were made when our inside man, amar212, first mentioned a track editor coming to GT5 more than a year ago. Today, he gets the last laugh, as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has confirmed “track creating and sharing”, “go-karting”, and a “weather system” is coming to the game in an interview posted directly on the official PlayStation UK website. Here’s the relevant portion of the article:
What can we look forward to when Gran Turismo 5 releases on PlayStation 3?
Gran Turismo 5 will offer gamers an experience more rich, more in-depth and more exciting than they might expect – even from a series as closely identified with innovation and invention as Gran Turismo. Not only will Gran Turismo 5 deliver an even more comprehensive set of cars and courses than gamers saw with previous iterations, it will also feature new game-enhacing graphical effects such as damage, night racing and weather.These innovations are twinned with the option to join millions of like-minded individuals globally within the Gran Turismo community and to find a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races. Who, where and what to drive is completely down to the individual.
This time around Gran Turismo is likely not just to be the definitive driving experience but a definitive gaming experience full stop.
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Complex String,you will reborn in GT5,the track creator is one of the best things on this masterpiece.
If Go-karting is in this, I hope the karting place in Kent (London) named Buckmore Park is in it. I absolutely love the look of that track.
Will ken blocks car be in it, or the airport he goes around. that would be brilliant not to mention the weather changes and Track creator
GT5 Track Editor is very cool and intresting and could well be the abilty to connect any corner from any track together to create your dream circuit takeing into acount that these will only be corners from the tracks featured in the game. also i think you’ll be able to adjust the cambers and gradient of the bends and straights. I cant say this is true but what i can see the track editor being like on a game of this quality.
some one make the parkling lot drift track from tokyo drift
I cant believe this game is going to be only $60(for the game only)I think with all the features we are getting that it would be worth $100 plus.
SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE SOME NASCAR TRACKS THAT ARE NOT IN GT5
Firstly, glad to hear about the track editor, let’s hope it’s sweet! You know what I would really love to see though, even though I’m 99.9% sure it won’t happen, is the ability to download data from races/free practice to motec. How cool would it be to analyze A) your driving, B) the setup of the car with motec? I know pc sims like rFactor have this capability, and think it would be absolutely rad to see it in GT5. But yeah, I’m not getting my hopes up..
I think the track editor was expected as part of Sony’s campaign about “Play. Create. Share.” Obviously, the track editor covers this campaign.
when they say that all cars will have working lights. it would be cool if the skyline pace car had working emergency lights
as in so many other things with Gt5 news, we will have to wait to see what it is all about, before we go to conclusions on how these things works, weather system can be limited as we know that Kaz pointed out, that we shouldn’t get our hopes up for a total volumetric weather system :O) and regarding the Track editor, it would be anything from wast creations to very limited editing.. Lets wait for a 100% info on how it works and on how it will be useful, same goes for the weather system, is it only for visual effect or will it be a Driving effect..
I have my concern on how low they will go with this version of GT5, to get as much people to buy it, it’s not a 12+ game any more, it’s a 3+ <– That scares me a bit
But don't get me wrong, I would love to have some professional approach to the matters of weather system and Track editor, and they have the skills to make it unique, but we can't be sure,about what they end up doing with it.. sadly enough though! because we sure have been disappointed many times in this long waiting ..
All this talk about Yoshida telling lies and spewing misleading information – come on!
He is the PRESIDENT of SCE’s Worldwide Studios – don’t you think he knows everything everyone is doing all the time?
Kaz is just irritated that he spoiled the surprise, that’s all. Kaz wanted to spread all that info out between the Gamescom in August and the TGS in September.
Where could I find this tweet? I don’t see it on the twitter Honda site.
And since he is the President of SCE’s worldwide studios, aware of all, would spoil be the right word? He must’ve thought what Yamauchi chose to reveal wasn’t enough.
@Chad D i completely agree.. I want Akina :)
Akina/Haruna Downhill anyone? (for those who dont know, Mt. Haruna is what Akina in Initial D is based off of) i just wonder how elaborate the track editor will be, or if we can do Point to Point races, that would be awsome
We want rain.
That is all.
you didnt get the weather part did you dude? weather means rain, lol
So Kaz did not confirm the info? If it’s not true, oh boy, I am sure, he will be PISSED. Let’s hope the best, but I can’t believe it until I see it.
worth the wait
THEY NEED 2 FIX SFX!!!!!!!!!! e3 vids still show piss poor sound
I see KY isnt too happy with the leaks about GT5 and is putting the blame squarely at SCEE, rightly so. No suit should be tweeting unannounced features, it should be up to PD to announce them.
Well… I would like very much if a track creator is possible, but you must think as a programmer.
Developing a track editor for a console… all can be done. But it would be very very difficult to build a track like the PD ones.
You will need a keyboard or at least a mouse, like others said, or it will be very time consuming (or the playstation move!). And I think that it will be the same track editor that Poliphony uses, but streamed down.
And you will have memory limits for the track; you can’t put as much trees as you want or a track as long as you want, there will be system constrains, PD don’t want low quality things in it’s perfect game.
I think that this is very difficult to happen… I hope I’m wrong. (and excuse my english, I’m spanish).
i think it would install the tracks and the editor directly to the hard drive to limit the lagginess, and if they do, i’ll have to clear a bunch of stuff off of my ps3 to make room, i mean, gt4 took up about hal of my memory card on the ps2, i cant imagine how much space gt5 will take, but yeah, i dont think it could be that elaborate, i mea, with all that they put on the disk already, it be hard to fit something like this on an almost full disk
how do you guys think GT5 will stack up to RFactor and iRacing in terms of physics? with all this talk about features it seems the most important one is being over shadowed. I hope to god the physics are better than GT5TT otherwise all is lost for me. yes i can see how the cars react in the new vids but watching is not like playing it. so i guess we will just have to wait and see. GT 4ever!
It’s a simulator, so the physics will be correct to real life. (I assume)
I’m guessing KY is super pissed at this guy for putting impossible expectations in people’s heads with the vague mention of a track editor. There’s no way GT5 can live up to all the dreams this statement put in everyone’s heads. Even though I’m a natural skeptic, I still couldn’t help but think how awesome it would be to recreate parts of the PCH, or the Hana Highway in Maui.
In any case GT5 will be amazing, I’m sure PD will nail this.
Trackeditor = music editor?
I don’t think so. :P
i heard that we can add our own music to the game, like MLB the show, so that we can hear it on the menu and in game, but i dont quite see what you mean by music editor
I hope they have time to put the Lexus LFA in there!!!
Think he had mentioned it in an interview. and an another note, the test driver just died in a LF-A Nurburgring edition crash. Sad news.
This will take some time to process; quite overwhelming. Make.Believe. so the SONY saying goes.
200 premium cars never sounded more satisfying, as with the other 800 little gems(all you need is the outside of the car for photomode, expressive possibilities galore). And imagine the photomode possibilities with creating your own track!
I don’t even care about recreating a real track, leave that to PD to keep it official. All it needs to do is let us modify typography a bit, provide a wide variety of trees, customize the curbs and the rest is good puzzle pieces with some basic editing for infinite possibilities. Nothing PD can’t handle. Not to worry about AI either; ‘create AND share’, meaning only friends will be able to race on your track.
The only thing to worry about is how one could possibly commit to any one track to get their truly best time!
$5 says that if the track editor is for real, there will be people making nascar tracks that arent in the game, lol, trust me, i’m part of the community for a game called Nascar Racing 2003 season, deffinitely one of the best nascar games, way better than EA ever made, and they’ve made 1000’s of tracks, i just cant imagine what some of thoe guys could do on gt5 if its as elaborate as the one program someone made to be able to make tracks for nr2003, though i doubt it, nr2003 is a computer game, still though, i’m interested to find out about it, i just wish they’d give details and gameplay of it, that’ll happen in a month or two i bet if its real
I just really hope they have put hot hatches in the game. I know they already have a few; Focus ST, GTI, Type R.
Some SEATs and VXRs would be good? And maybe the new Audi S3?
I reckon they will have the new GOLF-R.
But oh well. Even if there isn’t, Im sure they’ll some AMGs for me to throw around the tracks. BRING ON THE C63!
mirors windos doors can break inntern extern damage
What I never really understood is where the rumours about “interior damage” came from and what does it exactly mean ?
Dashboards breaking, steering-wheels bending or what ?
The concept of “interior damage” is the reason why I believe that the statement – “Standard cars won’t have interiors” – doesn’t have anything to do with cockpit. Since the premium cars will have body panels falling off, I belive “interior” simply means behind any exterior panel. This can be under the hood, underneath the car, behind the fenders, bumpers, etc. To me, this makes much more sense than interior damage meaning dash, steering wheels, etc. like you said. This would also fit the whole reason why standard cars don’t have “interior damage” because they don’t have any panels falling off to show the “interior”
But at the end of the day, none of us KNOW for sure so we can only hope.
Nice work PD! Hopefully this proves to people that only a small % of premium cars was due to other dev time. Still wouldn’t mind all cockpit views though :P
SOOOOOOOOO HORNY FOR ALL THISSSSSS
the same as f1 2010 or beter
Hopefully, weather will be more than just clouds in the sky.
Info is legit folks. Kaz’s latest tweets tell us he’s disappointed in this info being leaked so soon. I’m staying off this site for awhile as I want some surprises left.
Not me. :)
Kaz? Which one? Hirai or Yamauchi?
Seems to depend on which translation you read. The same tweets has also been interpereted to say that kaz isn’t sure the stuff is going to be there and therefore is upset it was leaked so soon. Only time will tell.
2 e3 videos hints for weather the sls and rally stage moving clouds
The YAMAUCHI said about this info,
but he said “I do hope so the weather system in GT5” and
“I didn’t promise anything about that in E3.”
“I can’t understand SCEE, why they do that.”
(I don’t speak english sorry)
Source – http://twitter.com/Kaz_Yamauchi
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Back on the track editor,
How about an “import from Google maps” option.
*Load up google maps,
*Trace and outline your track.
*Select start/finish line.
*Click generate.
GT5 generates the track based on info from google maps,
then you just drag and drop some buildings and trees (or auto populate) and you can race around your own neighbourhood???
Nice, really nice idea.
How about also add spaceships and i dunno, guns and such.
I really wanna race around to solar system and destroy some newbs…
Yeah guns would be cool to!
I think gt-forza was messing with you, MUD… I like the idea about Google Maps, but I don’t think the tech is caught up to the idea. It would be too inaccurate.
i guess MUD is also messing with gt-forza…
maybe I’m dreaming,
surely it can trace the streets and get a basic layout though? It would be much easier to recreate existing, real world tracks this way.
I reckon GT9 could have this feature when its released in 2030
MUD: You could probably just get a basic layout, but it isn’t going to recreate the buildings and such around the roads. I don’t know, maybe I am just being pessimistic. If the tech was right, you might get something decent out of it. Nothing of track scanned quality though.
This would not work.
There is elevations in tracks which not be recorded.
Also, tracks are businesses. You cannot legally re-create them without their permission.
You can model stuff all you want, but you can’t sell it for profit, or in some cases distribute it at all, depending on the media used. Many vehicles, places, and such get modeled for MS flight sim, and by and large nobody cares has long has its given away free. Heck, some of it gets sold for profit without anyone caring either.
F1 2010 weather system in GT5 the real simulation
Lets all wait until Gamescom conference in August where hopefully we’ll see this stuff in action
ADR_XCLUTCH ? what standard car you the corvette its a premuim
Like the 1000 cars with cockpitvieuw, after years whe believe that all the cars have cockpit, now everyone is disappointed wait until its confirmed by ky self
Yeah even previous articles itself it was mentioning all standard/premium cars will have interior views. The only difference the premium will only have interior damage. And i don’t thinks it’s a creator. It’s just an editor. We have to wait and see.
Trust me. All cars will have cockpit views because the E3 DEMO showed standard cars with cockpit views.
That’s incorrect, ADR_XCLUTCH. No standard cars have been included in any GT5 demo.
well unless there is information lost in translation, he clearly says : “creating and sharing your own track”
Jordan: Didn’t the magazine article from the OPM say something about all cars having a cockpit view? I know it was wrong about the Indy cars, but maybe the other info is correct. It did say about weather, head tracking and night racing. We seen night racing already, and weather is confirmed by this story so maybe the only error was with the Indy cars.
… Sorry. I just don’t like the idea of only 200 cars having cockpit views and not the other 800…
wsoul, there is a very strong possibility that every car WILL have interiors, just the 200 premium cars will have 100% accurate interiors, the rest of the field will have the plain black interiors that GTPSP had.
But that is only conjecture…
aelange: That is what I was thinking truthfully. Everyone else seems to think there won’t be any cockpits for the other 800.
yeah what shazam say is treu its a simple editior not a track creator dont expect to much
To add to the above…if its simply creating a kart track, that would be simple AI cause in kart you can’t really attack a track its mostly car control so all the AI would need to know it that there is a left turn or a right turn… It doesn’t really need a lot of data to know how to drive the track at all.
If you attempted to create a track like Texas which is a simple oval in Nascar the system would only be able to run against the line and wouldn’t know that it could use a high line or how to approach the track in a different way… If there was a complex braking point like at Road America or Mid-Ohio you simply don’t have enough resources with the PS3 to make that work.
WTF, I’m so going to create a 70 km long Test Course track so we can finally see how much our fastest cars can reach !
Though I am far from saying this is BS… I think its far from the extent some think it is. I think at best its a Go Kart track or the ability to change the current tracks.
Building a track is far more detailed than just creating a layout and such…The CPU would need to understand how to race on that track and exactly what the racing line is.
Typically it takes time to perfect a the inner details of a track that are far beyond what a track looks like.
I’m still stoked about all of this and can’t wait, but I don’t see us having the ability to create a track to the level some think.
Why would the CPU need to understand how to race the track and what the racing line is? I’m pretty sure the physics are predetermined for each car and the racing line is the drivers choice. I do agree though that to create a track properly it is far beyond the ability of the PS3 and user itself, I mean there is sophisticated development software needed to do this. I could see PD having contests to take the best ideas and turn them into reality. There’s no way a person could accurately recreate any track to the standards of GT. To consider each meter and it’s elevation difference you have to be on the track itself and take thousands of variables. Just having a drawing of a track is far from enough.
hope you can create donington :),also,i liked the previous site look better.
What great news! Kaz is really delivering all the goods this time around! May not ever need a GT6 in my life!
Can’t wait for this game
I also doubt it very much. I want it to be true so badly, but honestly: I don’t think PD could do this all in 5 years and with the astonishing amount of detail we’ve seen so far. Not even those guys are that good. If I’m wrong I’ll first of all change religion to PolyphonyDigitalism and secondly have no friends at all. Starting November 2nd and ending when GT6 comes out (in which case I won’t have any friends for a long time again). Damn it!
People are really ignorant, seriously.
By track editor they simply mean that you can edit the shipped tracks that PD created.
And by edit i mean to simply change time of day, maybe weather, maybe number of participants and spectators,
Simple things like this .. which is great.
But a fully fledged track editor where you can create your own tracks ? nop, not going to happen.
All those who really expecting to create tracks are really going to get extremely disappointed.
You’re right that it probably won’t be a full-blown track editor, but surely it’s more than that. If this guy is the truth, having things like day, weather, spectators changed for a track wouldn’t be worth sharing online, would it? That’s more like track options, rather than editor.
How can you possibly know this? In all honesty there’s more evidence pointing to what we think than to what you do but at the end of the day nobody knows to what extent it will be given to us.
Comments like yours are just childish and are basically saying something is fact because you think it!
Steady_Dave_2JZ :
I know nothing, only expressing my opinion using common sense.
I also think you should get back to reality or you’ll be very disappointed on November 2.
There’s no evidnece pointing to what you think, you simply think what you want to and try to back it up with some imaginary evidence…
What they said is that there’s gonna be some kind of track editor and for all you and me know it can be exactly what i described.
Bye child.
+1 for shazam. I absolutely agree with you. I bet it’s cones or barriers on the already available tracks.
umm…direct quote : “…creating and sharing your own track”
If that is true then yes we will be able to CREATE our own track…plus this goes with Sony’s philosophy of Play,Create,Share…u best believe their flagship game will incorporate it!
is there drag racing ?????????????????????
Everyone is dreaming! Better to remain skeptical I say.
Agreed, like I said up there part of me wants to just punch the air and go off on a day dream of the tracks we could see and make, but like a man who has had his fair share of Sh*t going south… I’ll believe this when I see videos or on my own TV. I’m still expecting each day for there to be an announcment saying the article was false and theyre sorry for causing any confusion. Its almost to bad that theres such secrecy surrounding this game that we all cant just relax and enjoy all the news we get.
I have been in the sceptical department for 5 long GT-less years now.
Least you are guaranteed that you won’t be dissapointed.
There is just no-way you could build a Donnington and for it to look real etc! It applies to Kart-tracks, surely!
I wonder if Jordan has ever been contacted by PD directly.. Does anyone know how Amar obtained accurate insider information 6+ months ago?
I no longer question GT5’s features, just gtplanet’s affiliation with PD. :)
can I just ask. For those of you who are half decent at creating tracks and stuff what will you make. I would really like to see a good ole’ british track. Goodwood or snetterton.
I doubt you would be able to create a real track with 100% precision. In order to do that, you will have to use a very sophisticated graphic program.. I think that they just made something maybe less complicated than 3dsmax build inside GT5 ;)
Noone knows, if the track editor works for all tracks or maybe only for Kart-tracks.
And if it works for all car classes and tracks, you are maybe able to create real track layouts, but not the real environment. Cause you cannot import self build objects on PS3, if you haven´t the development kit.
Sony only mentioned, there will be a track editor. How should we know, how it works and how complex it is.
This question is just superfluous
This is the stuff I want: http://www.strima.se/visa.php?f=4b21fae3b3f75
Looks Amazing
you forgot track editor
anybody thought that maybe that track editing tool works with the tracks that are in the game? maybe some tracks have different layouts and you’ll be able to make your own layout within that track and not just make totally new race track?
01.Night/Day transition
02.Stunt Arenas
03.32 player online lobbies
04.16 player online races
05.Spectator mode
06.Weather
07.200 PS4 cars and 800 standard cars
08.Nascar license
09.WRC license
10.Super GT license
11.Rolling and damage (eerily real weight)
12.1st person walkabout photo mode
13.YouTube uploading
14.Full 1080p, PS Eye headtracking
15.Motion controls
16.HDMI 1.4 Stereoscopic 3D @ 60fps
17.Split-screen
18.Best graphics in any driving game (lighting, physics 19.driven smoke, attention to detail..etc)
20.Real life tracks recreated in maddening quality(up to 2 year dev times)
21.20+ locations with 70+ variations
22.PSP Connectivity
23.Go karts to Rally to classics to sport to Drag car, ordinary cars…etc etc etc
24.Animated drivers, handling and gear shifts, pit crews, tire changes etc
25.Custom soundtrack
26.Text and Voice chat
27.Narrative involvement by popular drivers and Top Gear crew
28.Top Gear Test Track
29.Open free-form Track Days
30.GT Life (career mode, this time with earth map and real time clock) & Arcade mode
31.Profile pages
32.In-game (bulletin-board) message boards
33.Gran Turismo Video store (Top Gear Show has 350+ million viewers)
tats why we wait 5 years!!
I dunno about everyone else, but 5 years is time well spent :)
with all of these features, the possibility of not having cockpit on all cars doesn’t really bother me
Narrative by top gear?
…top gear narrative? wow! i am now insanely in love with this game!
It’s not actually true HDMI 1.4, the PS3 is HDMI 1.3a but has had the Stereoscopic 3D Standards of 1.4 updated by firmware.
Just nitpicking :)
I need this game in my life!
Wow the news has been great the last few weeks. Now the world needs to know so this game can sell close to 10 million copies. We need August to get here so we can see:
1. More damage “little pieces”
2. Customization
3. Weather details
4. Better tire wear
5. Details on track editor
6 Team racing
7. Go karting
8. Details on stunt arena
9. Details on WRC and more NASCAR
10. More videos on PSN showing walkthroughs of the above in HD.
Then they need to start working on the best advertising campaign with TV spots and Movie trailers.
I miss anything?
Yes!
11. The Collector’s edition in regions the usa has never heard of (Europe, Asia) ;)
12. “standard” car gameplay, so we can stop guessing
13. point to point rally
13. custom pit-stop (choose tires, fuel, aerodynamics,…)
that are the things I could think of right now…
14. Official car list
15. Official track list
16.Official PREMIUM car list (I wonna know for what cars Im actually buying the game).
17.Rain,snow,fog.
18. exhaust flame
19. confirmation on improved engine sfx
20. the amount of bluerays the game will actually come on
21. details on the ‘undisclosed feature
22. eu release date
23. gameplay of the stunt arena
24. proper confirmation of the whole cockpit deal.
25. lexus lf a, aston dbs, aston 0ne-77, ferrari 599 gto, mclaren mp4-12 c
26. Veyron gameplay
27. Full length interview with Kaz not anyone else
These are all i really want to know about
The go-karts part can make up for some more of the 70 ‘variations’. For example Spa (if it will be in) and Le Mans have a go-kart track. And probably dozens of other real life tracks have them too.
they do? never knew that
Well , I expect it to be similar to LFS track “editor” , if you can call it in this way , when they give you a huge parking lot-like space ( Autocross in LFS..) and then you can add various objects , like barriers and cones to create your own track/route…. its simple and awesome
What can be better than racing on your own created track with your own, one of a kind, costumized car……
Do you really need me to tell you that?
Maybe it’s limited to creating go-kart tracks only.
400 comments wow :)
I wouldn’t be so sure, there have been many inaccuracies in these interviews. The features are not as clear cut. Like he doesn’t say “there will be a track editor” he just mentions sharing your tracks.
“Creating and sharing your own track” sounds pretty clear-cut to me.
For me, track creating might be misconstrued as something like the ability to create custom races – rather than building your own tracks.
Either that, or the track creation may be limited to go karting tracks only so that it keeps it simple?
Saying that, to actually implement a very basic track editor would be relatively simple. The user creates the track akin to building a Scalextric, and choose from a preset surroundings type (City, Trees etc.)
Very much looking forward to the finished product though.
Trackcreator is awesome because now you can recreate real tracks which aren’t in the game and kartingcircuits and rallystages from the wrc championship or just from stages of rally’s in your own country. Awesome! I can now practice the rally before driving in it, so no need to listen to the navigator
heres to go karting the nurburgring! lol :D
Haha good call!
One lap would be a 24 hour race.
Almost…
I don’t think you understand how fast professional Go-Karts are!
I’m betting they will be a lot faster round the ring than quite a few cars in the game!
Steering wheel view on the go-kart, yes or no?!
Here is the guy who is quoted in this article: http://us.playstation.com/corporate/about/management/shuheiyoshida/index.htm
Given that write-up – I doubt that there will have been any mistranslation issues here – he’s US based and probably speaks better English than any of you lot.
There’s no way in hell they will let you create a track with anywhere near the level of detail as the tracks made by PD. As others have said I’ll wait for more info before getting excited.
thats the exact reason why i dont think there will be an editor :/ Kaz wouldnt want anything less than spectacular in a gt game. and to have edited tracks made by users with no where near the details? i think not. but we will see
this is amazing :)
guys .. how about making Grindewalk !!
GRINDELWALD – yes, but a more sunny atmosphere this time. Old Grindelwald was too grey. Didn’t like it for that reason
actually
it was cool with the cloudy weather
I have good memories of Grindelwald. Together with a friend of mine we kept long races with pit stops there.
And that means the game will take one more year to make!!!!!
Not that I am against karts, stunt arenas and track editor, but….All these should have been in GT6 in 2011 when we would have played GT5 (GT4 with updated cars a private online races) for 3 years….
Anyway, I have never wanted winter to come so badly
GT5 will be the end of all racing/drifting/rally/whatever driving games. Karting is a nice addition that I think No one expected.
Just wish We could fast forward time in some way .. just till Nov 1st ;)
Actually, Kart Racing and making up your own areas to race around has been speculated and talked about for ages. Nothing new here, and just another gimmick to add to the list and reasons why it has taken so long to develop. I’m sure almost all of us would have been happy with 400 premium cars, cockpit view, day/time cycle, a bit of weather, and a solid online game. They could have had the game out a year ago easily, raking in the money, and be well on their way to GT6 which includes even more cars, tracks, track editor etc. This franchise is trying to become a jack-of-all-trades. Reminds me of Codemasters.
I’ve been pessimist and pissed with the delays, but the track editor justifies all of them for me :) Just hoping there’s no more delays now
@dave-o: have you tested LBP’s editor?
20 “locations” and 70 track variations.
Makes more sense now with the possibility of a track editor.
i hope locations mean countries and varations just men different tracks. 20 is a tiny number
People, it is a track EDITOR, probably not a CREATOR.
The editor may let you add certain things to a track and change it a little bit, but I don’t think you can create one.
“creating and sharing your own track”
I think you failed to read that part :p
Where is amar212 when he is needed. Maybe he will tell us something about bikes?!?
I hope not
its a car racing sim, not bike racing. on top of that how are you going to get the real feel of a bike when you have to use the controller? at least you have a steering wheel with cars…am i right?
@philmangt Maybe two PS move controllers… thats where the move compatiblity is coming in HAHA :P
My past experience with any kind of “editor” that allows the user to do what the developers do is always a disappointment and really frustrating to use. I guess we will see. However I really welcome the weather. Now all I need to hear about is “racing rules” (e.g. drive through penalties for knocking competitors or blatant corner cutting) and GT will be the complete package
I hope they get penalties right this time ’round. In GT5P, even if you’re a clean driver, you accidentally rub panels the wrong way and bam! you can get a penalty very easily.
And a lot of the cheaters know the best short cuts that give them more time than the penalties take away!
The worst thing is a fast cheater…
cool i have pre ordered
mabe they saw the meltdown on this site after the standard car issue, and now they leaked this new info to make up! :-) thanks to all the whiners! GT5 FTW
Well its too soon to get excited… but with the track editor thing. could we possibly make our own point to point rally stage that we’ve always been hoping for???
http://ps3.uk.playstation.com/news/detail/item285382/
It’s here now- link in GTP story above doesnt work.
Hm, that link doesn’t work. Regardless, the one I posted in the story above appears fine on my end.
I get a big fat “404 – Page not found” when I try to read the news story.
Is this news taken down??
No, it isn’t.
November 2nd will feel like an early Christmas Day!
What would suck is if you could make a track and use it on your PS3, but couldn’t upload it anywhere and no one could download tracks. That’s the kind of thing that’ll frustrate the hell outta everyone.
I think people are getting excited too soon.. until its officially confirmed by kaz, or PD don’t take this too seriously.
Or at least wait for a demo/trailer.
Very true. i dont want to get my hopes up to be let down. Ill wait ’til the Kaz man himself says so.
my personal opinion though. weather, i think thats a definite possibility. But track editor, not likely… it just seems like it would be to complex especially for it to be the kind of quality that Kaz would consider acceptable
Does weather means ? like gt4 wet tracks ,, stated weather ,, dynamich weather , the best weather i ever seen is in f1 2010 you can really see the rain drops ,
Weather gt5 , 24 hours race , rally stages , rain , wind , fog , snow
I think the track editior is simple build, roads , gras, trees , why it takes 2 years to create a premuim track well its so accurate everything buildings , roads to 10cm accurate , like nuburgring road paints are so accurate and update
“Third tale says that for the first time ever skypaths will not be just solid and already known but that new skypaths will be built by birdtamers from the parts of existing skypaths.”
Sounds to me like we may get to mix and match. e.g. transplant Laguna’s corkscrew into Daytona’s backstretch :)
Can someone enlighten me about the weather?
I mean for example lets say you’re racing in Daytona circuit
does the game look at the weather in Daytona, Florida and change it accordingly? or what?
Noone knows, so we can’t enlighten you.
I now know why there will be no track editor…
If it takes PD 2 years to make the rome circuit, then there is definitely not going to be a track editor. At least not that complicated. If anything, it will be like building a map on stracraft (standardized trees, terrain, etc).
If you watch the gt5 e3 2010 trailer look starts from 20 sec , i see clouds moving shadows , or wind waving gras rally stage tuscana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfBf_sAz5Y
That could be just a cinematic though.
I think finally i can make my own dream track. I have like more then 20 track layouts sketch out to the smallest details. ( i know i sound very nerdy right know) But have my own racing circuit was always ma dream. ;-)
What i have read is that use you can maunuel , use horn low, high beams , if ther is dynamich weather i think you can use wipers in cockpitvieuw ,, if ther is weather ther will be also snow for rally stages , and wind , fog
I would just use the track editor to make a long as hell drag strip! qaurter mile, and 2 mile drag strip..
But might take the liberty to create a nice track also.
With weather comes, rain, dark clouds, storms, wipers. lets hope the wipers have made it onto the game to,
Weather is a must for simulation , track editior i think its a confusion modnation racers
This sounds too good to be true. I bet track editor means, putting cones and barriers on the track, or choosing how many people are observing, OR, choosing the day time and weather.
OH. MA. GAWD. :DDDDDD
hope this will include creating rally stages and i hope it lets me make a top speed oval. if this stunt arena is for real and be combined with the track editor then imgine taking a veyron a straight long enough to crack 250 mph and putting a ramp at the end cool or what? forza is going to be left by the wayside when this hits the shops and nothing turn 10 can respond with could better it. if GT5 couldn’t be made for 360 because its too advanced for it how long before turn 10 jumps ship and makes forza 4 on ps3. That would be a definition of the best of both worlds
keeps getting better, if standard cars had cockpit view this would have been a perfect game to me but that’s stuff from the past and the game is just about as perfect as it gets…
@ ekans its funny you don’t believe this and you say Kaz would be upset at this leak of info…comeon look wat happened with 3D implementation and dynamic time change why wouldn’t this be possible I mean seriously some people say the game took 5 years to make but didn’t it actually take 7 because I thought Sony developers got ps3 tech kits in October of 2003 pd has stated there still fine tuning things till the release date right so that makes it seven years and in opm interview also said 10 years in planning so technically they had it laid out after the release of GT3 but I digest…I think this is true because at the simple fact that there’s people at Sony that goes above even kazunori like this Mr.Yoshida kazunori is just the pres of polyphony kazunori is NOT pres of any Sony operations plus don’t you think they know that he’s just a LITTLE ocd? Maybe they think he’s also a little obsessive with business decsions???
Can anyone tell me what they mean by “go-karting”?
Go-karting means that when you buy the game, you have to go away and kart – outside your house, for hours. otherwise the game blows up and you die
yhh thats true, i read it
I’m guessing by your sarcasm that the game will actualy feature go-karts. thanks for the help.
If the tools made available to the user, when it comes to creating tracks, are very user friendly and comprehensive, this could be a masterstroke and stretch the longevity of this game well into the end of the ps3’s life or until apossible sequel on th ps3.
Like I said, it’s all about the tools made available to the user. I have had some ideas rolling in my head for track layouts since this feature was first rumoured.
I have faith in PD, as all the news is getting better and almost everything I thought possible is being fulfilled
You know after thinking about his I think this is fake. I mean wouldn’t the GT5 Official site say anything about this!? I don’t know but something sounds fishy
it does sound too good to be true. but its probably true, since it has been rumored before. i hope its not a fake. this would make up for the 800 standard cars problem.
WOW the best news since E3!!!!!!!!!! And weather! I thought that was all GT6!
Why why?? I don’t care about “Track Editor Confirmed” I want my other 700 cockpite views!!!
having 1000 premium cars would be nice, but they won’t add as much to the experience as a track editor (a complex one, i hope). imagine building your own tracks, like destruction derby, drifting, or anything crazy that is different then regular gt tracks. probably building both the track editor and fully detailed cars was a little too much for this release, so they chose the track editor. it adds something different to the sim-racing genre. I’ll take that over 1000 cockpit, anytime.
*actually are
“You’ll have the option to synchronize the game’s time of day with the track’s current local time.” – With weather confirmed, maybe we’ll have the option of synching that too?
It would be great to be able to race on tracks as they actually at that moment. I don’t think it’s impossible and it would be very cool.
That’s really great news, in my opinion, one of the weakness of the GT series was the lack of tracks when comparing with the insane amount of cars that Polyphony Digital always was proud to show.
A track editor/creator is the key to allow an unlimited amount of tracks in a game and extend the playability to the infinite.
For the skeptics about track edition/creation in a console with some decent results, here’s a video showing this tool in the “V-Rally 2” game for PSX, by the way, it’s an eleven years old game, so let your imagination fly on what Polyphony Digital in a PS3 can make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elJC0VE8LE
Go to 2’33 timeline to see the tool in action.
That wasn’t very confidence inspiring, but good for a laugh!
@BWX… At least we agree on something lol
Jordan
Well yeah, but put is, so more people will see it with a first glance as they come to your gtplanet webpage. And it would be good to have a bar like you normally put on some decisions.
You can put it into the sidebar, so it won’t “cover” the news, but also, so it will be shown. You can go to http://www.testdriveunlimited2.com/ and go down and just see the example of this ! :D Thanks for replying Jordan !
I’m DON’T believe this news at all. Misinterpretations are common place between language to language to language. There are many projects Sony is overtaking, misinformation is bound to happen at some point. If true, i bet Kaz would be angry at this leak of information. Holding my breath, as well as the release date also. I don’t want to feel stupid believing something that is not true and allow for GT to break my heart. I’ll believe it once this news comes out Kaz’s mouth.
This man has been based mostly in the USA, i don’t believe there’s a language to language misinterpretation. However I’m finding it hard to understand the timing of spilling this massive bucket of beans right after E3. Was there an agreement to release these secrets to the public or is this a major case of “damn you weren’t supposed to tell anyone about this” when he gets a call from Kaz and company. The timing of this is truly surprising.
As per my comment earlier, I think they released this info to take the heat off the standard car issue everyone seems to have.
lol Mike.
This game is turning out to be completely awesome, every single feature i’ve ever wanted is in there, and more
Funny thing is I remember the producer in that video with ign saysing go karting but then he quickly changed what he was saying.
Meh. Have they confirmed skidmarks yet?
Who cares…time to wake up, Mike. Get your head out from under a rock.
Erm a lot of people care!
It’s such a simple feature that adds so much to the realism of a game, I can’t understand why a so called perfectionist cannot see their importance!
Not when everybody’s excited about freaking awesome news, just to have some dork come in and say “meh”….screw that.
Suck it up, Princess.
Track editor > Skidmarks
Weather > Skidmarks
REVERSE LIGHTS > Skidmarks
Beautiful smoke affects > Skidmarks
Gravel on my shoe > Skidmarks
Perspective.
Track editor > Skidmarks
Weather > Skidmarks
REVERSE LIGHTS < Skidmarks
Beautiful smoke affects = Skidmarks
Gravel on my shoe < Skidmarks
More Perspective.
Oh yeah!! I can’t still believe this!! I just came to GTP to see if there were any news, because I won’t be here for 4 days, and I see this! Oh, crap, I don’t wanna go now!! lol. But, I’m a bit skeptical about this, especially whatpeople are saying about MNR. Anyway, these are great news!
Wow, i didnt know that Jordan :) Thanks for the reply and information! :)
Stunt Arena =Gymkhana… check out Ken Block.
This is great news if true….. and not a misinterpretation on sonys part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fm5VkSTyA
Oh my God! This is the first time ever I’ve missed skid marks
Very interesting news, I bet Sony and PD decided to release this info to try and take the heat out of the standard / premium car issues alot of GT fans have. Weather effects will be great, hopefully dynamic, with the option to turn them on or off.
“Who, where and what to drive is completely down to the individual.” I think the word WHO at the start of that sentence is very interesting. Is it implying that we will be able to use characters? Possibly like Nintendos much loved Mii system? the plot thickens!
I hope you are right, but I suspect “Who” refers to the ability to set up races with your friends. Therefore it is who you race against as opposed to who you race as.
Hopefully I am wrong on that – I’ve been wrong before.
honestly i don’t know why people are worried about standard and premium cars, because no one expected this news or go-karts at all. I have full confidence in Kaz to deliver the best game EVER and everyone else should to
If you think on the stunt editor, you have to keep in mind, that it is impossible to recreate real tracks like Silverstone, Brands Hatch or whatever.
Cause you need to use the existing objects in the editor and cannot recreate the real buildings of any track.
So it is possible to recreate the layout, but in most ways not the environments.
But that doosn´t not really matter in most parts. Because an editor is great and when I think on all those rally track, that could be created….wow.
I wouldn’t be so hyped up! It is great news… but we do not know exactly what it is behind it. It could be just creating a curve or slight modifying a track and not creating it from scratch. If we could create a track from scratch that would be great!!
Stunt racing makes sense think about Ken block and Travis pestrana and also think about the x games rally the jump cars around an arena and demolition derby is also considererd stunt driving and figure 8 racing so stunt driving is xompletely possible
… The floor of my basement tastes really good, but I should probably gather my jaw off the floor. I was a little upset about the lack of tracks but a track editor makes up for it big time. Would like to see how the editor works. Hope it is extensive enough to make professional looking tracks.
HEy is there any news on if we will be able to have our gt psp cars in gt5?!
That’s been confirmed a long time ago.
Indeed, so you have until November to stock up :D this was great news for me too :D
What a week!
All the news we’ve been receiving makes the wait worthwhile!
PD have actually been busy all this time we’ve been whining! XD
Hurry up November 2nd!!!
nice to know is confirmed…but I really thought it was unsecured info
Wow – finally.
As many of you aIready know, I have been on the weather badwagon [as well as driving it] for over a year now and I can’t fully express in words how much this makes me happy!
I also can’t tell you how excited I am to see the Gamescom GT5 trailer for the first weather footage!
GT5 now more than ever COMPLETELY owns the Forza series.
COMPLETELY. ;)
re: weather, Its pretty clear they invested a huge amount of time and resources into dynamic features. day/ night, particles interacting with light. I cant imagine PD is going with a static weather type, when so many racing games achieve this. GT games are always a long way ahead of its time. not just for cars but all comprising features.
Wouldn’t be suprised if PD actually made a large section of london, rome, madrid etc. and modelled individual streets. so we can make our own version of tracks from them. ala metropolis street racer.
especially when they claim each of these circuits took 2 years…
very excited about go karts. track creation is nice and will add further longevity for alot of people, but if this is the case you’d expect a livery editor.
Stunt mode i don’t get? perhaps a skid pan. but it just seems a little far fetched, and very un-GT.
also want online team racing. 12 players race online at once so 6 teams with each race be a dream expreince lol
You will be able to define your own password-protected online races with your friends, and you’ll be able to control all of the event’s regulations.
I guess from the above, it may be possible to do what you are after. Until we see the game and see what online ‘event regulations’ are available, we can only guess, lol.
man news just keeps getting better and better, only thing im hoping for now is a cokpit view with no HUD. that wud really make my day lol
yeah too much things we dont look at !!
I loved the ability to turn most of the HUD (and suggested gear) off in GT4. I hope that feature makes it in to GT5 as well.
That is such a simple thing for PD to implement but it would add so much to the realism.
Have been wanting to hear that info for ages, i play on a big tv with home theatre so watching the dials on the dashboard and listening to the revs is all i need.
A simple option to switch off HUD would make this game perfect, and save plasma when racing le man 24hrs at night without bright high-contrast HUD against the black sky for 7hrs
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG YEAHHHHHHHHHH !!!!
GOOD NEWS !!!!!!
In the first week this game will have been sold for MILION TIMES !!
remember remember the 2nd of november!
I’ll be the one recreating real tracks!
I won’t even play the game! : D
Fantasic news, this means we can have a drag strip aswell if somebody creates one :)
For some reason, everytime I hear someone talking about drag racing, it brings back nostalgic memories of Sega GT 2002. That, or the stupid drag races from NFS Underground… Guh… I couldn’t stand those damn races…
Sorry… Off topic. Custom drag racing tracks sound fun if there aren’t going to be obstacles and traffic all over the frickin’ track… Hopefully, there will be a point to point option for GT that allows for such a track.
Weather… *check*
Go-karting… ? cool… *check*
Track editor… “Holy crap!!!” *check checkedy check check check!!!
I’m pretty sure several bits of my brain imploded as I was reading that!
I really hope this is true and not another sony exec spouting hot air again.
Dear lord, Man Furismo Jive is gonna blow every other game into the weeds if this is done properly… And I’m never gonna leave the house again… EVER!!!
Read the article again and if we are to believe Shuhei Yushida, it does sound like there will be a track creator in the final product. Now, he said nothing of dynamic weather changes. Perhaps either “wet” or “dry” will just be options for an entire race. Although it was nice to see dynamic lighting changes last week at E3.
KY last week at E3 stated the the blu-ray disc was nearly completely full of information. How many video games are released with a full blu-ray of info? I’m sure not that many. That is a ton of data for a video game.
Given the actual state in which we receive news, and how they end up having small lettering, it wouldnt surprise me if they half ass this too.
Anyways that editor is either cone gymkhanas or a la PGR3, in which you trace a route in an enviroment is pretty cool anyway but see the previous paragraph
just realised….. the ‘menu’ of mnr has ramps and might be called a stunt arena where you can create tracks, BUT weather is the thing that throws me.
wats mnr?
Matt!!!: Mod Nation Racers
… I still have to pick that up…
ahhh!!! sorry
hmm dont think ill be getting that, got the ps3 for gt5 haha. if a game like mnr, lol, can incorporate a track editor i think a game such as gt5, thats been in production for much longer, can include somthing similar even if its a basic tool. god i cant wait :D
Matt!!!: It seems like a fun little arcade romp. Track designing in the demo was fun. Would be cool if GT5 had a more sophisticated and advanced version of the MNR track editor.
*Reads News Article*
*Checks Link*
*Faints*
GT5 FTW!
is b spec mode that was in gt4 confirmed for gt5?
I hope not
Hope so
Not doing a 24hrs race on my own. don’t get people’s problem with B-spec driver, the whole point was to have a co-driver for endurance races.
Just use him enough and his skills went up and he got faster and faster.
Can anyone explain their problem with B-spec drivers ??
well b spec mode isnt bad specially 4 long races such as le mans
Sorry but i still dont believe this. They would need more time to do this.
Jordan: Remember when Indy Cars were confirmed for GT5?
It was in some magazine which happened to be a mistake.
http://www.gtplanet.net/night-racing-weather-indy-cars-irl-confirmed-for-gt5/
Until Kazunori or an employee from PD or sony confirms this, im still sceptical.. Dont get me wrong, i wish this will be implemented more than anything else!
Oh yes, I remember it well. However, this is a little different. In addition to his position as CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida is actually on Polyphony Digital’s Board of Directors, along with Kazunori Yamauchi and Kaz Hirai. You can read more about his accomplishment and long-term affiliation with the GT series here.
Wow, nice insight Jordan. I thought the fact it was posted on Sony’s own site was the deciding ‘confirmed’ factor.
Being who he is, Yoshida likely wouldn’t be one to confuse the details of GT5 and ModNation Racers now would he?
That thought came to my mind also with the false Indy Series report. What I don’t understand is why they now reveal such massive news in this interview right after E3, I mean why not tell the world about about these amazing features there. I wonder who’s idea it was to just blow these big “secrets” out into the open now?? Is Sony finally now starting to understand that fans want information on the game and it’s development. I love suprises but this has just come out of nowhere but I wouldn’t have been suprised about undisclosed information being released a month or two before the release. The lengthy wait is all starting to make sense now…
It could still be a miss-translation.
@ terminator363.
http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/127/101040-translatorsan43_super.jpg
Are you saying you DON’T think “Translator-san” does a good job? :-D
P.S. I think the gt5 is simply going to be HUGE sim !!!
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,
24hrs of Le Mans in LMP1 COUPE at night with weather and 16+ cars.
It can’t get any better for me now. thats it….perfect.
especially when I alter my traction control or ASM and the hand moves to adjust it on the dashboard…we are getting that aren’t we?? ARE WE GETTING THAT?? NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! :)
Jordan. I think it’s is going to be a great idea to open a special page forthe suggestions threat. Like forum, tv, etc..
So like this people will vote for the thing that they would like to have in the game, and probably the producers will think more about gtplanets’ users, cos everybodywould like their ideasto be in their favorite game.
Thanks for your time.
Like this?
Hey Jordan I never knew about that before you just linked it. Why can’t I find that page myself without having to click on your link? Seems I can’t find it anywhere on the site. It should be much easier to find so on the chance PD do actually look at it. By the looks of it most of the ideas on there have come true…but it should still be easier to find.
Yes, that’s what i am exactly talking about. Bekim. Nobody even knows apart from Jordanb (and me) this page. Other people want to see it and PD probably too ?!?
I hope someone can build some nice tracks from GT1 or GT2 with track editor 8-)
How about PD bothering to do that…..
Amazing news.
I think PD just made the best driving sum in the world if this is all done correctly.
I always thought highly of the GT series, but will admit that I didn’t think it was the best Sim out there if you looked at games such as Nascar 2003 for the PC…If you don’t know the game has grown into a community and it has countless tracks and mods and to me is far above anything in the past and really anything I saw in the future.
With this update though, I think GT has hit a new level. If PD is smart, what we will be buying on November 2nd will just be a platform and with the addition of DLC (including countless cars, tracks and series) in addition to user created tracks…you could easily have a game, like Nascar 2003 was to the PC with limitless potential that will simply never get dated!
GT5 could be huge! And could change the way we game from that day forward! I know I would continue to put money into DLC and such for years!
that game looks terrible
It doesn’t look too bad, and it owns the GT series for realism!
“Last edited by amar212; Nov 02 2009 at 6:44 AM”
Amar edited it the date GT5 will be released. That is creepy.
LOL- it is
Dear Lord Dylan, that would be the absolute coolest thing possible! Even if the detail was poor, I wouldn’t care at all.
maybe come the PS4 you’ll be able to highlight routes from google earth/streetview and create an accurate city course around your hometown. How cool would that be?
True or not, I still need painkillers for my smile muscles.
Do you guys remeber the E3 Trailer were the Skyline GT500 was doing donutes in an empy space. I really think track editor will be Something like creating an gymkhna course or Auto Cross Circuits.
I am very very skeptical. It may just be me, but I think most of the time that we have heard news from Sony execs it was a farce. I wouldn’t get my hopes up…wait for PD to clarify (even then it might not be reliable).
Does anyone else have stunt mode from Rush pop into their mind? Oh please oh please oh please oh plea…
Also, Karting?
I can understand how a video game can satisfy dreams of racing and 1000bhp Enzo around Rome….. but karting?
Get down you local karting centre for £27 and it will be 10000 times better than any video game!
Seriously, karting?
I will be using all my PS3 processing power to replicate a 5hp Briggs & Stratton?!?
When they say karting, they don’t mean the kiddie ride karts, they are talking about the ones that are used for actual competition and guys like Jeff Gordon, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, and others started on. I for one am excited by this, as it will show yet another aspect of racing (though I hope they don’t go into the territory of lawnmower racing).
i hope they have inside tracks for karting
Gotta here this from Polyphony Digital themselves, it’s just too good to be true.
+1 as a non-believer.
If a track editor comes before a simple paintshop (nothing even metioned about livery) I will go clinically insane.
Waiting patiently…..
JayKayEm,
Yea and also they came out with night racing, weather, before even finishing the cars (cockpits). Simply WTF ? It’s the same as to start to jump, before even knowing how to walk. It’s just insane !
Really glad there is no livery editor. Cars online will all look as they should, and not covered in tacky ugly liveries.
maybe they should combine the GPS-Tracking with track-editor!!!
I think that’s the whole idea.
ICYCO: I think you hit it right on the nose. Weather thing is the cherry on top for me adds another element to the race. you can have a 6 sec lead and it starts to rain, that would/could change the whole race.good job Pd for listening to the fans and as for the other cool stuff thats even better… i think the only thing they havent announced is a livery editor? and if they do ……:-O !
GT5 the nuke of car racing games!
Idk about the creator thing, i bought modnations you know thinking it would help before GT5 was realeased, and it was nothing like it, it was a kids game and the physics were to gay. Not to mention the levels created by 14 year olds were so horrible i had to return it in 5 days
Karting included is fun but i´m not surprised…because every racetrack has kart-track included, so I’m happy that they got some use of it.
Mmmm, as much as I want to, I just can’t believe this :P
@whitman – Yeah, there’s a vid on YouTube, showing this widely unknown track. It was filmed in the early sixties with some pre-WWII drivers. Beautiful track with absolutely no markings on it
This is some really great news about the track editor, go-karting and so forth… but didn’t we know almost all of the information we got so far (night/day cycle, changing weather, premium/standard cars) from this: http://www.gtplanet.net/night-racing-weather-indy-cars-irl-confirmed-for-gt5/, the February 2010 issue of Official PlayStation Magazine?
-1,000+ vehicles
-All vehicles have modeled cockpits (170 premium cars will have interior damage modeling)
-All vehicles will have both physical and mechanical damage modeling
-Indy (IRL) cars and tracks
-NASCAR cars and track
-Up to 16 players online
-High-definition video uploads directly to YouTube
-Multi-display rendering
-Head-tracking
-Full weather and night racing on all tracks
-Night/Day on all tracks
I never read gaming magazines, so are they known to say things that aren’t true or not totally accurate very often? I’m more than happy with everything that will be in GT5 so far except maybe for the cockpit view enigma. Could this article be right?
Premium = full interior with damage
Standard = full interior no damage
I’m sorry if this comment isn’t 100% topic related.
This sounds wery true now! hope this what it is.
I think the IRL thing was debunked. PSM messed up.
its true that the IRL thing was a mistake on the part of the magazine. they cleared that up on the following months issue. if i remember correctly however everything else seems correct. i believe the reason for this mistake was because PD is putting more indy cars in the game however it might not exactly be IRL cars. thats my theory.
Too bad the game gets released a year before 2012. *sigh*
2 years. End of the world is Dec. 31 2012 :P
almost a year time to play.. its sad :/
even if this game gets released before 2012 ill die a happy man
Yea… still not enough time to play it.
K am off to do something i always wanted to do but i was scared i would get arrested for.
i thought i was the only one who worried about this!
The world isn’t ending in 2012! That’s completely ludicrous to think that people can predict the future… it’s stupid IMO.
all ready been confirmed http://www.gtplanet.net/night-racing-weather-indy-cars-irl-confirmed-for-gt5/
weather i meant
@bradltl – No, it means, you can build your own race-track. Guess, I’ll start by building a city-track that looks remotely like my hometown (if we have houses in that editor):-)
dude, I’m totally going to recreate my neighborhood of Rowland Heights, California.
I also have Turnbull canyon mapped out with all the elevation changes, and depending on how crazy strong the track editor is, I’m going to go back to take pictures and notes of the angles of the banks and surroundings to make it look exactly the same!
same for Glendora Mountain rode down here in SoCal!
I will recreate the amazing Südschleife!
That will be so AWESOME!!
For those who dont know the südschleife:
Its the old Track under the nordschleife, wich was destroyed for building the current Nürburgring GP.
Hell yeah!
woohooow great, I’ll drive that. always wanted to see the südschleife in a game
that would be amazing
Wow, GT5 is going to be epic. I haven’t read all the above comments, don’t have time but I will later…
Anyway, I hope we can make POINT-TO-POINT RALLY STAGES!
Can someone try to get that question answered somehow?
Man- talk about infinite replay-ability!! Nov. 2nd seems further away every day.. but worth the wait. Dam, GT5 is going to be be the best console drivig sim ever.
Just wondering, they must have more surprises, that will come on us at Gamescom and Tokyo Games Show – hopefully !
Sorry about the multiple posts, I was getting page errors and posting errors in my BB. Sorry!
Is the Track editor for sound tracks? The statement is not very specific about what is defined as a track and they have already made the statement that you will be able to build a custom soundtrack.
Why would a racing game incorporate a system to create your own music tracks?
++Drogahnus… or share them!
still not buying that piece of news. it is too good to be true….i dont care about track editor but WEATHER???? holy cr·p!! i need some time to assimilate the info….
Is the Track editor for sound tracks?
:Facepalm:
haha! class! …would pi** my pants laughing if it turned out to be that!
I think you just solved this mystery. I am going to believe that it is just this, until it is proven otherwise.
Track editor for sound tracks?
Maybe stunt arena’s mean like an area for drifting and such. Kaz has mentioned a lot about drifting…
This smells like an apology and DLC., impressive regardless. This would have been a major reveal @ E3, wonder why they didnt use it there and it comes from a big wig and not from Kaz himself
As exciting as the track EDITOR sounds – I suspect that this will be something like placing down cones on the TopGear runway. If Kaz says it has taken them 2 YEARS per location to build a track, then I cant imagine there will be a ModNation esque track editor with all the bells and whistles. I’m going to try and not let my imagination runaway with me on this one.
Mosting exciting part for me? The weather confirmation!!! Le Mans, at night….. in the rain!!
you know that brother…le mans all weather…bliss
thanks god…!
I will pre-order it FOR SURE!
“Who, where and what to drive is completely down to the individual.”
“Who” is up to the individual? Does that mean customizable drivers?
Possibly. It could just refer to a selection of drivers, although the ability to create ones own “drivatar” is a strong possibilty.
maybe our Playstation Home avatars?
DRIFT TRACK FOR ME!!!
– weather
– chucking cars around stunt arenas
– go-karting
– creating and sharing your own track
Seriously???
I mean SERIOUSLY?????
Wait, after saving my virginity all those years, it all pays off. I’m soo happy, tears are in my eyes.
Who gives a **** about interiors? Hahaaaa!!
Well, I do. But the news are fantastic. I am seriously happy about the weather thing and also go-karting sounds nice!
it takes guts to admit saving virginity for this on the internet.
im proud of you for admitting that
Just a thought, and I could be completely wrong honestly I really could:
A while ago there were rumours that the game would be 3 disks. Mabye a whole disk is dedicated to track editor with all the tools to make tracks, then you save them to your hard drive or something when your finished.
As I said i’m probably wrong but food for thought definately!
A track editor? Will this make it like ModNation Racers? If so, I’m gonna cheat and make a circle around the start/finish line so i can do a lap of the ‘Ring in 10 seconds (not 10 minutes), or just make a circle track.
Kinda wish these new features weren’t going to be announced… would of been a more bitchin of a surprise to the people who whine about there not being one.
Now they’ll find something else to Bitch and moan about. Why didn’t they make this, why did they do that, why is that polygon missing.
Track Editor maybe slightly different from track Creator, but I’m still giddy yet cautious… its almost to good to be true, I want to believe with all my heart and soul but Im waiting for the Post in a few hours or a day that says it was a hoax… :(
I’m not bought this track editor.
The first track im going to make is ODAIBA at D1GP 2009
I got big question… in what scale this track editor will be?? It can be only just a couple of cones adding feature, maybe. I cant belive this can be true and you be able to create full scale tracks on your own… thats sounds insanely awesome.. :)
This effectively returns my faith in the game after hearing about the standard vs. premium vehicles. I can see where a lot of other focus went. If true, GT5 will have so many awesome features I’ll never end up remembering the boring sessions or less detailed cars.
I think i’ll buy the GT5. But I’m not sure yet.
well if you have ps3 you just cant ignore it.. even if you dont like racing games.
How can you even think about not buying it!?!?!?!:X
I never thought the track editor rumors would turn out to be true but I am so glad they are!!!
KAZ= LEGEND
I must find and talk to him at pebble beach this year!!
Better brush up on your Japanese
I think they will make a track editor for rally tracks.
That would be great!
Although this sounds awesome, I’ll believe it when I see it.
Don’t care if it’s easy or difficulty, complete or limited…
I’ll do my best to recreate these tracks: Jacarepagua (Both F1 and CART versions), Interlagos (both pre and after F1) and Curitiba (WTCC)
People when you get your hands on this please recreate classic courses like brooklands rather than pointless stuff. Unless you plan to have 8 corkscrews followed by 10 carussels and two turn 8s from istanbul park to top it off.
the drivers head will fall off
The german version of this Interview states that you can total your car in the stunt arenas.
Have we not learnt any lessons about the danger of translations over the past five years?
Woooooho!
Whose up for the task of making the Complex String track from GT3?
LOL i assure you…. not me!!
GT5 FTW. Kazunori Yamauchi = A LEGEND.
For all the doubters, it is on the UK PlayStation blog (2/3rd’s of the way down). http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/news/articles/detail/item285382/Talking-games-with-Shuhei-Yoshida/
The discussions will only become more focused now that people can start looking forward to the things they WILL receive and not what they might receive. What a difference that makes!
Lot of good thing, but…
It will have test licenses like others GTs? That is what I am looking for, not Playstation Move or 3D stuff…
The essence of GT are the Licenses :D
yes it will and a new driving school
THIS BETTER NOT BE A JOKE!!!!!!!!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Holy crap stunt arenas! Track editor! *xplodes*
I’m so happy I think I can cry…
I think I just pee’d myself a little.
this is too good to be true. someone please please try to confirm or deny this.
“What can we look forward to when Gran Turismo 5 releases on PlayStation 3?
Gran Turismo 5 will offer gamers an experience more rich, more in-depth and more exciting than they might expect – even from a series as closely identified with innovation and invention as Gran Turismo. Not only will Gran Turismo 5 deliver an even more comprehensive set of cars and courses than gamers saw with previous iterations, it will also feature new game-enhacing graphical effects such as damage, night racing and weather.
These innovations are twinned with the option to join millions of like-minded individuals globally within the Gran Turismo community and to find a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races. Who, where and what to drive is completely down to the individual.
This time around Gran Turismo is likely not just to be the definitive driving experience but a definitive gaming experience full stop.”
Best. Gran Turismo. Ever.
Wow. Hopefully this is a bit more serious than a simple program to set up cones
Sorry guys – don’t believe at all.
I’m a bit skeptical myself as well, however it was an official Soony guy who said it, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Myself included. Do you know how much time and effort goes into creating a real life track? Does anyone here actually think they can re-create one in that sense? It will never be as close as a track created from the ground up by PD. It’s just really hard to grasp for me right now. The only thing I can think of is a setting like Driving Park, real generic BG in which you can make some basic track layouts. We’ll see.
Everyone can make snap shots, but it takes skill and experience to capture a stunning photo using the same equipment. That said I believe the very best amateur enthuisiast might be able to recreate tracks that are – not perfect – but very close to the real thing.
It takes huge amounts of time and effort to make them as good as we are used to see them in GT, but some seem to love spending hundreds or even thousands of hours researching facts from various tracks – even historic layouts or tracks that don´t even exist anymore – and then construct them as close to the real thing as they can. Given a sufficient and powerful enough tool and a true simulator to create tracks for, I expect a group of serious track aficionados to emerge and show some true skill.
We have seen this happen before, with PC based simulators.
The most impressive recreation i’ve seen is the 71.98 km (44.73 mi)long track Targa Florio on Sicily, set in 1967 for GP Legends.
Se it here: http://www.strima.se/visa.php?f=4b21fae3b3f75
This is the kind of tracks I want!
also stunt arena. That sounds awesome haha. Anybody think this is the ‘undisclosed’ feature
Nah, I think it’ll have something to do with customization. Anyways, stunt arena sounds like a gymkhana-type of area.
I’m guessing it’s the room with a slippy black floor we see in some of the car screens where they’re doing powerslides
First, Great News. I wished it and I got it.
Second:
Three out of three Things I’ve predicted comes true. Right after I’ve seen what is behind the scenes from Kevin Butler ad about Modnation Racers and there you have it guys.
http://www.gtplanet.net/what-rhymes-with-man-furismo-jive/#comment-29840
Well, I guess I’m a better analyst than Michel Pachter after all, loooool.
WOW Really??!! Did PD managed to do the impossible there?
I have always been very skeptical on this, track editor and weather… but if it really is what we are thinking and been wanting, it will be GREAT!
I literally drop my breakfast on the floor as i open the news section and reading it this morning!
Did i hear Stelvio Pass? or even the TransFaGaRasan mountain Road?! ahaha! I cant wait to drive the figure-8 track that some of you will make! LOL.
Wow LBP GT-style! I are now all part of the PD team!
All we need now is Livery Editors!
Go-Kart too?? wow, that’s over the top! i wonder if they will have cockpit view LOL. Is this news going to make some forget the endless debate on interior and cockpits.
hopefully it will
I love how karting is probably a direct result of this website
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
p.s. Go karting?
Someone just have to create Best Motoring touge course.
Best Motoring Touge Course…my brain is melting. That would be AMAZING!! but let’s not get ahead of ourselves because I don’t think it’s going to be possible
Lets hope for a new demo soon to keep us all going until November!
Pretty sure Kaz said on his Twitter that we won’t get be getting a new Time Trial or demo. Oh well.
I hope they include the Gunsai touge course already, without us needing to create it.
It will be interesting to know where these track creations end up. Are they client or server side? I imagine they’ll be downloaded to the hard drive, in which case I see GTPlanet possibly needing to tackle a resource center for all the tracks to be downloaded. Start upgrading those servers ;)
This is exactly what I wanted to hear. Now hopefully I can make a track, pick a car, set my fastest lap then send the challenge to my friends to see if they can beat my time. Maybe in the future we will be making the tracks on GT5 and racing round them in GT6 with lots of nice premium cars.
If possible, im going to make drifters playground and a 2 mile straight :)
I wouldn’t get too hyped up about this. I don’t personally expect a track creator (as in, you would be able to create a real life race course or a city course), but more the ability to place cones around a gymkhana, or something similar.
However, if it does end up the way everyone seems to be thinking it will, then there’s just that extra bit that makes it even better.
A stunt arena seems kindof odd and makes me wonder what they mean by that.
Karting seems like it will be fun. Finally something that actually fits right on Autumn Ring.
Yeah I don’t expect the track editor to be as robust as people think. If it takes PD 2 years to make a track like Toscana…you see what I mean? I think you are right, it will be something like placing cones or something similar, something not so big in scope
the cool thing about it we could make4 or even 6 lane drag strips…i would so spank skylines with a fulliy mod 7 sec rx-7
haha @ Autumn Ring reference, brings back memories of seeing that tiny pixellated map whilst losing the very first races of GT1, what was there like 6 turns in that.
Props to you me fellow rotary fan
What if all this turns out to be a mistake…GTP will go absolutely nuts, I hope it’s not though
Sony executives have a bit of a history of a getting things wrong about games… I doubt weather is confirmed because Kaz would have said so if everything was completely ironed out.
“go-karting, creating and sharing your own track”
sounds like modnation racer to me. probably just a case of bad editing.
OMG!
I’ve got to say i’m still sceptical (after all, who can trust press releases not made by the studio responsible for the game?), but i sure hope it’s all correct… Forza, you poor thing :P
Karting and a track editor confirmed? This is the stuff of fanboy dreams come to life. Never thought in a million years we’d get this stuff. Nice.
Read the details regarding ModNation Racers. I think its a typo booboo on the PS3 website :(
Modnation Carting
ModSpot is refered to as the main lobby area for ModNation Racers. It works online where players can meet up, race and create own tracks.
I do however hope I’m wrong
It must be good if its Chris’ favourite thing
nice.
now show us some RAINy gameplay in cockpit view :)
I am more than happy with this revelation. Although I stated earlier that I wasn’t bothered to much about the weather system, it was because in GT4 I didn’t much fancy the Tsubuka circuit in general, which was the only wet circuit avaiable. I’m sure that the system here is much more advanced, and we’ll have to be ever more precise with our driving. A track editor would be the last thing I thought of but it’s excellent news, just need to see it now, can’t wait any longer!!!
PD dont bribe us with that..i still want cockpit for All cars.im still sick
We do have cockpit view for all cars. What are you talking about?
standard cars dont have cockpit right? black tinted window.
1000+ cars & unlimited number of tracks!
Gt5 is a dream come true!
November can’t come soon enough!!
Great news! i hope is a complex track editor so the most skillfull can make great tracks or replicate the real life tracks.
This is making up for the 800 standard cars fiasco.
Make’s me wonder if the Go-Kart will be “Premium” or “Standard”
lol. probably standard with tinted windows
thaa lol
They have to go preium, mario-kart was premium and it was created ages ago.
I feel it is more like Track editor. Give you a big empty ground and you can place cones, flags etc there to make it like a track. Similar to live for speed. Since GT 5 is a PS3 game not a computer game it seems hard to make a totally new track. This is just my guess. Anyway this is exciting news.
I also think it will be like that.. I cannot believe that there is spend much time on the track editor like for example in Modnation Racers where you are able to create everything by yourself.. But still, creating your own testtrack on a huge parkingplace with cones and flags would already be amazing besides the rest of the game to offer!! :D Can’t wait for this. I think this game has more surprises which aren’t announced yet.
The first thing I will create is a skidpad to practice drifting:) I am so excited.
I apologize in advance for being negative :)
If this actually happens and isn’t a mistranslation, then that’s great provided the track sharing is managed better than LittleBigPlanet’s user-created content and doesn’t just become a free-for-all, where any genuinely good content created by people far more talented than me is buried under a landslide of pretty mediocre Sonic the Hedgehog themed stuff, kept popular by reciprocal voting… :)
I think they should adopt a system were you can give a track up to ten stars. That would make it clear whether or not the track was any good.
I don’t care the track editor. but WHEATHER OWYAHHHH!!!
but still i need i want, cockpit views for all cars.
The possibilities are endless this game basically has unlimited tracks, With all the skilled GT fans they can easily recreate many circuits
And, i’m gonna to race everyday with an Enzo or a McLaren… i don’t give a f**k about the cockpit
You do know, you have to win the NASCAR-series to win the McLaren, don’t you ? Which means a zillion-billion laps on some epic oval-tracks ;-)
Bernd. How do you know this. If you know more please enlighten us
Joke…
Of course, it was a joke. But I bet, we’ll have to race our asses off to win that epic car !
Why would you limit your game play to only 2 cars. And two cars that every other sod will be playing with as well.
Lame.
just buy the collectors edition theres is a PD sls, gt-r, mclaren and two others
@Bernd
Yeah, and the,if there is one particular color You like, You have to do it all over again. :#
Seems like a livery editor does have some merit after all.
Shit! O_O I’m gonna create Monza! Or Spa? … I want to see how to create tracks, i want create one.
YES!!! my hopes for point to point rally stages may be a reality now, wohoooo!! **hip thrust**
Screw cockpit views – THIS is awesome!!
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I agree with your agree to his disagree to disagree.
I disagree with your agree to his agree to his disagree to disagree.
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I, for one, was highly sceptical about rumours of a track-editing tool. The last thing I was expecting was for one to be announced. This is most likely that “undisclosed feature” mentioned during the IGN interview, or could there be more to come..?
helllooooo,
can someone please put in the irony-mode. i never believe, what is been written up there. it may be a dumb joke oder a fake, but it is certainly not the truth.
As we saw GT5 will have Damage + Night Racing, that is even dynmic, at least on some tracks. But for me it is not even sure, if night racing will be fully dynamic on all tracks and with full grid, because all we have seen is a really track with one or two cars at the same time.
so i’m not sure if they even can put a weather system on top of that.
but i certainly doubt they will bring a track creation tool. what for, if they can sell you tracks as dlc? i could imagin they have a few go-karts, just to mix up the driving lessons and as sort of mini game, but i wouldn’t really miss them anyway.
an finally, come on, stunt arenas? who is supposed to believe that!!!
Stuntarenas could point to Top Gear Challenges or something like that
Hi hellooooo,
You’re full of doubt. How sad.
Here are some reasons why they _would_ include a track editor:
1) People will buy they game like their life depends on it
2) People will create some beautiful, gorgeous, stunning tracks and that will make GT5 even more popular, increasing point 1)
3) People can only make tracks from the resources PD make available to them. It is possible they will create more art resources (textures, buildings, evironments etc) and offer them as paid DLC for the track creators to purchase and use. Tracks made with said DLC packs could then only be available to people who have also bought the DLC.
4) They could release in house, professionally made tracks using the DLC mentioned above, and as part of the DLC mentioned above to encourage people to buy it.
5) They may have an approval process whereby you can submit your track for quality assurance by PD and only the best tracks get the PD tick of approval, those tracks could be sold for either real funds or ingame credit. This would encourage the best tracks makers to create truely awesome work.
6) Track sharing creates a strong sense of community, as do most games that allow modding. PD have said the community aspect is redesigned and very strong in GT5 so this will work well.
7) Stunt tracks! Just look at Forza 3 and see how popular the skid pan was for this kind of thing. Car football was a massive hit – people want it – why not provide it?
8) With a new damage system, and roll overs – stunts will be awesome!
9) GT5P was criticised for being far too sterile, with not enough ‘fun’. Whilst many (like me) find pure racing fun, why not also allow some alternative fun like go-karting, stunt driving and track creation?
Ok, I’ll bite.
1) People will buy they game like their life depends on it
This assumes the popular opinion of what a “track editor” is, is correct, and means in depth track creation, and not just placing cones and tire walls on an exsisting track. There could very well be many dissapointed souls on day one, and a weak track editor could end up has not having much if any influence on purchase numbers one way or another.
2) People will create some beautiful, gorgeous, stunning tracks and that will make GT5 even more popular, increasing point 1)
See my awnser to point one has well.
3) People can only make tracks from the resources PD make available to them. It is possible they will create more art resources (textures, buildings, evironments etc) and offer them as paid DLC for the track creators to purchase and use. Tracks made with said DLC packs could then only be available to people who have also bought the DLC.
Again assumes a definition of track editor that includes alot more than what is in evidence in this article. Even if there is significant layout creation involved, it does not mean that PD will dedicate much, if any, developement time to supporting it. It’s much more likely they will be busy with GT6, under pressure not to make people wait yet another half decade.
In fact, most “editors” provided with games remain largely “use at your own risk” bits of software that developers actively state they will not support, or provide few updates other than fixes and basic improvements.
4) They could release in house, professionally made tracks using the DLC mentioned above, and as part of the DLC mentioned above to encourage people to buy it.
Possible, but given they allready have the capability to release thier own tracks, with whatever objects they want, there is no need to tie it into a third party developer structure, and have to provide support for it.
5) They may have an approval process whereby you can submit your track for quality assurance by PD and only the best tracks get the PD tick of approval, those tracks could be sold for either real funds or ingame credit. This would encourage the best tracks makers to create truely awesome work.
I doubt they will deticate time and staff to reviewing tracks, putting the PD seal on them, and letting third party makers profit from it, even if they got a cut. Has for in game credits, there isn’t a GT yet where you don’t end up with more credits than you know what to do with before your halfway through the game, so it’s not really an incentive unless you make credits hard to earn, thus harming everyone elses ability to earn credits.
6) Track sharing creates a strong sense of community, as do most games that allow modding. PD have said the community aspect is redesigned and very strong in GT5 so this will work well.
Mabey. Mabey not. PD says many things, and I don’t recall them ever saying, “We have this feature, and we screwed it up, ran out of time to fix it, and dropped it/ left it half working.”, but they do run into such trouble on occassion. (“emoition physics” AI comes to mind…)
7) Stunt tracks! Just look at Forza 3 and see how popular the skid pan was for this kind of thing. Car football was a massive hit – people want it – why not provide it?
I’ll give you this, but you probably just ticked off every fanboy in the world.
8) With a new damage system, and roll overs – stunts will be awesome!
Matter of opinion. I could care less.
9) GT5P was criticised for being far too sterile, with not enough ‘fun’. Whilst many (like me) find pure racing fun, why not also allow some alternative fun like go-karting, stunt driving and track creation?
I’ll give you this has well, though now your probably pissing off the purists, mainly with the stunt driving part. lol
In closing, many of us with a wait and see attitude have aquired such because:
1) leaks and public statements from sony employees are highly unreliable.
2) PD itself hasn’t come out and announced this officially, with details, screenies, etc.
3) not all of us immediatly assume “track edidtor” means comprehensive creation. Some of us read it has the ability to edit, I.e. make changes of some sort, to included tracks, and perhaps not even all of those. Liscensed tracks could be an issue in that regards.
4) some of us old farts that have been around since GT1 have learned to take anything GT related with a grain of salt prior to release. PD and Sony have a good record of providing an outstanding game, but they also have a history of over hyping what turn out to be features dropped or “not quite has advertised” by the time the version in question goes gold. It’s only the overall quality that allows people to forget such things, but after years you learn to be a bit skeptical about whats being promised before hand.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to pre-order, anyone know the best place to buy from the US ? im from the Uk and im going to import it if our release dates going to be a few weeks later
I’m pre-ordered on Gamestop.com for a Gran Turismo 5 Collector’s Edition.
drag strips, Inital_D style mountain passes to drift on with various conditions to race with. Amazing!!!
Hell Yes!!
I’m skeptical. They say “creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races”. It’s a wonky sentence but technically they don’t speak of tracks but “Track races”. I think they are referring to choosing a track, conditions, opponents and allowed cars.
That could be because it’s at the end of the sentence. It could have been “… whether that is creating and sharing your own track, chucking cars around stunt arenas or intense head-to-head races.”
Indeed. Analyse the sentence and it doesn’t neccessarily say what people think it does:
“…creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races.”
That can easily be read as: “creating and sharing your own [track / intense head-to-head] races.” i.e. creating and sharing *races* not tracks.
What the hell is a ‘track race’ and how would it differ to a ‘head-to-head’ race?
You guys are clutching at straws here.
If you look at the sentence it is structure perfectly and consists of several distinct elements, each separated by a comma except for the last which naturally is separated by the conjugation ‘or’.
“whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races.”
1) taking on the Top Gear test track,
2) chucking cars around stunt arenas,
3) go-karting,
4) creating and sharing your own track or
5) intense head-to-head races.
“whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track FOR intense head-to-head races.”
Or the “OR” is a “FOR” and was a misprint.
Some say: texting and driving can be hazardous to Your health and others, should You choose to do them simultaneously.
Hence, my interpretation that when You choose to spend some quality time with Your beloved PS3 You have the option to:
Drive a few laps on a track of your choice – or – try the the new track editor – or – do whatever is permitted on a stunt arena – or – do some serious racing against AI or network. It seems You can even customize a car if Your none of the above gets You in the mood.
I may be out on a limb here, but I expect the challenge of taking on all of these tasks at the same time to be more than any one, with only one console/screen and the standard human set of only two arms, can manage.
I can’t imagine what the community will create. Of course there will be 1000s of inaccurate, boring tracks. But on the other hand the best creators will give us dozens of exceptionally crafted tracks.
The real question is how powerful the editor will be and how easy it will be to share assets between creators.
I am sure track design, elevations, and so on will be spot on, but the real revolution is scenery, surroundings, buildings and so on.
Wow..hope this is true. So much to do in this game I won’t know where to start.
Oh and if there is a Initial D fan here with enough time –> Mount Akina :)
Driving the AE86 downhill at night in GT5 must be one of those moments even god only refers to as – epic.
I’m down with that
If I were to drive Mount Akina in GT5 I would have a heart attack
count me in, we’ll get some 4 car tandum downhill going… WOOOO! Dibs on the Black R32…
dibs FC RX-7
In that case dibs (shotgun here) on the AE86 with the race tuned 4A-GE :)
Guys, not to sound overly cautious, but:
Is he confusing GT5 with MODNATION RACERS ???
“Stunt arenas” and “go-kart” doesn’t exactly sound like GT5, does it?
Guys, stunt arena’s that is being referred to is not jumping through flaming hoops of death! It’s performing precise car control. See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV29FnEBx4o
With the exception, of course, changing a tire on two wheels and whatever it was he was doing at 9:10.
Jumping probably won’t be in there either.
That would be a massive mistake on Sonys behalf to post this on their Website. But what is scary is that there was a major misprint in the Official Playstation Mag back in Feb. refering to the Indy Series making an appearance in the game which was later reported to have been a false statement. What also I find weird is why they would release this info right after E3 and not have presented these facts there for the world the hear? I hope these statements get backed up with further detail.
Is the President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios confusing GT5 with MNR?
No, he isn’t.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Wow, i was hoping for weather, but i seriously never expected GT to include a track editor. THe overall quality of the game is so great that probably no user created track will match that quality. I probably won`t be using the editor, but i`m interested in how powerful it is and what the the user around the world create with it.
Maybe i`ll create my way to work :)
I… will-never-be… late… to work again!
Damn, that sidewalk on Main’s got a mean kerb …
I never doubted that.
Ahaha this game will be a monumental massacre with all the options it offers, it will have a HUGE life.
My track is already on paper and computer graphics for over one year.
Really? tats cool. I’m looking forward your track.
Well then this explains the short clips of the Ferrari around that desert track we saw in the trailers, I think that was representative of the kind of track you get in the editor.
I didn’t catch that in any of the videos that I saw. Does somebody have a link to the video AMC is referring to?
Alan D, here’s your trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXpXclylWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXpXclylWg
458 italia trailer
1:46 and 1:57
Looks a bit like the Tuscany rally stage but with a tarmac road
I dont really think all of that is gameplay, it was a “tribute” to the Car
track editor, maybe that customization some I found, mean track editor ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEzHGSnWnz0
I still want a LOOPING ! Oh, and sloped corners of course, where you can drive almost head down (is sloped corner correct – or banked ??)
Sloped like a hill. Banked like an oval track.
Thanks Owen. But that’s not “banked” enough . What I really want are these corners which look like a C or ), with your car driving in the upper half. That would be fun !
I may never see my girlfriend and natural sunlight after November 2
Your a good man.
At least you realized :)
Same x:
I second that … although im gonna make time for your girlfriend.
Il make sure to let her know ;)
hi there, kinda the same here, when i found out the release date i told my wife that you have me until the 2nd of november and then after that goodbye! you might as well look for another husband!!
anyways peace out.
Just got back from work and have booked in the 2nd,3rd & 4th off work!
Same, nobody would see me for about 20 years after november 2.
Sorry but I believe it when I see it.
This has to be a joke – sure it not a misprint and actually referes to ModNation Racers? sounds fish like
That’s what i thought, perhaps referring to mod nation racers. You never no tho. I so hope it is true, i have had a local track planned and always wanted to race it on GT, it could actually happen. WOWEEEEE
unlimited straight track
Haha that’s what I was thinking, Perfect for Top Speed runs :)
correction forza is split to 2 dvd’s my bad.
What is this I don’t even O__O
Can’t believe this, this is awesome news. With all the new stuff that’s been announced in the past week, GT5 is gonna kick a**.
Great news!
track editor at last at least with get some clarification whether it exsisted or not , I think I will recreate some local tracks with a few deviations
having the option to create tracks will put it ahead of forza which we know is limited to space on the dvd (8.5GB) where it’s sounding pretty much confirmed that gt5 is going to use an entire bd disc.
I personally would have liked to have seen a touring car leauge maybe BTCC or WTCC or even STCC i dont know what the us one is. unless there is and we havent seen it yet.
the rally cars look better with every picture seen.
For YEARS I have envisioned how I would setup a city GT circuit in my home town, and maybe now I can actually do it :)
If this turns out to be as good as on paper, I won’t need anymore games until GT6 …that sounds just too awesome :D
Excellent news! Jordan, any chance of an unlock of Amar’s thread as i would like to thank him for giving us this track editing info over 14 MONTHS AGO! wow didnt know it had been that long tbh.
Great idea – I’ve just opened his thread here. After all the abuse he’s taken, I’m sure he would appreciate the kind words. :)
Indeed it would seem Amar was right all along!! Shame on all of those who did nothing but abuse and insult him!!
On topic – this is fab news Roll on November!! And thanks to Amar for giving us the heads up on a lot of these features a year and a half ago!!
I’d be cautiously optimistic. This sounds VERY cool but I need some sort of better confirmation of this info.
I agree, this needs to be confimmed before I let myself get too excited. The interview is on playstation as a whole and even though the question is about gran turismo it kind of sounds like he’s talking about racing games in general on Ps3. That makes more sense to me at least than them adding go carting to gran turismo
Really can’t believe what I’m reading, absolutely unreal. O.O If the game will offer even a livery-editor, than it’s pretty much PEFRECT, period.
Extremely good news!!
Although it almost seems to me as if after he mentions the Top Gear Test Track, he gets GT5 confused with ModNation Racers, :P
Oh well, I think others will stand by me in saying I hope they didn’t spend too much time on these amusements and forget about the core game.
But who am I kidding, it’s PD and Yamauchi!
how can one create a sophisticated track on a console?
This most likely relates to the kart racing feature. For example, creating a simple layout on a flat plane of tarmac. Still, should be great fun nonetheless.
Why would it being on a console make it a problem? its the tools that make it… I’m thinking it will have scalextic style segments that snap together then can be tweeked later. the themes setting would decide more on the surface say, Street track will be slightly more rough and bumpy than the Track theme, then you could have offroad rally theme with a selection of different surfaces, Gravel, snow, sand, mud!
while it may not be possible to create a track to the standards of poly, it will still be fun and will open up the game to whole new tracks the game makers could never have dreamed!
PS3 supports Keyboard and Mouse and has a HD so pretty much the same way one would do it for a PC game.
go get MNR and try it out.
Why is everyone questioning stunt arenas? I think it’s great. Drifting is a form of car control and extremely fun to do, so are car stunts, I’m loving all these new features. And besides, the more features the better. Bring on November
totally agree. The coffee breaks in gt4 were fun. If anything fun features like this will the game fresh and noobs out of serious online races.
I think we will be able to do ken blockesque new vids
I’m a little cautious about stunt arenas. If they mean something like auto-cross with jumps and hairpin turns that require drifting, that would be cool to check out (even though I detest drifting…). If they are referring to Hot Wheels or Stuntman style stunt arenas with loops, explosions and launchers, then I will be sorely disappointed. It IS a driving simulator after all, not a fantasy simulator.
*mind explodes*
Woooow
Nice!!!!
Looking forward to karting, that could be awsome!
Bring the champagne
Great news about the track creator, but Stunt arenas? Go karting?
Hope it’s done well.
SICK!!!!!!!!
I cannot believe I am reading this.
Honestly, putting my hands up, i’ve never believed there would be a track editor on here as thought it would be too complicated to make but hey there you go.
I suppose, if done correctly then yes as mentioned above people could make any track in the world, lol.
First request for someone to make Llandow for sentimental reasons…actually screw it…i’ll do it myself.
WOOHOO!!!!
I’ll be making Llandow ;)
Haha, it’s not just mean who likes that then.
I knew it
GT5. 3rd Title in PLAY.CREATE.SHARE
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Livery editor now please? :D
YES YES YES, amazing, just been playing modnationracers and was hoping that there would be a track editor in GT5 and there is. This new feature could set the bar for racing games even higher.
So track editor really equals to track-creator?
If so, basically every track in the world will be able to race on, as long as the person who made it is %100 correct on the specs.
But, I’m sure it will be easy to find track dimensions on certain websites. This should be amazing…
Good idea, there are some amazingly creative people out there (me being one of them :)) so as long as the tools are good enough we can have every circuit in the world, circuits like Yas marina all the way to circuits like goodwood circuit.
Totally. If we can in fact build them from scratch, I’d love to remake Riverside and race it with modern cars (I know there are modded PC games that will let you do that, but this is GT we’re talking about!).
am willing to pay anyone who can re-create Yas marina :)
Yes, and notice that there’s gravel too, so it’s possible to make rally-cross tracks! And remember the ‘off to the grass and loose grip’ feature? For me it sounds pretty amazing, imagine the possibilities :)
I likeeeee :)
nice amar ;P
Who cares about 20% Premium and 80% Standard cars when you have a Track Editor/Creator system! Weather is a very nice addition.
Go-karting? Whoa wasn’t expecting that! :D
I dreamed of go-karting, I also dreamed of Kelly Brook waking me up of a morning.
At least one dream will come true!
YES! i have literally wet my boxer shorts over this. GIVE ME GT5 NAO!
Kazunori, you’re a GOD!
oh YES!
Sweet
stunt arenas?
i dont think the track creator is suc a great idea imagina all teh horrible dumb stunt tracks and ugly tracks that not so talented communities are goona make..but on the plus side there will be some people that can create nice looking and fun to drive tracks….a great exapmle of this is farcry 2…
stunt arena’s? its a simulation right?
To JBO!
How can it not be a good idea? If you dont want a stunt arena dont play the tracks called “Stunt Arena” :P I want to do Axamo Ring!! :D
@JBO
You dont have to use it and there will almost certainly be some amazing tarcks made if you do wish to try them.
Before LittleBigPlanet was released there were loads of people attacking it saying all the created stuff would be rubbish but while there is a lot of rubbish there are also huge amounts of levels better than anything that came packaged with the game.
I would imagine if the editor is powerful enough it wont be long before all the Forza, Grid etc tracks are made and real world tracks like Cadwell Park, Oulton Park etc.
Top Gear Football (Soccer) pitch anyone?
I hope someone can and will create best motoring touge track. If it’s not included by PD. And what comes to those ugly and pointles creations from untalented people, just skip them. Sharing tool just needs to be good and needs reliable rating system, so you don’t need to search two hours quality creations from all carbage.
@ Tompie lets do it
I assume the stunt arenas will be more like the indoor events they have at say Wembley, as for Track editing, I’m thinking Modnations style while brilliant, will be too cartoony, instead a digital Scalextic, track segments that snap together and then can be tweeked, and like modnation you’ll have themes say, Track, City, Rally, Mountains… if I were a betting man I’d be thinking more those lines for GT5
As for people moaning people will make garbage, let them, they do it on Modnation and they dont get downloaded. simple!
You guys really need to think outside the box, and keep in mind this is a euro exec that is talking. As far as stunts he is probably thinking Drifting and Drag racing. I doubt we will be jumping buses or off the Grand Canyon.
HAHA, I dont think I would want to jump buses or that, but the thing I was talking about are the kinda indoor rallies, they have two tracks and little jumps and stuff… or like someone said maybe a big open airstrip Ken Block style!
@JBO
Its not all that bad of an idea, infact you could say its like Livery Editor. Sure someone is gonna make something undesirable to you or maybe me but at the same time, their will also be some creations that are well made and well received.
Smokey Mountain, anyone?
The post mentions go-karting as well! If that is true, that is very very cool! :)
maybe career mode will mean something. start with karting and move up through different series, etc.
@ thor. Now that would be interesting
Interesting? I think you meant to put awesome.
^^ Yes VERY AWSOME ^^
I think there is a kart track allready in gt5 prologue, at Fuji to your left as you exit the first turn cant see it from onboard but is visible on some replay angles.
PD have modelled the track and its surroundings perfectly so if a real world track has a kart track on site then they would have modelled it anyway, so giving us one kart model and access to the kart track makes sense
awesome!
very nice!
WOW! I was not expecting this. A track editor? That is just awesome! Thank you PD. You have now made GT5 two times more wantable for people. Now we can make every single track in the world. As long as the creators of the track make it correctly accurate.
For those reading who expect to go away and recreate Silverstone, Brands Hatch or some other amazing track experience… Keep in mind this is more likely to be a track “editor” than a “creator” in the truest sense of the word.
To quote Amar… Expect that “new skypaths will be built by birdtamers from the parts of existing skypaths.”
Wow, Kaz, you’re amazing. You have heard every word we have been saying and have put all the features we wanted! Honestly, this is the game I’m most excited for in the history of gaming.
now i can finally test the circuits i design!! gr8! ive always dreamt of this!! if this is really true, my psn user is Jake_said . U’ll surely find my circuits and ill upload d1 drivers circuits they create that are built up of their favourite corners of real life circuits!!!!!!
d f1* drivers’
I almost want to cry with this news. Absolutely wonderful.
It is showing that yamauchi and polyphony went to pain stakingly ways to make GT5 mind blowing. This leaves all others racers in the dust!!! HAHAHAHHAHHAHA