There were several locations in the weather screen that have appeared in past games (GTPSP) or are already confirmed for GT5:
Was thinking about this yesterday with Monza being one of those that very recently got confirmed which leaves 10 of those names still not sure whether they are just put there by coincidence or a possible hint ( would be funny if the evidence was right in front of us all these years
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10 tracks isn't a very big number perhaps when GT5 will have approximately about 70 tracks in total and GT4 had, what?, 50-something ( including fictional courses and not counting all variations ) in total?
What struck me looking at this list is that all tracks are either in Europe, North-America ( USA ) or Asia which if it purely served as a "world weather map" in Prologue you might expect perhaps other continents or regions to be represented as well, for instance Bathurst, Kyalami, Interlagos or Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
If it only was there as a "world weather map" that is ( not saying anything about the choice of each track, as the list of "weather tracks" in Prologue is almost too good to be true for all to be included ) and this might be highly assumptive but a lot of those tracks are also in the same country ( Belgium, England and Italy for example are both "providing" 2 new tracks ) which again is a bit much for simply being a "world weather map" as the difference in weather conditions won't vary that much I guess between Spa and Zolder or at least won't serve as an accurate representation of weather around the world.
We've also seen a real track added which doesn't appear on that list ( Indianapolis in the TT ) and we know we'll get Rome and Madrid and at least one new fictional track and maybe I'm forgetting a few ( Siena kart track, etc. ) so it might just be a randomly chosen selection of tracks or tracks which PD plans or intends to include in future releases perhaps.
We might get a few on those list, and I'm not expecting all of them to appear in GT5 but as I pointed out the selection seems a bit odd to me for the chosen purpose ( weather representation ).
If they do include all 10, one thing's for sure, I won't need to check the real outside weather again for a long time in my spare time.
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