Gran Turismo Sophy Demonstration Reveals a Potential Return of B-Spec

[NTGSruler]

Putting my (1/3) tinfoil/critical thinking/Marty McFly hat on....



This game from the beginning always felt like a long term release from the second known delay. At least to me.

my hypothesis was further conceptualized from that first major Fubar update when Kaz came out and asked the community to view GT7 from a longer view perspective... or something like that*. Not sure if it was the same Fubar update or not, but I know he also responded to the criticism of no endurance races - and he said something more or less to the extent of... "They're coming".


Me thinks that the aforementioned thesis of Jordan's article is what Kaz had in mind at the time of his comment; but like most things in videgameland....it gets delayed a few times, and was a tad overzealous to begin with.


Reflecting back on preceding recent events in post-modern Gran Truismo. IIRC, the first online Gran Turismo Sport even was before the actual release of GTS. Next, the launch of Sophy was before the release of GT7 (which no doubt means that PD had been working on Sophy for a long time before that).

Endurance races in GT7 could be very easily implemented if PD wanted to pursue that route. But my hunch is that was never Kai's vision. And if GT7 is in fact the long release that Kaz said it would be, a Sophy/B-spec/🌶AI/single player manifestation is probably what GT7 Endurance Races would look like...in Kaz's vision. What remains to be seen however, is if past history once again proves itself - and a Sophy/B-Spec GTWS showcase, is just a precursor for the franchise's next iteration.... or if we'll see it in the near future.

The only thing that comes to mind is this: If Kaz is saving all of this for the next iteration in the franchise, then what is left for the coming years for GT7? A couple new cars and maybe a track or 2 for the rest of GT7's lifecycle? That prospect doesn't sound too promising.
They could perfectly implement endurance races if they wanted. Without a B-Spec mode.
Reading the article it sounds that B-Spec indeed is not going to be for GT7, although.. You never know.

 

[furryboy96]

This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo Sophy Learns Tire Management and Fuel Consumption, Surprising the Sony AI Team​

A new, experimental version of the Gran Turismo Sophy AI system was just revealed at the GT World Series finals in Amsterdam, and we had the chance to sit down with the Sony AI research team to learn more about what’s new and how it works...

One step closer to the AI revolution lol

 

[Eggstor]

I hope we get to enjoy Sophy before she is recruited by Scuderia Ferrari.

Or Penske (take your pick on the IndyCar, NASCAR or IMSA operation).

 

[equalitus]

As far as I remember, "grinding credits" wasn't a thing back in the GT4 days, like at all. It didn't exist in society. Grinding is a newfangled mental illness coping mechanism that children invented in the late 2010s.

In GT4 we didn't call it grinding, [boring grinding] because the payouts were so good and many that even when doing the same races a few times only to get credits, it only took a reasonably short amount of time and it also meant progressing faster because we could buy much faster cars..!

 

[ruestchiva]

Custom races with Sophy embeded in them would be incredibly good for this game. I feel that it could help create so much awesome content. Hopefully they'll allow it one day.

 

[snowgt]

There's certainly a lot of possibility for using Sophy to grow GT as a game.

On the other hand, the biggest short-term improvement for Sophy would be, if she wouldn't think the other cars were the size of a Fiat 500 and side-swipe you on every occasion.