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[hardvibes]

Yo guys do you think Porsche has already been implemented in the game?

I heard the contract was for 10 years with EA, and it's been over 1 month since it expired.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103054
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3833602&postcount=2175

 

[Seismica]

This should be a sticky note, so that all of the GT planetiers should vote! having 100 votes wont cut it .

Please log in to vote... Nah. I'm not registering just for that.

 

[Kryz11]

Please log in to vote... Nah. I'm not registering just for that.

You use your PSN account the one you use your PS3 with.

 

[Seismica]

You use your PSN account the one you use your PS3 with.

Um... can't remember my password

 

[SrRd RacinG]

You CAN NOT escape from e3 2010 Kazunori-san
All of us will watch SOONY Conference

Would you agree that if there's no release date at E3 that GT5 will not be coming out SOOONY?


A tiny fear is that they WILL give us a release date (just as we'd expect), but that it will serve the same purpose as the March 31st date; a mere stall date. A date given because one is expected morally, but a date that has absolutely no meaning or reality. A date that gives hope, but is used to give PD/Sony more time to plot or to finish the product. Now my head hurts.

 

[tsuchiya]

I think this may interest you. I voted yes already:

http://share.blog.us.playstation.com/ideas/2010/04/21/polyphony-digital-need-a-community-manager-2/

Feel free to create a thread about it if you feel like it.

Regards

 

[zod]

I also posted one about GT5 there, here it is, feel free to vote
http://share.blog.us.playstation.com/ideas/2010/04/05/more-gran-turismo-5-information-please/

 

[eSZee]

This should be a sticky note, so that all of the GT planetiers should vote! having 100 votes wont cut it .

No number of votes will cut it.

 

[FLASH48]

Would you agree that if there's no release date at E3 that GT5 will not be coming out SOOONY?


A tiny fear is that they WILL give us a release date (just as we'd expect), but that it will serve the same purpose as the March 31st date; a mere stall date. A date given because one is expected morally, but a date that has absolutely no meaning or reality. A date that gives hope, but is used to give PD/Sony more time to plot or to finish the product. Now my head hurts.

The release date will be announced at E3 and it will be SOOONER than you think!!

 

[SrRd RacinG]

The release date will be announced at E3 and it will be SOOONER than you think!!

Oh, I believe so too. I just pray there's sincerity behind it. It really is about time we get an accurate date.

 

[happycorey]

Yeah release dates are starting to become a joke

 

[hardvibes]

Let's rewind. Erase from your memory this year's news, just imagine we're in April 2009...

 

[Kryz11]

No number of votes will cut it.

True! SONY will say its up to PD to make that decision! Either way if you look at the top 3 votes..

*Cross Game Voice Chat
*Software Emulation for PS2 games
*Auto-Syncing Trophies

I bet only these 3 ideas will show up on SONY consideration!
Unless all of the GT planet members vote for it, it may happen. But I bet we will only get around 150 votes.

 

[eran0004]

Yeah release dates are starting to become a joke

We have had one release date, and that was for the japanese market. I don't see how cancelling that one suddently makes all release dates a joke? This is the real life people, things sometimes get delayed or postponed for different reasons, just allow it.

And seriously, noone is gonna starve to death because they don't get the game for another couple of months so quit the whining and just accept that you will have to wait for it.

The worst thing that could happen right now, from my point of view, is that they start to listen to all the complaints and decides to release an uncomplete game, cause that WILL suck more than having to wait a few months extra.

 

[CoolColJ]

old article
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20080106pl.html

When I suggested to Kazunori Yamauchi — creator of the "Gran Turismo" video game — that he codrive with me in his first ever "real world" race, a one-hour Mazda MX-5 endurance event at Tsukuba Circuit in Ibaraki Prefecture in 2006, he vacillated for a day or so. Despite being a very good driver, he said no one had ever invited him to join a real race before.

But getting Yamauchi into a racing car was a lot easier than what he went through to get his game off the ground. "Understandably, I hit a few brick walls in the beginning," he says.

Back in 1997, Yamauchi approached carmakers for permission to include their models in a driving-simulator game that mimicked real-world driving — only to be turned away. Eventually, though, Toyota, Aston Martin and a couple of other similarly visionary companies gave the nod to the pilot version of the game.

A decade on, Yamauchi continually works to make each update of the game more realistic, winning the admiration of not only millions of game players around the world but also real-world professional drivers.

Take the reigning World Rally champion, Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, for one. He spent a day in front of a Playstation console running "Gran Turismo 4" before qualifying for the famed Le Mans 24-hour Sarthe circuit in France in 2005.

"It's more than a game now," Loeb told me a year ago. "It's so precise that this 'game' has become a full-blown driving simulator, and just about every driver I know uses it for practice these days."


Even Formula 1 racing drivers such as Toyota's Jarno Trulli and BMW's Kazuki Nakajima have been seen practicing in front of a console. Whenever a new track comes onto the racing calendar, like Fuji Speedway did last October after a 30-year absence, and drivers cannot get there to practice for real, many fire up "Gran Turismo." They say it's the only way to memorize the track layout and braking markers — the points where you must start killing the speed to take an upcoming corner.

As Loeb and these other seasoned race drivers readily testify, this game significantly blurs the line between the virtual world and reality, making it possible to drive quickly and safely on a real circuit on your first lap. But what about less gifted people like you and me? After sufficient time on "GT," can a normal driver also make a smooth transition from the virtual world to the real one — where mistakes can be disastrous, or even fatal?

Yamauchi himself proved the point by driving an Audi TT at over 90 percent of its potential on his first-ever lap of the legendary 20-km Nurburgring track in Germany in 2005. "Not knowing a track like this one can be hazardous, not only to you but to the hundreds of other local track users who know the circuit a lot better than you," he said.

Yamauchi got more than 1,000 virtual laps of the world-famous circuit under his belt while developing his game, "so knowing the track like the back of my hand made it easy," he beamed. "But you'll need to do over 100 laps just to memorize it. There are more than 170 corners, you know."

Wanting to put his claims to the test, I too clocked up more than 150 laps of the Nurburgring on "Gran Turismo" before going to Germany to drive the real track last year. Those 150 virtual laps took around 24 hours to complete, but it was time well spent. Every corner of the real track in Germany felt uncannily familiar. Each detail, down to the Armco crash barriers and the castle on the hill, had been perfectly re-created in the game, and made me feel right at home.

As I accelerated through each corner, I became aware that my body was reacting to real stimuli that had become second nature in the game. Blind corners, apexes, braking markers and the fastest driving lines through the corners that had been programmed into my brain from a two-dimensional screen were suddenly approaching me in real life at 160 kph — and my memorized on-screen reactions were allowing me to drive my borrowed Subaru Impreza STI near the limit of its potential.

That's the beauty of this game, oops, I mean driving simulator. Whether you're hurtling along the Nurburgring, France's Sarthe Circuit, California's Laguna Seca race track or Japan's Fuji Speedway, virtual practice sessions translate into quick, safe real-world laps. And we can expect the whole experience to get even better. Yamauchi has just launched "Gran Turismo 5 Prologue," which allows players to drive online against opponents from all over the world on high-definition TVs. The only thing missing are the huge G-forces created when real cars corner at over 200 kph or brake heavily from 300 kph. Strengthen your neck muscles to withstand these and you too could be driving real race cars on real race tracks — after plenty of practice in the comfort of your lounge, of course.

And how did Yamauchi do in his first race driving the Mazda MX-5? Not bad at all. Having done more than 2,000 laps of the Tsukuba Circuit in his game, Yamauchi only needed a dozen laps of real-world driving before he was clocking the same times as the rest of the field — many of whom had been circling that track regularly for years. But then, as I mentioned, Yamauchi is a good driver. The same year, he was only 0.4 secs behind Loeb's best Le Mans lap time when they battled it out on "Gran Turismo" at maker Polyphony Digital's Tokyo headquarters.

 

[Neal]

old article
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20080106pl.html

***snip***

Great article CoolColJ 👍 I don’t remember seeing that one before.

There have been a few interviews and articles recently and I imagine there will be quite a few more in the near future with the big game shows coming up.

It can be hard to keep track of them all as they’re spread across the forum so maybe it’s time someone created a new thread for interviews/articles so they’re all in the one place in the run up to GT5’s release?

True! SONY will say its up to PD to make that decision! Either way if you look at the top 3 votes..

*Cross Game Voice Chat
*Software Emulation for PS2 games
*Auto-Syncing Trophies

I bet only these 3 ideas will show up on SONY consideration!
Unless all of the GT planet members vote for it, it may happen. But I bet we will only get around 150 votes.

I wouldn’t worry too much about voting for GT5 specific issues, PD read this forum so they are well aware of what is being discussed and what people want.

Personally I wouldn’t mind cross game chat and auto-syncing trophies is a no brainer

Would you agree that if there's no release date at E3 that GT5 will not be coming out SOOONY?

A tiny fear is that they WILL give us a release date (just as we'd expect), but that it will serve the same purpose as the March 31st date; a mere stall date. A date given because one is expected morally, but a date that has absolutely no meaning or reality. A date that gives hope, but is used to give PD/Sony more time to plot or to finish the product. Now my head hurts.

Everything is currently pointing toward a 2010 release date after mid September so even if we don’t get the date confirmed at E3 it doesn’t mean that won’t still be the case. My personal feeling is Yamauchi will want to keep a big reveal for the Tokyo Games Show (16th – 19th September) although whether this includes the release date I couldn’t say.

 

[AleksandarSRB]

Live you'r life people, and GT5 will come when they(SONY\PD) want... We can do anything about that

 

[RedBaron]

It's very good timing, I hoped to shorten my long autumn and winter evenings year before though...

 

[Dan_]

If you were a car, what would you be?
I might be a German car. Maybe a BMW...

, I would have bet my money in a Skyline....

 

[patriotzero]

If we dont see Release date in E3 SOONY conference You can expect GT5 will come out in 2011..
Theres lots of game that coming out in Fall 2010..I dont think Sony Will throw away this vapourware in Fall.They will push back to Q1 2011.
It hurts but its real

 

[Zimmerd]

haha if SOONY doesn't give a release date at E3,
SOONY has become a complete joke...
Actually it's now already a big joke when it comes to GT5...
but I give them a last chance to be serious.

 

[fordcapri]

If we dont see Release date in E3 SOONY conference You can expect GT5 will come out in 2011..
Theres lots of game that coming out in Fall 2010..I dont think Sony Will throw away this vapourware in Fall.They will push back to Q1 2011.
It hurts but its real

In every period of the year there are great games that are released, "soooony" can't wait forever for gt5 release

 

[Keitaro333]

If we dont see Release date in E3 SOONY conference You can expect GT5 will come out in 2011..
Theres lots of game that coming out in Fall 2010..I dont think Sony Will throw away this vapourware in Fall.They will push back to Q1 2011.
It hurts but its real

what games are there coming out? In the spring it was FF13 and GOW3... i dont think there is anything comparable to that and am 99% sure that GT5 will be released this year.

 

[analog]

If we dont see Release date in E3 SOONY conference You can expect GT5 will come out in 2011..
Theres lots of game that coming out in Fall 2010..I dont think Sony Will throw away this vapourware in Fall.They will push back to Q1 2011.
It hurts but its real

We can't really expect anything from either Soony or Postpony Digital anymore, just hope and prey they will release it this year, preferable sometime this summer.
There's a general assumption it will be released this year, but still no hard confirmation and leaving out the possible second delay for whichever reason after they've given us a possible release date at E3 because I don't want to think about that.
Days prior to the ( first and so far only ) delay Kaz still was convinced it would be released and now he says March was too soon anyway, so whatever's going on behind the screens and whether Sony first increased and then released the pressure on him to release it, their PR skills leave something to be desired.
Still hopeful and filled with anticipation, but just not expecting anything soon ( whatever soon actually means ), but not claiming it will definitely be 2011, nobody knows that for sure and my guess is it will still be 2010.

 

[patriotzero]

I cant say Which games will come out in This Fall. must look forward to internet.. i know New WRC game Criterion NFS F1 2010..These games are not comparable with GT5 but SOOny wants to release GT5 ain sometime alone..I wont believe gt5s date even if it announce.Cuz Postphony Digital could delay again.. i will believe when i put GT5 copy in my hands.
One more thing Hype rising again bigger than ever. e3 2010 beat me

 

[Voltaic]

I am starting to smell a "calendar" 1st quarter 2011, "fiscal" 4th quarter 2010 release. Meaning, March 31st 2011. December at the earliest.

 

[Dan_]

Wow, why everyone is being so pessimistic?

I'm still believing in something between october and november, and a release date at E3. Did I miss something?

 

[patriotzero]

No you didnt miss something..Everbody already know What will be happen..There s still no Track list or other features..You can skip Carlist cuz lots of car in that package..Tracks more important than cars for me

 

[analog]

Wow, why everyone is being so pessimistic?

I'm still believing in something between october and november, and a release date at E3. Did I miss something?

Sorry Dan_, I'm just pessimistic by nature and anything positive will be a bonus, but I'm still believing like you it will be released this year.
Just not expecting anything anymore at this moment.

 

[patriotzero]

To me Postphony must rush their game after 5.5 years...I wanna see Rushed GT.It would be cool than nothing.Rush them all PD! I know You need 2 or 3 years to complete game but at least i wanna touch that Bluray once time before i die.