Maserati confirmed?

[bkeljda]

Ok, so i was looking through the credits on the game (GTSP) and happened to notice that Maserati was included.

The Maserati logo, the Maserati wordmark and the Maserati model designations are trademarks of maserati S.p.A and are used under license.

i also noticed that there are other credits for Yokohama, Toyo Tire, Sparco, Valvoline, as well as others on the bottom of the page (12/13 in game user manual)

I was just wondering if anyone else thinks this confirms maserati as in GT5 as well as name given parts such as tires (not only n1-r5) or is it a coincidence

 

[YZF]

Yeah, should be. Why not.

 

[Boffin]

Maserati is in I'd say, but those other logos are because they are on race cars or on the side of the track barriers.

 

[Seismica]

I would say they're in, but that is not confirmation. The Reference in the credits in GTPSP as we all know was for a poster/advertisment On the side of a building in Tokyo R246.

 

[bkeljda]

I would say they're in, but that is not confirmation. The Reference in the credits in GTPSP as we all know was for a poster/advertisment On the side of a building in Tokyo R246.

Ill give you that but i know in the GT5 car list thread that the Maserati Spyder was seen being photgraphed and tested by PD so it could be in the full game, and if it was just for the purpose of a poster why would they need to test the car?

 

[Boffin]

SO the car is on standby just in case they get loyalties.

 

[Seismica]

Ill give you that but i know in the GT5 car list thread that the Maserati Spyder was seen being photgraphed and tested by PD so it could be in the full game, and if it was just for the purpose of a poster why would they need to test the car?

I agree, all the evidence points to Maserati being in the game, but PD arn't giving anything away :/ which means they are either not in (Maybe the licensing deal fell through/not completed yet?) or they're just simply keeping it to themselves for now.

 

[Zimmerd]

I think there's enough evidence to think that Maserati will make it into GT5.
- The pictures a year ago or so from the maserati spyder, and the polyphony digital team recording the engine sounds
-the maserati ads in tokyo r246
-the psp credits

but don't shoot me if it doesn't make it into GT5,
we'll have to wait to be 100%sure

 

[Seismica]

Honestly, they can't not include a car named the 'Gran Turismo' in a game called Gran Turismo?

I mean its not like they stuck GT on the end of the cars name to make it sound better, thats what it is called.

If PD hasn't tried to get the licensing for Maserati, i think they are very silly indeed.

 

[El Drifto]

If they have FIAT, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, surely they can get Maserati.
I honestly think they will be in.

 

[ST-2]

I'd be suprised if they wern't included, I'm looking forward to driving the Gran Turismo S, should be good fun.

 

[TBR 427]

I'd be suprised if they wern't included, I'm looking forward to driving the Gran Turismo S, should be good fun.

Sup dawg, I heard you liek Gran Turismo, so we put a Gran Turismo in your Gran Turismo so you can admire the looks while you admire the looks.



Seriously, they've now got basically every other Italian manufacturer.

It's the fact that they've got a billion car companies that make these absentees more irritating.

 

[Seismica]

Sup dawg, I heard you liek Gran Turismo, so we put a Gran Turismo in your Gran Turismo so you can admire the looks while you admire the looks.



Seriously, they've now got basically every other Italian manufacturer.

It's the fact that they've got a billion car companies that make these absentees more irritating.

I got confused in GT3 and GT4 when they started introducing manufacturers like Tommy Kaira and ASL. Sure its a Japanese game, but surely Ferrari, Lamborghini etc. takes priority over small manufacturers relatively unheard of that are based in only one partiular country.

With GT5 PD have surpassed themselves with what they have achieved so far, but there is still much much more to do. So many manufacturers are missing, including some very well known brands. I do hope even if we don't get Porsche in GT5, that we get Maserati, Koeniggsegg etc.

 

[Jay]

I got confused in GT3 and GT4 when they started introducing manufacturers like Tommy Kaira and ASL. Sure its a Japanese game, but surely Ferrari, Lamborghini etc. takes priority over small manufacturers relatively unheard of that are based in only one partiular country.

Tommy Kaira has been in since atleast GT2 (maybe GT1 I forget) but the difference is these manufacturers come cheap, free or even requested by the manufacturers. While big names like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche etc has big money and exclusivity offers and requirements, total different ball game.

PD doesnt look around and ignore the big names over small names, I am sure PD would like all the names.

 

[Seismica]

It's the fact that they've got a billion car companies that make these absentees more irritating.

Tommy Kaira has been in since atleast GT2 (maybe GT1 I forget) but the difference is these manufacturers come cheap, free or even requested by the manufacturers. While big names like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche etc has big money and exclusivity offers and requirements, total different ball game.

PD doesnt look around and ignore the big names over small names, I am sure PD would like all the names.

Can't say it doesn't still cause frustration when we get new manufacturers that we havn't heard of. It isn't PDs fault, more the greedy western companies that only understand the language of money.

And yes Tommy Kaira were in GT2 i think, my copy of that broke in 2000, so i havn't played it in a long time. But they definetly wern't in GT1

 

[peter_vod69]

Sup dawg, I heard you liek Gran Turismo, so we put a Gran Turismo in your Gran Turismo so you can admire the looks while you admire the looks.

OK that was pretty good

 

[CarBastard]

Maybe "Valvoline", "Yokohama", and "Toyo" are for the billboards and various logos spread around the tracks. As for Maserati...who knows? We aren't PD , but there are strong SUGGESTIONS that it might be in GT5. Only time will tell...

 

[Bogie 19th]

To me it seems GT and Maserati are like white on rice. They just go together, so it should happen IMO.

 

[Dave A]

You swa Maerti mentioned in GT PSP's credits, right. Did you see any Maserati cars in GT PSP beyond the Maerati poster on Tokyo R246 or any other poster should any others be in the game? No. Thought not, Maserati's inclusion in GT PSP extends as far as PD re-creating a Merserati Poster on the Tokyo track which is there in real life, that's the full extent of the license listed in GT PSP.

Maserati may be in GT5, we don't know, but if they are then it will have been nothing at all to do with the licencse credited in GT PSP which was purelty permission to replicate that poster.

As for the other licenses, brands have been licensed in every GT to date, you see them all over the game on bill boards and posters and as part of car liveries. If PD don't license Penzoil and they include the Penzoil sponsored NISMO GT-R then PD are breaking the law and could be taken to court.

If they have FIAT, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, surely they can get Maserati.
I honestly think they will be in.

That has little to do with Licensing Maserati, you can't license one company just because you have licensed a company that owns it. If it worked like that then we'd have had Ferrari and Lamborghini a long time ago, Ferrari are also owned by FIAT and Lamborghini are part of VAG. The fact PD already have licenses for FIAT and Audi respectively will in many instances have little bearing on thier attempts to license other companies within thier corporate umberellas.

 

[TBR 427]

I do not believe that they would have to license EVERY SINGLE SPONSOR on those SuperGT cars, due to the fact that those sponsors basically signed themselves over to that team, who are signed to that series.

Whether the series still owns the cars is a different matter altogether, because if not (F2007) they should just be able to license that car from it's manufacturer, and the sponsors will automatically come with it.

As for manufacturers, well, Audi might be able to 'theoretically' force Lamborghini's hand and let them include everything, and FIAT might be able to force Maserati to bend over so PD can take billions of photographs, recordings and measurements. But odds are nobody in FIAT thinks that's a good use of a week.

 

[El Drifto]

That has little to do with Licensing Maserati, you can't license one company just because you have licensed a company that owns it. If it worked like that then we'd have had Ferrari and Lamborghini a long time ago, Ferrari are also owned by FIAT and Lamborghini are part of VAG. The fact PD already have licenses for FIAT and Audi respectively will in many instances have little bearing on thier attempts to license other companies within thier corporate umberellas.

Well it should have persuasive effect on Maserati since PD was able to get Ferrari.
That's how I see it anyway.

 

[zazaza]

I think Maserati will be in the game.

Do you remember this old news in GTP?
https://www.gtplanet.net/new-gran-turismo-5-development-images/

 

[-ultraflow-]

^

Agree 100%

At the time that Maserati Spyder was also included in the GT5 master car list!

 

[Dave A]

Loads of cars (including Maserati's) were seen being photographed during GT4's development that never appeared in the final game. A lot of people assumed they would all be in and got thier hopes up for Ferrari's, Porsches and many others to be in GT4. They were dissapointed.

I do not believe that they would have to license EVERY SINGLE SPONSOR on those SuperGT cars, due to the fact that those sponsors basically signed themselves over to that team, who are signed to that series.

Whether the series still owns the cars is a different matter altogether, because if not (F2007) they should just be able to license that car from it's manufacturer, and the sponsors will automatically come with it.

As for manufacturers, well, Audi might be able to 'theoretically' force Lamborghini's hand and let them include everything, and FIAT might be able to force Maserati to bend over so PD can take billions of photographs, recordings and measurements. But odds are nobody in FIAT thinks that's a good use of a week.

They still need a license regardless of what form that license takes. You are right, in some cases you can license a race team and you'll be granted the right to use the full race team livery ithin that license. But you are still being given legal licenses to use thoes sponsors. Every brand appearing in the game needs a license in one form or another, some might be a small part of a bigger license while other brand names might require a whole license of thier own, but the crux is that PD require legal permission to use each and every brand in the game.

 

[socomkiller59]

Voted maybe- Wasn't there an ad. with Ferrari in GT4, and Ferrari wasn't in the game?

I keep thinking there is- but correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[TBR 427]

No fezz in GT4.

I'm interested in the whole photographing them thing.

When was this done? Because they would've had a metric ton of QA work to do, and anyone NOT a programmer would've been on testing duty. And they wouldn't have had the means r reason to continue work on them as DLC wasn't an option for them.

 

[Jay]

When was this done?

That photographing session done above was from Spet/Oct 2008, thats the roof of Polyphony Digital's building.

 

[TBR 427]

That photographing session done above was from Spet/Oct 2008, thats the roof of Polyphony Digital's building.

no, that I know, but the whole Ferrari photography before GT4 realese is what intrigues me.

Because if I know a timeframe, I can figure out if they weren't included because of lisencing problems or just because SONY wouldn't wait any longer and told them to STFU and ship the damn game.

 

[Kinetic]

Did they just get the Maserati dropped of there via Helicopter then ?

 

[Jay]

Did they just get the Maserati dropped of there via Helicopter then ?

The building has a car lift, it's a car park on the roof.