Bang the gongs, cue the avalanche of GIF’s – it’s happening! After over six months of silence, GT Sport is ready for its first gameplay showing. As you’d expect of a company that has announced a title at a racetrack (GT6), and taken over an entire town for a release party (GT6 again), Polyphony is pulling out all the stops, showcasing the PS4 title in downtown London, at the Copper Box Arena, a former Olympic site.
The two day event begins a week from today on May 19. Kicking off with a livestream of a brand new GT Sport trailer, this private portion of the event will include gameplay opportunities for the members of the press in attendance, as well as the beginning of the first GT Sport eSport event. GTPlanet founder Jordan will be present, even taking on commentary duties. The evening will look something like this:
- 6.45pm BST – 7.00pm BST: Run down of the day’s events, news and a showcase of the brand new GT SPORT trailer
- 7.00pm BST – 8.30pm BST: Nations Cup Pre-Season Test and the Manufacturer Fan Cup Pre-Season Test of the FIA Gran Turismo Championships:
- The Manufacturer Fan Cup Pre-Season Test
- The Nations Cup Pre-Season Test
- 8.30pm BST – 9.00pm BST: Trophy ceremonies (1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each cup)
You’ll have to excuse my infomercial tone here, but… “that’s not all!”. May 20 gets really interesting for fans eager to play the game, as Sony and PD will be opening up the event to a limited number of the public.
The game will be the main attraction of course, but with a record number of Vision GT models scattered around the space, a Q & A session with Kazunori Yamauchi himself, plus food and drinks, there will be plenty to do between test-driving Polyphony’s newest creation. Not to mention the numerous GTPlanet staff members that will be in attendance!
Wondering how you can gain access to this wild ride? Stay tuned!
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Tire sound should only be heard when they are reaching the end of grip level. Too much tire sound is annoying after a while.
Don’t know how they got away with the same old tracks game after game. Keep the Nurgburgring and Le Mans 24H circuit, but ditch the rest as they’re no longer exciting.
am i the only one thats gets a little annoyed when some users say they are content with the sound :) reminds me of climate change deniers. in my opinion, accurate sound is the only missing primary building block from an otherwise brilliant game.
When I see that I always assume they either have a terrible sound system (TV speakers probably) or have only played Gran Turismo and have no idea how much accurate sound adds to the immersion. Sound + physics + graphics are the holy trinity of immersion. When one is missing as it is in GT, the level of immersion drops significantly.
Sound is on the bottom of a long list of problems with gt
The sound doesn’t just have to be good, it has to be amazing! If they’re not able to deliver on the sound, I won’t be sold. Sound is just as important as graphics. Speaking of which, there better not be standard cars. All of us would agree that the disparity was a pretty jarring experience, and should never have existed in the first place. We had more cars, yes, but it was a controversial and polarizing topic nonetheless, and delved into quality/quantity trade-offs which PD could’ve avoided. Still looking forward to it! Hopefully PD delivers this time! Forza set the bar really high, PD can raise it even higher, but we’ll see. Bring it on!
not everyone is the same when it comes to the expectations we have, I mean after all, it’s just a video game.. but for sake of argument….. I for one honestly don’t care for the graphics.. nor for the sound… I always drive in First Person view and never see any of the car’s interior, so for me (and probably just me).. the interior of the cars isn’t something I care about.. one thing I do care about is the physics and handling of the cars… and the actual simulation of actual driving.. The feel of the car’s rear breaking out a little as you maybe take a corner too fast.. or the undulations you see and feel (through a wheel obviously) when going over rises or dips and banked turns.. But like I said.. we all have different expectations.. If they have standard cars, and sound is still the same as before I’m still buying the game.. but that’s just me..
lets not forget about standard tracks too, they are even worse to look at in my opinion.
Well, this is my take. Woo. ;D
For only three years, and three years full of lots of other activities, it’s still been a long time. PD knows that they have some stiff competition, with games like Assetto Corsa and RaceRoom out on PC and making quite a mark in the racing game genre. Live For Speed and iRenting too. Sounds, schmounds… the feeling of racing has been manicured pretty darn well with these games, and PS4 is offering a nice big boost in processing power over PS3, not to forget the ease of coding and all that fast ram to hold that code, sound and graphic assets. GT4 felt like a toy compared to Prologue, which felt wimpy compared to GT5, which seemed a bit weak sauce after GT6 launched. I’m expecting a nice step forward in GT Sport.
Bring it on!
iRacing*
Seems you repeatedly have trouble with something so simple.
The combined sales of all the Sims you mentioned probably don’t equal 5% of the sales of GT5 alone. Why would Kaz, the man who said he pays no attention to other games, care what they do?
I’m impressed considering they got it together within 3 years. Remember Gt6 came out in 2013 and ps4 came out in 2012. They basically did two game at the same time.
Kaz has never fessed up about that, but I’ve been thinking the same thing all along. That he wanted to build GT6 for PS4 all along to rub virtual metal with Forza 5 and 6. What has all that work resulted in? Like I posted above, Gran Turismo games have always moved forward in feel and performance in each version. I expect that GT Sport is going to be another step forward in realism. GT5 and 6 already have an amazing sense of feel when you take a car with Comfort tires on a track and push it hard. Forza does a few aspects even better, though the kings of feel to me are Live For Speed, Assetto Corsa and RaceRoom. Will Sport deliver? I’m sure that in some ways, it will. Will it feel as good as those games? Ehh, we’ll see, but regardless, Gran Turismo has delivered something special in each installment. I’m confident GT Sport will too, and GT7 when it appears. Sport will rock, but it’s just a stepping stone to the main event.
anticipating SOUND difference the most! if sound is dissapointing, i wont buy the title at launch for the 1st time since GT1, heres hoping…
Yeah! That’s JUST why I play racing games, to listen to the sounds. Or come to think of it, no I don’t. ;D
Seriously, some of the sounds in the Forza series have bugged me, particularly the weird tire sounds in F2, 3 and 6, but that’s not why I dropped them. The nearly silent tires in PCARS actually make racing pretty darn difficult for a while, but that’s not why I dropped it.
You guys who insist that sound is so important, do you have no sense of feel for the cars you’re driving virtually? I do, and it’s why I stick with Gran Turismo. Could GT stand to be improved in that area? Sure, and that’s one of the things I’ve been asking for, as well AS sound. But the reason I play racing games is to feel like I’m handling a vehicle on a track, and improvements have been coming along in that regard with the series, so GT Sport is something I’m looking forward to in that aspect.
Have you ever been to a race track? Driven or rode in a car with a tuned exhaust? I’m really starting to think that all of your driving experience has been from the couch with audio from $2.00 TV speakers.
I’m beginning to think you never want to have a proper conversation with me, Mr Penso. I suppose you’ve never even seen a car on TV, otherwise you’d be upset over a game you supposedly sleep with every night (PCARS) which has almost no tire sounds at all.
Selective criticism much? ;-)
You just mocked someone for declaring sound was important to him in a racing sim. What does that have to do with tire sounds in Project Cars? We’re talking about GT Sport.
Johnny, I suggest you reassess the tone of your post before you accuse someone else of mocking.
Tenacious, as a gt academy national finalist i have no issues with feeling the car virtually, however when you push a real car , u quickly realise theres one area where gt is falling short,sound. i do love GT as well, howevever its ok to criticise as its leads to a better experience in the end.
Proper, accurate, full, rich, comprehensive sound programming played through a decent set of speakers or headset ups the level of immersion tremendously and, at the same time, can offer critical information about car performance. As graphics progress to the point where progress is in smaller and smaller increments and physics get closer and closer to real car behaviour, sound is the one obvious weak link in the Gran Turismo equation that all other sims and all other games quite frankly, do a better overall job with. Some of the better sounding pc sims like R3E and GSCE/AMS sound eerily real when played back to back with real car sounds. This is something never experienced in GT and it’s high time they conquered that aspect of simulation.
Announcement of an announcement. Better than nothing I guess!
True, next week is so far off, innit.
Long live the king… can’t wait to see what’s in store this time. I’m very excited.
Btw, GT’s IG returned running since a 99 weeks hiatus!! And confirms 9 VGTs and some 1/4 scale modelos being shown there!!!!!
omg omg OMG ZOMG!!! That escalated quickly!! Can’t wait!! Bring it on PD!!!
Show us realistic collisions like in FM, an advanced livery editor like in FM, a platform to share liveries and setups like in FM, good sounds like in FM, visual immersion like in FM (no freaking static cockpit camera for example), clutch use with the controller like in FM… or go home, PD.
In GT Sport? I’d love to see custom liveries too, but I think you’re being WAY premature with your demands. Maybe you should just stay home.
Looking forward to this ;)
I for one am not going to get all jacked up with excitement until AFTER I see what they’ve done with the game. Too many disappointments in the past for me to get all hyped up without first seeing something concrete. Even then, well, we’ll just have to wait and see as greatness has seemed to elude PD in the past….in my opinion. With all that’s already out there and with the bar set the highest its ever been, PD has their work cut out for them. Lets just see how they respond.
Ohhhhh Yeahh!!! Finally we get to see what Gran Turismo on PS4 even means! 3+ years of development and absolutely not a single glimpse of what’s been done in the house of PD is pretty unbelievable.. even though silence is obviously PD’s trademark. Well, it’s gonna be awesome to follow the event next week!
Glad! Hopefully the news will start rolling in.
Mildly excited for now. Not gonna go head over heels for a PD game these days, wanna see it first and then make my judgement.
Kudos to PD for giving us a potential date at which we will be able to see the game in action. I’ve been with GT since the beginning and have collected all titles, GT6 being my least favorite (too many frame rate issues and felt less polished than GT5), with GT1 and 5 being my favorites. I have high hopes for GT Sport even though it appears it will be a more compact title. Here’s hoping that GT Sport will be the best looking game on the PS4/4.5 with guaranteed improved frame rates and engine sounds than it’s predecessor.
Agreed! If it launches on Neo too, it’ll most certainly be the best-looking game!
Open Beta?
Happy Birthday to me! Great news to hear today. We’ll see what the next gen GT brings. A lot to prove, but we’ll see how it goes.
Now i know what i’m doing next winter. Strong confidence to PD.
Cannot wait. I’m ready to be amazed once again by these guys. Still the best racing series there is.
@Griffith500 do you think they’ll be utilizing AES for sounds? I just hoping that they have really fleshed that out well as it would bode incredibly well for realistic sounds for tuning, less abuse of storage space. I’m wondering if there will be no actual GT7, seeing the Veveno which is is no way a race car in the GTS kind of leans to this being GT’s new naming schema. I for one am most interested in cars, I don’t want to lose a single vehicle Period. Sorry but I have been with GT since GT2 and have seen a great wealth of incredible autos lost by the series and yet to surface ever again in any other game. Folks will complain about standard cars but whatever, avoid them it’s a choice I doubt you’ll be forced to use them at all, but I still prefer to have them than not have them.
Licenses are funny things and come with sometimes oddball stipulations, lords knows how Kaz and company were able to keep almost all the standard cars from GT 4, 5 and pull them into 6 minus the Jensen Interceptor but as you saw the Jensen is no more. I mean free advertising that someone paid you and you turn that down for obscurity, who does that? Eccentric folks are indeed a rare breed. Any way I am stoked to see GT Sport in PSVR. I personally hope they bring back the online set up for public rooms the way it was done in GT 5 Prologue and keep the private setup from GT 5/6 for the rest, this should really work out nicely giving casuals jump in and out racing and more dedicated drivers a place to relax with friends and control their own room. Options it seems in this day and age are a rare, almost mythical.
Good on PD for shutting up and not saying a word, felt a bit boring but man that didn’t stop the complainers though, I would pop in here to read and shake my head at the nonsense and comment here and there, got infractions a couple of times and well cut my visits even more. Well I doubt I’ll be doing much more posting any way considering summer is almost here and finals are next week. Time to head out and rub shoulders with my fellow humans, emerging from my scholastic endeavors for a spell.
Part of me think that PD will somehow still drop the ball on some aspect, just which of them will it be? The days of selling 10 million copies of one driving game are gone perhaps, will PD with it’s new found infusion of outside minds bring the magic back? I don’t know but I’ll definitely pick up a copy day one if it has all the cars from previous release. I pray they haven’t been forced to include some absurd microtransaction nonsense like buying cars that aren’t actual made after the game went gold content. Ah life really does sort of make your dim your expectations, oh well as long as VR is done well I probably will smile like Cheshire whipping around the Nur. PS Neo or whatever it’s called I will be nabbing no other reason than for higher fps and more pretty.
I’m thinking you’re going to be sorely disappointed if you think all the cars from prior games will be in GT Sport. I’d be surprised if all the premium cars made it let alone the standards.
So… demo in May. That means a full release in…December?
there’s rumors about GT sport being a PSVR launch title, check news
GTSport.
Be like a fort.
Silence the rest by showing us the best!
Let us be proud after giving you our test!
Let us wave your flag and proudly rise our heads & chests!
Cause we want to be happy at your launching fest!
While I have confidence they will of made good use of the PS4, I still am not anticipating much. It’s crazy how much interest in the series I’ve lost since I’ve realized there are annoying flaws, and just simply better games available (compared to GT6). Unless I see that I will truly enjoy Gran Turismo again like I did when I first tried GT5, I’m probably going to spend the money I would have spent on a PS4 on a wheel setup and Project Cars and Asseto Corsa. Maybe even IRacing while I’m at it.
I’ve come to terms that the development philosophy that goes in to making these games isn’t quite what allows for a engaging, detail oriented simulation. I realize the PS3 was at its limit, but there were simple factors like proper tire heat, tire pressure adjustments, adaptive AI, etc. that were overlooked and made GT6 feel half full after a while.
You can also play GT Sport at the 24hr of Nürburgring fom 26-19 mai
i mean 29
Cool. Crossing my fingers it doesn’t disappoint
Cool, so its nearly time to delete pcars off my hdd :-)
If this news item doesn’t hit 100 posts by midnight EST I’m going to be seriously disappointed!
You’re likely going to end up disappointed in 90 mins with 60 posts to go. Although me thinks 1.8k “likes” makes up for it… :D
Wow. Right on my birthday. That’s pretty awesome. I hope GTS is impressive. Half a year worth of silence is a lot to make up for. And considering the competition, a LOT to make up for.
I’m sure it’ll be impressive, but at this stage that’s a make or break requirement.
It’s happening!
Bring us back all the juicy details from London team GTPlanet! Make Translator San do a lot of translating!
Oh, that’s an integral piece of the plan!
Interesting that FIA partnership that was supposed to be included in GT6 long time ago was canceled from GT6 and moved to GTS. Same goes for a good number of VGT cars. If PD couldn’t keep their promises for GT6 why should we expect anything different for GTS?
Don’t take me wrong, I like the GT series, I’ve played most of the games but the series has been in a downfall since GT4.
This is amazing news- LOVE IT
Awesome ! Looking forward to what PD has been up to and if they can pull many players back in. Bring on the news :)
Cool. Hopefully the public beta ETA will be announced at that time, too, though I am not hopeful. Maybe the GT Academy schedule will be announced in some detail, which could be a clue. At this point I think GTA = GTS public beta is inevitable.
I’m mostly looking forward to hearing what the cars sound like. Fingers crossed that we get some direct audio from actual gameplay.
I hope this is a sign of things to come from PD. They have been awfully quiet the last few months, but now that they are ready to show something they announce it just a week ahead of time when there is very little chance of a delay or change of plan. In many ways I prefer this approach, instead of them saying one thing, and then months down the road doing something different.
Awesome! I’m exited and anxious to hear what improvement they’ve made with the sound.
Finally !!!!!!!!! It’s happening !!!!!!!!
Woo hoo! Really looking forward to seeing this after all the radio silence. After the delay of Assetto Corsa I needed some positive racing game news and here it is!
Looking forward to the livestrea!
*livestream XD
Will there be a live stream?
Yes. Stay tuned for live stream details.
This is gonna be great! *a countdown appears* I can’t believe it: More Gran Turismo! *starts eating popcorn while the countdown eventually ticks down* This is so exciting! *shakes popcorn erratically* Here it comes!
Sounds like they are pretty happy with the progress of the game if they are jumping straight into not only a playable demo, but straight into pre-season tests. Hope the beta ends up being public (or at least not tightly restricted) like they originally advertised, even if not everyone has access to the pre-season testing.
…To all who’ll be attending: You Lucky Sods. Enjoy the hell out of it, for the rest of us who can’t be there.
Can’t wait!! This is going to be epic :D
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