With the big reveal at the Copperbox Arena happening just weeks ago and GT Sport being playable at the Nurburgring 24H race, Polyphony Digital is aiming to keep up the momentum of coverage this weekend as Gran Turismo Sport will be shown off to Japanese audiences this Saturday at 11:15 local time.
The event looks to be in a similar vein to the event held in England, with many VIPs in attendance, including ex-F1 driver Ukyo Katayama, former GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough and series creator Kazunori Yamauchi. The official Gran Turismo YouTube channel will stream the event live for those who wish to watch from the comfort of their home. You can convert the starting time of the event to your own time-zone here.
The initial event will last for 90 minutes before wrapping up at 12:45. The stream should showcase some great racing with ex-motorsport moguls, current racing drivers and the championship winning team from the Copperbox arena – Takuya Takahashi and Tomilin Isamuyu – returning for this exhibition tournament. See below for the full list of confirmed attendees:
- Kazunori Yamauchi – producer of the “Gran Turismo” series.
- Ukyo Katayama – former Formula 1 driver and current Super GT team director.
- Jann Mardenborough – GT Academy winner and LMP1 racer for Nissan.
- Futoshi Omura – Junior Go-Kart racer.
- Koosamu Omura – Junior Go-Kart racer.
- Takuya Takahashi – Winner of the FIA Gran Turismo championship pre-season test.
- Tomilin Isamuyu – Winner of the FIA Gran Turismo championship pre-season test.
- Kendo Kobayashi – a rising talent in Motorsport.
- Akiyoshi Nakao – a rising talent in Motorsport.
This event does not seem to be a FIA certified championship according to the original blog-post on Playstation’s Japanese blog.
After the exhibition championship wraps up, Gran Turismo Sport will be playable to the Japanese public for the first time in the early afternoon. From 14:00 to 17:00, eager fans can get down to the Shibuya Hikarie complex and test out the game themselves.
Polyphony suggests that if you intend to go to this event, please arrive half an hour early to guarantee your spot without having to wait. On the back of 2 playing opportunities so far, it looks like Polyphony Digital will showcase its newest game for the third time in as many weeks. It will be interesting to see if the same build shown so far will be used, or if Polyphony Digital will surprise us with a new build as the game continues in development.
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I for one have learned my lesson. I don’t think we have any recourse but to temper any excitement we may have with the lessons we’ve learned about statements from PD and Kaz.
First, there is no way this releases on time. There is no reason to believe that problems with one thing or another will allow release to be on time. Although considering all the things they have left out of the game (weather/time/damage) it may be lite enough to release maybe a month after the publicized date.
I can no longer bring myself to trust release dates and promised features.
And without proper sounds, damage, weather/time and no indication of tuning menus, I will certainly wait to buy well after the release date. In fact without damage and weather/time effects and arcade looking tuning menu, I’ll stick to PCars and Assetto.
So I will wait to see what is revealed and what is promised before parting with dollars.
Not a lot of cars
Not a lot of tracks
No dynamic timecycle
No dynamic climate
Not offline championships
Not good enough offline modes..
But hey! + 1000 up to 4K photorealistic places…
GT Sport: “the real photo simulator”
Come on Kaz! Not all the people plays only online or cares about the PSVR! Give the game a good offline GT mode.. What gonna stay in GT Sport the day it’s close his servers… A drivingschool and arcade mode??? Phatetic!
No even got one good reason for buying this game…
Project C.A.R.S got also “Esports” and online, but secondary.. Just like it should be in all the games.
If you hate everything about GT, then why do you insist on commenting on *every single GT news story* expressing how much you despise it?
No rule in the AUP against it.
But it sure is annoying as hell, especially when he thinks that constantly being negative and hateful is magically “constructive criticism,” as many haters claim.
TeamCZRRacing because like fan i was from the saga buying from the first GT all the games even the last GT6 I’ve got my own personal opinion.
I find that PD depreciate a good amount of his fans.
Like they also depreciate the users of GT6 in not complete his game that people paid for with the promise that all vision GT will be in the game in the first year of the game release… And where are they??
And for me a good game has to have a good offline with online. Cause the day they close servers.. The offline section is the only thing that stays.
So if you don’t like my opinion, pass over and don’t read me.
I’m saying that, if you think constant negativity is in any way constructive, it isn’t. If you made something, and people critiqued it, would you listen more to the people who had good things to say as well as bad things, or would you listen to the people who all they do is constantly **** on you and your stuff? Think about it.
Well, that’s your opinion.. PD get lots of critics with standard cars in GT5,didn’t listen to it and put standard cars again in GT 6.
Lot of people ask a offline GT mode like GT4.
But that’s the problem of PD,they don’t listen to any opinion of the fans.. Good or bad.
And don’t even complete a games what 4.8 millions of persons paid for..
And he should listen more… He got his fame thanks to the users that buyed his games..
At least with GT6 he losses a +/- 50% in sale number… I’m not only one that is tired of PD. Think about that also.
Sorry, that’s rubbish, and you know it is. They listen, but they may not decide to do what you want. I also think you are making a lot of assumptions in your OP. Like has been said, if you don’t like, then move on and don’t play. Best thing for you would be to wait and see how the game turns out, because frankly making such a song and dance about something that isn’t even out yet is silly. If it still isn’t to your liking when it launches, then you’ve lost nothing. If it turns out though to be completely different from what you are saying…then you’ll just look foolish.
Entirely up to you, but I’d suggest the first course as being the most sensible.
Yeah, you heard him Donnced, if you don’t like it, move on and don’t play. Stop discussing things on a discussion forum, this isn’t a place for discussing things!
/sarcasm
Let’s use your favourite comment on you JP? Where did I say stop discussing? You know, sometimes I think you just say things for the sake of being contrary. Grow up, eh?
They really need to have Tsuchiya. Tsuchiya, Manabu Orido, Nobuteru Taniguchi all who have previously or still do Super GT and GT3. As well as being ex drifters. Not to mention top drift stars like Kawabata, Daigo Saito, Masashi Yokoi, even some of the Team orange guys. :(
They would host a killer demo. And besides…. Drifting in GT is so underwhelmed and overshadowed… give us some love dang it. lol
Ukyo Katayama is the perfect man to unveil the long overdue premium Toyota GT-one.
Hopefully!!!
Maybe they saw how many ppl were bored with what they showed
I can’t wait for this game.
I’m excited to get behind the wheel.
let’s hope it’s not delayed and releases on the time frame KAZ has planned.
Even if it’s Not Everything we want it to be, I think it will still be enjoyable and worth the price of admission.
I did a double take on that MX5 picture. Good god!
No way. That sucker’s real! NO WAY!!
I guess way. I’ll have to say that we really are spoiled in the future, here. I can hardly wait to be so spoiled in November. E3 should be a pretty good show.
It’s a scape, keep up fellas. Real background, 3D car model.
Doesn’t matter, looks real asf!
It looks for me like GTSport is all about making pictures of the cars instead of having fun on the track… I doubt this version will blow us away. Got too many left down on this series. No Hypetrain.
Next point is, presenting something what is just 50% finish and took them time to get here since release of GT 6 I doubt this will be what we all waiting for.
Hoping to see a new build here. I’m guessing they will have a no videoing gameplay policy at this event so we’ll have to rely on the livestream no doubt to look for any changes. Fortunately 2:15pm is a nice time for me to watch it. :)
They’ll probably delete the livestream if there’s bad feedback
Looking at the time in between London and now chances are that it’ll be the same build
@MrWaflz55
So do you belive that PD will release something what will be close to 100% finish to the release date? Waiting again for day one path….
@MrWafflz About London, they said they were iterating so fast that the build showcased in the press event was even an earlier build than the one in the demo booths. So… yeah. Chances are they’ll have moved a few builds down the line prior to this event.