Although Gran Turismo players from Asia didn’t have the chance to become a racing driver, the top players in the region still have an interesting prize to look forward to.
As announced on the PlayStation Asia blog, the fastest competitors from Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Japan will meet at Nissan Global Headquarters in Yokohama, Japan for the “All Asia Gran Turismo Championship” on August 11.
Notably, Kazunori Yamauchi will be speaking with the finalists and other special guests at the event and may be answering their questions during a “talk session”.
Finalists will also be rewarded with a personal tour of Polyphony Digital’s development studio in Tokyo; a very special treat for any fan of the series.
If you or someone you know will be in attendance, please let me know. Congratulations and good luck to all Asian finalists!
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good pic for meme
Kaz if you read this, then please please please give us a mk1 ford escort or a mk2, I’d do anything for one in this game, I’d even do a Marathon using only my eye lids and my lips, so pleaseeeeeeeee!!!!!
PSN Philippines only in my dreams! There are lot of gamers here and we dont even have own PSN. That is why I dont see Filipino to represent our country!
I want to go to the development studio
So do I, while I’m there I would leave my comments and suggestions in the box. If there is no box I may put them in graffiti on the bathroom wall. :-)
Lol
I think Ive seen enough of, and reading of, Nissan :(
Then maybe PD and/or GT isn’t for you…
I think it would be great to have the”italia race mod” like the one they had on le’mans gt series heres some color schemes red&yellow,black&sliver,purple black&silver,blue&white,red&black,or whatever,i love that car.
Would love to go to nissan HQ, like there Z wall in the pic, bet there Skyline room is HUGE lol
If there was a GTdrift academy I might do arite, I wish there was more for drifting in the game, like some points calculations in online drift
Any news of what Canada gets? (sarcasm)
When are we going to get rest of the gt academy cars
We will receive one prize per week. We’ll get them every wensday until late August. Kinda sucks.
dang wish i could attend the pd studio tour so i can do an employee head count lol
Yet another post…still not from DLC
1st normal photo face Kaz. Welcome to home (asia) & go work.
Pfft, only Nissan’s in that thing there, that’s like completely totally unacceptable PD!!!111!1!ONE!!1!ONE!1ELEVEN!!!11!
Making a horrendous joke, if no one understood.
Then you have no sense of humor
I have a sense of humor, you’re only saying I don’t have one, because what I said wasn’t funny to you.
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Thank the US government for the roads and bridges and Al Gore for creating the internet. Jordan didn’t make that business, someone else did.
Obama, is that you? I didn’t know you were a GT fan.
lol? O.O
Only a relatively informed American or someone paying attention to US presidential race will get that joke.
Toko isn’t even American. And Jordan didn’t make the information sharing business? I don’t get that second sentence.
It’s something Obama said in a speech, for those that are confused by this… I’m amazed that a 15 year old like myself would know that…
NO Australia,we are part of europe according to Pd,sony,CLOWNS
Did you read one word of the article?
My bad, I misread your comment, thought it was complaining about EU GT Academy.
GT6 for 2014?
I think it’s closer
^ Maybe early 2014; I’m thinking that GT6 will be a PS4 launch title basing on the projected PS4 release date, at least until I’m given information that speaks otherwise.
GT6 = GTA 2013
@Quakebass
Yes! someone else that thinks the same!
Isn’t it so obvious?
^ I wouldn’t say obvious, but to me it’s the most likely result based on the information given.
Right now I am feeling Kaz abandoned DLC for real-life GT events…then when those things are done…he will back to DLC…but still, I am hiatus of GT5 right now. I dont need anyone telling me that Kaz is doing something about DLC…bored is just bored, bored to hear the reason why the DLC taking long time and bored to waiting something new…I need something that can cheer me up about GT. And that is DLC. Or major update. Or 1000+ premium cars. Dont tell me the Motegi DLC…no weather and time variation, just boring.
That was a really boring post.
sms sum1 who cares
Did you read his post? I was making a joke o_O
Kaz may be running around racing and promoting GT series, but PolyphonyDigital staff shoud be capable enuff to work on GT5 and 6 without THE BIG BOSS MAN hanging over their shoulders.
DLC alone wont fix what ails GT5, Update the Aspec, then worry bout DLC.
^ 100% correct, Pit Crew, there’s likely some commander-in-chief or vice president of PD somewhere… Most corporations/big businesses have them for precisely this reason. DLC, on the other hand COULD fix GT5, but that’s only if Updates are sold as DLC (it’s HIGHLY unlikely for that to ever happen, and I don’t want to start an argument over the technicals of what possibilities there are…), but TYPICAL DLC, that can’t fix GT5. It can somewhat improve it and temporarily add life, but the updates are where it’s at… Though, I’d rather just have a MASSIVE A-Spec DLC, for THAT is something, in my opinion, worth buying, and I’d rather have PD sell what I’d pay for, rather that sell me what is decent, but not necessarily what I want the most. Plus, it could prove that they could make a lump sum of cash off of not doing much work (well, not necessarily “not doing much work”, they can’t sell ONE good car for $5+, that’s a rip off – 100 – 500 new events for that price is DEFINITELY worth the price).
Why would you wanna hear from kaz? Yeah I’ll just ride my co-drivers coat tails and look good!
If I ever went to Japan I’d love to go to PD’s Studio, very jealous guys, enjoy!
It would be really awesome to be able to chat at least for a few minutes with Kazunori.
I think that the first thing I would ask would be if there is any chance to improve the damage model in all aspects, including tyres, engines…
Secondly, will be some tweaks to the sound of the game, like explosions from the tailpipe and a more rebust use of the sorround sound effect. I think the game uses the SS pretty well anyway but it’s always a good thing…
I don’t know, new tracks, new cars, yes, it could be, but there are some other and most important things first, at least to me.
Yeah, I agree. New cars are cool and all, but it gets boring quickly. Id like to see all tracks with weather/time change. I’ll guess I’ll have to keep dreaming.
Even though GT5 A-Spec sucks (IMO), and there is a lot wrong with GT5, like the rabbit Ai that ruins single player, and I think it’s Kaz’s fault, if I met the guy I certainly wouldn’t talk about that stuff.. I’d probably talk about the business side of the company or something unrelated to GT. It’s not like he cares what you think.
MORE DLC!!!111 MORE!!! MOREEEE….DLC……
for the next dlc, he really needs to add the mitsubishi galant 4
I would rather have livery editor.
Sweet , Asia must be happy
That’s gotta be bad luck!!