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So far in 2016, GT Academy’s fortunes have not been the brightest. One of the program’s prime proponents, Darren Cox, left parent company Nissan last fall. Shortly after that, the company unceremoniously shuttered it’s front-engine prototype program. More bad news arrived last month, when word got out that successful GTA grad Wolfgang Reip’s contract wasn’t renewed for 2016, which was shortly followed by similar news for multiple previous winners.
Nismo’s latest video offers hope for a better year moving forward for the program, then. The 97-second clip up top provides a tasty review of racing Nissans past and present, before divvying up the remaining run-time across three hash-tagged (of course) categories: motorsports, GT Academy, and Nismo road cars.
We won’t comment on the… incongruous nature of the Nismo Patrol in the latter, while Felix already covered Nissan’s 2016 motorsports plan in detail in February. The GT Academy portion is the interesting bit here: this is the first mention of it this calendar year from any of the parties typically involved. Detectives will be disappointed: the footage gives nothing away, being entirely recycled from previous seasons.
If the program is indeed returning this year, the large pachyderm in the room needs to be addressed: which platform will it be run on? Last year’s events took place on the PS3 via GT6, kicking off in the second half of April. Could GT Sport’s beta function as this year’s Academy base of operations, in much the same way an early trial of GT6 did during the summer of 2013? Could the doubts of a 2016 release be tied to GT Academy in any way, or impact it?
We’re eager to get answers to these questions soon. Let us know your thoughts on the next iteration of GT Academy in the comments below!
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Has anyone else seen the GT Academy preparation photos on the Nissan Egypt twitter page? It just seems like a weird time of the year for them.
To me, it makes no difference what platform GTAcademy is on. Not to be a downer, but like I’m going to win? If I didn’t come close three years in a row, I very likely don’t have a chance no matter whether it’s on PS3 or PS4.
Those who have a chance at winning know who they are, and at the end of the day they’ll use whatever platform is ultimately utilized.
I think it should be on MS Xbox , as MS is now allowing other consoles to use their service.
If it’s not on PS4 this will be one of the most epic fails in history. Sony and Polyphony are after all not charities, they have a business to run. If it’s on PS3 they stand to gain what? Sale of a handful of copies of GT6 to the few people who are interested in Academy and don’t yet have it. Alternately they have a chance to significantly boost sales of the PS4 and seed interest in GT-Sport.
Releasing Academy on PS3 would be akin to releasing the PS3 with Blu-ray as an add-on extra (like Microsoft did with HD-DVD). Thankfully Sony didn’t make that mistake, or we’d probably still be fighting HD format wars, let’s hope they show some common sense here.
There wont be as many players this year. With it being on PS4 platform and most people owning the G27 steering wheel your looking at $600 just to compete. Hopefully it will be available on the PS3 also.
To be honest if you haven’t got ps4 your not a key gamer and your probably not there target audience were a few years in if you haven’t switched over yet your not a keen gamer I’m guessing
GAME ON!
With the official announcement from Sony regarding a “early 2016 release”, plus GT Academy confirmed for 2016 in this video, it’s looking positive for the GT Sport Beta (or whatever it’s called) being released on time??
For now though, I will continue to hone my driving skills via GT4 on my PS2, whilst my PS4 collects dust haha. Wuttt?!
I don’t see any confirmation of 2016 GT Academy in that video. I see a generic promotional video.
I’m more certain now that this is actually a solid evidence of GTS coming out this side of equinox (hoping) or at least this year. I can’t imagine GT Academy on GT6 and PS3 platform now.
Since PS2 I have always waited patiently til they get their shit together before getting the new platform. Was hoping for another upgrade for PS4 before the release but i’m ready (as I hope PD is).
Last year I invested in Playseat and TR300 wheel so it’s been a total recall of the way I have played since the first edition. This game never gets old for me. Got so much to do still. So much to learn. So many surprises and underdogs to tame.
I have read a lot of emotional comments here almost daily about the GTS release but I do hope that people who have the most trouble, understand that this game is not like anything else and thus should not be taken for granted. Whatever is happening around at the moment with all the other awesome titles at hand – enjoy them and be patient.
Kaz knows what he’s doing! ;)
Honest bet is if GT Sport comes out in the next couple months, it’s probably gonna be on PS4. If not, looking to see if they repeat it on GT6.
I’m gonna bet GT Academy will be on on Playstation 3 one more time. It’s just too close to force everyone without a PS4 to purchase one, and of course as it’s almost a neccessity to use a wheel to have a fair shot, which means quite a high-priced pressured purchase. It’d be pretty sweet if they could do a downloadable standalone game as they did in 2012, but on both platforms and combine the leaderboards.. somehow.. : )
As if PD haven’t had access to the PS4 for the past 3+ years?!? Based on sales of GT6 middling its way around 3 or so million and 35 million PS4’s out there and continuing to grow, bet your bottom dollar GT Academy will be on PS4 and PS3.
You seem pretty sure about that, I’ll take the PS4 version.. : ) IF the competition does come to both consoles the amount of GT6 sales don’t really matter (which are over 5 million btw), it would have to be an identical game downloadable from PSN which I’m not confident is an easy task to actually have working flawlessly between the two system architectures. It’s still probably safer to have it on PS3 with 80 million units and 1000’s of DFGT’s and G25/27’s out there. By safer, I mean PD protecting themselves from incoming anger about how they could give such short notice.
I don’t think “safe” really comes into play. The primary reason this program even exists is to promote the game and Nismo and you don’t do that by putting it on an out of date platform inside a game that is no longer really supported. If at all possible, the game will be on PS4, even if they have to run it later than usual.
The moment GT Sport was announced, I personally felt that it would be the platform for the next GT Academy.
I certainly hope that this happens! Even if it is like the original (US) GT Academy…. A demo with an AWESOME twist!
It will be interesting to see how this year goes.
Enjoy!