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Gran Turismo Series Might Get Bikes

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Project Gotham did it. Burnout did it. So if Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is toying with the idea of putting motorcycles into Gran Turismo, you can’t say it’s without precedent.

In an interview with IGN, the Polyphony Digital boss was asked about the possibility of bikes making their way into the game, to which he responded “If that’s what users really want in the game, I think that’s a possibility. Or we could consider making a Tourist Trophy 2 as well.”

Might be best sticking to TT2. GT5 is late enough as it is.

Q&A With Gran Turismo’s Kazunori Yamauchi [IGN]

Shiny, Shiny Gran Turismo 5 Screens

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Sony released some new Gran Turismo 5 screens today. Being GT5 screens, you should know what to expect by now: cars that look very, very, very pretty.

Old News ‘01: Gran Turismo Made PlayStation The Market Leader

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:00:20 +0000

Racing gaming has always been a competitive genre. For a while, there was no contest. Fresh off this week’s latest news bit about Gran Turismo and with a copy of Forza 3 on my desk, I wanted to look back.

You are reading Kotaku’s once-weekly (sort of) journey back to yesteryear.

Here’s the Toronto Star in December of 2001, covering the release of Gran Turismo 3:

Gran Turismo 3 is the grandchild of the original, and seminal, Gran Turismo of 1998, the game that made the PlayStation the market leader that it is.

That’s just one of dozens of expressions of Gran Turismo’s dominance that I was able to find in a search of news clippings. GT used to be unstoppable and untouchable. Maybe it still is, but 2009 shows how competitive things can be. Between the release of GT4 and the eventual launch of GT5, Microsoft will have launched three Forza games, closing the gap, at least critically, on what the team at Polyphony Digital built for the PlayStation brand.

There was a time when reports of a Gran Turismo were coupled with references to the competitors’ inability to compete. Is that time over? A new Gran Turismo might mean as much to Sony as the old ones did. So, will the old lines from 2001 and other years be written again once GT5 shows up?

Gran Turismo 5 Comes With Three Discs?

Brian Crecente — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

At least one version of upcoming Playstation 3 racer Gran Turismo 5 apparently comes with three Blu-ray discs, GT Planet writes.

The Gran Turismo fan site spotted the game’s box in the hands of game creator Kazunori Yamauchi on a Mercedes-Benz video that talks about the inclusion of the Mercedes SLS AMG.

Gran Turismo 5 Packaging Reveals Three Discs [GT Planet]

New Gran Turismo 5 Screens

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:20:00 +0000

Sony today released a bunch of new Gran Turismo 5 screens. They’re all from replay mode of course, so don’t expect things to look like this in-game, but still…they are lovely, aren’t they?

Gran Turismo 5: March 2010

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:20:00 +0000

During an SCEJ press event this afternoon at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony finally announced a release date for Gran Turismo 5. And it’s not in 2009.

The game will be out in Japan in March 2010. Which is still months away. A shame, we know, but then, GT fans have been waiting years for this. They can wait a little longer.

Only the Japanese date was revealed. If any info on a Western release pops up, we’ll let you know.

New Gran Turismo 5 Clip Takes A Ferrari For A Spin

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0000

No in-game footage here, sadly, but still, it’s a treat for the eyes. The day when pre-rendered sequences in racing games become indistinguishable from actual footage is drawing very, very near.

Gran Turismo 5 at IGN.com

Gran Turismo 5 (Probably) Getting Simultaneous Worldwide Release

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that, if the stars align and the moon is in the seventh house, Gran Turismo 5 will be given a simultaneous worldwide release.

This would be a first for the series, whose last outing—GT5 Prologue—was released in the US four months after it was out in Japan.

Speaking with Multiplayer, Yamauchi said that “its release is not too far away – it will be after the PSP GT release – and, most likely, it will be a simultaneous worldwide release”.

If you can handle a bit of Italian (or Japanese!), the full interview is below.

Gran Turismo – Videointervista a Kazunori Yamauchi [Multiplayer via 1UP and GTPlanet]

Gran Turismo 5: Q4 2009?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:30:00 +0000

So says this pamphlet for the game, which was passed around last week at Gamescom. You don’t need to be a German (or Austrian!) to make out what “4. Quartal 2009″ means.

Before you ask, yes, it means Q4 2009. And before you ask, yes, it’s a real Sony pamphlet, not a work of Photoshop fantasy. Now, whether the game is actually released later this year is another matter – it is Gran Turismo 5 we’re talking about, after all – but with the PS3 Slim soon to be with us and a “mainstream” gaming market to win back, there’s no better way to combine the two than with a new Gran Turismo game on shelves.

Or maybe even a Gran Turismo/PS3 Slim bundle!

Gran Turismo 5’s Q4 2009 Release Date Confirmed [gtplanet]

Gran Turismo 5 Gameplay Footage

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:30:00 +0000

Say what you will about Gran Turismo’s sterility, its punishing difficulty, nobody can argue that the games always look rather nice. Gran Turismo 5 looks set to continue this tradition.

Gran Turismo 5 at IGN.com