There are many different racing franchises on the market but Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo has long been considered one of the most realistic and visisually pleasing. Currently on its 5th iteration, the latest title has not failed to impress with beautiful visuals, a whole slew of cars for gamers to choose from and enough venues to keep them busy for quite some time.
However, seeing how the game is so realistic and includes endurance races, gamers are finding themselves glued to the television for hours at a time. But, this isn’t the problem, the problem is the fact that there is no way to save your progress while in an endurance race. Luckily, Polyphony’s Kazunori Yamauchi has come forth to say that the studio is in fact working on the feature. Below is an excerpt from his Tweet:
Game saves during endurances. They are currently under development.
Once implemented, this will give gamers the ability to finish races that may take several hours by spreading them out over a longer period of time. We’ll let you know when it goes live.
Polyphony Digital, developers of Gran Turismo 5, have announced that Gran Turismo Anywhere is expected to be released in early February — but it will be released under a new name: Gran Turismo Remote Races.
In Remote Races, players will have the ability to control b-spec races from a PC or mobile device through the Gran Turismo 5 website. Which is to say, it’s for those GT5 players who absolutely cannot wait to get home and play the game.
Despite being in development for quite some time Gran Turismo 5 has been met with generally positive reception. Some have criticized the game for not living up to the massive hype that had accrued over the years but sales numbers haven’t failed to impress. In fact numbers have just begun rolling in that say Polyphony Digital managed to push 1.14 million units between November and December. Seeing how December is largely considered the holiday season it shouldn’t come as a surprise that 556,000 of the 1.14 units were sold in December.
Polyphony Digital has told us in the past that they plan to release periodical updates for Gran Turismo 5 meaning things can only get better from here on out. In other words, if you have yet to pick up Gran Turismo 5 you may be doing yourself an injustice.
Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo franchise has been regarded by many as the go-to racing simulator. However, with the release of Gran Turismo 5, many have wondered if the series has fallen from grace only to be surpassed by new comers like Forza and Need for Speed. Regardless of this chatter, Polyphony is pushing forward with their game and have today released a 600MB patch bringing the game to 1.05.
While an official change log has yet to be released, reports suggest that the update brings with tit the ability to turn off the HUD midrace, reduce the grip in wet tracks and turn on mechanical damage in offline practice mode.
Doesn’t sound very exciting but it’s nice to see the game mature even after its launch.
The PlayStation 3 is definitely one of the most popular consoles on the market, frequently applauded for its high definition graphics and beefy hardware. However, one of the biggest gripes consumers have with the PS3 are the painstakingly long load times that are associated with some titles. Luckily, there is hope, as some members in the community have discovered that swapping out the PS3′s stock SATA hard drive for a snappier solid state drive (SSD) cuts the load times considerably.
As you can see from the above chart, loading times for some of Gran Turismo 5‘s tracks are cut in half in addition to actually loading the game.
Sounds great to me but unfrotunately owners of the newer PS3 Slim need not apply as this mod is incompatible with this hardware.
Usually when a game is in development for more than 5 years, it’s usually considered vapor ware (read: never coming out) as is the case with Duke Nuke: Forever. However, this was not the case with Gran Turismo 5 as despite being in development for quite some time, it eventually made its way onto store shelves. Unfortunately, with all of the hype surrounding Gran Turismo 5′s ultra-realistic gameplay, it set the bar quite high for the actual game – a bar that would have been impossible to meet.
Luckily, it seems that there is hope as Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi (a.k.a the creator of Gran Turismo) has come forth to let us know that the studio believes one GT5 update per month sounds like a good idea. What exactly these updates will entail is any one’s guess but lets hope it brings with it some hefty new features. Additionally, he also goes on to state that he believes new premium cars will eventually be available as DLC. Of course, this doesn’t actually mean NEW cars but instead updates resolutions, fully modeled interiors and more for the ~800 cars that didn’t get the feature on launch.
As for new tracks and cars? Probably not. Yamauchi says there may be an expansion pack or they may just leave this content for the next title. In other words, don’t hold your breath.
Criticism of Gran Turismo 5 hasn’t been slowing down since the game came out, it’s mostly centered around its horrible AI, which we showed a few days ago. Now take a look at how bad the physics are.
Apparently everything under the hood in GT5 came from the PS2 version GT4. Or so it seems. Via CarBuyersNotebook.
Sony has announced that they’ve shipped an impressive 5.5 million copies worldwide of Gran Turismo 5. Despite lackluster reviews which left many unimpressed with GT5 after years of wait, the game in in high demand.
Developer Polyphony Digital has recently announced a new 1.03 patch which fixes some issues and adds car damage to online races.
GT Academy is back, as Sony has teamed up with Nissan to offer a series of online time trial tournaments in Gran Turismo 5 where the winners will then move on to compete for the grand prize of racing in the real world on a real Nissan racing team, in a real racing event, with real opponents. For real.
The registration for the tournaments begins on December 6.
Our Gran Turismo 5 review has flared up a lot of GT5 and Sony fanboys, mostly for pointing out the obvious shortcomings of GT5, like most other reviews have pointed out. Here we present a video compared to Forza 3, showing just how retarded the single player AI in GT5 is. Watch for yourself.
