After the bitter disappointment of Gran Turismo 5’s delay, it’s taken just one trailer to get our excitement levels rampant once again. This trailer is included on God Of War III in the US, and we had a lower-resolution post of it last week. But now you can enjoy it in lovely high quality.
Watch and weep.
Included on the American God Of War III disc is a new trailer for Gran Turismo 5. With the embargo set to lift on God Of War III reviews this very evening, a high-quality capture of the trailer has been posted to YouTube via PSNation.org. Guess what: it looks mind-meltingly beautiful.
The trailer features shiny cars, unbelievable lighting, and some hard hitting D&B.
Did we mention this is one of the best trailers of the year so far?
Want to know a little more about the NASCAR features in Gran Turismo 5? Of course you do. (Maybe). Then look no further than the embedded video, in which Polyphony Digital’s Yamauchi talks about the marriage between Gran Turismo 5 and NASCAR.
Word.
These Are Cars. Driving.
Above is a picture of cars driving on a race track. They are being rendered by the unbelievably pretty Gran Turismo 5 engine. You can see more through the link at GTPlanet.
Can we have a release date now, please?
Gran Turismo PSP May Have Been Received Tepidly, But That's Not Particularly Slowed Its Sales.
Who said the Gran Turismo franchise carries no weight these days? Fuck me. Sony and Polyphony have just announced that Gran Turismo PSP, launched last Winter, has shifted over 1.8million copies. That’s a startling number for a PSP game without “Monster Hunter” in the title.
Polyphony’s also released the worldwide sales for each Gran Turismo game below. Prepare to have your mind blown:
We’re taking bets on what Gran Turismo 5 will do when it’s finally released. We reckon its lifetime sales will top 10million, in the Gran Turismo 4 region. Thoughts?
We're Starting To Wonder If We'll Ever Play This Game.
Enough Sony, SCEE, Polyphony or whoever is involved with making Gran Turismo 5 take so bleeding long to come out. We were expecting it early 2009. It didn’t come. We were expecting it late 2009. It didn’t come. We were really expecting it early 2010. It ain’t coming. Now you’re talking about Fall? Really?
Yes, really. SCEE Portugal’s honcho James Armstrong has said the game is aiming for a “Fall release” though final timing has “not yet” been decided. That’s what he told GTPlanet anyway.
Honestly, we were expecting a release shortly after E3 in the middle of summer.
Is anyone else getting sick of waiting now? We know Polyphony are perfectionists, and we respect that, but at this stage we can feel our interest for Gran Turismo 5 waning. No matter how good it turns out.
Polyphony Digital’s released a video comparison of a lap in a real car against a lap in a Gran Turismo 5 car. The results are kinda awesome. The video’s essentially a tech demo for the Data Logger Visualization, that tracks the bumps and movements a driver makes in a car.
It’s pretty awesome.
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