The coronavirus pandemic has had a gigantic effect on the Formula One season which was supposed to start last month with the Australian Grand Prix. That, of course, never happened and neither did the races planned for Bahrain and Vietnam. The Dutch, Spanish, and Monaco Grand Prix have all been scrapped too. This means that when F1 2020 launches on PlayStation 4 on 10th July 2020, it could represent a season of racing which never actually takes places. MLB The Show 20 also finds itself in this position when it comes to US sport baseball.
It's a very strange situation indeed because we'd be hard-pressed to imagine races planned for June and July going ahead either. Because of that, however, the F1 eSports Virtual Grand Prix has seen a significant rise in interest.
Back to the game and what will probably be the last F1 title on PS4 will feature a new My Team mode which pitches you as becoming "the 11th team in the biggest F1 game yet". Two-player split-screen will be included alongside more customisation settings, and a Michael Schumacher Deluxe Edition will include the famous racer himself.
If you're upset by the lack of F1 racing this year, will you be picking up F1 2020 this summer? Race into the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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I’ve got proper into F1 2019 thanks to those E-sports races, it’s been brilliant. This would be rather odd but The Show 20 is the same, they’re having to make stuff up as they go along, no live rosters, no moments based on recent games etc. It’s wild.
I fancy a 7up now. No idea why.
ironic that a Playstation site forgot about MLB20
@sheady Baseball season runs until October so there's still some hope, I guess.
@get2sammyb The baseball schedule’s already packed so it’s definitely going to cause a lot of problems.
@nessisonett I know they'll obviously have to alter the format if they can play on. This is the problem facing all sports right now though. It sucks.
F1 still plans to race 18 grand prix if they can start on july and without spectators, looking forward to this though
@get2sammyb and F1 usually runs to the end of Nov/beginning of Dec, so similar chances of happening
Will there be an option to skip the first 10 races?
NICE!... been living off F12019 waiting for the season to start.
Day 1 for me. Just got a game for my empty July slot. Good thing about PS4, you loose a game but always more in the pipeline.
Wonder if I get into the Mercedes team I can muck around with DAS in the car 🤔
And yet on PureXbox:-
Codemasters has announced that F1 2020, the next entry in the long-running Formula One series, is coming to Xbox One on July 10, 2020.
@BAMozzy What's your point?
It'll interesting how the annual games will look this. WWE 2K21 is rumoured to be cancelled so maybe a few others could follow.
@LiamCroft I misunderstood the article - I got the impression the game could be cancelled but it was the actual F1 season that could be. So I was surprised that on PureXbox they were talking about the game coming out on Xbox when I misread the article here saying it could be cancelled. My mistake - sorry!
@BAMozzy Haha no worries!
@LiamCroft Who says this isolation isn't causing people to go stir crazy... LOL
I just wish they would include a VR mode. I get they would struggle with power to bring the entire game to VR but even a time trial mode like Gran Turismo would be great. There VR mode for Dirt Rally was amazing. They have the know-how.
Talks of taking 6 races off the current season and racing behind closed doors shown on sky F1 or they do virtual racing season they aren't sure but if they did do the season, the game could follow how the season goes with dropped races etc but who knows.
Given the fact that they're finally adding the feature of creating and running your own team, I'm excited for this. I enjoyed 2019 apart from the steering bug, so hopefully that's fixed and this continues to improve.
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