The FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championships has quietly become a very prestigious eSporting event. Starting off in 2018, drivers have been using Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 4 racing sim Gran Turismo Sport to compete in official tournaments, and the studio has confirmed it'll be returning very soon for the 2021 season.
Kazunori Yamauchi took to the PlayStation Blog to go over the changes to the format this year. The racing action will be kept strictly online for obvious reasons, and it's all set to kick off very soon, giving you a couple of weeks to sign up within the game. There will be all kinds of events going on between 21st April and the start of December, with two stages of Manufacturer Series and Nations Cup, as well as the World Series category, all leading to the World Finals. For the full lowdown on all the dates, be sure to check out the PS Blog.
It's impressive to see the GT Championships going strong. Presumably, it'll continue in Gran Turismo 7 on PS5 when that eventually arrives in (fingers crossed) 2022. Anyway, will you be competing/watching these competitive races? Take a pit stop in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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The PS5 version will shift loads of console assuming there's stock in 2022 lol
Do we know what big game Sony has planned for this Christmas holidays?
@Total_Weirdo If it doesn't get delayed, Horizon: Forbidden West. I'm curious what else they haven’t announced for 2020, but I don't think we'll find out until summer.
I tried GT online and the drivers are just better than me. No idea how you can make up the gap. Will stick to driving my Yaris like an old lady, which is an unfair comparison as old ladies would probably beat me to.
I like to have a driving game in the collection, just to vary things up for half hour every so often. Not massively into them, and certainly not very good at them though. I own DriveClub and have Dirt Rally 2.0 via Plus. Do I need Gran Turismo as well would anyone say? Is it MUCH better than Driveclub for instance (which seems pretty good to me from a 'not interested in cars in the slightest' place).
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