Gran Turismo 5 to see major announcement at TGS

Polyphony Digital will announce major Gran Turismo 5 news at the Tokyo Games Show.

According to Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi the Tokyo Games Show will not only present a playable Gran Turismo 5, it'll show another major advancement, in the same manner as the game's first trailer at E3 and the début of damage modelling at GamesCom.

"At E3, we showed a concept video and this time at Games-Com, we have a playable demo with damage, and I think you can expect a similar major advancement at TGS," Yamauchi-san told G4TV.

However, the studio head was cagey about whether there would finally be a release date announcement at the conference later this month:

"I think we actually talked about having some thoughts in the beginning, but with things changing as they happened all through the interviews today and I’ve kind of have learned through experience," he added.

"I try not to talk about the future too much because that ultimately leads to a more obvious answer and it’s better than way in the end."

Sony and PD may be worried that GT5 will overshadow the launch of Gran Turismo on the PSP this October, but if rumours of a late-2009 release date are true, TGS would be the best place to announce it.


/// this weekend i finally decided to stop tooling around and got stuck into the final 10 races in the GT4 international challenges, hell, i figured i'd put it off long enough (probably because i got my arse handed to me a long time ago). first off i have to say GT4 upscaled to 1080p looks damn sexy (and outputting 5.1 audio!) which only goes to show just how advanced it was at the time i guess when we were still all playing in 576i SD world, HD is the best thing ever to happen to gaming, anyways i had managed to get my hands on a Toyota Minolta 88C-V race car and set about tuning and tweaking it, many many laps and tests later on Midfield Raceway i was happy i had it set juuuuuust so, so set about those final 10, all was going well with me and the damn Mazda 787 swoping first and second mostly until i accidentally fitted the wrong tyres for the New York race, disaster, i came in a lowly 6th and swearing like a docker as i crossed the line. the next few races had to be perfect to grab the lost points back and it all came down to the last race in the challenge at the Circuit De La Sarthe, i had to win to put me one point ahead, anything else was fail. i rigged the car for a no stopper, a risky tactic but one i had tried before, all i had to do was not fry the tyres. the race started and after several laps the Mazda had pulled a 20 second lead over me but i kept playing it cool, racing down that bumpy back straight keeping all the corners smooth as i could, the laps fell and he was still ahead, i was praying for him to pull in but not until the penultimate lap did he decide to pit, my tyre indicator a nice shade of orange, but this was my chance, i shot past the pit exit and saw him starting to drive along it, he would have a cold set on, mine where about to fall to bits, i hit the straight and nailed it, he was gaining, i checked the T times, he was definitely closing fast, through the chicanes, back up towards the finish only the 90s to get through and he was looking close enough to overtake, i drifted wide to block him, my back end giving out at every chance, i corrected and floored it crossing over the line. that pause before the result seemed to take an eternity, but i had done it by 0.2 seconds and 1 point (after around 5hrs total racing) ahead in the challenge. lots of air punching and fuck yeahs and lighting up a smoke. i had, after 4 long years finally beaten that damn game. i got a pile of cash and a spiffy Ford GT 40 in GT/Polyphony livery as a prize.

first thing i did after it had sunk in was to go out and buy myself a nice Mars Red Audio Quattro '82 tuned it up and went for a trash around Tokyo, my balls felt bigger than Gene Hunt's :)

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