** UPDATE: More details added
On Friday, August 1st, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue owners will receive a significant update that will take their racing and automotive experience to a new level.
The heart of this update is a new line-up of exciting automotive programming for “Gran Turismo TV”, our in-game automotive media channel. Gearheads will enjoy a host of new free and pay-per-view programming, including “Top Gear“, UK’s premier car entertainment program, and Japan’s “Best Motoring” video magazine, dedicated to the pursuit of the pleasure of driving.
Whether you’re in the mood to tour Ferrari’s factory in Italy with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, or to be insulted by Jeremy Clarkson talking trash about your favorite cars, or even sitting down to watch some mad Japanese race drivers play ‘car soccer’, there is a variety of choices for all types of car fans. Gran Turismo TV is housed within Gran Turismo 5 Prologue so access and videos is all in-game!
A few other notes about Gran Turismo TV for you to keep in mind:
- For the first two weeks only, we are providing all pay-per-view content for at a discounted price of $.99! It’s a good way to get a taste Gran Turismo TV. The HD content we shoot for our exclusive stuff looks pretty amazing. Following the initial two-week period, content will start at $1.99. So start downloading away!
- Be sure to check the full content list for a full content list, as we will be adding new programs on a regular basis.
- Gran Turismo TV will also include new features that allow viewers to fast forward, rewind, and move between chapters when viewing video content.
- Viewers can download up to 8 episodes simultaneously and pause individual downloads.
Personally, I would like to find some American content to beef-up the roster. What do you think? We welcome any suggestions you may have.
In addition, other gameplay enhancements come with this update, like fixes in penalty judgments, more tire choices for Time Trial and improved physics during collisions between cars during online races (YES! We’ve been carefully monitoring players behaviors online and all your comments on the forums.)
Stay tuned for more updates on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in the future. See you online!
i do agree adding damage on cars. It not a simulator if its not realistic
how about trophies for prologue?
Good to hear they are working on the collision problems
Awesome, cant wait to download it!
Online 1 vs 1 racing is more important than a Pay-Per-View Tv service of content.
I feel completely taken advantage of as a die hard GT5 fan. I’ve bought the G25 steering wheel and Playseat just to show you my level of nerdom.
Is 1 vs 1 racing even on the radar? Because it seems that priorities clearly aren’t on the actual gameplay elements of this 39.99 beta test that we have all purchased. Its 2008, and I cant even race with JUST friends from my PSN list.
Come on what is the deal with this? Can you guys not ignore this?
Its because they can make extra $$ from downloads.
I would like to see trophies for this game, but I understand why that probably won’t happen…
What I don’t understand, however, is how you can ignore the glaring problems that plague this game. Improved collision detection is nice, and it was sorely needed, but the online matchmaking is severely flawed. Not only that, you can’t race against your friends! And there is no voice chat! In this day and age of online gaming those two flaws are INEXCUSABLE!
Furthermore, I sincerely hope you are including something to help the download speeds in your update. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay you money for a video then take 3 or 4 hours to download it. What are you all using over there at PD, a 56k modem?
Damage modeling needs to be added, and those ridiculous penalties need to be done away with. “The Realistic Driving Simulator”, huh? Well all I know is in real life if I run into a wall, my car does no bounce off of it unscathed. In addition, if my tires touch a blade of grass in real life my engine doesn’t suddenly lose 50% of it’s horsepower for 10 seconds or whatever it is.
Are you beginning to see how stupid this is? Fix these things please instead of finding more ways to squeeze money out of your customers.
“Personally, I would like to find some American content to beef-up the roster. What do you think? We welcome any suggestions you may have.”
The only worthwhile American content would be Speed TV’s coverage of Formula 1.
Actually come to think about it, races, COMPLETE races from all major racing series would be KICK A$$.
I would pay money for complete high quality downloads of Formula 1, GP2, ALMS, Speed Touring Car/GT, NASCAR, SCCA etc, PROVIDED they were uploaded in a timely manor (re: within a couple of days of the original air time.)
Price it right, with the option of a discount for a “season pass” or pay a flat rate/download all you want, and IMO, you guys would have a winner. Plus races would fit into the whole “Grand Turismo” concept better than Pimp my Ride, and other such nonsense.
***Gets giddy at the prospect of this potentially turning into the second coming of Speedvision*** :D
Sony should hire me. :)
I love the additons, but come on… Whats the news on 1 vs 1 races guys?
It really is one of the most basic requests.. it would be nice to hear feedback.
BTW, it is a little shady that Sony is charging for this when they originally gave the impression that GTTV would always be free.
Gotta focus on profitability though! :D
This game is actually one of the worst racing series I have ever played.. No damage on cars and it’s way to much time to spend trying to get better cars.
I traded it in the 1st week after I bought it. I will never buy another GT series game.
*rant over*
I have been looking forward to this update for a couple of weeks. It is all sounding good. Thank you very much.
AS FOR DAMAGE. Though for me it’s not needed, it would be nice. I like a bit of “realism” in my games. Even if the game is a simulator.
VOICE CHAT. I personally wouldn’t want it when racing against strangers. I suppose i can mute them. Basically, I don’t want to hear racers call other racers names while i am racing.
VOICE CHAT. I would like to see TEAM RACING implemented. It is here that voice chat can become an important racing tool.
TROPHIES. Not really a requirement. However, I see trophies as a way of free advertising for video games that offer it. Say someone has been playing Call of Duty. They decide to look at the list of players they have met. Say a bunch of those players have trophies from Gran Turismo. This player has never played it, but now might be interested since he/she has seen that many people are into it. You can see where I’m going here, right?
That’s it for now. Thanks for the update. Gave you a five rating. Hope it all goes smoothly! Ciao!
“Will GT5: Prologue ever have trophies or are they completely ruled out?
Will the online component ever have a more simplified and stream-lined race finder? At the moment it is hard to race in the car you want on the track you want, and there is no way to invite your friends for a quick lap round your favourite track.
Will a friend invite system ever be introduced or some party system perhaps?
Will GT5: Prologue ever support Custom Soundtracks?”
I’m wondering these same questions myself.
Taku any news on a updated online mutliplayer experience with private rooms and damage?
I guess we will have to wait until TGS 08(oct) for Kazunori to announce anything.
How about adding trophy support, damage, and custom soundtracks? All the extra stuff like GTTV can wait.
Another idea about the COMPLETE RACES thing.
Make them free to download but have Sony/Double Fusion advertising inserted in place of the original TV commercial breaks.
If people don’t want the ads, make it to where they could pay $1.99/etc to have them removed, retroactively.
Either way, Sony makes money.
^Yet even more proof illustrating why Sony should hire me. :D
Will we see Night-time racing and weather effects?? keep those updates coming
And what about trophies?
One last comment/suggestion: If voice chat and “customized music” are added, I hope that the music will shut off or the volume drops to a whisper once a race starts. As in rude and mean chatter when racing, I don’t want to hear other people’s music. Especially music with obscene lyrics. I will mute if I must, but if the music track can automatically cut off or quiet itself, that would be acceptable to me. Thanks again!
Still no private online rooms + Friend invites?
Guess GT5P wont be put back in my ps3 for a while..
We had television before we had PS3… how about we stop focusing on stuff like this and start focusing on the actual GAME. But this is typical of Sony as of late — focusing less on what made the PS2 such a success (i.e. an enormous, diverse and excellent game library) and more on what made the PSP useless (i.e. media functionality that most gamers don’t give a rat’s ass about).
“Top Gear” is way better than anything U.S. automotive television has to offer. If anything, Sony should add some automotive TV from Japan.
“Top Gear” is awesome and way better than any American automotive T.V. show.
Sony should also add more automotive shows from Japan.
@ 71 -> jqtaxpayer
You’re absolutely right about the psp useless thing.
Cool stuff. Still one of the best looking games out there. Take your time on GT5 and hone it’s edge to slice through all competitors. :D
PLEASE!! CAR DAMAGE!! AND WEATHER EFFECTS FIRST!!!
Why add secondary things when the primary things are not there!!!
GT5 MOST have car damage and weather effects for ME to BUY IT!
Sorry but this update sucks! Where is friend invites for online? Where is clan support? Where is private rooms?
there have been a lot of good ideas by the posters here today, i hope Taku is listening to what his fans want.
Oh yeah, and don’t forget to include spinners on the 30ft. Weinermobile.
Of course FritoZ! Taku is always listening.
Spinners, however…