Gran Turismo PSP

Gran Turismo Creator Explains PSP Delays, Talks Controls & Online Play

By Michael McWhertor, 3:40 PM on Tue Jun 9 2009, 11,766 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)

Prior to E3 2009, Gran Turismo for the PSP was largely considered vaporware, a driving simulation that felt like little more than a five-year-old announcement. But Gran Turismo is real—and it's coming to the PlayStation Portable this October.

Why the long wait? Kazunori Yamauchi, president of developer Polyphony Digital, says it was just a matter of priorities. Following the Spring 2004 announcement of the game once known as Gran Turismo 4 Mobile, Polyphony shipped four titles, Gran Turismo 4, the "real riding simulator" Tourist Trophy, Gran Turismo HD and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Given how long it purportedly takes to render a car model at Polyphony standards—about a month for the PSP version and up to six months for the PlayStation 3 versions—one can see how five years quickly passes.

Yamauchi said that he wasn't interested in outsourcing development on Gran Turismo PSP to another developer. He considered the prospect of handing off the driving sim to someone else "unthinkable."

So Polyphony plowed ahead, creating a fleet of 800 cars for the PSP version, some of which are "reduced and streamlined" from their PS3 versions, with more than 30 real-world tracks on which to race those cars.

According to Yamauchi, the PSP version of Gran Turismo is a "fully specced" entry in the ten-year-old series, telling Kotaku that "no matter who plays it, they'll know immediately that it's a Gran Turismo game."

"I want to stress that it's not a subset to the series," Yamauchi said, despite there being "limitations" to the PSP's hardware specifications. In fact, it one-ups previous Gran Turismo games by letting players trade and share unlocked vehicles with other driving enthusiasts wirelessly over ad hoc mode.

One hurdle that Polyphony Digital is dealing with right now is designing the PSP iteration for two platforms: the original PSP and the recently announced PSPgo. While the internal hardware may be largely identical, the feel of Sony's new, smaller PlayStation Portable is noticeably different. On the PSPgo, the analog nub controller has been relocated and the buttons have been redesigned. The new hardware has a cross-pad controller and face buttons that feel more digital, with a tighter click to them than on the original.

"We're still have some difficulties [with the PSPgo]," Yamauchi said. "It's something we're very focused on, because that's very difficult to get right." The GT creator typically opts for digital, not analog control when playing his own game.

So, why not offer the option to play with a PlayStation 3 controller, I asked, and make use of the "PSP Plus" technology for more accurate control?

"If you want to play on a PS3 controller," Yamauchi responded, "you'll have to play Gran Turismo 5." That also means no support for Logitech's Driving Force GT wheel. It's PSP controls or nothing.

The PSP game will take advantage of the PlayStation 3 in another sense. Gran Turismo PSP one of the titles that will support Ad Hoc Party mode, letting gamers use the PS3 as an ad hoc server, taking the PSP experience online. Ad Hoc Party software is currently only available in Japan, but Sony Computer Entertainment America reps say a domestic release is in the works.

But what Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital focused on was welcoming new players to the series—and sticking to a solid 60 frames-per-second presentation.

"We'd really like people to remember how fun it is to drive cars," he said, hoping that Gran Turismo fans will take advantage of the game's local wireless mode to get players together to talk about cars, to let them play whenever and wherever they can.

kagi atrodo psp go turi ne tokias minkstas knopkes kaip senas psp,labiau click'ines tokias ,nzn ar tai labai gerai,ir analogas turi maziau eigos nei senu psp,todel ir sako kad losti su padu geriau

ty for info. na zaidimas idomus kolkas epic.... atrodo tos 800 masinu, neisivaizduoju ka su tiek daryciau taip ar taip kazkuriam zingsni gausiu megstama masina ir toliau turbut nekeisiau ju nebent 4fun...

 

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((bet bent kolkas tai greiciausiai visi kurejai tures daug problemu su tuo psp go. ))

sakai ka daryt su tiek masinu? o ka darem su tiek masinu GT2,4 dalyse,taigi zaidem,butent zaidiem kad jas isigyt,aisku ne visas,kas ka domina,pvz mane domino senesni modeliai,taigi pralekes ir laimejas pora lenktyniu pirkdavau kokia nauja masina kuri atsirasdavo tarp used cars,po to ziuredavau sirtingus modelius ,kuom jie skiriasi,nusipirkdavau 1,2,3 to pacio modelio bet skirtingu metu masina,ar siek tiek kitoki modeli,ir ziuredavau kaip jis vaziuoja trasose skirtingose,po to ziuredavau kuom skiriasi nuo kito modelio..krc,del to ir yra GT seria taip ilgai zaidziama

nu tu turi tiesos savo pasakyme, bet tarkim mane daabr domina nedaugiau 5 masinu. super automobiliai netraukia, dabartines masinos irgi nevisai, man asmeniskai tik kokie shelby mustang, nissan skyline ( tas senesnysis 34 jei neklystu), toyota supra, mitsubishi evo ir lancer. done, visu po koki viena modeli pasiimti ir uztenka. mazdaug pasiziuri i specifikaciajs modeliu ir aiskiau ka imt

tai manes irgi niekad netrauke visos tos super masinos,as pvz GT4 garaze turiu gal 10 skirtingu mazda rx7 ,nuo seniausios iki naujos,po to visokie muscle carai,tie patys skyline kiek modeliu ju yra GT4, nezinau kas bus su GT psp bet su tokiu skaicium masinu,tikrai nebus vien tik naujos masinos,na tai vis del to daugiau masinu nei GT4 !!! ,o ten jau buvo kosmosas

In what first appears to be a dry interview, closer inspection reveals an interesting tidbit from Yamauchi about the multiplayer functionality in Gran Turismo PSP. As we already know, up to four players can compete wirelessly via the PSP’s ad-hoc wireless mode. That’s cool, but there’s more to it than that - GT PSP will be one of the first games outside of Japan to take advantage of the little-known Ad-Hoc Party application.

First released in Japan late last year, Ad-Hoc Party is a free application downloaded to your PlayStation 3. Once running, your PSP connects wirelessly to your PS3, through which you can play games with your friends over the Internet. It’s an interesting, decentralized method of bringing online play to PSP titles without requiring game developers to implement the additional functionality or maintain server infrastructure. The implications of online play for GT PSP are huge, adding lots of depth and fun to a title that some hard-core players had dismissed.

Sony representatives have already confirmed that Ad-Hoc Party is coming to the United States, so keep an eye out for more information about the software in the coming weeks and months. For now, check out the Japanese video above for a visual explanation of how the Ad-Hoc Party application works.

Negaliu suprast kodėl Kazunori taip nervinosi pristatinėdamas GT PSP E3 parodoje.

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b***** nemaciau prezentacijos bet dar pasakyk kad taip rimtai buvo.... wtf?!

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jis kaip visada epic

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na taip nebuvo aisku,cia padare jau is jo metu verteja ,nes patikek jau taip gerai vertejavo,kad na tipo Yamauchi pasako kazka tas kol uzsiraso,dar padaro pauze kokia puse minutes ir tada tokiu debilisku veidu,kad na tipo jam cia ph i tuos zaidimus,isvercia kokius pora zodziu,krc pravalas kazkoks,na tai ir uzsitrauke zmoniu rustybe,dabar darys is jo prikolus visokius

taigi trasos is GT4 ir tourist trophy !!

zaidimo fizikos variklis paremtas GT5P !!! unreal

"as nebuciau zurnalistas jeigu nepaklausciau apie GT5"