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Gran Turismo 5 (commonly abbreviated as GT5) is to be the fifth edition of the highly acclaimed Gran Turismo racing video game series, scheduled for release in March 2010. It is currently under development by Polyphony Digital and is to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It expands on the Prologue version and will be the first of the main numbered series to feature on the PlayStation 3.
For the first time in the main series, an online mode will be available in the game, with 16 player capability. Both mechanical and external damage have been confirmed. In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK, Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that night racing will appear in GT5, but dynamic weather is still an undecided feature, "the functionality is not a problem – we've got the weather system done – but if we are not sure about the quality of it, and how it improves the driving experience, we are not going to have it in the game."A track editor has been hinted at but has also yet to be confirmed. The World Rally Championship and NASCAR will be featured for the first time in the Gran Turismo franchise.
The game was first revealed at E3 2006 under the name Vision Gran Turismo. In an April 2008 interview, game creator Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for three years, with all of Polyphony Digital's 120 employees working on GT5, and the game costing 50 times more to develop than 1997's Gran Turismo.
At Sony's E3 2009 Press Conference, a trailer for Gran Turismo 5 was shown, revealing both the inclusion of NASCAR and WRC but no release date was revealed. In an interview with Eurogamer, Kazonuri Yamauchi said that "We've actually reached a point where we can probably release it [GT5] anytime, except that you can also keep working as long as you want to as well, it's just a matter of timing." According to the official magazine at Tokyo Game Show 09, Gran Turismo 5 is 65% complete.
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Considering creator Kazunori Yamauchi's constantly touted commitment to realism, we were expecting a pretty drastic reaction from the car - scrapped-off paint, realistic dents, shards of metal sent flying. Need for Speed: Shift, basically.
Instead what we got was little more than the familiar GT thud, and were hard pressed to see the damage we'd caused. The bodywork was slightly bent out of shape, but nothing major considering the near 200kph impact.
Sony's Gran Turismo PSP, which is due for release this week, will have a connection with GT5; players will be able to move the cars they've collected from the PSP game to their garage in GT5. This is a good thing, considering the ease in which money and cars are available to players in the PSP game (Yamauchi estimates that the car acquisition rate in the PSP game is about 10 times as fast as in GT5). According to Yamauchi, players won't be able to move their credits from one version to the next.
