Polyphony Digital and Top Gear!
10-24-07, 11:05 AM
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Polyphony Digital and Top Gear!
Looks like the makers of Gran Turismo are big fans of BBC's Top Gear. They're making episodes available for download on their GT TV and you can also race on their very own track and try and impersonate the "Stig".
News link can be found here.
Sweet, hopefully they'll be released without much delay from the broadcasted episodes. 
News link can be found here.
Tokyo, October 24 2007 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and Polyphony Digital, Inc., the creators of the best-selling racing franchise, Gran Turismo®, today announced a collaboration with BBC Worldwide that will allow BBC’s Top Gear programme to be downloaded through Gran Turismo TV (GT TV™) on PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™).
GT TV, a dedicated online channel packed with the latest news and content from the motoring world, will launch worldwide on PLAYSTATION®Network in 2008. BBC Worldwide will provide 40 episodes of Top Gear, the award-winning BBC television series about motoring for download.
GT TV, a dedicated online channel packed with the latest news and content from the motoring world, will launch worldwide on PLAYSTATION®Network in 2008. BBC Worldwide will provide 40 episodes of Top Gear, the award-winning BBC television series about motoring for download.
“We at Polyphony are great fans of the world’s best motoring programme, Top Gear, so we’re delighted to be collaborating with BBC Worldwide to deliver Top Gear content via Gran Turismo,” said Kazunori Yamauchi, President, Polyphony Digital, “We’re sure that players will be as thrilled as we are when they get the chance to put their own driving skills to the test on the Top Gear Test Track in GT5, as well as enjoying classic episodes of Top Gear via GT TV.”
10-24-07, 11:10 AM
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that is awesome news!!!
i so want to buy a PS3 now and just wait for GT5 to come out
they need to support logitech G25 though, id love to use my set on the PS3 as well
i so want to buy a PS3 now and just wait for GT5 to come out
they need to support logitech G25 though, id love to use my set on the PS3 as well
10-24-07, 11:13 AM
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I think Polyphony/Sony also collaborated with Nissan on the Skyline GT-R's nav system performance gauges. Interesting to see them tying themselves into the real world like this...
10-24-07, 11:17 AM
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The centerpiece of the interior is a multifunction display in the dash that Nissan tells us was developed in conjunction with Polyphony Digital, the same company that developed the Gran Turismo video games for the Sony PlayStation.
10-25-07, 12:40 PM
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Only 5 tracks. What happened to the real world cities?
Hopefully we can download more cars later on. Which would be nice. 50 cars to play around with to me is sort of low.
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10-25-07, 02:29 PM
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GT5 Prologue is a lite version of the official game which will be released some time afterwards. Rumors have it that Polyphony Digital is trying to reach the 900 car mark.
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