Quantcast
Destructoid Japanator Tomopop Flixist
Dtoid Forums now support TapATalk and ForumRunner on your iOS/Android devices. Whoot.


Gran Turismo 5 Spec 2.0 is coming next month photo

A tweet from Kazunori Yamauchi, bossman at Polyphony Digital, confirms that the biggest update to Gran Turismo 5, Spec 2.0, is coming next month. 

The tweet:

GT fans, thanks for waiting… The GT5 Spec 2.0 update is coming the 3rd week of October, with DLC following a week later.

A date, at least. Good. No details yet, though. I expect a nice, big feature list barf from Sony sometime soon. 








More gaming stories around the web. Got news? Submit yours to tips@destructoid.com

Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site Japanator. Likes Corgis, Sega Saturn, PSP, iPhone, Photographic tools. Meet the rest of the team



Post a comment! You can also post a photo below:

Comment with Facebook





Click connect and comment instantly!

Comment with Dtoid





New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds

37 comments | showing # 1 to 37
prev next

tahmidk's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:16
tahmidk
i dont get it, whats it going to add?
ricochetguro's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:19
ricochetguro
Very nice, can't wait to see whats being added. GT5 is easily my favorite racing game and I still pop it in every now and again(and play it for a few days)

I've been astounded by PDs constant support since release. They've added and fixed so much. Well above what 90% of other dev companies do.
jawshoeuh's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:21
jawshoeuh
that's nice. I popped this in last weekend and did a few seasonal events... wondered if any more big updates were in the works.
LittleBigD's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:24
LittleBigD
Oooooooo.......can't wait to see what they drop in!!
Gorescream's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:26
Gorescream
oh wow glad Poly still updates GT5, after all we had to wait a decade or so for it, heh.
SithZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:26
SithZombie
Im shocked its the same month as Forza 4.
Gorescream's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:27
Gorescream
@SithZombie

LAWL wow didn't even notice that

Must be big as shit then :D
RenegadePanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:33
RenegadePanda
Unless it adds cockpit views to every car and updates the graphics then I still have no interest in GT5. For all the waiting they put us through, recycling the majority of the assets from the PS2 versions and upping their resolution and gloss doesn't cut it for me.
jawshoeuh's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:35
jawshoeuh
THIS JUST IN: SPEC 2.0 TO ADD COCKPIT VIEWS TO EVERY CAR AND UPDATE GRAPHICS.

RENEGADEPANDA A LIAR, STILL NOT INTERESTED.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:36
vexed alex
@RenegadePanda: They aren't the PS2 models. They're the PSP cars, which I don't know if that's worse or not.
Gorescream's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:36
Gorescream
^^ lol'ed
SayWord's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:43
SayWord
Hahaha the excuses people say to justify them not buying a game they would probably really enjoy.
MCBattery's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 14:50
MCBattery
Hmm I might actually pick this up now. I'll also be buying Forza.
I think it might be cool to compare them head to head.
Lenigod's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:05
Lenigod
Hopefully more b-spec events, so I can b-spec while I play my xbox.
Mcmax3000's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:05
Mcmax3000
I'll be interested to see what this adds. I got the game last year & played it a bit but I found it to be lacking in the fun department outside of the go-kart races so I've barely touched it since.
ZeeJayTL's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:08
ZeeJayTL
@sayword: my excuse is because in getting forza 4. I enjoyed forza 3 more than gt5...so there's that..
SayWord's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:15
SayWord
@zeejaytl
Awesome story bro, I've always enjoyed both forza and gt5.

I don't really understand why a fan of the racing genre would just eat a piece of the pie when you could have the whole thing. ;P
brownjohn's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:40
brownjohn
I hope they add saving during Endurance races.
Vitamin Awesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 15:52
Vitamin Awesome
Great. Yet another thing getting in the way of me playing another Omega Boost.
OneRed's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 16:06
OneRed
@Vitamin Awesome

Jesus fucking Christ yes! Id gladly shove ever copy of Gran Turismo 5 ever created (a game that disappointed the shit out of me) up my arse for another Omega Boost. For fucks sake, even thinking about that game is making me depressed.
STRYKIE's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 16:12
STRYKIE
@RenegadePanda
Wow, seriously? The cockpit view argument still exists? I'd love to know how you got through the first 4 GT games. Some of these guys sound just as dishonest as the PS2-turned-360 fanboys who are dead set against admitting it was "599 US DOLLARS" that had the PS3 leaving a bad taste in their mouths.
Actually, wait, two two's..

Nevermind, all that aside, you do realize it was Sony's raging fetish with 3D is why Polyphony didn't have the time to polish up the imported cars right? BUT WAIT, GEE WHIZZ, I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TEH CAR DAMUJ!!!1one! Not teh grafx!
ZeeJayTL's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 16:15
ZeeJayTL
@sayword...I had GT5 at launch (collectors edition too) but didn't like it. Love racing games but for sims only forza really seems to do it for me now. Not trying to troll or be an ass or whatevers...just a response to your first comment
doubleA329's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 16:40
doubleA329
As much as I love this game, I wouldn't expect anything more than a couple of new features or some tweaks. If they were to any amount of premium cars though, I would be happy as the 200+ wasn't enough to offset the 800 basic cars (which you'd probably never get to see, the way used cars are set up). IMO GT5 introduced a great amount of features (loved the new photo mode) but not enough content from GT4. Nevertheless, it's still an amazing game which I still love to play. BTW stop comparing Forza and GT5, it's not like they directly compete on the same console.
doubleA329's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 16:42
doubleA329
*add any amount of premium cars
Fossegrim's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 17:16
Fossegrim
Adding 45 minutes of GT5 update on my schedule for next month.
Adding, driving to the mall, buying Forza 4 and playing it, while waiting for lame ass sony servers to feed my harddrive with more of those GT5 update gigabytes, too.
seeafish's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 17:42
seeafish
Texture fixes for rain/gravel would be nice. Although the PS1 style pixelation really took me back...
Relysis's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 19:09
Relysis
If it adds some sort of save/autoresume feature for endurance races, it will get me to dust the game off. What is the limit for actual drivers of endurance races? 4 hours? I'm not playing 24 hours straight, and certainly not leaving my ps3 on for two weeks.

If they don't add it, I'll just have to look forward to Forza 4.
Relysis's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 19:27
Relysis
If it adds some sort of save/autoresume feature for endurance races, it will get me to dust the game off. What is the limit for actual drivers of endurance races? 4 hours? I'm not playing 24 hours straight, and certainly not leaving my ps3 on for two weeks.

If they don't add it, I'll just have to look forward to Forza 4.
Netnavi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 19:32
Netnavi
I played all the way to beating the Pro series but I never had any weather races. They were all sunny. What gives? Even the season events. Do you have to be at a certain level? I was at 23.
Channel4's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 20:04
Channel4
GT5P spec 2.0 added like 50 cars and made it run in a higher resolution, so this update could actually be huge.
Johnny Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 21:18
Johnny Justice
RenegadePanda: Would you like the Moon on a stick to go with that?

At least demand something interesting, like for the DLC to have an apt title of "Tourist Trophy 2".
Router's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/28/2011 22:16
Router
Could you please let me splitscreen race with the cars I haven't unlocked, please? I don't have 200 hours to blow on grinding so I could enjoy a nice game with my friends.
sofik88's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2011 01:07
sofik88
this is just getting fuckin retarded now. they've been making GT5 for nearly 6 whole years, it turned out to be lazy playstation 2 port(not even update in physics Polyphony, really? and why it's uglier than GT4 for god's sake?) with only 140-150 new cars(considering they were still willing to copy paste those cars to have 200 "premium" cars like nascar), and maybe 6 tracks that were made for GT5 specifically and they're STILL PATCHING IT CAUSE THE GAME'S NOT FINISHED YET, WTF?!
did Polyretards at least fixed ridiculous loading times and framerate slowdowns and screen tearing?

and lol at sony fanboys who express gratitude for the fact that they've been waiting 6 years for lazy ps2 port that still is in alpha/beta state NEARLY 1 YEAR AFTER RELEASE.

Polyphony as a developer is a fuckin joke. what they've been doing for those 6 years? Turn10 revealed few days ago that they had to rebuild their entire car selection because of new graphics engine and cause CAD data(same that is used by polyphony and other studios) provided by car manufacturers was not good and detailed enough for Forza 4. all cars in Forza 4 - over 500k polygons per standard car(100k more than GT5's "premium" cars in photomode - i.e. those that they've bothered to make during those 6 years) and over 1mln polygons per car in Autovista(Turn10 confirmed that they had to rescan Autovista cars themselves since they had to take those cars apart to scan all the insides and movable parts of each car). and they did that in 2.5 year.
Enzi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2011 05:42
Enzi
No Sofik, you get it all wrong. You're a fucking joke.
Gorescream's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2011 06:33
Gorescream
mad sofik?
Im The Singer in Symphony X's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2011 09:56
Im The Singer in Symphony X
Sofik posts a wall of anti-sony text in a thread that didnt warrant one.

In other news my butthole excreets poop
Freakydemon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2011 12:43
Freakydemon
@sofik88


OT: Can't wait for the full update info, might pop in the game again.
prev next

Comment with Facebook





Click connect and comment instantly!

Comment with Dtoid





New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds

Comments policy

Destructoid is an open discussion community. You don't need to "audition" to post a comment - just speak your mind. We respect differing opinions on the site, so have at it. Be smart, funny, insightful, clueless, or cute -- but back it up with substance. Keep your cool, keep it fun. We only ask that you act respectfully and above all: don't be a troll and ruin it for everyone else. Don't bring down gamers or we'll, you know, gently shoot you in the face and stuff you into a flaming mailbox. Each comment is your opportuntity to make this community awesomer. Is that even a word?

Avoiding the banhammer only requires common sense: spamming, trolling, racism, NSFW stuff, and other forms of sucking will not be tolerated. If anyone is griefing please report abuse. Be good. Don't suck!