Gran Turismo, the world’s most popular racing series with over 47 million sales to date, have agreed a joint venture with Top Gear and BBC Worldwide to create content and a track for Gran Turismo 5.
Within GT5 gamers will be able to download episodes of Top Gear on a dedicated GT TV channel accessed via the PSN. Forty episodes of the motoring show will be available with the channel also hosting further news and features regarding the motoring world.
The test track used by Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond will be also be recreated inside GT5. Genius.
Top Gear + GT = Motoring Nirvana
all i want is a playable Ferrari F430!! stupid demo
Comment by Paul — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:00 am
YES!
JohnSketch is the man in the reasonably priced car!
Comment by JohnSketch — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:02 am
Who dares take on the mighty Gambon Corner?
Comment by Lee Richards — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:05 am
Excellent news! Not sure how much GT i’ll actually be playing now thou.
Comment by dario — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Oooh, will it be high def? Will all BBC high def content soon be downloadable? Am i getting a bit carried away?
Comment by Jeebers — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:28 am
FOAMING AT THE MOUTH
Comment by E-role — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:36 am
Can we see how The Stig drives the reasonably priced car round the TG track before we give it a whirl?
Comment by Savage — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:37 am
E-Role, I think there is medication for that. Might even be an injection.
Comment by Savage — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:38 am
Thanks you PD, thank you Sony, thank you Top Gear, and thank you BBC.
I cannot wait to take a F430 around the track with my G25.
Did I say thanks? THANKS!
Comment by nekon — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Yea an injection of car goodness.
Comment by E-role — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:45 am
This is very cool.
Comment by sarge mat — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:58 am
Yeah but Top Gear is repeated almost DAILY on UK Gold, big deal. As for the test track, that could be interesting but I just wish they would get a move on and release this game. Or at least bring out Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Prologue Prologue…
Comment by Terry — Oct 25, 2007 @ 10:59 am
And then you also get to play as The Stig and race against a jet fighter on an aircraft carrier and plunge into the sea and-
Yeah, I know, not very GT-like…
Comment by hana_fubuki — Oct 25, 2007 @ 11:25 am
This is just like episodic content except for a simulator. How cool is that!? The other consoles can’t possibly come close to this…
Comment by Dehshizknight — Oct 25, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
Awesome!
Comment by reakt — Oct 25, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Ha ha ha ha! Hoo hoo hoo hoo! Oh my, that’ll be just the funniest thing in the world. Brilliant job Sony. The marketing department need a case of beer for their efforts. Can’t wait.
Comment by LordOfRuin — Oct 25, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
LOL, LOL, LOL
That is VERY cool. Yes, I know we can watch Top Gear repeats if we want, but still, come on, this still VERY cool.
Going round Gambon, and the Hammerhead, not sure about the Follow Thru (lol)
Anyway, good news
Comment by The Sheriff — Oct 25, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
Excellent.
Now this will guarantee a definite surge in PS3 sales.
Comment by Youlikeyams — Oct 25, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
what’s the betting the top gear track will be a paid for job! bloody good idea though, we all know and love that track. any news on when we will get the ‘amerienglish’ version of the prologue demo, not that i downloaded the jap version *coffcoffcoff* but i hear it’s excellent! news for release date for the full Prologue?
did the store get updated this week? kinda hard to tell these days.
Comment by mobiletone — Oct 25, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
Oh yes the test track being included is a brilliant idea.
i was looking foward to gt5 already as they are great games but this and gt tv is really exciting.
Comment by yxxxx — Oct 25, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
Great news! I hope the reasonably priced car is availabe so we can compare times to the celebs on the top gear track.Thank you Sony and BBC! I will be finding out if the warranty on my G25 covers over use!
Comment by steve — Oct 26, 2007 @ 9:21 am
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