
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce today a brand new version of Gran Turismo 5 that will be heading your way early this Autumn to celebrate the fourth year of the collaboration with Nissan on the ground-breaking GT Academy programme.
Titled Gran Turismo 5: Academy Edition, this rather nice package comes brimming with a whole host of extras, including the following content previously available on PlayStation Store:
- Complete Pack (Car Pack, Course Pack, Special Paint Pack, Racing Gear Pack)
- Car Pack 2
- Car Pack 3 and Course Pack 2
- The Nissan GTR driven in this year’s Nurburgring 24 hour race by series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.
The price for this exhilarating bundle of fun? €29.99/£19.99 or your local currency equivalent.
Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi had this to say about this special edition package.
GT Academy has captured the imagination of many Gran Turismo fans. It is exciting to watch what Lucas Ordóñez, Jordan Tresson, Jann Mardenborough and Bryan Heitkotter in the USA, are achieving in their new racing careers with Nissan.
People can now see that it is possible to make the switch from being a fast gamer to become a real racing driver. We wanted to mark the tremendous success of GT Academy with the very latest version of GT5.
GT5: Academy Edition is due for launch on 26th September and there is more news yet to come on this title, so keep an eye on the PlayStation Blog and gran-turismo.com for more information.
In the meantime check out the story of Lucas Ordóñez as enacted by the man himself in this specially created trailer. Enjoy!
Is work on gran turismo 6 started yet don’t want to wait an other 6 years for that game to come out
Cool for the people that weren’t awesome enough to pick the game up on launch day…
But the best version would be a “Gran Turismo 5: You Don’t Have To Download 2GB of Patches and Install 10GB of Data Plus We Included All DLC For Free-Edition.”
Sadly, that won’t happen. And that means that when my 60GB PS3 (oh wait, Sony doesn’t repair my 600 euro system anymore and sent me a “I Can’t Play Any PS2-Games Anymore”-160GB Slim my way right before they announce the new Slim model) 160GB PS3 return I will have to repeat the 7-hour process and fourth time…
Thank you, Sony!
Hi RemyX-1988,
All updates (up to Patch 2.07) are on the disc (including the data for the DLCs, of course.)
This means that with this edition you don’t have to go through the entire download process again, you just pop the disc in and decide how much you want to install: it’s all in there! ;)