GT5 Week; PSP users are GO!
Gran Turismo 5 is released today, and portable racing fans are storming into the lead. One of the game’s neatest features is the ability to transfer car data from Gran Turismo Portable, making those pint-sized cars available in the big game – they get bigger. So, if you ploughed hours into the PSP version, why not take advantage of your library of over 800 cars and get a head-start on the rest?
It’s simple to do: connect the PSP to your PlayStation 3, via a USB cable, and head over to the options menu, and from here you will find the option to “Import Gran Turismo for the PSP system Car Collection data”. Select this option and, huzzah, you will now have a much bigger library. Admittedly, the models will be the less pretty Standard Cars rather than the supremely sexy Premium Cars, but it’s still worth doing. The full list of PSP cars can be viewed from here.
Back at E3 2009, Kazunori Yamauchi explained to Gamespot the thinking behind this:
“I’m hoping to make it so that the cars you get in the game are your cars. So even when the system changes – whether it be from PSP to GT5 and even future renditions of GT6 and so on – if we can carry over those cars as your cars, as something you own, even if the system changes, you can keep it.”
They are your cars as Yamauchi-san explains, so you may as well enjoy them!
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I've not done this yet maybe i should today...
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LikeThe transfers only work (as suspected) for arcade mode, and there are a few cars in GT PSP that don't work in GT5 (two Australian Fords in my case, from a stable of 80-odd cars - after a few deep breaths I got there ;)), but the transfer works well, and allowing players to access the cars in career mode would seriously mess with the A-Spec progression, so I can see why they did it. Worked nice'n'smooth though, and it was great to be able to race my fave cars in Arcade straight away :). (A selection of good cars is available in arcade mode in GT5, but not all of them)
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LikeWow, that is pretty awesome. I don't have GT for PSP, but still it's a great idea.
I remember when PES came out for PSP, I was hoping for some sort system where you could play the Master League on PS2, for example, then link up the PSP and carry on playing on the PSP. Unfortunately that never happened, all you could do was transfer edit data, which was a bit meh tbh.
Anyway, transferring the cars you've earned on the PSP to the PS3 is awesome, and is more along the lines of what I was hoping for the PES series. Hopefully they can learn from this.
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LikeI like the idea of a persistent garage across games, although if they keep doing things this way, they're going to have to mix-up the structure of GT6 massively compared with every other home console GT (ie, everyone except PSP) that's gone before. Look forward to syncing my PSP car garage later today :).
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