The way the game is played has been changed for portables, however. This is quite the package for a portable release. What the game offersīy the numbers: 800 real-world cars, with the ability to share and trade vehicles using the PSP's ad-hoc wireless mode, 35 tracks with 70 variations-plus, the game runs at a smooth-as-butter 60 frames per second. It's not a hacked-down version of the game it's simply designed so you can run a race in a few minutes, grab some cash, and buy a car while you're waiting in line at the DMV. The more you play, though-and this is a game that will suck time out of your life in a very efficient manner-you begin to see just how how many changes and adjustments were made to the experience to make it work on a portable system. Our first response to playing Gran Turismo on the PSP was to wonder what we waited so long for it's initially somewhat disappointing. And as a bonus, you can't ever trade it in or loan it to a friend! Or, you can just buy the UMD (we promise to leave the editorializing on digital distribution for another day). Sure, you can run to the store in that time, but you can't argue with the zippy load times once the game is all set on your memory card. We downloaded the game, and the 900MB+ file took around an hour to pull down off Sony's servers, with the install lasting about 15 minutes. The PlayStation Portable is going digital, with every game released after October coming as a digital download as well as a physical, UMD-based release. Now the final, finished game has been in our possession for a little less than a week, meaning we've had the time to explore what a portable version of Polyphony Digital's bread and butter looks and plays like. I didn't have questions, I just wanted to bask in the game's suddenly concrete existence. It was almost anticlimactic, and when a Sony representative asked if I had any questions about the game I politely sent her away.

It was right there, in Sony's booth, with very little fanfare when you walked the showroom floor. TitleĪfter all that time it was intensely surreal to actually play the game at E3. In a twisted way, Gran Turismo is still supposed to be launched at the same time as new hardware, just not the model we were expecting.

There were rumors, speculation, a few screenshots here and there, and then all of a sudden the game was back on everyone's radar, shown in playable form at E3 2009, and slated to be released alongside the all-digital PSP Go on October 1. Five years ago, in other words, and right alongside the announcement of the system itself. Do you remember when Gran Turismo was originally promised to the PSP audience? The Electronic Entertainment Expo, 2004.

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