If you've been logging a lot of couch time playing the Gran Turismo series over the last decade, you'll finally be able to leave the house come October 1. That's when Sony will release Gran Turismo Mobile, a launch title for the PSP Go, a lighter, more compact version of the PlayStation Portable.
Sony didn't show much gameplay video at this morning's E3 press conference, but for what it's worth, here's the trailer the company showed. The father of the Gran Turismo series, Kazunori Yamauchi, spoke this morning and maintained that Gran Turismo Mobile will not feel like your typical, scaled-down portable driving game. Rather, this is a "full" version of Gran Turismo that operates at 60 frames per second.
Gran Turismo Mobile has 800 cars and 35 tracks (with 60 layouts) -- a step up from the 6 tracks in GT5 Prologue you've no doubt been playing on your PS3. In addition to license/career and arcade modes, Mobile has an ad hoc mode, allowing you to race against 3 friends (in close physical proximity) via the PSP Go's wireless connection. You can also share and trade cars.
To save weight, the PSP Go doesn't have a disc drive (UMD drive) like a regular PSP, so you'll be downloading GT Mobile onto it. The Go has 16 GB of memory. It will retail at $249.99 -- quite a premium above the current PSP 3000, which is going for under 200 bucks right now.
And still no mention of a firm release date for the full version of Gran Turismo 5, despite yesterday's news on Forza 3.
Update: More gameplay screenshots and info from GT Planet
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