Toyota working on Scion FR-S Playstation-compatible track day black box

[Bristecom]

If only the Indianapolis Motor Speedway let you track your car there. The track is already in GT5!

[knoxviue]

Something like this, maybe

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq6V2H9tHo8"]Gran Turismo 5 Data Logger with Toyota GT-86 - YouTube[/ame]

[Cessblood]

I need to dust off my playstation 3. I wish the FRS/BRZ/GT86 was in Forza 4.

[reni]

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

No Xbox no care.

Sony's a thug.

as if microsoft is any better...

[bneale]

Originally Posted by reni

as if microsoft is any better...

Not going to jump into the argument here, but at least it doesn't take 5+ years to release Forza.

Call me skeptical if you will but I honestly doubt they will get this ready for this generation 86. I wouldn't be surprised to see this get delayed so much that it actually won't show up until the next generation of BRZ/GT86/FR-S.

I mean come on, how long was GT delayed for?

bneale

[denkigrve]

Originally Posted by bneale

Not going to jump into the argument here, but at least it doesn't take 5+ years to release Forza.

Call me skeptical if you will but I honestly doubt they will get this ready for this generation 86. I wouldn't be surprised to see this get delayed so much that it actually won't show up until the next generation of BRZ/GT86/FR-S.

I mean come on, how long was GT delayed for?

bneale

Originally Posted by reni

as if microsoft is any better...

Can a mod clean up these posts? Console fanboy wars need to be in the Off topic section.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by knoxviue

Something like this, maybe

Yup, this is exactly it. Except that silver box will be smaller & iirc they'll be using SD cards

[Klinn]

This is a really cool idea. I could see justifying buying a console just for this.

Even better would be working with one of the PC sim developers, but I guess that is moving away from who they believe is the target market for the car.

[Want.FR-S]

Originally Posted by knoxviue

Something like this, maybe

IIRC this was supposed to be released along with GT-86 in Japan, but apparently that was delayed either by Toyota or Polyphonic.

There seems to be a working prototype. However, the problem will be the number of tracks it can support. As you know, in GT5 only a few famous circuits are supported. That basically means you can only use this on those circuits. Given the complexity of modeling a circuit, I do not believe Polyphonic will be able to model the circuit *on-the-fly* simply based on the data from a car.

Thus, you can only use this thing on those circuits already modeled in GT5, or maybe GT6. Nothing more.

[avholic]

Originally Posted by Subie

I bought a GT86 and then a WRX in World Rally Blue paint to get a WRB paint chip. I then painted my GT86 WRB. Close enough.

Me too. (ok this is definitely off topic now)

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Want.FR-S

IIRC this was supposed to be released along with GT-86 in Japan, but apparently that was delayed either by Toyota or Polyphonic.

There seems to be a working prototype. However, the problem will be the number of tracks it can support. As you know, in GT5 only a few famous circuits are supported. That basically means you can only use this on those circuits. Given the complexity of modeling a circuit, I do not believe Polyphonic will be able to model the circuit *on-the-fly* simply based on the data from a car.

Thus, you can only use this thing on those circuits already modeled in GT5, or maybe GT6. Nothing more.

From what I got, it won't be in GT5, it'll be in next GT (GT6? IDK).

Also I think, I wrote previously, but they're testing out in few US track (Seca is one of em). The track that isn't in the data base, it'll be DL or can be uploaded to GT. Cuz I highly doubt Polyphony gonna make every single track in the world.

Originally Posted by avholic

Me too. (ok this is definitely off topic now)

Not to spoil the fun, but rumor has it that, BRZ won't be able to do this system.

[ESBjiujitsu]

this is awesome....now ill need to get a PS3 and a FRS lol :happy0180:

[SeaWall]

THE FUCKING PROBLEMS IS GRAN TURISMO HAS LITTLE TO NO FUCKING REAL LIFE TRACK THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by SeaWall

THE FUCKING PROBLEMS IS GRAN TURISMO HAS LITTLE TO NO FUCKING REAL LIFE TRACK THANK YOU VERY MUCH

It might be a good idea to read few posts before you post.