PSP Gran Turismo confirmed as port

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In news that will do no harm whatsoever to the prospects of Sony's upcoming entry into the handheld market the Gran Turismo that appears on the PSP will be the same game that is imminent for the PS2. Series producer Kazunori Yamauchi revealed in an interview on Sony's official PlayStation website that he intends to keep the same amount of content in the PSP version as the PS2 Gran Turismo 4.

"The PSP is a portable game machine, and people may think it's oriented towards playing simple games, but it really has the same hardware performance as the PS2," comments Yamauchi in the interview. "Since we're already developing the GT4's system on the PS2 hardware, we're planning to port that directly to the PSP." Yamauchi broadened the discussion to PSP games in general. "There's basically two ways of making games for the PSP. One way is to develop an original new game, which in general will be limited in its content since the price of PSP games aren't going to be too high, meaning the game's development budget will also be limited. We're going to be taking the second method, which is to take a system from a major title, and effectively sliding it onto the PSP hardware," he said.

Gran Turismo 4 is apparently around 75% complete and still on course for a release by years end, but it is looking unlikely that Gran Turismo will be a PSP release game.