Expensive, yes, but compared to a PC gaming rig of equivalent performance, actually pretty reasonable. If you're looking to buy the top spec versions of either console, it's going to lighten your wallet to the tune of £450.
With that tedious financial reality in mind, we reckon we'll see GT7 land first. It also feels like we've seen more of Gran Turismo 7 to date and, while Polyphony Digital isn't exactly known for its punctuality, the extremely expensive Gran Turismo Championships will need to be running on the PlayStation 5 in 2021 to justify the enormous marketing cost.
Forza Motorsport 7, meanwhile, was a fundamentally good game but the series has long suffered from slightly wayward handling that could do with a significant overhaul. GT Sport eventually developed into a comprehensive, fully featured Gran Turismo game and offered the sort of structured multiplayer racing system previously not seen outside of hardcore, wear-your-racing-boots-to-bed PC sims. You're only as good as your last result and we'd argue that based on the most recent entries in the two franchises, Gran Turismo 7 is the more exciting.
We do know that they're both on the way, though, and there have been small glimpses of both in trailers. We're in an awkward position here, given that neither PlayStation's Gran Turismo 7 nor Xbox's rebooted Forza Motorsport are ready for the launch of their respective consoles. Oh and if you've blown the GDP of a small nation state on high-end simracing equipment for either of the previous generation of consoles, you'll be pleased to hear that both PS5 and Xbox Series X will carry support for them forward, so you can close that eBay browser tab. These new features weren't built for racing fans, but they might as well have been. You'll be able to feel ABS chatter through the vibration and triggers, for example, or detect subtle changes to the surface in a rally game like the recently updated WRC 9.
The marquee features of Sony's pad are haptic feedback, which is essentially an extremely precise vibration feature that can offer up more information than any controller before it, and resistive triggers, which alter the resistance of what will most likely be your accelerator and brake.įor racing games both are huge improvements. The PS5, however, boasts the DualSense, a completely reworked controller. The good news is that even the original design was comfier than cradling a newborn kitten and also Microsoft has ensured that any existing Xbox One pads you have lying around will still work for a four player split screen Dirt 5 session. The XSX has plumped for a more responsive, more ergonomic version of the controller from the Xbox One.
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