Despite boring the collective attendees of their E3 press conference with the painfully long Gran Turismo HD presentation and receiving a lukewarm response to the demo on the show floor (it was almost always available to walk up to and play), it looks like Sony is going to actually release GTHD as a commercial product. And why shouldn't they? They'll sell hundreds of thousands of copies to the license testing, car collecting masses. Plus they could really use the cash!

It actually was quite impressive to see in 1080p at 60fps, but after the Gran Turismo Vision trailer, it felt a bit like a next-gen tease.

Largely known as just a quick demo, a port of the Gran Turismo 4 data, now it appears that Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital will be teasing PS3 owners with a true sequel to GT4 in the form of GTHD. Speaking with Gamespot, Yamauchi had this to say.

We are working on a version of GT that supports the full PS3 specification, but in this transitional version, I think you'll get a taste of the potential that next generation games hold.

Given the slow turn around time between iterations of the flagship racer, I wouldn't expect to see that "potential" for a long time. Michael McWhertor

Gran Turismo HD forerunner to new next-gen GT

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