GT5 Song Competition Winner Announced

Remember last month when we reported on Polyphony Digital running a competition which would give a lucky gamer the chance to get their name into Gran Turismo 5?  All you had to do was suggest a name for the official in-game song, and if it caught the eye of Polyphony boss Kazunori Yamauchi then he would use it and put your name in the credits.  Well that competition is now over, and the winner is ‘MajanoX’ of Argentina for his contribution – ‘5OUL ON D!SPLAY.’

MajanoX had the following to say about his entry;

“The title of the song describes what Polyphony Digital puts in every game they create, SOUL, and that’s what we see ON DISPLAY when we play those games (clever and obvious at the same time, right?).

Also, Daiki Kasho is performing this beautiful song flawlessly, very catchy tune. The number and symbol in the title is a tribute of the song in GT5 Prologue, “SURV1V3″, another epic track.

‘5OUL ON D!SPLAY’ is a very distinctive name for a unique and very distinctive game like Gran Turismo.”

Happy with the 5444 entries received from 104 countries around the world, Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi had the following to say;

“There were actually 89 entries of “Soul on Display”, using the normal alphabet, so it is actually an idea that came from many of our fans. I think it’s a very good selection of words based on the content of the lyrics.

However out of all those entries, the “5OUL ON D!SPLAY” entry by MajanoX of Argentina was memorable for its play on spelling, using the number “5” for Gran Turismo and the exclamation point “!” for the i. You could also feel the love for the game from the comment that was sent, and it gave us great strength.

The total of 5444 entries was a full digit more than what I had initially expected to receive. When I thought of gathering suggestions on Twitter, I figured it would be maybe 500 or so at best. I was also surprised at the huge variety of countries from which we received the entries – 104! Even if only 1% of the people watching the movie sent us a suggestion, that would still mean 500,000 people watched the movie. Thank you all very very much.”

Source: Gran-Turismo.com via GTPlanet

22 Comments

  1. Only expected 500? Hah. I guess he forgot what game he was making.

    Amazing though, that 89 people had the same name.

    • Absolutely, I can’t believe there were nearly 100 people who came up with that randomness.

      • Admittedly I never actually listened to the song.

  2. I get the 5 instead of an S but the ! for an i is just what you’d do to make your password stronger. Looks a bit daft and arbitrary to me

    • Looks terrible. Like it’s been spelt wrong. Not cool but literally wrong.

      I can’t believe that won. Oh well.

      • I was thinking that, looks awful to me… I can’t abide by that sort of pointless butchering of words. Like you say, the 5 makes more sense, but an exclamation mark is punctuation and should remain as such. The first time I read it I thought it was supposed to be two separate words, it was only upon realising that that didn’t make any sense whatsoever that it became clear what had been done.

  3. Stop murdering my alphabet!

    • Here lies the English language.

      R.I.P.

      • The english language is evolving, as languages always have done and always will do. I teach 16-18 year olds in a college in the east end of london. You’d be genuinely shocked by some of the language used in some of their assignments. Honestly, txt speak has broken through into the mainstream.

      • yeah it’s evolving, but using letters in words is just 5tupid

      • You mean R.!.P.

      • I appreciate the language evolves. Evolution is often a smooth transition as society changes; adapts to its surroundings and culture. It’s very much organic as new definitions surface, national phrases and wording become more accepted into the mainstream. That I have no problem with (and in all honesty I don’t mind about the song either) but it highlights all that is wrong with with the forceful bastardisation of a truly beautiful language.

        Next people will be leaving capital letters off of the start of towns and cities! The end of the world will surely follow. ;-)

      • Haha, good one mike. The only reason my london has no capital l is because it was written on my phone’s predictive messaging and since it wasn’t the start of a sentence…

      • Tell me about it. Totally ruined a post of mine yesterday. My iPhone’s inability to learn words I use incredibly often is positively crap. :-(

      • @tonycawley You say that, but you try writing a CV in that style and see how many job offers you get!

  4. Hmmm this was the best …. oh god

  5. im surprised there were only 5444 entries, though to be honest, i didn’t bother

  6. Well at least it’s a tribute to Prologue’s title. If they just chose that out of the blue then I would’ve been a bit p!SS3d 0FF.

  7. I suggested “Soul on Display”, dmn him!

    • I went with 50u7 0n D!5P74Y
      Because I hate the English language and wish it do descend into chaos

  8. Not heard the song. Is it on Youtube so we can have a listen?

    • Yeh it is I think, well a GT5 Soul On DIsplay came up and it sounds pretty good, not hard rock/metal enough for me though :/
      I would have preferred a Metallica song

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