Gran Turismo 5 to come on three discs?

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 October, 2009

Mock-up packaging hints at bulky bundle.

Those perceptive little prancing pony enthusiasts over at GT Planet have observed that Gran Turismo 5 may come on three discs when it's released next year.

The news comes courtesy of Gran Turismo's dad, Kazunori Yamauchi, who can be seen cradling a GT5 box in a video highlighting the relationship between Mercedes and Polyphony Digital's "Real Driving Simulator".

The box appears to consist of three Blu-ray cases - one black, one red, one blue - in a cardboard sleeve, although there's no elaboration on this.

That seems a bit excessive, too, given that even single-layer Blu-ray discs have capacity of 25GB, so goodness knows what's going on. Perhaps one's a bonus disc, perhaps one isn't even a disc but in fact a booklet, or something.

We asked Sony this morning but the game's publisher said it had no comment.

Gran Turismo 5 is due out for PS3 in March 2010 in Japan and at around the same time in Europe.

Polyphony has promised over 1000 cars and 20 track locations (around 70 circuit layouts), and the long-awaited addition of damage modelling. Yamauchi also said recently that unlocks in Gran Turismo for PSP would feed into GT5, and there's talk of other nifty features like head-tracking via PlayStation Eye.

Check out our E3 interview with Kazunori Yamauchi for a bit more on the game.

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  • kangarootoo #1 2 years ago

    The entire back catalogue of Top Gear episodes?

  • Wyrm #2 2 years ago

    Don't get 'head tracking'. Surely if you turn your head, you ain't looking at the screen no more.

  • sanctusmortis #3 2 years ago

    So, 1 for the game, another for video content (makes sense, what with the Top Gear tie-in)... what's the other?

  • Widge #4 2 years ago

    Suggestion I've seen is:

    1) Game
    2) Making Of
    3) Soundtrack

  • tomacwhite #5 2 years ago

    GT3 and GT4 both had huge driving guides with the Japanese versions, so a book could be one of them.

    They could also split Arcade and GT mode again, but I doubt that.

  • DrDamn #6 2 years ago

    @Wyrm
    Motion scaling. You turn your head a little bit and that gets scaled up to a larger amount in game. Works very well and you can stay looking at the screen just fine.

  • Beano #7 2 years ago

    One disc with the game and two disks with s**t-load of videos and making-of...

  • MKorkia #8 2 years ago

    I'm getting too optimistic now, but here's my guess (wish):

    1) GT5
    2) Bonus materials
    3) GT1/2/3/4 upscaled to 720p (1080p?!)

    Maybe as Special Limited Edition costing two times the actual game, but still the definite buy!

  • T4RG4 #9 2 years ago

    1) GT5
    2) The Making Of Part 1
    3) The Making Of Part 2

  • SL33PY #10 2 years ago

    Since everyone is guessing away
    1) GT5
    2) Making of
    3) Big black book of how to drive

  • Dave797 #11 2 years ago

    TBH they could chuck a scabby cat in one the sleeves and it will still sell like hot cakes.

    1) Game
    2) Making Of
    3) Book

    Makes most sense but who knows!

  • The-Bodybuilder #12 2 years ago

    Surely, even with all the examples everyone has given, it can all still be stored on one blu-ray disk?

  • freakzilla #13 2 years ago

    Don't be silly even GT5 couldn't fill up more than a 50GB disk. (directed at GTPlanet not the commenters here)
    Edited by 1 at 21/10/09 @ 10:20

  • spiny #14 2 years ago

    1) Game (BD)
    2) Making of / Off line GT-TV / GT Academy (DVD)
    3) Soundtrack (CD)

    ...or the third disc is blank, it's just to have one more disc than Forza 3 ;)
    Edited by 2 at 21/10/09 @ 10:20

  • Co_Starring #15 2 years ago

    Most likely it's:

    1. Game.
    2. Making of the game.
    3. Making of the making of the game.

  • SeesThroughAll #16 2 years ago

    Three discs?
    Sounds excessive indeed.

  • cianchristopher #17 2 years ago

    I think the first disc contains the racing tracks, the second has the first 20,000 Nissan Skylines and the third has the final 36,000 Nissan Skylines.

    That sounds about right!

  • S.J.Rogers #18 2 years ago

    It will be this:

    Disk 1: GT5 for PS3
    Disk 2: GT5 for 360
    Disk 3: GT5 for Wii

  • jaywalker3010 Verified Mastering Manager, Square Enix #19 2 years ago

    The whole dev diary? surely its been in dev SO long that its got so much to cover ;)

  • The-Bodybuilder #20 2 years ago

    I bet sony just want PD to put it on 3 blu-rays just so they can turn around and say "if we used dvd, it would've been 12 discs.".

  • altitude2k #21 2 years ago

    3 discs? Must be the 360 version ;)

  • mkreku #22 2 years ago

    I think I would have been happier with 20 cars and 1000 tracks..

  • SG #23 2 years ago

    Honestly who needs 1000 cars in a game?

  • Zebula77 #24 2 years ago

    Hmm, interesting. Definitely buying this, even tho I'm more of an arcade fan when it comes to racing games. GT games are always fun to spend time with.

  • gjgjg #25 2 years ago

    prologue + CD soundtrack?
    Edited by 1 at 21/10/09 @ 10:47

  • altitude2k #26 2 years ago

    They're not even 1000 cars, though. There's about 20 variants of the same cars, sometimes. And as far as what I've heard, full damage modelling will be limited to a small amount of those cars, the rest will have bump and scratch only. Surely a small list of cars will a full damage modeller would be better.

  • El-Dev #27 2 years ago

    "I bet sony just want PD to put it on 3 blu-rays just so they can turn around and say "if we used dvd, it would've been 12 discs.".


    Probably, because every company would do the exact same thing.

  • Johnson #28 2 years ago

    My guess -

    1. Game
    2. Fuckwittery
    3. Fuckwittery (making of)

  • Spekingur #29 2 years ago

    Though, if it is the game itself on all three discs... then that's just too much. Unless that's just the bonus material that you can buy before the game is released.

  • patchbox360 #30 2 years ago

    1) > forza
    2) > forza
    3) > forza

  • BritishBlue1 #31 2 years ago

    Some sort of collectors edition probably.

  • Widge #32 2 years ago

    I'd love a special edition bundle that packed GTpsp in with it.

  • jarek98 #33 2 years ago

    @Wyrm, @DrDamm:

    Look at: [link url=http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDGG9HhbgQ.
    ]http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDGG9Hhb...[/link]

    It can be really cool (and Natal may be too late ;-)).

  • Miths #34 2 years ago

    "I think the first disc contains the racing tracks, the second has the first 20,000 Nissan Skylines and the third has the final 36,000 Nissan Skylines.

    That sounds about right!"

    You 360 fanboys and your ridiculous exaggerations. GT4 didn't have more than around 15,000 Skyline models, so there's no way in hell GT5 is going to have much more than 25,000 :p.

  • Mkwone #35 2 years ago

    I don't believe the standard game comes out on 3discs. Either thats just a dummybox to look at different colour scheme or the special edition with tons of extras.

    But to jon in:

    Disc 1 GT5
    Disc 2 Photoshop style car customisation suite
    Disc 3 video of PH laughing all the way to the bank.

  • jambo74 #36 2 years ago

    Three discs - Install disc one to HD, run game with disk 2 in the drive. Disc 3 is extras and videos.

  • Moz #37 2 years ago

    If there truly is 1000 car models then filling a blu-ray will be easy, the GT3 car models where 8mb each in raw form.
    So 25mb per car minimum in this at a guess, each track location could easiy be a couple of gig.
    So 'm with jambo74 one disc to install from (core game engine, interface graphics, tournament details ect - probably 5 to 10 gig) Disc 2 with all the cars and tracks on. Disc 3 either a book or all the making of and shit.

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #38 2 years ago

    Crash damage on the second disc?

  • MeBrains #39 2 years ago

    I vote:
    - the making of
    - the making of
    - the making of

    as there sure as hell won't be a game in such a short amount of time...

    /methinks

  • Collymilad #40 2 years ago

    Oh noes!!!!!

  • IneptPercy #41 2 years ago

    The funny thing is that there is 1000's of cars and after a month if you go online everybody will be using the same cars and you only see around 3 different cars.

    As for all the discs, I can't even imagine, if you say install a full disc even at 25GB how long will that take?

  • beastmaster #42 2 years ago

    3 discs? Personally I couldn't care less so long as the game is good and they're not charging excessivly for unnecessary excessive content.

  • freakzilla #43 2 years ago

    "Disc 3 video of PH laughing all the way to the bank."

    Impossible! 5 years and approximately a thousand million billion trillion yen spent already. Seriously though, who else has ever dared to spend so much money on a single project? I bet even James Cameron gets jealous of PD.

  • davisorle #44 2 years ago

    It's tragic considering all the ignorant fanboys that kept saying "360 suckz cause Forza will be 2 disks".

    Anyhow, What could the 3 disks include that are FULL of data and needed all three of them? Making of, bonus vids, guide etc. I still can't see what the 3 disks could be. o.O ( never a bad thing. The more the better for the ones that will buy it if you dont include the ones bitching about the amount of disks. )

  • EvilBob_leeds #45 2 years ago

    @ everyone whinging at the quantity of cars

    That's not really the point is it though. Very few ardent geeks are going to try to get every car there is; most people will settle for a garage of 20 - 40 cars. But not the same cars. Maybe you fancy a car that caught your eye on one of Dave's endless repeats of Top Gear last week. Maybe you fancy a car you own, or a mate owns. Maybe you fancy getting the car the boss owns, and running it into a tree. Point is you can, and evidently some geeks out there like the fact that they can get the exact imprezza / skyline / rickshaw / whatever that means something to them.

    It's like saying what the fuck is the point in the livery editor in Forza, since most people just make a "Cook pass babtridge" skin and never go back to it.

    @IneptPercy

    What's your point? Sure some cars are likely to prove more popular than others. But then the online events will doubtless be split up into various categories (RWD only, less than 1600cc, Superchargers only) it's likely that a few cars in each of the different classifications will ultimately prove themselves to be popular.
    Edited by 2 at 21/10/09 @ 13:06

  • Les #46 2 years ago

    @EvilBob_leeds

    +1

  • altitude2k #47 2 years ago

    @EvilBob_leeds:

    Everyone does "Cook Pass Babtridge" at least once on Forza!

  • drumbaby #48 2 years ago

    My prediction:

    1) A
    2) B
    3) C

  • OnlyMe #49 2 years ago

    Disc 1: GT Mode
    Disc 2: Arcade Mode
    Disc 3: Online

  • aphexstwin #50 2 years ago

    1. HD install
    2. GTmode & online career
    3. Arcade mode & multiplayer racing.

    thats my 2p. oh, this was on the gt forum at the eu playstation forum days ago.

  • bemaniac #51 2 years ago

    I feel a definite sense that i know what is in the box
    1: INSTALL with MANDATORY Smaller car data only install
    2: PLAY with OPTIONAL 25GB install
    3: Feature length vid with an old game upscaled and some promos of other sony games.

  • ChadSexington #52 2 years ago

    It's not three game discs -- it looks more like one game disc and two books.

  • IneptPercy #53 2 years ago

    "@IneptPercy

    What's your point? Sure some cars are likely to prove more popular than others. But then the online events will doubtless be split up into various categories (RWD only, less than 1600cc, Superchargers only) it's likely that a few cars in each of the different classifications will ultimately prove themselves to be popular."

    It wasn't a dig directly at this game, it happens on all racing games, personally I lost interest at 3 and haven't played 4 onwards but that is more a change in my gaming habits/time available.

    Still at a loss on the 3 discs, could it just be a fake?

  • aphexstwin #54 2 years ago

    percy, kaz is in the video handling the case...

  • nasanu #55 2 years ago

    Eurogamer fails to use their brain once again...

    If you look at the pictures from the video it is clear that only of one those cases is a PS3 disc. That is the black one with the cero rating logo on it. Who knows what the other things are (manual plus something else), but it is clear that GT5 will ship on one disc.

  • zedzee #56 2 years ago

    If Yamauchi-san was hanging around with some Mercs Benz guys, then he was probably presenting them with a special advanced copy of the game.

    Chances are, you'll never see that packaging on a shelf/Web page. But if the GAME itself comes on three BR discs, then PD will have a great deal of explaining to do. Otherwise, it might well be a special edition with all the previous releases included or something like that.

    Oh, who the hell cares, anyway?! The game is YEARS late and quite frankly, with all the drip-fed releases that have come out before it (Prologue, PSP version), it may well be the most anti-climatic release ever. I think the people to worry about are the journos - they didn't exactly jump up and down with excitement when the PSP version was released.

  • VMerken #57 2 years ago

    Disc 1: GT5 Tracks
    Disc 2: GT5 Car Models
    Disc 3: GT5 Physics Damage Model