Gran Turismo 5 to come on three discs?
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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1) Game
2) Making Of
3) Soundtrack
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They could also split Arcade and GT mode again, but I doubt that.
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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.
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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!
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2) The Making Of Part 1
3) The Making Of Part 2
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1) GT5
2) Making of
3) Big black book of how to drive
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1) Game
2) Making Of
3) Book
Makes most sense but who knows!
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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
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1. Game.
2. Making of the game.
3. Making of the making of the game.
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Sounds excessive indeed.
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That sounds about right!
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Disk 1: GT5 for PS3
Disk 2: GT5 for 360
Disk 3: GT5 for Wii
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Probably, because every company would do the exact same thing.
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1. Game
2. Fuckwittery
3. Fuckwittery (making of)
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2) > forza
3) > forza
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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- 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
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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?
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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.
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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. )
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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.
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+1
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Everyone does "Cook Pass Babtridge" at least once on Forza!
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1) A
2) B
3) C
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Disc 2: Arcade Mode
Disc 3: Online
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Disc 2: GT5 Car Models
Disc 3: GT5 Physics Damage Model