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PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
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.
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sanctusmortis
21/10/09 @ 08:49
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So, 1 for the game, another for video content (makes sense, what with the Top Gear tie-in)... what's the other?
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tomacwhite
21/10/09 @ 08:53
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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. |
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The Bodybuilder
21/10/09 @ 09:15
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Surely, even with all the examples everyone has given, it can all still be stored on one blu-ray disk?
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freakzilla
21/10/09 @ 09:17
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Don't be silly even GT5 couldn't fill up more than a 50GB disk. (directed at GTPlanet not the commenters here)
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Co_Starring
21/10/09 @ 09:20
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Most likely it's:
1. Game. 2. Making of the game. 3. Making of the making of the game. |
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cianchristopher
21/10/09 @ 09:22
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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! |
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S.J.Rogers
21/10/09 @ 09:27
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It will be this:
Disk 1: GT5 for PS3 Disk 2: GT5 for 360 Disk 3: GT5 for Wii |
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jaywalker3010
21/10/09 @ 09:28
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The whole dev diary? surely its been in dev SO long that its got so much to cover ;)
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The Bodybuilder
21/10/09 @ 09:30
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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.".
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squarejawhero
21/10/09 @ 09:44
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I've never understood how someone could be a fan of something before it's released...
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altitude2k
21/10/09 @ 09:47
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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.
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@Wyrm, @DrDamm:
Look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SDGG9Hhb... It can be really cool (and Natal may be too late ;-)). |
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"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. |
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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. |
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IneptPercy
21/10/09 @ 11:33
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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? |
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beastmaster
21/10/09 @ 11:52
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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.
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freakzilla
21/10/09 @ 11:58
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"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. |
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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. ) |
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EvilBob_leeds
21/10/09 @ 12:02
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@ 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.
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altitude2k
21/10/09 @ 12:28
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@EvilBob_leeds:
Everyone does "Cook Pass Babtridge" at least once on Forza! |
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designerheadache
21/10/09 @ 12:45
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No wonder its taken so long, they have been busy building two extra games to go with GT5...
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