GT5 Prologue demo coming Oct 20 in Japan

Just start a Japanese account. Then you can have it in the morning.

Here is a walkthrough on how to set one up if you don't already know how:

http://blogs.ign.com/xheavenxsentx/2006/12/09/39684/

What does that even mean?

i think the no online play is just for the demo of the demo, not the actual demo or retail version. just the way i read it, though i have been wrong b4.

This isn't the demo for the free demo of GT5 that came out last year. This is the demo for the paid demo that will be coming out next year.

Understand? Because I sure as hell don't.

I know, ZOMG! Copa, this is something like NEVER done before. This prologue nonsense makes no sense. And it's so new too, never been done on PSX or PS2. Oh, wait.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-41-49-en-15-gran%2Bturismo-70-2sm.html

Damn, well that shoots that theory to shit. Let's go over the GTs of the PS3, shall we?

GTHD: The original prologue that would have been entirely free as the initial software. But as cars and tracks were introduced, players could purchase them as they wanted. And it would have 16 player online races and campaign circuits. But Americans and their damn tendacy to bitch and whine and moan about a business plan already proven successful and reasonable in several asian markets finally made Sony give up the ghost on this project and release what was done.

GT5: Prologue. Like the prologues of the past, never leaving asian markets, it was a paid portion of the upcoming game. Unlike a demo which had a track and a few cars, prologue releases are usually sizable with roughly 5-7 tracks and about 50 cars. They serve entirely as fan service to keep the fanbase excited. However, since such moves are rarely seen or even understood by American audiences (see: copa's comment), it's doubtful this will leave the asian market.

GT5: The full release, still over 9 months away. Too long for many, enter prologue. Cue bitching about the "selling" of a demo and rants about how this is confusing.

In other words, just wait for GT5. It's all Sony expected you to do anyway...

It really is people like you keeping me from Everybody's Golf 5...

how long does it really take to make a car game? they get released all the time, it seems like. why do you need a demo of a demo of the game?

jeez, crazy asians

why do you have to wait? create a japanese user account and download it, it's pretty simple to do

They're releasing the demo to coincide with the Tokyo Motor Show.

Its a Sony thread, it tends to bring out the whiners.

and the morons