Yamauchi: Gran Turismo 5 uses 80% of PS3's power

Because at 10% power you'll be playing SNES's Mario Kart?

@ PCIV - As if that were a bad thing...

I 100% agree with what you're saying, no pun intended, but I don't think anyone considers Polyphony bad at coding.

Yeah, from a programming standpoint that statement is worthless. He really should say "80% of the PS3's potential" or something.

Incidentally, GT5 is currently using 0% of MY PS3's power, because it's NOT FREAKING OUT YET.

My PS3 is sitting, off, collecting dust as I play Forza 3. PHTHTHBHTHTHTTTTT.

Shhh! Can't you see he's busy harnessing power?

*released

I don't think 'manipulate' means 'put on a treadmill'.

I think he means you have to trick it.

Then why waste time posting in an article about Gran Turismo? You see that means you actually do care for the series otherwise you wouldn't have been bothered to post in the first place. You aren't fooling anyone. You might be upset but at the end of the day you'll buy Gran Turismo just like I will.

Wow if u want to complain about a series than maybe you should accutally play it first... dont say u did cause anyone that says the sound quality is bad in gt obviously didnt play the game (or is mentally retarded)

and to prove your retarded your saying that turn 10 treats there customers like real race enthusiasts... REALLY, does that mean that they hold real life racing events for the people that play their game or how about giving you the chance to get ur actual car into their game! DUMBASS!

@Chillski

that shit doesnt matter, thats to get them published in mags with good press. it helps them sell games.

game devs from turn 10 are constantly interacting with the community, and suggestions from the community have already made it into forza 3 (like making a "shifting" motion in cockpit view after the game was released)

if youve played any GT game, and if you actually KNOW cars, you know that most cars in the game dont sound anything like their real life counterparts. its getting better, but nothing shows me that all cars will be shown the same treatment. you obviously have not had a lot of close contact with a diverse catolog of engines. from Italians to Domestics to Japanese and Russian makes, they all sound different.

PS, and yes i guess i do care about the series deep down, i have a lot of great memories about GT1, 2, & 3. i even liked 4, while not quite as much.

and just think about it still costing $600. horrible idea. Its already a great system, and arguably the best deal right now for consoles.

maybe you should read the article ? instead of making wild ASSumptions? Im hungry? huh? whaaa? yeah?

"But once it's released, even if it blows all of our minds, who's to say Forza 4 won't come out six months later and be even better?", and, "Who cares how much power each game takes up? "..... "Forza and has been in development for what, 3 times as long?"... "I really hope GT5 ends up being amazing. But I have my doubts."

maybe you should just wait and see like the rest of the human population and see what happens, instead of asking stupid questions and saying dumb shit like that. cuz you're acting like a six year old kid going to disney land for the first time...." are we there yet, are we there yet?".. "what if six flags is better?, and just because disney has a new ride doesn't make it better! ".. YEAH WE KNOW THAT! ...Idk but you just reek of fanboi juice, I dont care if youre not one, but come on man nobody knows that shit. NONE of us does, MAYBE google knows some of it, but we dont.. in fact if we knew all that we wouldn't be here in joystiq, just sayin'.

You wonder what they did? You ask rhetorically, as if people make these numbers up. IBM and Toshiba (co-producers of the Cell chip-- that's the multi-processor chip in the PS3, der) among others offer a number of analysis programs which show CPU and co-processor (the PS3 has 7, the 360 has... none... but it's main processor is triple-core, so much easier to program) usage, during in-game play. If the usage of ALL the parts is 80%, that's hardcore. That means your programmers are almost totally utilizing all the parallel processing available through Cell architecture. It takes good programming to do this. If you look at a crappy port like Bayonetta (Sega programmers are whimps), they don't even use the co-processors. So if you don't use the co-processors of the PS3's cell, it will look and act worse than the same game programmed on a 3-core processor like 360. Cell takes more work, just like the ps2, with it's two extra processors, took more work in the days of the original Xbox, which ran more than twice the speed of the PS2. Now ask yourself: who's still around, original Xbox, or PS2?

I have no idea what tangent you went on in the end, and your analysis may also be incorrect, anyway.

And you have to keep in mind that even if they're using "80%" of what's available in the PS3, a lot of it could be useless work that could be optimized more. It's a dumb statistic, the way he presented it.

Yeah, the damn black marks on the pavement tell me about it..

When im in the heat of the race neck and neck for 1st place and I dont see me some black marks on the damn pavement, I quit.
I always check in my rear view mirror to make sure the black marks are there. Always.

It really is make or break for me.

I think they should use the other 20% and increase the speed of the load times.

Loading in general on the ps3 is just horrendous!

I played the demo and they still need more work on the physics.

Forza has the best racing experience to date.