Gran Turismo 5 hampered by internet congestion, patch coming Saturday

@mmmfishtacos
A few days ago I figured a racing game is best played with a wheel like a fighting game is best played with a stick... you've just confirmed my thoughts.
My wallet will be mad at you.

@Manifest37 ha yeah, check CL I got the GT pro for 50. It's a really nice wheel for the game. Although i really want the G27.

Driving cars is for idiots

@Barkley610 I always get defensive when reading the slamming a game gets when the net infrastructure comes to its knees on game launch, probably because I used to work in this area.

A couple things, 500,000k concurrent connections is actually a lot, that's connections to the server at the same time, not overall people playing online.That's a pretty big number for PSN, I think xbox360 only broke 2 million last year and that's for ALL GAMES, and during the MW2 launch. There estimates were probably fine and game some buffer. More likely the problem is that testing online capacity is terribly difficult. It is very difficult to simulate 500,000k connections and so client and server code bugs crop up that were never present in testing/QA. Some little line of code when multiplied by 500,000 may be giving a problem that nobody saw. So give the guys running these servers a bit of a break, they are probably spending their holidays in front of a wall of code so you can play a game on your holidays. It's not inexcusable, it's just terribly difficult, and we'll probably continue to see online hiccups with the big game launches.

What is inexcusable however is that it sounds like the UI is polling net features...that is a big no no. Just from a design perspective, you never want your UI to stall on anything but user input. And even if it's necessary (like searching for a game), you should give the user the chance to cancel, or back out. Again I'm biased since I was a net programmer...so I bet a UI programmer made that mistake :)

@Hong Dong delay it because of shortage of servers which could be added from a few hours to a few days? yeah... totally makes sense.

u mad.

@InfinitiProject I was joking. It's called irony. Look it up.

@Hong Dong That is definitely not irony but bad sarcasm.

@Hong Dong Sounds like someone's trying to cover up their failed troll attempt.

@Hong Dong

I'm sick of seeing comments like yours on gaming sites. I can't believe people act like this and no one calls them out on it. It's disgusting.

@BigEgo007 Wind your neck in. I'm offering an opinion. You don't agree with it fine. There are a lot who don't. We are just very lucky we live in a society in which we can do that.

@Hong Dong
Umm how exactly was that irony? Me thinks YOU need to "look it up" lol

@davebo

I keep my PS3 as far back behind the current firmware just because of this, I don't want it talking unless I say so.
The only time i upgrade is when a game needs it, and luckily, just like GT5, most need a patch by the time I'm ready to play them, and as long as I hit the "Hell no" button (circle) it shouldn't connect.

@Hivetyrant Yeah but then you're sacrificing all online functionality of the PS3. That's a bit extreme since I actually do enjoy multiplayer. I just want games to stop "phoning home" for something as simple as game menus. I do think it's ridiculous that you're forced to upgrade firmware before going online though. It's not as though the way the friend's list works changes each update or web browsing or netflix streaming. It's just their way to force everyone to update whether we want to or not.

@captcarl 500,000, my bad. Missed a zero. >_>

@CarlosPacheco
It's not even the multiplayer... the menus apparently are lagging because it's phoning home...

@Agnostiq wow... even worse!

@shopping bags haha i doubt it mate. NFS and GT/Forza is totally different games with different purposes. i played my friend's NFS:HP and i switched it off after hour or so and just like that i gave it back. NFS is just not for me it's too arcady and i hate nitrous.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar
I'm in the US and i havent experienced a single problem either.
infact the game has completely exceeded my expecations. but im still impressed with gt3's graphics...

@commonperson This is incompetence, but it has nothing to do with the delays.

@B1 well, this is a full title, its a bit silly to think you would be getting full support on a prologue title. Essentially an enhanced demo.

@B1
That's what Sony did with PS3 this generation. It released a half-baked product at the launch with 699.99 price tag then released more refined one 2 years after.

This game already gets 130+ patches a few days after it got released. What gives?