Gran Turismo 5

[On The Edge of Insanity]

16 player online though. More than any other serious console racer has ever had, and double that of its 360 competitor.

Whether they can pull it off without much lag is another matter though.

[huxley]

That is revolutionary, Not seen any lag on any of the Sony online games yet, but that could be down to the number of people not using the service yet.
Didnt it hit a go slow when the GT demo was put up?
But then again that seems to happen to the live service, Bioshock anyone.

[bignige]

Lots of lag in Resistance. Tons of it in 2 player Championship sprint too.

[Yoshimax]

But then again that seems to happen to the live service, Bioshock anyone.

??? It's a single player game ? there is no lag I presume you mean the server slowdown when millions of people logged on simultaneously to download the demo ?

[ne0star]

I don't think doubling the number of players in an online racer is revolutionary. Its an evolution of whats come before and if they get it right it will be a nice addition.

I certianly don't think PGR4 is any more of a rehash than GT, but why do they need to reinvent the wheel on either franchise? They both have decent fan bases and sell loads of copies.

I think the prologue idea is a decent one because it allows them to get feedback on core features they are building into GT5.

[JP]

Championship Sprint is the only game I've seen lag on so far. Resisitance has been fine, even with the game maxed out for me.

Quite a few people seem to get it with Championship Sprint though so it seems like that's more down to it just being a completely crap conversion which took them all of 3 minutes to produce. They've probably not even bothered to look at the online code for it lol.

I was looking forward to that game, online could have been so good too!

[Brats]

16 player online though. More than any other serious console racer has ever had, and double that of its 360 competitor.

Moto GP on the XBox had sixteen player online races.

ZOMGZ teh revolutoinariiz 111!!!111

[Yoshimax]

Moto GP on the XBox had sixteen player online races.

ZOMGZ teh revolutoinariiz 111!!!111

It's not a serious game

[dcmk]

Moto GP on the XBox had sixteen player online races.

ZOMGZ teh revolutoinariiz 111!!!111

no need

[dataDave]

It's not a serious game

Does that mean I'm not allowed to smile when playing it? Or that I have to invest more time into it than I do for my job?

[JP]

I think it'll probably quite some time before a game is released which truly changes the way that we think about games.

I think that's what I'd call next-gen.

Games don't need to do that to really good though. Braben was right to say that they aren't truly next-gen...but he's laid the gauntlet down now and I say we organise a mini-bus to go around to his diggs if The Outsiders doesn't completely define what gaming means to us!

[huxley]

??? It's a single player game ? there is no lag I presume you mean the server slowdown when millions of people logged on simultaneously to download the demo ?

yea that is what I ment fella

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Moto GP on the XBox had sixteen player online races.

ZOMGZ teh revolutoinariiz 111!!!111

I stand corrected.

First 16 player serious car racer on a console then

I wasn't trying to say it was a revolution, more the other person said that they were behind the times in regard to online. I'd consider 16 player online very much with the times.

[Yoshimax]

I think he was probably alluding to the fact it was promised as part of GT4 but failed to materialise and is still to do so.

Still, does seem like they're being very ambitious with their online stuff - I suspect the game delays are due to the HOME delays as the two seem to have several ties ??

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Japan's still getting it on time, so it must just be the translation thats causing delays to US and EU.