Grand Turismo 5

[Glenn]

After years of delays, the much vaulted Grand Turismo 5 is to be released in Europe on 3rd November http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5-november-3-in-europe/ It comes with a whopping price tag, £59.99

[Niall]

For £60 it better come with something other than the game! I won't be buying it anyway, and wouldn't even if I wanted to at that price!

[Glenn]

I won't buy it initially, I'll give it a few months .

[Gary]

For £60 it better come with something other than the game! I won't be buying it anyway, and wouldn't even if I wanted to at that price!

They can stuff that, I still like grid racer and thats way old

[UncleBob]

Hi guys,

I think you have been looking at the Collectors Edition.

The 'basic' version is much less.  Eg : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Gran-Turismo-5-PS3/dp/B002BWONDK/ref=pd_nr_vg_h__3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames

[Gary]

Have you seen the price of the call of duty black ops prestige edition?  On Amazon when released a seller has it at £299. 

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/12/call-of-duty-black-ops-prestige-edition-comes-with-working-rc-s/

[esh]

There's new copies of Guild Wars (collector's edition) selling on amazon.com for $500, and that is now something like 6 years old.

[Rik]

Completely different, but I just bought an out of print paperback for £35, some people were asking £150 for it. Never throw books away!

[Gary]

Completely different, but I just bought an out of print paperback for £35, some people were asking £150 for it. Never throw books away!

I have to agree, its amazing what has become valuable i n the last twenty years now. I have a the original CD single of Satan, by Orbital. Its really rare as most were vinyl (crossover times on the formats) and its worth about £45 now

[.Griff.]

GT5 delayed... Again.. There's a shock...

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/10/13/gran-turismo-5-release-update/

[Glenn]

I was reading about just 5 minutes ago, it will be getting on for 4 years late by the time it gets released. 

[Technical Ben]

At least it's not Duke Nukem Forever!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever

It's quite possibly the most ridiculous mess up by a development studio (blowing the money on champaign instead of workers) or the biggest con ever. This thing went through over 10 years of development, failure and scandal. Either way, some bookies are now going to be cleaned out when the "never to be released" is resurrected and released.

[wecpcs]

At least it's not Duke Nukem Forever!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever

It's quite possibly the most ridiculous mess up by a development studio (blowing the money on champaign instead of workers) or the biggest con ever. This thing went through over 10 years of development, failure and scandal. Either way, some bookies are now going to be cleaned out when the "never to be released" is resurrected and released.

I still have it on Amazon wish list awaiting to be notified by email of its eventual (if ever) release date. 

Colin

[Glenn]

24th Nov is the release date, so a week to wait, if you want it in release day. http://www.virtualr.net/ has a lot of details for it.

[Glenn]

1.05 upgrade has been released, it's a 600mb download.

[Gary]

1.05 upgrade has been released, it's a 600mb download.

Has it been buggy then Glenn? What does the game patch do?

[Glenn]

I haven't bought it. Some of the details are here apparently, but I can't open it from my work PC http://www.ripten.com/2010/12/20/gt5-update-105-mauler/

[Glenn]

I bought a copy of GT5 last week, I thought I would have a quick play last night. Wrong, it needed 1.7Gb in patches downloading, 2 hours later it was already.

[pctech]

Worse than an MS Patch Tuesday 

[Glenn]

 

[Technical Ben]

I bought a copy of GT5 last week, I thought I would have a quick play last night. Wrong, it needed 1.7Gb in patches downloading, 2 hours later it was already.

It use to be that the game came on the disk... 

[pctech]

Not these days.

[Glenn]

GT5 is sold on a DVD, well it seems some of it is.

[pctech]

I bought Counter Strike: Source on DVD, it installed, connected to Steam and then wanted to download loads of updates.

[Gary]

Games can come on DVD-Bluray but patches are downloads same as DLC

[pctech]

Indeed but you don't expect the patches to be DVD sized.

[Niall]

Take a look at Windows7. When I installed on a new hard drive and hardware recently, the updates were over 2gb before I even started doing anything

[Gary]

Indeed but you don't expect the patches to be DVD sized.

It's how game patches work these days...hence download after 12am 

[pctech]

If the patch has to be that size, maybe they should have checked the original code a little more closely.

[Gary]

If the patch has to be that size, maybe they should have checked the original code a little more closely.

Like Windows, Java, OS X, Linux....Flash...

[pctech]

Glad you included OS X in that Gary 

[Gary]

Glad you included OS X in that Gary 

Why shouldn't I have, all OS's need patches, some just not as often   

[pctech]

 

Let's not go there shall we.

[Gary]

Let's not go there shall we.

Awww ok  Saying that I always wondered why you need an explorer for Windows, they are pretty easy to negotiate as they are transparent and generally just have a handle 

[pctech]

Booo! Get off!! 

[Gary]

Booo! Get off!!