Gran Turismo 5‘s “Spec 2″ update adds interiors for all cars in the game, albeit of varying quality. The update also includes the 2011 season versions of the 11 NASCAR race cars, “greatly reduced load times when loading races,” and the ability to save mid-race during some of GT5‘s lengthier races.
There’s more, including an expanded Photo Mode, and a new budget friendly priced for Gran Turimso 5 (now $US39.99 USD), all of which is laid out in greater detail at the official PlayStation blog.
Gran Turismo 5: New Free Updates, DLC, and Price Drop [PlayStation.blog]
Evilsince84
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:52 AMIs this still selling?
After the shoddy state in which it was released VS the asking price, I can’t believe that enough ppl bought it for it to have paid for it’s own development.
Can anyone confirm this?
Braaains
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:22 PM6.37 million, according to Wikipedia. And that’s not counting another 5.2 million copies of GT5 Prologue. So yeah, that would have covered their costs quite comfortably.
Braaains
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:26 PMForgot ze link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#PlayStation_3
I’m not sure what date those figures were from, so it may have sold more since then.
SemiConscious
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:47 PMiirc when they announced the sales figures for GT_PSP (which pushed gt5 back grrr), it had sold enough copies to cover the cost of the entire gt5 development. lots and lots of monies.
DeeK
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:34 PMWell, to be honest, I only bought it a month ago. It was the collector’s edition as well. It was going cheap at Game.
Great game. Well worth the money. No idea what state it was released in, but seems to be fine after I went through the obligatory patch download.
matt
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:41 PMi bought it at release and played shitloads of it in the first couple of months. It has definitely gotten quicker and better since the patches though. Its an awesome game, lots to do, and you will never master it
Jacky
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:18 PMI’m pretty sure that GT5 sold extremely well overseas….
Jake
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:00 PMI almost got it, there was so much hype about it being the prettiest racing game ever, but yeah, gamespot pointed out half the tracks are lifted directly from PS2 with no new updates, and only 15% of cars have that cool interior view.
gibbs
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:17 PMMeh. Forza 4 is out next week.
markd
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:19 PMForza 4 is out next week? Meh.
Reign
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:23 PMYay, Nascar!
The most boring fucking form of motor racing on the planet.
James
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:58 PMYou’re just saying that because you’re not poor and stupid enough to appreciate NASCAR.
Braaains
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:21 PMYeah. I’m sick of these anti-NASCAR snobs and their right-hand corners.
Toolboy
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:10 PMHa! Lol’d
X2
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:18 PMUmadbro?
DeeK
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:25 PMTo watch, sure. To drive, well, weaving around cars going at 200-300kph would be hair-raising.
colenel
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:33 PMThey could of got it right the first time.
Captain Grammar
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM*could HAVE
Dan
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:14 PMCute… Anybody played Forza4 demo yet.. Easily better than Gt5, which is such a Dissapointing game at least maybe this spec update will fix that fingers crossed
Toolboy
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:14 PMYeah played the demo.
Forza drives very differently to GT5, I prefer it’s mechanics and the games navigation system.
The engine sounds are also alot better.
Don
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:36 PMSwap “GT” with Mortal Kombat, then swap “Forza” with “Street Fighter” Sony for Sega and Microsoft for Nintendo.
Swap update, version, sequel whatever with words like, ‘Super’, ‘Alpha’ and ‘Ultimate’
…been reading the same thing for the last 20 years guys. You have consoles and games, horses-courses. Go play some games. When it comes down to it, all that matters in the schoolyard is can you win everytime in both.