GT5 Prologue in TGS 2008 @ Playstation Home Beta (Update)

Recently I received an Invite to Participate in the Home Beta. The Invite was sent to my Japanese PSN Account. Meaning that I could access the Home Beta on Both my UK PSN Account and my JPN PSN Account. On the UK/US Version of Home however it does not include the TGS 2008 Booth. So it's a whole new Level in Home. If you already in the Home Beta I suggest you go on your JPN PSN Account and take a look. Back to the point! Remember those screens of the Driving Force Pro being in Home? They have them at the TGS Booth along with a array of GT5 Prologue Spec III Stuff! If your are aware of Home's Features then you know the icon where you can select a Game of Pool or Bowling for Example you know with the Dual Sock3 Icon Pops up and you click X to Play... Well the Icon pops up as you hover over the Driving Force Pro Setups. You can Select to Play GT5 Prologue on the Driving Force Pro Via this way. But heres the thing. I cannot understand fully what the requirements are for doing this feature. (Weither it is accessable yet) (Or Weither the function works yet) A Message pops up on the screen as you select it in Japanese. All I can Make out from the message is (Playstation Store) & (Blu Ray Disc) And a Warning Sign (!) Hence my thoughts were that the feature isnt accessable in the Beta BUT This I beleive is the way you are able to launch Private Races in Home. This is my thoughts anyway. (Further More backing up the suspisions first about Private Races on GTPlanet) I think that message either means You will either need the Playstation Store Version of GT5 Prologue Or the Blu Ray Version of the game. Further details I really cannot make out. Screens are below please take a look and tell me what you think. Please Mods Do Not Close This as it's relevant Information about GT5 Prologue Regarding Home and it's Features to do with it. Take a lookie for yourself if your in the Beta!








That's the message that comes up when you jump onto the GT5 Prologue Driving Force GT Setup ^^^

Is that in Japan HOME??

Yes Patriot as I said....

what the hell is home????????

balang_479

what the hell is home????????

Do some reading up.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Home

That is awesome news, for the first time I get a vision of how GT5 and Home will integrate together! Graphically it's very impressive, a lot more atmospheric than other screenshots I've seen of Home. Private rooms here we come!

BUT...

I noticed that there are only 4 race frames.

Does this mean that their idea of "private races" in Home will only have a maximum of 4 players? And how long before Home is ready?!

Surely it can't be far off!

Hehe yeah, Well it's in the Invite Open Beta now so more invites are getting sent out every week apparently... Thats how i got mine :P, Yup we'll have to wait about full details but you cant really have a whole Home Room with 16 Simulators in them welll we could.... That be so awesome! :P Home's Full Release is beginning of Next Year.... Well that was the plan lol!

Just speculating... With the extra screens in those pictures, I suspect that your avatar could stand and watch an online race as a spectator - and without even owning a copy of Gran Turismo as it will be just streaming video to your PS3.

marky5244

Just speculating... With the extra screens in those pictures, I suspect that your avatar could stand and watch an online race as a spectator - and without even owning a copy of Gran Turismo as it will be just streaming video to your PS3.

That seems like it would be really network intensive, though. What if there were 50 people standing behind and watching it?

Watevaman

That seems like it would be really network intensive, though. What if there were 50 people standing behind and watching it?

True, but then that would be the same for all similar video content in Home. It could be very clever and only transmit enough data to your PS3 that was needed - i.e. if an avatar was standing a little way away from the 'screens' then less data streamed to their PS3 would be required.

Thinking aloud, for this to work the PS3s in a race would also have to 'talk' to some central server which would supply the race information to those watching in Home.

This looks great!

I suspect streaming video could be a bit load intensive for broadcasting every online “private” race. Streaming the game race data to spectators sounds more achievable in my opinion. So you will probably need a running copy of the game for live shows.

Anyway very happy to hear that those GT racing pods are somehow interactive at this time. This almost certainly means more to come... in the future.

ı cant understand japanese alphabet.How can i create my game..Yes i know same icons like others Homes but i have to remember what it is. create game and invite.

patriotzero

ı cant understand japanese alphabet.How can i create my game..Yes i know same icons like others Homes but i have to remember what it is. create game and invite.

Press Select to bring up the English Alphatbet. Look Patriot listen and read what I have said. I didnt saying you could launch a game. I said that there is interactivity with the Setup Station But it's not available and comes up with the message in the picture./ You cannot launch a game yet stop being so impatient about this please.

Don't worry Marky I am a patient man till the end..Private races on the way.My prediction is that feature is coming early december. I want to Japan home yesterday.It looks coll but shoppıng centre empty..There is a video.I didn't watch it.I will reseaarch J home tonight.

i like the whole concept of home, i'm not in the beta so i wouldn't now exact if it's any good. But could you image our own private gtplanet room with a bunch of those pods in them

If you read the following section from a HOME announcement forum post. You can see that their will be Club/Clubhouses support

Clubs and Clubhouses

Introducing our basic club support system within Home. Some facts on Clubs:
- A user can own 1 club
- But be a member of a total of 5 clubs, which includes any self owned club. So, own 1 club and be a member of 4 others or simply be a member of 5 clubs owned by other people
- Each club has 1 leader (the owner) and up to 4 sub-leaders
- A club can have up to 32 members
- Each club name is unique
- Search through clubs
- Send requests to join a Club and leaders can send invitations
- Clubs created in Closed Beta will be deleted when Open Beta starts

Source : http://community.eu.playstation.com/...hread.id=11323

sorry a little bit off-topic...

Thanks for this info, will check it out.

basically this screen says that the game failed to load.
i think this warning also states that you will need a downloaded version OR Blu-Ray version of GT5P to boot up the game (most probably a Japanese version of GT5P?)

seizure_

basically this screen says that the game failed to load.
i think this warning also states that you will need a downloaded version OR Blu-Ray version of GT5P to boot up the game (most probably a Japanese version of GT5P?)

Ah how do you know by interest?

Well those arnt a problem I have both the Japanese Copy BD of Prologue & The Japanese Store Download of Prologue so we'll need to try figure what it exactly means.... Anyone can read japanese?

Marky264

Ah how do you know by interest?

Well those arnt a problem I have both the Japanese Copy BD of Prologue & The Japanese Store Download of Prologue so we'll need to try figure what it exactly means.... Anyone can read japanese?

i can read abit of kanji and katagana but not hiragana though. pardon my limited understanding towards japanese language but thats what I can figure out.

Where exactly is this TGS 2008 Booth? I've been running around the Japanese beta the last half hour but I can't seem to find it.

Edit: Nevermind, it's only available through Locations > World Map