Gran Turismo 5 Goes Interstellar!
Following on from the Tweet detailing GT Academy‘s online participation, Kazunori Yamauchi has also Tweeted figures about GT5′s cumulative online racing to date – a truly staggering 36.4 billion miles in the 577 days since launch!
Numbers of this magnitude are difficult to comprehend without context, so here’s some equivalents:
- GT5 players have driven the distance from the Earth to the Sun. And back. 200 times.
- Or the distance from the Sun to Neptune. And back. Thirteen times.
- In under 2 years GT5 players have driven three times further than Voyager 1 has managed in 35 years.
- We’d still take 1,367 years to drive GT5 to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri…
The average increase in distance is 63 million miles a day, with GT5′s online players covering the same distance in 2 days as the entire GT Academy 2012 competition has so far! This corresponds to 2.6 million mph or around 730 miles per second, enough to:
- Equal the record distance in the Nürburgring 24hr in 3.4 seconds
- Drive from San Francisco to New York in 3.5 seconds
- Drive from New York to London in 4.7 seconds
- Drive from London to Sydney in 14.4 seconds
- Drive around the Earth in the time it took you to read this article
- Drive to the Moon in 5 minutes 27 seconds
Even though the average online race in Gran Turismo 5 is only just over 12 miles in length, the community as a whole is certainly getting their money’s worth from the game with each player driving nearly 5,000 online miles.
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June 26th, 2012 at 1:45 pm - #Quakebass
The average online race is about 19.5 KM or 12.117 miles…
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June 25th, 2012 at 10:10 pm - #Quakebass
Today was the PERECT day to get a YLOD! I just got Gold on TRM to get the GT Academy prize, saved and quit, started up Burnout Dominator, played for 5 minutes, and voila! Black screen, three beeps, and the system shuts off. I tried turning it back on, light went green, beeped three times, turned yellow, then stared blinking red. Oh boy.
Luckily, I know how to fix this on my own, and not paying Sony $150. I’ll be back to GT5 in likely less than a week!
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June 26th, 2012 at 6:02 am - #pay2021
How you fix it?? i have a Fatty 80 gb model colecting dust!!!
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June 26th, 2012 at 1:27 pm - #Quakebass
Well, according to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ic1_TY-GU
The most likely problem is a disconnected CPU or GPU, and just requires a simple re-solder. All you need is some specific screw drivers and a soldering iron/heat gun (and a little prior knowledge in electronics) and your set to repair! Watch that video – it should work. I don’t currently have the driver heads required to open the system.
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July 1st, 2012 at 11:51 am - #77
from experience you can pretty easily get away with using a v.small flat head jewellers type screwdriver to undo the three security screws at the front (on a ps slim but i think they all use same screws), its not too pretty but it works fine to take em in and out, kinda wedge it between the middle pin and two of the notches round the edge.
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June 25th, 2012 at 8:58 pm - #Slurpee
And to think, I’ve driven 300,000 of those miles!
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June 25th, 2012 at 5:33 pm - #sre101
The sun is our nearest star.
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June 27th, 2012 at 6:17 pm - #PR1VATEJ0KER
And not when ‘our’ refers to the Milky Way
We are in a single galaxy “The milky way”. The nearest Galaxies could be the Magellanic Clouds. But I can’ figure out exactly where the edge of our galaxy is and where the next begins. Then spotting the nearest star will take a while. I have only shrewdly made telescope I stole from the National Art and History musuem when I was a mere child. I ‘ll get back to you.
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June 25th, 2012 at 2:49 pm - #JosVerstappen
now thats an instellar overdrive!
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:02 pm - #GRAFX21
Now if “we” as human knew the inner knowledge that we all have to be able to teleport….
That is exactly how fast we would/could travel…Must be a nice feeling to be Goku.
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June 25th, 2012 at 11:53 am - #MyFavoriteGame
GT Academy blah blah – 40 comments
Jordan Tresson blah blah blah – 30 comments
GT5 asia blah – 29 comments
Top 10 finish blah blah – 70 comments
Seasonal events blah blah – 40 commentsDLC possible rumors, maybe coming soon. nothing confirmed , don’t hold your breath – 700 comments
lol.
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:03 pm - #HarVee
People care more about DLC than GT Academy. I can’t blame them for that though, GT Academy doesn’t expand the Gran Turismo 5 experience, whereas DLC and seasonal events do.
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:34 pm - #RobDoggy05
And watch, when/if the DLC gets launched, it wont even be what us gamers wanted because PD dont listen to what the public want, just more Japanese content.. sad
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June 25th, 2012 at 2:13 pm - #R1600Turbo
Blah Blah DLC Blah Blah….
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June 26th, 2012 at 8:51 am - #Witless76
This is officially the funniest post ever on GTP. Well done!
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June 25th, 2012 at 11:17 am - #ZedMan1996
That’s pretty cool! I got 30,000Miles+ on my profile excluding GT Academy 2012! My best score on the last event only using a wheel was 107th. I know it sounds like I’m boasting.
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June 25th, 2012 at 9:41 am - #PhillGuy
I just did this to get the free cars. Who cares about the rest.
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June 25th, 2012 at 5:31 am - #ed24
Sydney to London in 14 seconds would be useful sometimes!
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June 25th, 2012 at 4:54 am - #sibbystiggy
We’ve been going around in circles again & again that many times, never got anywhere new (just 70 circuits), its like cycling at the GYM… we are basically controlling currents in 70 electric circuits lol
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June 25th, 2012 at 4:25 am - #carfanatic45
Well i have a felling that not even ET himself can find DLC. To bad driving alot in GT5 doesnt allow you to go to diffrent dimensions.
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June 25th, 2012 at 4:09 am - #Raggadish
Again only with the milles. How about using km too, or doesn’t GT planet bother with catering to the whole world?
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June 26th, 2012 at 1:41 pm - #Raggadish
Famine: Last paragraph is half of the written post. :/ But perhaps I shouldn’t complain, I’m not contributing to the site doing so.
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June 25th, 2012 at 3:14 am - #gt4viper
One Indy back strait at a time!
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:45 am - #Pit Crew
Oops Typo. Meant to say close that gap to Proxima Centauri in 2 yrs
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:42 am - #Pit Crew
I know this is fun thread, but if any of this information helps PD develop a more stable and user friendly online environment (oil changes online public/private lobby) for GT6 we may actually close thatto Proxima Centauri gap in 2yrs (Opinion) as there will be less unwanted disconnects from ORL, (Online Race Lobby) leading to more players finishing a 2.4 HR Lesarthe League Event they were winning when…. Ohsorry that 1 still hurts.
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:01 am - #Skyline_77
Really makes you wonder..
Proxima Centauri is the closest star to us, and it’s 4 light years away. Seriously, what’s out there?
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:17 am - #BWX
And to think it all ”poofed” into existence from nothing. I also have a bridge to sell you.
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June 25th, 2012 at 6:04 am - #Tvensky
Its very interesting and breathtaking! Proxima Centauri seems to be very far far far far away………
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June 25th, 2012 at 10:14 am - #Jet Pilot
Only 24,690,226,570,000 miles from Earth.
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:47 am - #dethringr
i’d be more impress if the next DLC has brand new america cars
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June 25th, 2012 at 1:08 am - #dethringr
*american
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June 25th, 2012 at 12:37 am - #MockngBrd
How about Daytona USA drivers?
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That’s a photo travel I want to see…