Gran Turismo 5 Platinum Edition on Amazon France, Coming This Fall

According to a new product listing on Amazon France, Gran Turismo 5 will be joining the PlayStation 3’s “Platinum Range” less than one year after its release, on October 5, 2011.

“Platinum” games are the PAL-territory equivalent of the “Greatest Hits” collection in North America, featuring special packaging and a significantly reduced price. Amazon France lists the Platinum edition of the game at €24.98, a 37% reduction of its current price of €39.54. Notably, all previous major Gran Turismo releases have attained “Platinum” status, including Gran Turismo PSP and GT5 Prologue.

As with any retailer release date, October 5 is most likely only a placeholder (another title, LittleBigPlanet 2, is also listed to go Platinum on that date). The timing, however, would likely not be a coincidence, with the launch of Forza 4 coming October 11th.

Comments (156)

  1. slevin

    PLEASE … PD. MAKE THE GAME BETTER AND GIVE US A PURE RACING GAME
    TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT COLIN MCREA RALLY 2 FROM 2001 THAT GAME STIL ROCKS EVEN AFTER 10 YEARS IT HAS AL THE THINGS A GOOD GAME NEEDS.

  2. Jagger

    Please please please, we need new content, I’m super board with this game now, I used to rush home from work to play it, but now it’s just the same old thing, it was by far my favourite game, but I think I’ve over played it, shame, plus go and do one you stupid x-co•ks, go and play your cheap ass x-box, too many stupid kids on that losers console

  3. potthed

    Butters, man, you are hopeless….

    Im sorry guys, I wanted GT5 to be the end all be all racing game. Hell, after waiting 5+ years I thought it was gonna be EPIC. But between the unfinished game, Crap looking cars from 8 years ago, and updates that gave me hardly anything that made the game better (IMO), boring single player, online mode with a gazilion nascar rooms, gazilion “cruise trade hangout” rooms, and stupid people online. I cant play it anymore, I played alot for about 3 months and that was all i could take.
    Now forza aint no better with the online aspect, horrid AWD swaps, no custom open lobbies, and a few other things. But forza is more fun for the most part.

    Heres hopin GT6 will be worth a damn.

  4. Commenter comments

    If I buy the platinum version can I finally get my platinum trophy?

    Anyways this game deserves to go platinum.

    Aside from my game experience being ruined by some killer bugs. Ie: Corrupted dlc Camaro, Post 1.06 save file glitch and Zombie Cars at the finish line, I’ve easily gotten my moneys worth in entertainment out of GT5

  5. Reaperman

    Well, at least it’s cheaper now. Though I’m not sure many were ‘waiting on the fence’ because of price on this one. The new packaging does is signal a loss of trade-in value on used copies.

  6. slevin

    it is not a attitude problem that i got i got mad for they ript us off, by giving us a incomplete game in the first place. and now the try to make us feel good by given us helmets and suits.
    the game is full of old cars out gt4.

    1. slevin

      @ butters

      Also, I’m sure you might not know this, but Sony forced PD to release it this incomplete.

      i did already no this since the day the game came out, but was is the reason for the game to be not finished, it’s full of bull grap that the game doesn’t need, foto modus WHAT THE HECK.
      b-spec- nonsens… a 1000 cars COME on 250 premium cars would be beter.
      lets take a good look at Collin McCrea RALLY from 2001 .. that game had al what a good racing game needs. good cars – good tracks. in car view and a realy good back of the car camera the problem with GT5 IS THAT THEY TRY to put to much things in the game and now it is a joke….

  7. slevin

    there is something else that I find strange in the game, why do I get 500.000 credits when I drive a Ferrari in a seasonal over the le mans track in one lap . but if I drive for 4 hours I only get 160.000 credits this so weird and silly why shut I wane drive for 4 hours if I only get 160.00 credits it is silly and stupid please give us a better reward system for endurance racing

    1. GamerGT5

      Seasonal events are more like optional events online only. yea I agree with you about it. But I think of it like completion when it comes to endurance events.

    2. Butters

      It’s silly, but that 500K race is due to the triple credits for Seasonals. PD listens to its fanboys. I haven’t even started Endurance. I’m a fanboy. Do I have to damn PD for not letting me complete their game? Not directed at you, but more toward the people with Fanboy issues. This is G(ran)T(urismo)Planet for crying out loud.

    3. Butters

      “and I don’t need a dlc why shut I pay for more cars in the game, I pay for the game and now I see the game is sent finish yet so why shut I pay for dlc just fix the bloody game for god say.
      and why they give us helmets and suits for the driver, please fix the bloody game give us cockpit view for the cars I like to drive my cars in cockpit view.”

      Turn 10 makes you pay for cars that they could have added in the original copies of their games. Polyphony Digital has been giving us free updates to a game they’ve declared incomplete. They love their fans. It’s a great relationship between us.

      I love cockpit view. Not everybody does. So fix your bloody attitude.

    4. slevin

      @BUTTERS

      Polyphony Digital has been giving us free updates to a game they’ve declared incomplete.

      WELL THATS SAYS IT ALL A INCOMPLETE CAME

    5. Butters

      Yes, incomplete. That does say it all.

      Kaz had the balls to tell us that, and he is generous enough to give US updates. Turn 10 makes you pay.

    6. Lol

      Turn ten never made me pay for an update. How odd. DLC, sure, update no. Of course, PD is too busy supposedly working on “finnishing the game” to be giving us DLC, so your comparision means nothing, but why let a little thing like that stop you…..

    7. Hehe

      Dunno, but DLC is read “DownLoadable Content”, not “Update”. I don’t remember any company ever charging me for updates. GT’s updates are not the same thing has DLC. When PD starts releasing track and car packs on the PS store, and IF they’re free, then the “Turn 10 charges for it” argument can be made.

  8. Lambob

    Meh, I’m satisfied with GT5 for the experience simply on the Nurburgring, I think the game is worth the money just for that 1 track and cars that it has. That’s just my opinion, and have moved on, having played the game feeling a sense of accomplishment after the 60 golds. no great loss if GT5 closes its doors at this point, I no longer look forward to Logitech wheel support, DLC, or even new patches for that matter. I will embrace Forza 4 even if it does deem way different from GT5. It’s time to say thanks PD, hope to see you around with PS4 in a few years.

  9. potthed

    AND, with all the money I spent on a PS3, GT5, Wheel, Xbox, wheel, forza 123, yea, I coulda def got on some I racing. I plan on it if forza 4 aint good. Im sick of waisting money on games. I guess I ask for too much from developers nowadays.

    1. Butters

      Would you like to learn how to manage a team of stressed out programmers? Would you like to learn how to create a driving sim?

    2. Parkaaay!

      Butters, would you like to learn how to contribute to the discussion without spaming up the page with endless idiotic spam and trolling?

      Didn’t think so.

  10. potthed

    @tank, who said anything about Shift? Forza is supposedly gonna have custom public lobbies agian. That makes a huge difference. Like i said both games have great potential.

    GT’s problem? releasing an Unfinished game that keeps getting RETARDED updates and not giving people what they really want.

    Forzas problem? They try to be everything to everybody. Painters, racers, picture takers, drag racers, drifters. But, they half ass everything IMO. they take away “this” to give us “that”.

    1. Hal 9000

      Non fanboys are not allowed to have opinions today for some reason. I think there was a memo…..lol ;)

    2. Butters

      Well he thinks the updates have been retarted. He’s an arse/ass. And he thinks he speaks for all of us. And Hal, you think you’ve GOT US NOW!!!!

    3. GamerGT5

      @potthed

      I have to agree with your comments very awesome! But I have to disagree about your concern with updates. I think the A.I. is an awesome update which is very important to racing. I’ts improved much better than the other GT series. Not saying it’s 100% perfect but it’s up there where it should be at. And costumes was what people wanted. People were more satisfied with this update more than anything else so far. Just saying.

  11. slevin

    I don’t want to say the game is bad but it isn’t as good as it sudden by.
    there are to many cars in the game to many standard cars that is.
    I would like a better game with less cars and more detail, no museum no silly carwash,
    and I don’t need a dlc why shut I pay for more cars in the game, I pay for the game and now I see the game is sent finish yet so why shut I pay for dlc just fix the bloody game for god say.
    and why they give us helmets and suits for the driver, please fix the bloody game give us cockpit view for the cars I like to drive my cars in cockpit view. please give us a cockpit view for most of the cars a least for cars that cost more than 500.000. and if you wanna give us silly helmets and suits make a shop for it so that whey can buy this for game credits. so that we can decide what we want for silly stuff. an d no DLC please I don’t wanna pay for something that shut be in the game already.

  12. Keyop

    So….. DLC a couple of weeks prior to release of the Platinum version? Secure a few more full price sales along with DLC, then a plat version with more punters wanting the DLC… speculation yes, but a sound plan all nicely just before the Forza 4 release to secure web coverage.

    1. Butters

      Definitely makes sense. Also, the fact that they pushed back the date in ending Prologue’s online. I really wish for them to do that, so I don’t care about the wait. I’m usually unbelievably impatient.

  13. kingslayer1000

    forza 4 will not be better than gt5 its a known fact. and they will release dlc when they want dont cry about it

    1. Huga

      It will not be better because it will not be a simulator.

      Maybe it will be a better game but not a simulator, FM3 was a pure arcade fun game. and every reviewer who said Forza is a simulator needs to eats his words, stop playing racing game with a pad and quite their stupid jobs.

    2. Save the Fanboys

      Only a handfull of GT5 fanboys left. Send your donation now. One simple forza post can feed a fanboy for a day. Hurry before they’re all gone. Don’t let this amazingly amusing, yet somehow pathetic creature die out…….

    3. Butters

      6 million fanboys left. I’m one of them. I’m pathetic. I’m a creature. I’m beautiful. I’m daring. I’m here.

      8^)

    4. ehhhh...

      ….forza fanboys don’t count. You’re counting waaaaaaayyy high. Only 1 million GT fanboys left, and they’re all rabid, not worth saving…..

    5. Butters

      I get what you’re trying to do kingslayer1000. Forza can’t even breathe in the same air as Gran Turismo.

      :tup:

  14. News flash

    Wait, everybody is asking for DLC, so if you have a bucket of dark stools, you pretend to make them more interesting by adding some light colored stools to it? You guys rather beg for a huge fix (which won’t happen, because you all have already been ripped off), and then get excited about DLC.

  15. potthed

    Both games suck. GT5 was one of the most dissapointing games of all time IMHO. forza 4 is just gonna be AWD motorsport 4…. YAAAA lets race with a bunch of AWD vipers and ford gts and crap….. what a freakin joke. Both games have so much potential. I dont get what is stoping them from actually making a good game.

    1. Tankuroded

      So you will go with Shift 2 instead? Or pay a ridiclous (sp?) amount on iRacing? *rolls eyes again*

    2. HKS racer

      I very well known all the weakness of GT5 but not having an x360 I wonder what’s their problem. So you talk about AWD conversion? Yeah that should SUCKS expecially online. There’s no point to race an AWD Viper. In real life Vipers Racecars are RWD so it’s not realistic and too arcadey, which means “how to ruin the game” if you ask me.

  16. dan

    gt5 felt incomplete but if you look at what they did complete its over 90% more than what most games give you and them some lol

    1. Goshin2568

      EXACTLY!
      Thats what so many people don’t get!
      Apparently the gt series has set the bar so high that anything less that absoulutely perfect is considered an epic fail. Its ridiculous!

    2. Lol

      Yah, coolname doesn’t play GT5, he’s way too busy trying to think of whitty fanboy comebacks…………and failing at it. XD

    3. slowfast

      @XD a game with dirt, snow, wet and night driving with real time day changes and weather, infinite track generator, pc wheels support, uncompresed photomode, awesome realistic graphics and physics, private online rooms, etc. LOL LOL

      Forza 4 is aimed for the casual player, autovista is the new rewind. Forza 3 sales with no competence were poor so will be no different now with Forza 4, anyway worse because GT5 lol

    4. Ok

      Yet still not enough to keep people from posting about their dissapointment with GT5, and their anticipation for FM4. Fanboy fail.

    5. slowfast

      @Ok self-convincing at its best lol

      people posting about their disapointment with GT5 were 90% Forza fanboys LOL guess you’re one of them

    6. Source?

      Lol, i’ve been arround here for the better part of a decade, and it’s deffinitly NOT a 90% forza fanboy group doing the complaining. Some of the strongest has been from the longtime GT fans, and even former GT fanboys. But whatever you want to tell yourself, go for it.

    7. Hal 9000

      “@Ok self-convincing at its best lol
      people posting about their disapointment with GT5 were 90% Forza fanboys LOL guess you’re one of them”

      Now THAT’s self-convincing at it finest. Facepalm.

    8. slowfast

      the source is the word Forza as a mantra in the mouth of all those complainers, like you did here LOL

    9. Chris

      In other words he just made it up for lack of any real facts. Ironic that he’s the one just chanting the word over and over as part of some fail fanboy argument.

    10. Kyle

      @Chris

      Are you just referring to slowfast? It’s just pointless in your argument by being one sided instead of both.

      There’s no proof from these arguments wether someone been here for over a decade nor 90% of people are Forza fanboys. I’m not saying neither one is true or not.

    11. Devin

      @Kyle

      I think the point was that that simply making up obviously crap statistics, just because a person needs something to believe in, doesn’t win arguments, and that complaining that people keep repeatedly bringing up forza, while repeatedly bringing up forza has part of a counter argument, well nuff said…..

    12. BallJoint

      Your asking people to grasp an irony that’s way over some peoples heads. I’m waiting for the angry responses trying to justify why it’s ok when one guy does it when it supports a belief, but awful when everybody else does it to counter same…:P

  17. Murcie

    It’s not really going to detract much from Forza 4’s sales. They’re two quite different games on rival consoles. GT5 has the fanbase, the sim-like physics and the current sales but Forza 4 is probably going to be the better quality game, and it’s pretty much hitting the Need for Speed style of “something for everyone” gameplay judging by Forza 3.

    Going to be buying FM4 and playing both anyway.

    1. Extreme

      @Devin

      Of course people going to use Forza as an counter argument. Seeing some of these comments are all about their personal problems with GT5 and bought Forza. “Forza better or GT5 is better” is just spreading and getting worse. What do you think what’s going to happen? A rant about which ones better than the other nuff said

  18. millgate1

    Haven’t play GT5 for months now..it just feels unfinished..hope GT6 will be superior to GT5 as they have a lot of things over with (eg. graphics engine)

  19. Brent

    I-Racing is the ultimate simulator. I win. Haha. Ive played forza and i see where the customize ability is cool and comes into play, but people are going to play gt5 to get more of a driver-player interaction.

  20. Thrasher

    For me… Seeing that gt5 is some kind of “foundation” of whats to come next… I dont see gt being perfect until about atleast the 8th release of the series… And this is coming from one who runs by a “least amount of silvers possible” knd of guy… And also lack of Lack of arcade? Kaz was hoping that the online feature would please us all itself but apperently we need more… And kaz did say himself he wanted atleast another 2 years… So for yeh forza fans… Yes we understand that 750+ standards is bs… But until turn10 actually starts from scratch like what PD did… You shouldnt really be biting more than you can chew… ALL the competitions between forza 3 and gt5 have been pretty one sided… Ai, photomode, vehicle tributes, lap records, Forza will never profit as much as the gt series did… Mind you, The only continent in the world the xbox has outsold the ps3 is in North America….

    1. GamerGT5

      Thank you couldn’t agree with you more! Like I said earlier GT5 covered one of the most important aspects of racing with their brand new engine :)

    2. GamerGT5

      @639 The “Barbie” feature got added because the fans asked for it. And I was one of them. I rather have Lego block shadows than to have unfinished cheesy FM3 cars.

    3. YAAAAAY!

      1000 cars that don’t come close to ANY current gen racer, and “barbie” suits that fanboys keep insisting the fans where asking for, but it was really only three people, and they where stoned. Yeppers, perfection. Kaz can move on to the next game now.

    4. CaliGamer

      ^^ Yep It’s better to have 200 cars with beautiful details that’s called perfection like you said, than to have unfinished FM3 car models which isn’t perfection. I agree!

    5. Kaz

      I guess all the screaming about my unfinished game, the lack of premiums people actually want, the constant complaints about the surplus of premiums they didn’t want, the cries for DLC, the facepalms, the outrage, the desperate defense by the fanboys, it all means i’ve reached perfection. Great, I was worried there for a second.

    6. DanG

      Wow very funny most Forza fanboys screaming for day/night cycles, weather, rallys etc something GT5 has. I guess this shows an unfinished FM3 game which is not perfection and the game had to be updated for stick shift animations because there’s complaints. And somebody acts like nobody never complained about FM3 before. Even when FM3 was first released there were fans that were disappointed because of the lack of crappy car models. I guess this shows the lack of sales. Many rented it and didn’t buy it. It’s really funny how fanboys wants to accept their opinions as facts. I’m glad I’m not worried.

    7. Hal 9000

      @DanG
      That would have made some kind of sense if it wasn’t for the fact that the only people here bringing up Forza are a handfull of GT5 fanboys (minus the op, who just seems like just a fan), who seem to be having some kind of fit over GT supposedly being perfect, and the rest of the fanbase not blindly agreeing. Forza fanboys have nothing to do with GT fanboys falling back on playing the now stale “forza card” defense strategy.

    8. DanG

      @Hal 9000

      What exactly makes you think that FM3 has perfection? And you actually think there’s no Forza fanboys here? Did you actually know there’s other people on this board that played Forza and don’t like it? Not everybody says the game has perfection. Is that a problem? Even on other Forza forums out there, people complains about T10 because it lacks important elements. Everybody has different opinions and wants for both of the titles. There’s other elements that Forza is lacking of and so is GT5. Not everybody is satisfied with Forza like you say it is. I was disappointed with Forza 3. I’ve played both. But do you think there’s a problem if other people including me still play GT5 or enjoy it more? Dude it’s all about opinions over both of these titles. It’s obvious there’s forza fanboys here also but you’re being one sided defending them acting like they don’t exist here. You didn’t even bring up negative points that Forza has.

    9. Chris

      “What exactly makes you think that FM3 has perfection?”
      “Not everybody is satisfied with Forza like you say it is.”

      He didn’t even remotely say either of those things. Trying to keep the argument going by making stuff like that up solidly demonstrates what he WAS saying though. O_o

    10. Kyle

      @ Chris
      ” Trying to keep the argument going by making stuff like that up solidly demonstrates what he WAS saying though. O_o”

      You must be really blind to think there’s only GT fanboys. Learn how to make better points to your arguments bud instead of pointless ones -_-

    11. DanG

      @ Chris

      That’s the point i’m trying to make. What makes people here aren’t defending Forza only GT5? Doesn’t make any sense.

    12. Kia

      What? Where, from Thrasher’s OP, to here, are all these forzaboys you keep talking about? Please point them out, because all I see are GT5 defense force people bringing up forza every time anyone dares say anything other than how perfect/great/awesome GT5 is, pretty much like Hal said. Unless you two are talking about the comments page has a whole, which Hal wasn’t, I can’t understand why you find his post so confusing. I, like Chris, also don’t see Hal saying most of what you’ve accused him of saying, but I do see DanG promptly going on about unrelated forza stuff because he clearly didn’t like/understand what Hal said. That’s the kind of thing Hal was talking about in the first place, and just has chris pointed out, which seems only to have further confused you guys. What exactly is so confusing? Seemed crystal clear to me.

    13. Extreme

      @Kia

      *Sigh* everybody here really like to point fingers including you. DanG is clearly bringing up the whole board. Not just the op’s which you know. I think he’s correct and clearly makes sense. I think it’s clear that both sides are arguing over differences because of other posts because everyone is bringing up Forza everywhere. And you Kia why don’t you start pointing at fingers at everyone and tell me whether it’s a GT fanboy or a Forza fanboy. All I see in these comments are mostly Forza and GTs fanboys arguing which one is better that the other. These comments are going to get worse and worse :(

    14. Devin

      All righty, for anyone who got lost in recent posts, a recap….
      Most importantly, everybody is alowed to jump on Hal because DanG hijacked someone elses post to make a general complaint about the whole board. A complaint that could easily be mistaken has a complaint ONLY about thrasher’s post, and the following discussion of said post.
      Anybody agreeing with hal is finger pointing. Almost anybody agreeing with the OP, hal, the Feedback section, or otherwise criticising is an obvious Forza fanboy. Fingure pointing is ok if your using it to attack others by calling them finger pointers

    15. Devin

      Recap continued after technical difficulties..

      Butters wants DanG for mayor. Everybody that didn’t understand hal is right. Everybody that didn’t understand DanG is wrong. Blind devotion to a game makes you omnipotent. Liking anything else makes you a fanboy (of anything else).

      In short, every one of us is better than everyone else, we’re all wrong, unless we’re right, and every opinion is a fact if you wish hard enough. No wonder this post went nooooowhere……..

    16. Lololol

      Don’t forget the part where unknowingly having two different argumnents now automatically makes the people arguing about “a” right, and the people arguing about “b” wrong, but unfortunately leaves absolutely no way to tell who is “a”, and who is “b”……ROFL

    17. Extreme

      I suggest we just end all of the spaghetti comments on Thrasher’s op already. Everybody has opinions no one is right nor wrong. To make it better why don’t we just end this already like Devin said it’s getting nowhere it’s just going to get worse. Let’s just all be happy already :)

  21. Pepps

    GT5 is a great game:
    Nothing handles like a GT car.
    No other racing game delivers realism, fun and a genuine sense of excitement as GT5.
    i think there are a few too many fixated on what’s next – just relax and enjoy the driving. Oh and do a track day now and again to test the realism. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

    1. Chad

      Looks like you never played a real driving game, GT5 is arcade compared to the real thing called: GTR2, rFactor, IRacing, just to name a few… Try them after your track day, you’ll be pleasantly disappointed of GT5.

    2. Biach

      Chad, sorry mate, rfactor and gtr2 both suck compared to gt5. The physics dont come anywhere near gt5. I have all three games and i play them all on my g27. Gt5 is far superior in physics. I havnt played iracing so cant coment.

    3. Biach

      In fact the closest sim (ive played) on a pc would be live for speed. Thats an excellent sim. But still not quite gt5.
      I read a review about gt5 and they said it was a 10/10 sim wrapped in a 5/10 game. That pretty much sums it up as a whole.

    4. Goshin2568

      @Biach
      Your clueless.
      Gtr2 and rfactor are MILES ahead of gt5 physics. Not even a comparison. LFS is higher than the 3 of them, and iracing beats them all.

    5. Chad

      @Goshin2568

      Exactly, but the guy (Blach) was funny you know… His clueless status must have been on purpose for humor sakes, I hope so…

    6. CoolName

      Hi! I’m a six year old homophobe with daddy issues. I have a seceret crush on Chad, but I can’t figure out how to get the closet door open. Please forgive me for acting out on my frustrations. I have no self control.

    7. slowfast

      come on guys GTR2 driving model is nothing to write about, feels old and outdated after playing GT5, rFactor is no better lol

      anyway iracing and lfs feels much like GT5

  22. Whatbrown

    Meh, I haven’t played GT5 in many months. It will take some new content for me to pop it back in the PS3. The updated seasonal events are not enough to keep my interest.

    1. GTi_16v

      The last few seasonal events have been great, Lotus Elise or Evora on the Nurburgring with the DFGT is immense I do that 4/5 times a day I love it that much! I do believe though that with the amount of dissappointed GT fans and bad things being said about GT5, FM4 will get A LOT of hype and will also sell millions. Doesn’t matter what you say GT definatly has competition now.

  23. CAL

    They sold 8 million copies so everyone who wants it has it. Nobody will get both versions. Why is it such a big deal FM4 will also sell millions of copies??? Its inevitable.

  24. Stipe

    …as expected. But still disappointed with GT5 (even it not bad at all for ‘typical’ racing/driving game but definitely bad for GT standards). So I’m one of those who seriously considering to buy X360 and FM4 in near future (ofcourse, if FM deliver like I look so far). But I’m still ‘die hard’ GT fan so I don’t loose complete faith in GT series. Now it is turn and big burden to bear on GT6 and bring ‘old glory days’ in series. I belive GT5 wont have any significant update (just minor staff and bugs fixes like all we get used to) in its existance, but I would be happy to be wrong…

  25. Mee Naughty

    Yes they sold 8 million copies….which was due to the hype and the exxxxxxxxxxtended wait…….I wonder how many of those 8 million copies have now been sold/traded in? I know of 3 places near mee that, upon asking, have over 60-100 copies each traded in. Most apparently due to being so let down by the game as a whole. I’ve been a diehard GT head since release and for mee realisticly…..prefer the older ones to this. I don’t care how it looks, I want to enjoy playing it and with this it just makes mee annoyed after an hour. Even better……I got the Signature edition. Good thing that I got something handy out of it……. a bloody wallet. Never again.
    Good luck with the DLC too….. maybe they’ll release GT5.5 with 700 standards and 300 premiums ^_^

    1. Huga

      You talk like you know every 8 million person that bought GT.

      I bought GT5 the standard edition then i traded it and bought the Signature edition, dose that mean i was disappointed? im sure many people did this…

      So stop exaggerating you oaf…

      and answer this why did FM3 went from $60 to $35 after 2 month of release? because no one bought it, many people rented it, like i did. Thats why it sold 3 mill in 2 years with half price.

  26. X-Power

    Reducing the price and including all the updates in this version won’t do anything to counteract FM4. Most people by now will have heard about GT5’s many shortcomings and will be purchasing the almost certainly superior FM4. This is coming from a long time GT fan… who now prefers the Forza series.

    1. Huga

      Superior? haha this a good one…. maybe superior in painting simulation.

      With over 8 million GT5 sold, they don’t need to counter anything, they only want to counter them selves.

      8-9 million people already bought GT5 in just 8 month, while FM3 is stock in 3 mill in 2 years…..

    2. slevin

      yes and now they give us helmets and suits for the driver, it is more and more a sims game.
      but no cockpit view al the cars our even more tracks and cars no whey get things like silly helmets an suits. please improve the game. whey don’t need museums our a car wash’s in the game. ( it doesn’t even work good for you don’t need to wash you’re car it gleans it self)

    3. I Luv Fanboys

      And then 7.5 million showed up here to complain about what they got, leaving .5 million fanboys in a bewildered state of denial…..

    4. Biach

      Huga, id suggest you actually play f3 because it is clear you havent. It is much more than painting cars.
      F3 is a much superior game comparibly. I still think the raw physics are better in gt5, but almost everything else is better in f3. For me personally its the engine sounds. Soooooo good in f3 and such a let down in gt5. Ive been a fan of the gt series since the first one and loved gt5 with my g27 when i bought it. Then i borrowed my brothers xbox with f2 and was blown away. He then bought f3 and now i cant stop playing it!! Now prefer f3 on a controller and am getting the fanatec gt2 soon which will only make me prefer f3 more.
      Just look at the reviews; insidesimracing got soooo excited trying to get through the review of f3, they kept deviating from the script and just raving about it. The same cant be said for gt5 and the scores correlate that.
      Gt6 better be amazing otherwise ill stick with forza.

    5. GamerGT5

      @ Biach

      If FM3 is such a superior game why is that they didn’t add a new lighting engine? What about the new tire simulation? Why wait until FM4? T10 has over 300 developers with 2 other companies to model cars for FM3. T10 uses the same engine. PD created a brand new engine. It takes all of this to get where T10 is at. While PD has a little over 100. I’m not saying PD shouldn’t hire more people. But that’s the problem with PD. But I think PD is good at what they’re doing. GT5 may be unfinished and GT5 only released because Sony demanded it. But PD defines as the best skilled when it comes down to the important elements of racing: Day/Night cycle, weather, pit crews, high beams/ low beams. I know it’s just for some of the levels but this is important when it comes down to racing. Something FM3 didn’t have. About the engine sounds, FM3 has some cars that doesn’t sound close to real life they just sound exaggerated. Both games are fruit but different taste like apples and oranges.By the way FM2 sucks. FM3 is just a disappointment with with their quicksand cement glitches. And those are my opinions ;)

    6. dan

      so forza is a better game? look at the gt5 reviews over 6 tens and over 12 9’s forza got 2 tens and a 7 a hand full of of 9’s gt5 got a decent amount of 8’s and around 3 7’s if you were to rate a game correctly instead of using metacritics system gt5 has better ratings =P
      any ways forza is a better game…
      gt5 still kind of sims .. i wanted a sim if i wan tracing games ima go play some NFS

    7. Huga

      @Biach, I played F3… what about Driving physics? what about FM3 having permanent driving aid? (that takes away the fun) no under steering and no over steering of each car, most cars in FM feel same, Forza is not a simulator period its an arcade fun packed game. GT5 + Wheel = the best simulators on consoles, story mode and menu system are rubbish in GT5, but at least driving physics & force feed back physics are one of the best and im a PC sim fan.

  27. GT_Prologue5

    So does that mean there’ll be a “Greatest Hits” in the U.S. or is this just for Europe?

    1. Huga

      “Greatest Hits” is something normal, any PS3 game that makes profit it gets “Greatest Hits”

      Kaz has nothing to do with this, know what your talking about before you post.

    2. I Luv Fanboys

      Yah, jeez, Kaz only made the game. Get it straight, he had nothing to do with this. It would have gone platinum without him. People would have bought 8 million empty boxes anyway, just for the fun of owning a plastic box of air. Facepalm…..

  28. Sandboxgod

    Darn was hoping they would upgrade a bunch of Standards to Premium in this Platnuim edition or add some new cars. Something… I guess they want for multiplatform owners to buy GT5 instead of FM4 so all it will include is some patches

  29. slevin

    So this pd`s way of saying gt5 is not the best racing game on the market anymore.
    and that they a afraid of forza 4. and now they approve to lower the price of the game.

    1. Huga

      No they are not afraid of FM4, how can they be afraid when PD have over 8 million of GT5 sold world wide.

      This is a Normal platinum like any other platinum this has nothing to do with “the real paint simulator” (FM4)

      They don’t even care about the so called “competition”, everyone are copying from them.

    2. Rofl

      “copied”, lol, yup. That’s why Forza 3 has half the stuff that people said they had wanted in GT5, but didn’t make it into the game, and now their adding the other half in Forza 4. Cause when you do it first, your “copying” the other guy. Suuuuuuure. O_0

    3. infamousDee

      Got to love how GT5 is constantly ridiculed for having “hardly any features” in defence of FM3, when the unfortunate truth is that GT5 touts absolutely heaps of features that many choose to conveniently ignore, including and not limited to the following: dynamic day and night cycles, dynamic weather, course generator, photo travel, real-time damage modelling. The only worthwhile features in FM3 that aren’t included in GT5 are car painting and engine swaps. FM4 is looking great, but 3 is the one to forget in the series.

  30. RACECAR

    GT5 hitting platinum? I wouldn’ve have even thought it at all possible given the amount of criticism and complaints its gotten from everyone, but surprisingly it has.

    1. Goshin2568

      Ummm…
      I hope that is sarcasm…
      You realize gt5 is the best selling ps3 game of all time, right?

  31. Alex

    The game would have to have DLC in order for that to happen.

    Though, I don’t understand how that would have much effect on Forza’s sales. They’re on two different platforms.

    1. Butters

      A lot of people who have purchased GT5 are moving along to FM4. The platinum version of GT5 WILL have the updates on it, so it’s a plus for people without internet access. And the price is CHEAAAAP. That’s why it can be good to counteracts Forza’s publicity.

    2. HKS racer

      BUT lot of people already have GT5. Being a game waited for 5 long years there were tons of preorders, so they wont sell platinum that easily. Lot of us already have it and who don’t, can always find it for CHEAP on auction sites. It’s much easier a good part of GT5 crowd will jump back to FM series instead of buy a product they already have. My point is, if Sony really want to deal with T10/M$ this fall, they better force PD to create a good DLC. Or they’re gonna loose some profit. Plain simple.

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