PS3 Firmware the Real Cause of Gran Turismo 5′s Delay?
More information is slowly filtering out about GT5‘s delay, and it fits in neatly with everything else we’ve learned about the game’s production in the past 24 hours. Here’s what was recently posted by Maximus – a respected moderator at the Blu-Ray.com forums with reported connections to Sony:
Like I said it is manufacturing issues. I had it confirmed today.
The problem arose when SCE mandated SDK 350 on all games releasing after after October, GT5 was about to go gold running on SDK 341, but it has been delayed by around a week so that they can update to SDK 350. This has caused a big headache for the manufacturing side, given how big this game is missing the gold date by even a week can cause a months worth of delay as slots are already taken up at this time of year for Blu-ray movies and such. So Sony had to find a 3 week slot big enough to make 7m+ copies of this and get them shipped out.
If you want to blame anyone, I would direct it at the pirates and hackers, SCE never had any real SDK restrictions before firmware 3.41 was compromised.
After getting attention from news outlets such as Eurogamer and TheSixthAxis, evidence of the post has since been removed, but it offers a very reasonable explanation about why Polyphony Digital missed their production window by only 3 days. Sure enough, the new PS3 3.50 firmware is considerably more secure than 3.41 and preventing distribution of a 3.41-compatible GT5 will ensure that it can’t be pirated (for now).
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October 17th, 2010 at 1:50 pm - #fonzdaii
I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but in Prologue (at least in the downloadable version) you can’t even play the game unless you’re signed on PSN…I hope this isn’t the case with the disc version and hopefully not in GT5.
Many gaming companies wanna do online authentication to fight hacking and used game sales.
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October 17th, 2010 at 8:18 pm - #hossdeluxe
the disc version of GT5p you didn’t need to be signed in…
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October 17th, 2010 at 8:41 am - #LTX
“Blame the hackers”
No, blame the company that took features away and forced customers to choose between two features. No one cared for hacking the PS3 until $ony decided to be an ass.
I hope the console gets buttraped.
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October 17th, 2010 at 8:23 pm - #hossdeluxe
no im pretty sure people will want to buy the game for free if they got the chance, i know i would. BTW not saying im a hacker but i would love to get a free copy, it saves me 100 bucks (I’m getting CE) so what whining about, you have no control over it its not a big deal, just wait, the game will come. and im legitimately confused on what you were talking about with the “two features” comment. was that from a previous GT game or what?
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October 17th, 2010 at 4:52 am - #Magic Ayrton
I feel some serious wool being pulled over our eyes.. :(
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October 16th, 2010 at 2:10 am - #Nick
BLAH BLAH BLAH THE REAL PROBLEM IS PD SO SHUT THE FARK UP AND GET OVER IT, THE GAME WILL BE OUT WHEN ITS OUT
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October 15th, 2010 at 10:23 am - #Stipe
…yeah, it is a bad news for delay of GT5 but not end of the world. So what if it come 2 (4 or whatever) week later?
I have many other things (and games) to worry about and RB3 coming soon so it will definitely be pretty quick when GT5 come on my PS3.
With my intense university schedule I even find enough time to enjoy in games or other type of fun.
So not wine, do something in life beside be ADDICTED to games.PS. Here talking one big Gran Turismo fan ;)
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October 15th, 2010 at 8:38 am - #LoneWanderer
*sigh* what’s the point of putting protection on gt5 when hackers are just going to hack in again.
This might explain why LBP2 and SOCOM 4 have been delayed until 2011…
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October 15th, 2010 at 5:31 am - #GMW
How about we just wait for the new date than speculate and/or blame?
I’ve been waiting since 2006 so another month or so will be fine. I’ve got a job to keep me busy most of the time and a family to keep me busy the rest of the time. If I can get it before mid December so it can coincide with my annual leave, then that would be just perfect! A good 2 weeks to get to grips with it.
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October 15th, 2010 at 5:28 am - #tvensky
I dont car, just give us the game THIS year! who gives a crap how many millions will be sold.. the game is epic anyway.
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October 15th, 2010 at 4:42 am - #doctorfouad
Again, I will repeat what I said in other news :
the delay of GT5 lead to a lot of interesting speculation, theories and stories, here is my 50 cents about this issue :
1- if GT5 got delayed it is for a very simple reason : the game wont be ready for 2nd november, period.
2- now, everything else is just details, why the game wont be ready ? well, a review copy of the game hasent even been sent yet to reviewers, so the game is not yet finished, they are still polishing and debugging, kazunori yamauchi by himself said that.
3- ok, so GT5 wont be ready for 2nd november because the game is not yet finished and polyphony are STILL working at finishing it. alright…now any other reason is really additional and subsidiary (pirates, blu ray production issues…etc)and I will add this for clarification :
Piracy, SDK restrictions, blu ray production issues…etc all those reasons for me are additional, subsidiary details (if its true), Polyphony Digital and sony sould have known all this and could have managed all this and not delay the game 20 days before its release…And honestly I dont understand people are still arguing why the game got delayed, eventhough kazunori Yalauchi apologized and said : we are still finishing the complex systems we have in the game.
is he lying ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
be realistic please, I dont believe he will lie and blame his team eventhough its not their fault…that would be craziness, he is not crazy…
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October 17th, 2010 at 8:28 pm - #hossdeluxe
thank you so much for saying those words
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October 15th, 2010 at 4:32 am - #gunma36
The truth is that Mayan people knew, before the end of the world they foresaw that “a real horse riding (driving) simulator” would be out for mankind to enjoy their last years on planet earth. That’s the truth behind the delay, but government (aka Sony) will never tell.
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October 15th, 2010 at 1:04 am - #LTX
>implying SDK 3.50 won’t be leaked just like 1.90 and 3.41
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October 15th, 2010 at 12:03 am - #yakapo
If this game was really going to be released Nov 2nd, then they would have had the golden master more than 2 or 3 weeks prior to the ship date. My guess would be at least 4 weeks prior to allow adequate time for printing, packing, and shipping.
Whatever the case, they could say anything and people would still buy it. If they have any sense at all they will push to get it out before Christmas.
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October 14th, 2010 at 9:07 pm - #Alaa1982
After getting my save file erased in castlevania, I say a few weeks late is better than a broken game.
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October 15th, 2010 at 7:49 am - #G
agreed I said the same thing to my xbox friend who laughed about it being delayed
but he broke down into tears when I spoke about releasing things early for them just to break… whats that all about :P
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October 14th, 2010 at 8:38 pm - #Tenacious D
It’s pretty sad that you can’t trust your neighbor not to steal from you or abuse you. This planet is doomed unless most of us rediscover a moral spine. It should be painfully self-evident that hackers and thieves hurt everyone. They make stuff late, they make it expensive, and they even discourage some people to the point they get out of the biz entirely.
I hope every hacker suffers ID theft from their “friends” so they get a taste of what they put us all through.
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October 14th, 2010 at 8:33 pm - #su
the firmware is on the hardware side, it will have nothing to do with the pressing of the discs, this is simply irrelevant. they still could of had the discs pressed at the agreed date and then just delay the launch until they had 1.50 out
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October 14th, 2010 at 8:18 pm - #L8 Apex
If this is true, my questions are
1) When did Sony hand down this edict?
2) How long did it take for PD to get wind of it? -
October 14th, 2010 at 6:50 pm - #Jojo
If people here want to set themselves up for another dissapointment be my guest, outta here
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October 14th, 2010 at 6:43 pm - #Litzner
Its the pirates fault my ass… I am not even going to dignify this with a rant.
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October 14th, 2010 at 6:16 pm - #tyl0r_r
It’s going to be pirated. Virtually every video game has been pirated and they all will be in the foreseeable future. This just means it’ll take a little longer.
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