Prologue Japanese version - will you be able to update the car list?

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It could be that this has already been discussed, in which case I'm a fool...

In any case, will there be an update for the japanese version of prologue so that it will have all the cars etc that were mentioned to be in the european (US) release?

Would be a pity to have to go get the european version whilst I've had the japanese version here for a while now.

Any thoughts?
 
No one knows for sure yet but my guess is it will be updated, it'll have to be pd arent going to leave their own home consumers with less content than us.
 
Thats what everyone has been wanting to know and there has been no word, I guess we will have to wait till the EU release to find out.

In my mind it would be stupid of PD to screw over its home nation who would have bought all their copies already...

In the past yes different regions may have different numbers of cars (such as GT Concept) but now we live in the online generation it should be very easy to update seeing as prologue is totally installed to the HDD anyway...

KY did promise that prologue would update over time and he did even say that weather and damage would make it in at some point, as for addition cars and stuff its really hard to say..

Robin
 
I would assume so, however maybe they are trying to get us importers to stop playing on the Japanese servers by offering us extra content?

Besides even if they didn't we could DL a savegame with those cars on, assuming that the model will be in the game via update so that online players can actually see it.

I would be highly surprised if they did not update the JP version, but I wouldn't mind buying the EU/NA version as well.
 
you would think that the japanese version would get updated, just to keep the japanese players playing.
 
I would think it would be announced on japanese websites and stuff. They have probably announced DLC for japan already or something..

long shot I know but why would they tell Europe and America that the Japanese version has DLC when the EU and America versions have it already. The news on GT5P now for us will revolve around our version not the JP one.
 
I doubt it is going to happen. GT Concept Geneva was never released in Japan, which had twice as many cars as GT Concept Tokyo.
 
have a theory that could explain the fact that some of the Dealer events are locked in the japanese version, it could be because those events have to be raced on the high speed ring track. that could be the evidence of a futur upgrade. that's what i hope by the way...
 
I think i recall hearing in an interview that there will be no download content for Prologue and that they will wait until GT5. But i hope this update is an exception. With so many new features, new cars, a new track and new challenges... it really should be updated.

Why would Polyphony leave their own people with less content? About Tokyo Geneva, there were no internet updates for the PS2 so it couldn't really be done.
 
kekke2000
I think i recall hearing in an interview that there will be no download content for Prologue and that they will wait until GT5. But i hope this update is an exception. With so many new features, new cars, a new track and new challenges... it really should be updated.

Why would Polyphony leave their own people with less content? About Tokyo Geneva, there were no internet updates for the PS2 so it couldn't really be done.
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There has already been download content for GT5P, it didn't ship with online play, that had to be downloaded later.

I'd bet $ that the Japanese version will get downloads so it has everything the North American version does, PD isn't going to screw the home guys.
 
The359
I doubt it is going to happen. GT Concept Geneva was never released in Japan, which had twice as many cars as GT Concept Tokyo.
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I explained above that Concept was never going to be an updatable, no one ever promised anything plus they were a year apart and the 2002 version came out in Japan anyway!...

KY said this time prologue would be updated and they already have when they added online. Its not an 'as sold' product this time, in the end it should have weather, damage etc etc..... Im just saying what PD told everyone...

Releasing two different versions or prologue so closer together is bound to annoy people in JPN.. How are they going to race online with EU/US if they have different cars! It just doesnt make sense...

Robin
 
I don't think they can race people outside of Japan unless they have a overseas version anyway. GT5P automatically joins you to hosts of it's own choosing, I doubt someone playing the Japanese GT5P online will get sent to a US or EU version host even if the JP version got a content update.


I personally don't assume or expect at all the JP version will be updated with US/EU type content.
 
VIPERGTSR01
I don't think they can race people outside of Japan unless they have a overseas version anyway. GT5P automatically joins you to hosts of it's own choosing, I doubt someone playing the Japanese GT5P online will get sent to a US or EU version host even if the JP version got a content update.


I personally don't assume or expect at all the JP version will be updated with US/EU type content.
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But, the online time rankings are universal, meaning the current Asian/HK version of GT5P shares the same time trial leaderboards as the Japanese version and Kazunori have mentioned a couple weeks ago that the US and EU will have the same shared leaderboards. Its even more screwy to those who bought the HK/Asian copy; which release date was a month or two from the EU version but without any additional contents. I hope PD dont pull a PSP Lite with GT5P and screw out all the early adapters.
 
skingg
But, the online time rankings are universal, meaning the current Asian/HK version of GT5P shares the same time trial leaderboards as the Japanese version and Kazunori have mentioned a couple weeks ago that the US and EU will have the same shared leaderboards. Its even more screwy to those who bought the HK/Asian copy; which release date was a month or two from the EU version but without any additional contents. I hope PD dont pull a PSP Lite with GT5P and screw out all the early adapters.
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Those are good points, think how the Asian version buyers feel to have thier game become obsolete so quickly and it is true that the leaderboards are world wide... KY said prologue would have updates... not one bloody online update!

Why did PD have US/EU test races in JPN's online race menu for a while, maybe it was to test how the game did when everyone was playing from the same country... if they never intended all of them to be compatible why bother?

Racing online doesn't mean, race with people in your own country... people assume its world wide.. If thats the case everyone needs the same cars and tracks..

I just pray this happens but knowing PD no news will come until after the EU/US release...

Robin.
 
a lot of hardcore fans went and bought the gt5p japan version despite it being so expensive. if sony dont release an update for the japanese version to make it as good as the us version then sony is just asking for trouble.
 
This is somthing I posted in another thread but it's aplicable to this one as well so here you go, something to think about!


Has everyone missed a problem?
What problem I hear you cry, weeeeeeeell This may settled the speculation, or make it more heated LOL
Lets first look at an example, going back to the 360 (steady on) when a car pack was made available where you could buy additional car a problem arose, if your playing online and you hadn't bought the additional cars and players in the race had the new cars how could you see them? Not having downloaded the new cars there was no way of displaying them on the screens of players without them. So what they did after different approaches (more on these in a second) is that everyone got an update, in this update were the new cars, you couldn't use them unless you payed for them of course but everyone physically had them.
So this raises the question for a few people, JPN version owners especially! If the online section is going to run globally and not regionally (Lets hope not) Then EVERY version will need ALL the cars to work! Now sure the cars could be but onto all versions and just certain ones be locked for certain regions, but this makes absolutely no sense! Even if you have to pay for additional cars to be "unlocked" this would be ok but I doubt PD would do this for fear of alienating there home market!
Anyway a quick look at the alternatives which other games when faced with this problem tried unsuccessfully, 2 main ones spring to mind, 1 was the simple system of people without certain downloadable content wern't able to play in rooms where the new content was being used, this was soon dropped as it quickly split the gaming communities into have and have nots and people soon got annoyed and moved on to other games. The 2nd system was to have a "generic" car which everyone had, so instead of people without exclusive content not being able to see cars they don't have they see the "generic" car in it's place. This last system works but took away the show off appeal of people wanting to show "new" cars in online races so less people bothered buying them (Yeah we are that shallow LOL)
So PD and Sony are not stupid and have the advantage off seeing how people got around this problem in the past, and I'm sure all versions will eventually have ALL the cars within a space of time, Lets just hope the system is in place before the EU and US versions are released so the JPN guys out there don't experience restrictions online!

Again this was for another thread so some points have already been mentioned on here.
 
Hereward
If the online section is going to run globally and not regionally (Lets hope not) Then EVERY version will need ALL the cars to work!
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Be almost 99.9% sure that game will work locally, or that it will give you the prompt-solution to determine on which servers you want to connect (JPN, US, EU).

In order to make the online stabile I see no other solution but to make online local.

And I guess that Japanese players can't wait March 26 to finally get rid of us Europeans with our horrible Europe-Japan-Europe ping, and then April 17 to get rid of the American players with their not so much horrible, but still very unpleasant ping.

We've been ruining their game experience for too long.
 
Do we know if GT5P will include LAN options?
 
amar212
In order to make the online stable I see no other solution but to make online local.
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I'd have to agree with that, global servers are highly unlikely.



dark_ruffo
Do we know if GT5P will include LAN options?
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I wandered that too, theres no mention in any of the press releases so i'm taking it as not an option.
 
Dose anyone know what the server system is? if it's a player host system like alot of games then theres no reason for reigonal servers. I do doubt that it wont be global. PD are basicly running prolouge as an online beta test for the full game. seems a little strange that they would restrict users to local servers, plus all the guys not in JPN region wouldn't have been able to play on there servers, unless of course theres a region system on each disk in which case anyone buying a copy from outside there area wouldn't be able to play against people in there own area....That bit confused me so heres an example, You've got a JPN copy and you live in the UK, when the UK version comes out everyone with the JPN version will be locked out of local servers and will only be able to play against JPN players! Very unlikely in my opinion and something I have never seen in any console online game.
 
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