What version did I buy?

[kattjeveln]

I got this GT5 Platinum on an auction site, but the disc looks a bit weird with the yellow.

Is this still a good copy, or is it missing something?

Thanks!

 

[lldantell]

I got this GT5 Platinum on an auction site, but the disc looks a bit weird with the yellow.

Is this still a good copy, or is it missing something?

Thanks!

You probably have the japanese version.

 

[Famine]

Platinum version.this version got the stealth cars or the chrome line cars

No it didn't. It's the reduced price version after a half million European sales. It contains nothing the original release didn't contain.

You probably have the japanese version.

No, Platinum is for Europe. It's "Greatest Hits" in the USA and "The Best" in Japan. Give the answers when you know the answers - guessing and stating it as fact is impossibly unhelpful.

And yes, that's how it's supposed to look.

 

[kattjeveln]

You probably have the japanese version.

Oh, so I guess I'm good then. I just thought that the yellow colors meant like a developer version or something haha.

No it didn't. It's the reduced price version after a million European sales. It contains nothing the original release didn't contain.

And yes, that's how it's supposed to look.

Thank you, I'm calm now.

 

[ElementRacer]

No it didn't. It's the reduced price version after a half million European sales. It contains nothing the original release didn't contain.No, Platinum is for Europe. It's "Greatest Hits" in the USA and "The Best" in Japan. Give the answers when you know the answers - guessing and stating it as fact is impossibly unhelpful.

And yes, that's how it's supposed to look.

Platinum is for Australia as well, which is probably why we are classified with them in the online lobby of GT5

 

[Famine]

Indeed - Australia (and Africa) is classified as part of Europe for television standard, DVD region and BluRay region purposes. Meanwhile, parts of Asia are classified as Europe and Australia is classified as part of Asia for footballing purposes

 

[Scaff]

Indeed - Australia (and Africa) is classified as part of Europe for television standard, DVD region and BluRay region purposes. Meanwhile, parts of Asia are classified as Europe and Australia is classified as part of Asia for footballing purposes

In work I cover the UK region, which covers the UK, Eire, the whole of the Middle East and South Africa.

Odd, but visits to some of the regions offices are nice.

 

[HanibalII92]

Give the answers when you know the answers - guessing and stating it as fact is impossibly unhelpful.

Indeed - Australia (and Africa) is classified as part of Europe for television standard, DVD region and BluRay region purposes.

May be incredibly off topic, but you're wrong. "Guessing and stating it as fact is impossibly unhelpful".

Australia's DVD region is not the same as Europe. And never has been.

Europe is Region 2. Australia is Region 4.


Sorry if I sounded harsh, but you where very rude to lldantell and you were being a hypocrite.

 

[dr_slump]

DVD Regions

Platinum games are indeed from europe and some other countries, although newer titles get rebranded as "Essentials" instead of "Platinum".

 

[Aquarelle]

I honestly didn't know that Platinum games weren't a world wide thing.

*The more you know rainbow*

 

[dr_slump]

Forgot to mention that the BD region is indeed the same, whereas the DVD region is not (as shown above):


BD Regions

 

[Famine]

May be incredibly off topic, but you're wrong. "Guessing and stating it as fact is impossibly unhelpful".

Australia's DVD region is not the same as Europe. And never has been.

Europe is Region 2. Australia is Region 4.

For gaming. This is, after all, a gaming forum. PS2 games were DVD based and Australia was lumped in with Europe for the disc region.

Sorry if I sounded harsh, but you where very rude to lldantell and you were being a hypocrite.

No, you've just decided to leap in with a hypercorrection (one that you think is correct, but is, in fact, irrelevant) because you've decided to be rude. Telling someone they have a Japanese release (when they don't) or that it has extra DLC (when it doesn't) isn't just wrong, it's unhelpfully wrong because they will act differently on the wrong information and be much more confused when there is no need for it.

Telling someone their game DVD region is different (when it's the same) from Europe because the video DVD region is different is similarly wrong and unhelpfully so. An Australian DVD-based or BD-based PS game will work on a European console - and vice versa - because the two gaming regions are lumped together for BD, DVD and video standard purposes.

This is why it's important to know the answer, rather than just give an answer.