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Topic: Clarification on Gran Turismo HD
Posted By: Tolgak
Subject: Clarification on Gran Turismo HD
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 10:51am
A while ago there was a thread stating how you would have to download the cars to beat the game. This isn't entirely true.

There will be two versions released. The Premium and the Classic. Premium will only have 30 cars and a few tracks but the quality will be as high as they can make it. Classic will have 750 cars and 51 tracks, but the visual quality will be sacrificed a bit. Physics and gameplay wont change between the two versions, but they will both be much better than the original.

The reason for charging for the downloads you will have for the premium version is that each car model takes 6 months to make. 10s of thousands of polygons are used. You're getting cars that are made by people who worked their asses off to give you the most realistic models possible. Just saving all 750 cars with that level of detail could probably take more than a few blu-ray disks. Still, it sucks to know that if you want good quality AND everything, you'll have to pay more money than the system is worth.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/driving/granturismo5/news.html?sid=6158178&mode=previews - Source .



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Posted By: RicWhic414
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:18am
good job finding that... maybe if i get an hdtv illl get the premium one

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Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:34am
ah well. i guess ps3 wont take as big of a dive as i had expected.


Posted By: XenoSabre
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 11:53am
PS3 will prolly stay on top of the market.

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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:32pm
Originally posted by XenoSabre XenoSabre wrote:

PS3 will prolly stay on top of the market.


I really do not see that happening.

As far as this goes, I understand that they are "premium designs", but I still think that selling in-game components is down right crappy.


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Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:48pm
Six months to make one car?  No way.  Not only does that just sound far fetched, that would mean to model every one of the 750 cars, it would take 4300 months or 179.6 years.


Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:50pm
Originally posted by Apotheosis Apotheosis wrote:

Six months to make one car?  No way.  Not only does that just sound far fetched, that would mean to model every one of the 750 cars, it would take 4300 months or 179.6 years.


4500 months or 375 years by saying that they make only one car every six months.

Where in the world did you get 4300 and 179.6?


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Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:51pm
Originally posted by pntbl freak pntbl freak wrote:

Originally posted by Apotheosis Apotheosis wrote:

Six months to make one car?  No way.  Not only does that just sound far fetched, that would mean to model every one of the 750 cars, it would take 4300 months or 179.6 years.


4500 months or 375 years by saying that they make only one car every six months.


Damn it.  I'm tired.  I divided it by 24 for some idiotic reason.  Thanks for catching that.

I got the 4300 by multiplying in my head.  Maybe not such a good idea.


Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:51pm
Originally posted by Apotheosis Apotheosis wrote:

Six months to make one car?  No way.  Not only does that just sound far fetched, that would mean to model every one of the 750 cars, it would take 4300 months or 179.6 years.

I'm sure there is more than one car being worked on at any one time. Still... damn.
 


Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:53pm
Unless you say that you start with 30 so that means there will be only 720 cars which is 4320 months or 360 years.

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Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 12:58pm
Originally posted by hybrid-sniper hybrid-sniper wrote:

Originally posted by Apotheosis Apotheosis wrote:

Six months to make one car?  No way.  Not only does that just sound far fetched, that would mean to model every one of the 750 cars, it would take 4300 months or 179.6 years.

I'm sure there is more than one car being worked on at any one time. Still... damn.
 

Fine then.  Say they have a team of 50 people working on it.  It would still take 90 months which is 7.5 years.

Originally posted by pntbl freak pntbl freak wrote:

Unless you say that you start with 30 so that means there will be only 720 cars which is 4320 months or 360 years.


What are you talking about?  We are discussing how long it would take to model all the cars?  Yes, the premium does start with 30 cars, but that is still 30 cars they had to model, thus they aren't exempt from the six month period.


Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 1:03pm
Originally posted by Apotheosis Apotheosis wrote:



Originally posted by pntbl freak pntbl freak wrote:

Unless you say that you start with 30 so that means there will be only 720 cars which is 4320 months or 360 years.


What are you talking about?  We are discussing how long it would take to model all the cars?  Yes, the premium does start with 30 cars, but that is still 30 cars they had to model, thus they aren't exempt from the six month period.


Yeah but the first 30 wont be the same detail.  Maybe I didnt read that right.


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Posted By: Apotheosis
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 1:04pm
Originally posted by pntbl freak pntbl freak wrote:


Yeah but the first 30 wont be the same detail.


I was right and I didn't even know it. 

"Gran Turismo HD Premium will feature 30 cars and two tracks, all of which have been modeled from the ground at a level of visual fidelity that simply hasn't been approached in the game before."


Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 1:09pm
PS3 will be the best, but its just so expensive.

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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 22 October 2006 at 1:27pm
Originally posted by travis75 travis75 wrote:

PS3 will be the best, but its just so expensive.

define best.

as far as who is going to be on top of the market, the dude at gamestop said it best, "We will sell more Wii's, but will make more money on the PS3."

to me, being on top of the market would be getting your product out there.


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