Comments on: Gran Turismo 5 Surpasses Polyphony Digital’s Expectations

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:05:32 +0000

Well in that case maybe the 1.8 million is right but than damn did they ever underestimate. Weren’t a crap load of people into this game?

By: Emrah

Emrah — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:47:46 +0000

@Sakinah:
This does not necessarily mean “online play”. Gran turismo connects the servers even in single player mode. The server congestion was causing problems even in single player mode.

It means, more than 500k tried to connect to servers, and this lead to server problems. He didn’t say it sold 500k the first day, which Luke probably misunderstood. It probably sold much more.

By: xDeFcoN_2FasT4Ux

xDeFcoN_2FasT4Ux — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:25:05 +0000

this game is amazing omfg played it at my cuzs house!!!!!! But i still love NFS hot pursuit

By: Sakinah

Sakinah — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:49:02 +0000

terbas:
Luke, where do you get the 500k figure from? He says the data center was setup for 500k connections (probably concurrent connections), which was greatly exceeded.

^

If it's over the 500k connections the servers were set to handle then doesn't that mean that 500k people are playing oniline? That's what I gathered from what Kaz said.

By: terbas

terbas — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:34:54 +0000

Luke, where do you get the 500k figure from? He says the data center was setup for 500k connections (probably concurrent connections), which was greatly exceeded.