HD installs are nothing new to PS3 owners. Some of the biggest exclusives for the system require some amount of extra space on your PS3’s hard drive so it should come as no surprise that Poly Digital’s long awaited Gran Turismo 5 will do the same.

Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed as much via Twitter that Gran Turismo 5 will have an optional 10 gigabyte HD install for “a smooth play experience”. The game will also require 256 megabytes of free space for save data I’ll assume.

Gran Turismo 5 races into stores this November 2nd in North America followed by the 3rd for Europe and Japan.

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