Gran Turismo 5, Sony’s big white hope for 2010 and set to be the biggest, baddest driving simulator ever created, is also going to be touting one of the biggest, baddest hard drive install sizes, too. If you thought that sitting through 25 minutes of Devil May Cry was tortuous, Dante’s got nothing on a GTR.
Series head Kazunori Yamauchi tweeted over the weekend that whilst gamers could get away with a 256 megabyte install size, it’s going to need you to dedicate an optional 10 gigabyte if you can spare the room, presumably to reduce load times and store DLC.
Yep, that’s one hell of an install, which Yamauchi claims will make the experience ‘comfortable’. For those with 40 gigabyte hard drives that’s going to be something of a commitment, for sure, but it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given that the relatively bite-sized GT 5 Prologue sapped six gigabytes anyway.
What’s TSA’s readership think about this? Is this revelation a shock to anyone? Does anyone else think that ‘comfortable’ is a wee bit vague, and there’s likely to be even more hard drive real estate at risk if you want to be ‘well off’?
We’ll find out soon enough.
fattyuk
320gb he’d for me so I’m fine.
For the sake of £40 quid people should buy a new hdd…. It’s great not having to worry about stuff like that.
Grey_Ghost13
Erm, I’ve got less than a gb on my 60 launch model. Been wanting a new slim for a while, here’s my excuse! Bit of a bummer and I hope it doesn’t become the norm.
Pemberton_
It’s optional…?
cc_star
Unless the loading times are unbearably long without it, in which case its only optional on a technicality.
Sure it’d be fine though, it is a flagship game afterall
Pemberton_
But surely, he would have made it mandatory then? After all, he is a perfectionist. :P
Shakugan
I still have 14 GB free on my 120 GB PS3 Slim
DMTD
Have just upgraded to a 640gb whopper :) 10GB? is that all you’ve got?
digitalmanAZ
This is exactly the reason my original 80GB drive was swapped for a 500GB drive early last year (with the help of a nice guide right here on TSA, I might add…)
Games were already reaching into the 4-6 GB install range. This isn’t a big surprise considering the number of cars, tracks, different disciplines in GT5. Bring it on, it is going to be awesome!!!
DJ-Katy
Allow me to translate:
“We spent 5 years developing a game and we still couldn’t be fucked to optimize the loading times.”
The End.
KeRaSh
If you put it that way…
DJ-Katy
It’s true.
Charmed_Fanatic
No surprise for me. Kinda expected
phantom5813
Thank god i bought a 500gb drive a couple months ago. Currently got about 300gb left so happy days!!
Rocket_345
Iwas planning on uprgrading my hard drive to a 500GB and to keep my 80GB for backups anyway so i now have an excuse.
Rocket_345
* I was
Ross
only got 9GB on my 80GB hard drive left, now what can i get ride off.
3shirts
Best thing is to go through the game data folder and remove the stuff for old games or rentals you probably won’t play again. Since it’s only installed data off the disk, you don’t lose any progress or anything so if you DO decide to play that game again later, it will just need to reinstall.