Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi has announced that an update for Gran Turismo 5 will hit PS3s today. The patch will add power and weight class restrictions to online matches, in addition to other improvements “to refine the usability of the game to make it a better experience.”
Speaking in an interview with Eurogamer, Yamauchi-san explained why yesterday’s online congestion brought GT5 to a grinding halt.
“Yesterday the online service was kind of in a critical state. The data centre was set up to handle 500,000 connections but the number of connections we received greatly exceeded that amount and there was a high chance of experiencing problems as a result.” he said.
“The design of the GT game really integrates the online and offline parts. So the problems online actually affected the offline play as well. Right now we've changed the number of simultaneous connections that are possible to one million, doubling the number, and we're trying to gauge what will happen, but we don't know at this point in time.”
Yamauchi-san also reitirated his commitment to continually improving the GT5 experience post-release, referring to the game as “a living creature, dynamically growing as we speak.” He said that tomorrow’s update “that will include things like max power restrictions and weight restrictions” is just the start of a longer process of refinement.
“Now it's released we're going to have several million people who'll become citizens of Gran Turismo. From here on we have to listen to their voice and see what they want and change the game accordingly to match their needs. So Gran Turismo really is just at the starting point, it's really the beginning and we're just going to evolve from here.”
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