GT5 delayed because of XMB OS security breach

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Like I said it is manufacturing issues. I had it confirmed today.

The problem arose when SCE mandated SDK 350 on all games releasing after after October, GT5 was about to go gold running on SDK 341, but it has been delayed by around a week so that they can update to SDK 350. This has caused a big headache for the manufacturing side, given how big this game is missing the gold date by even a week can cause a months worth of delay as slots are already taken up at this time of year for Blu-ray movies and such. So Sony had to find a 3 week slot big enough to make 7m+ copies of this and get them shipped out.

If you want to blame anyone, I would direct it at the pirates and hackers, SCE never had any real SDK restrictions before firmware 3.41 was compromised.

Source: http://forum.blu-ray...tml#post3872491

Seems very logical to me.

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seems illogical to me ... release it then add a GT5 patch at a later date ....

Uh, if it's released only requiring firmware 3.41 then it's hacked day 1, a patch does nothing.

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sure, pass the buck to the hackers, take the easy way out. you really thing releasing the game with 3.41 support would have killed sales that dramatically if at all?

and did you post earlier that it was the developers who missed the date by 3 days which caused this entire debacle? everyone is full of ****.

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sure, pass the buck to the hackers, take the easy way out. you really thing releasing the game with 3.41 support would have killed sales that dramatically if at all?

and did you post earlier that it was the developers who missed the date by 3 days which caused this entire debacle? everyone is full of ****.

Well you can't expect for-profit companies to just accept piracy and not put on any kind of resistance. If there's a chance they can prevent their biggest game from being pirated at launch they're gonna try it.

Andy for one would pirate GT5 instead of buying it :p

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Well you can't expect for-profit companies to just accept piracy and not put on any kind of resistance. If there's a chance they can prevent their biggest game from being pirated at launch they're gonna try it.

Andy for one would pirate GT5 instead of buying it :p

yeah definitely would ;) but i don't beleive anyone sony/PD related anymore.

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Makes sense I guess, if they needed to update the game, that would have pushed back being sent to manufacturing which is apparently quite busy this time of year, so they would have had to move things around, I guess this is why they have deadlines, lol.

That's not at all what Kaz has said. Something fishy is going on here.

I don't see how that is any different really.

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Well I bet you £10 GT5 now comes with FW 3.50 on the disc rofl.gif

dude that's like 20 from where i am, and if i made that bet i might as well flush it down the toilet, it would be the same thing (yes i guess i technically called you a toilet :| )

and seth grouchy? noooooooooooo never ;)

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Sony can't blame anyone except themself, pirates didn't pop up just now you know.

That doesn't make it right. If it were not for pirates, we wouldn't need security like this. I blame those that steal, not Sony.

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dude that's like 20 from where i am, and if i made that bet i might as well flush it down the toilet, it would be the same thing (yes i guess i technically called you a toilet :| )

and seth grouchy? noooooooooooo never ;)

But I'm poor just now :( ?10 will buy you a few pints!

I don't blame pirates, they've been doing what they're doing for long long time. Sony can't blame anyone except themself, pirates didn't pop up just now you know.

Well they can blame themselves for the popularity of GT, if this were some translated JRPG like Demons Souls they wouldn't need to manufacture millions of discs for the release date rofl.gif

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Well they can blame themselves for the popularity of GT, if this were some translated JRPG like Demons Souls they wouldn't need to manufacture millions of discs for the release date rofl.gif

Exactly what I'm trying to say, they should've seen this coming. They should've been prepared for this, it really stupid decision to implements this just before RTM.

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Bit more info on who posted this

PS3 Firmware the Real Cause of Gran Turismo 5's Delay?

More information is slowly filtering out aboutGT5's delay, and it fits in neatly with everything else we've learned about the game's production in the past 24 hours. Here's what was recently posted by Maximus ? a respected moderator at the Blu-Ray.com forums with reported connections to Sony:

Like I said it is manufacturing issues. I had it confirmed today.

The problem arose when SCE mandated SDK 350 on all games releasing after after October, GT5 was about to go gold running on SDK 341, but it has been delayed by around a week so that they can update to SDK 350. This has caused a big headache for the manufacturing side, given how big this game is missing the gold date by even a week can cause a months worth of delay as slots are already taken up at this time of year for Blu-ray movies and such. So Sony had to find a 3 week slot big enough to make 7m+ copies of this and get them shipped out.

If you want to blame anyone, I would direct it at the pirates and hackers, SCE never had any real SDK restrictions before firmware 3.41 was compromised.

After getting attention from news outlets such as Eurogamer and TheSixthAxis, evidence of the post has since been removed, but it offers a very reasonable explanation about why Polyphony Digital missed their production window by only 3 days. Sure enough, the new PS3 3.50 firmware is considerably more secure than 3.41 and preventing distribution of a 3.41-compatible GT5 will ensure that it can't be pirated (for now).

Thanks to all of you who sent this in so quickly!

Source: http://www.gtplanet.net/ps3-firmware-the-real-cause-of-gran-turismo-5s-delay/

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