GT4 Reviews start rolling in...

First impressions:
Photo mode is awesome
GT4 makes GT3 look ugly
The music is less bad (classical! Is that a GT first?)
Used cars! Yay!
Blah blah blah

I haven't bought the game yet, but my brother got a copy. I can wait until it's a greatest hits title and pick it up for $20. (Since I can play his copy...)

My only complaint so far is the lack of online play. The game is clearly awesome; it's a shame we won't have online GT for some time. On the bright side, it looks like GT4 is a mammoth game.

 

From MagicBox:

"SCEE announced that they have shipped 3.2 million copies of Gran Turismo 4 for PlayStation 2 before the game's launch today in Europe, making this the biggest launch of any PS2 game in Europe."

 

That quote is a bit confusing. That 3.2 million copies shipped is for Europe? How many have they sold worldwide (except Europe) till now?

 

In Gran Turismo 4's launch in the US (it came out at the end of the month), it sold a little over 600,000 units.

 

for a bit broader perspective:

FEB NPD DATA (courtesy of bunkum@GAF)

1 PS2 GRAN TURISMO 4 Sony $30,527,340 618,559
2 PS2 NBA STREET V3 Electronic Arts $10,424,910 212,773
3 PS2 GRAND THEFT: ANDREAS Take-Two Interactive $7,634,198 159,167
4 PS2 MVP BASEBALL 2005 Electroni Arts $4,031,346 134,726
5 GBA ZELDA: THE MINISH CAP Nintendo $3,768,164 123,736
6 XBX NBA STREET V3 Electronic Arts $5,731,482 117,251
7 PS2 MERCENARIES LucasArts $5,238,154 105,198
8 GCN RESIDENT EVIL 4 Capcom $5,205,004 103,455
9 PS2 CHAMPIONS:RETURN ARMS Sony $5,023,108 102,167
10 PS2 MADDEN NFL 2005 Electronic Arts $2,837,222 99,526

 

Why does the GT4 save game take up 1.4 Megs of space??
I don't see why should it be so much bigger than GT3 save game.

I'm sure it's just so that Sony could sell more memorycards, I wonder how many had to buy a new one just to be able to fit the GT4 save.

Same with MGS3. The game save itself isn't that big (80KB ?), but the downloadable camos are ridicullously big for what they are, 800 KB for a simple tiled texture that shouldn't take up more than some tens of KB

 

Anyone noticed this nice little detail? When you drive at high speed, you hear the rushing sound of air right, but if you suddenly pull to the side, right in the back of another car, in the "slip-stream-pocket", the sound of rushing air dissapears and it becomes totally still... I love PD's love for tiny details!