News that Sony would give away the Gran Turismo HD Concept seems to have been met with a lot of enthusiasm by owners of the PlayStation 3.Even though there’s only a few hundred thousand consoles in gamers’ hands right now, the free download, which gives a good taste of what the new Gran Turismo will be like, reportedly clogged the online system so badly it was deemed useless for several hours.
The word is the network was overloaded by so many people trying to make the download at once that is simply could not handle the flow.
This is, of course, more than possible. However, whether this speaks to the popularity of the Gran Turismo franchise or a possible problem with the network handling user population is hard to say at this point.
Crashing at this early stage of the game, even before the European launch, makes it sound like Sony’s got some bugs to work out with its network.
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