2 Gran Turismo skus (this can't be real)

[SpOoNmAn]

According to the Famitsu inteview with Kazunori Yamauchi, Gran Turismo HD will have two SKUs on the PS3. One of these games will ship with no cars, all of them will be purchased via microtransactions.
The other, Gran Turismo HD: Premium, will ship with two courses and 30 cars, with an additional 30 cars and an additional two courses online at a later date. The Premium game is being considered a prologue to the PS3's eventual Gran Turismo 5.

The microtransaction-focused game, Gran Turismo HD: Classic will be the online-focused entrant into the GT-series. In this game, players will (reportedly) start with no cars or courses available to them. Instead, they will need to purchase their stable of cars and courses to race on. The pricing reported in the Famitsu piece indicated that cars would cost between 50-100 yen ($0.43-$0.85) and courses between 200-500 yen ($1.71-$4.26). There are approximiately 750 cars and 50 tracks available for purchase in the GT: HD Classic. Let's do the math:


750 cars for $0.50-$1.00 (Sony will round-up, don't you think?)
50 tracks for $1.50-$4.50
A complete copy of the game will cost gamers somewhere between $426.50 and $975.00

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153775

I'm staying out of this one!

[Crippler]

That's totally crazy.

[NuclearCujo]

Is this legit? What in the hell has gotten into gaming companies? They are gonna price themselves right out of business. I still refuse to by even the crappy Oblivion horse armor.

[BMC]

Man that's gotta be a freakin joke. If people are so blind that they can't see what they're paying for then they deserve to take it in the pooper.

On a related note Madden on the 360 sucks for microtransactions. I can't believe they are going to make us pay for what they have been giving us for years in historic uniforms and stadiums. That's EA for ya.

[BiffCo]

Anything to make a quick buck these days. I'm dissappointed in game companies. When is Sony getting out of the game business again? With devs like that, they are digging their own hole in the ground.

Then again, it could get just as bad over in the Moneysoft court.

-Brad

[SpOoNmAn]

In this case, Sony has control of what the developer does, they own Polyphony Digital.