As you can see below, Polyphony Digital and Sony have sent a warning to the GT5 community that the single player experience is suffering from "extreme online traffic congestion".

Why? Because the game performs online access not only when participating in online races and using community fetures, but also when booting the game and during the various screen displays in GT Mode.

Polyphony Digital and Sony invites GT5 players to disconnect from Playstation Network to solve the slowdown issues.

change your sig please. lol

Noticed this yesterday when I was trying to play SP. Figured Sony underestimated the number of people playing GT whilst connected. Should hopefully be sorted soon when Sony improve the servers and/or the number of users decreases to normal levels.

so the servers cant handle all of people? not surprising the game was rushed, the servers went up an running only a couple of days ago and their is a damage patch coming at december 1st.

ok... lol no seriosuly i am

LOL? server overload? how many ppl bought the damn game I wonder......

Damage patch?

according to someone on this site and their source yes.

Damage on the arcade mode.

http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.videogameszone.de/Gran-Turismo-5-PS3-133781/News/Gran-Turismo-5-Neuer-Patch-erscheint-am-1-Dezember-801633/

The game is hardly crippled, I've noticed some pages slow to load once or twice that is about it, and I briefly did some online racing and it was the most lag free multiplayer I have ever experienced on a console.

Poor GT, so much is demanded of it.