Gran Turismo 5.

well at least to some of that portion yes. New buyers will be either older users buying the new version of the hardware, people with limited funds getting one and people who are skeptical of ps3 titles buying one. Of these some of the skeptics will be impressed enough to join the party early on next gen. THose with limited funds will exist well into next gen, especially in smaller markets that sony do so well. It is the same situation as now since ps2 is STILL selling rather well. That won't change next gen. The good thing however sony won't be too late (at least I'm hoping they won't be) to the markets as this gen, so markets like Europe especially, they will have a very good chance of taking the lead rather quickly and establish an even stronger market there. Getting the skeptics and low income folk will just only serve to expand the playstation brand name among them. So sony won't mind at all if the ps3 (like the ps2) keeps selling for a long time next gen as well. Besides it will be pure profit for them lol

What you mean to ask is what game takes 15gb? And that game would be Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition. 15gb!

It's probably one of the exceptions, most games probably only do a couple gb or don't even need an install/optional install.

i dont think i've ever seen an install bigger than 10GB. downloading digital games however could take a shit load of space. infamous 2 took 15GB alone and LBP2 and Motorstorm were around 6-7GB i think.

Yeah, you take the source code of the original, make a few changes to support the new hardware (usually writing a piece of middleware that changes calls designed for the PS2 hardware into calls for the PS3), and then compile the code so that it's executable on the new machine.

This obviously cannot work for all titles, as the new hardware cannot mimic all of the calls that PS2 software used to make.

Sony have already said that the downloadable titles cannot use save files created using the disc version, this implies that it isn't a pure emulation.

Doesn't make any sense to me, from what I've heard, a game either has to be ported, emulated or possibly a middle ground between those two.

If "recompiling" is so easy and low-level, then couldn't they just tweak the emulator a little more so the PS3 can play the exact PS2 version?

Does anyone else here just skip through the comments and scroll down for pictures?

It would be nice if all the pictures would be on the first page, and there should be a comment saying that those all the pictures they have at the time.

Yeah

For full install GT5 neads at maximum 10GB but for no install it needs just the patchs (~1GB).

After you played the game you can delete the patchs or game data.