I 100% love my Xbox 360 and spend a lot of hours on it, but my second favorite game of all time (only second to Half Life 2) is a PS3 exclusive.  And that game is Uncharted 2.  I also consider Killzone 2 to be the best console shooter I have ever played (it may now be second to MW2, but it would be a close second).  I also love LBP.  I am really rooting for the PS3 this gen, and I think it's only going to continue to close the sales gap.

So......I think I'm still aloud to hate GT5 if I want to.  Is that ok with the PS3 club?

The time trial is aimed at racing enthusiasts (proffesional physics) which is the backbone of GT's fanbase. The arcade/casual physics will get a demo closer to release so dont worry. But you give yourself away by your choice of words.

Obvious reply to that:  It's an opinion and I am interested in other opinions.  Why bother having a forum on the site at all if we're not supposed to bother to make threads about what we think about games?

B) Whoever said it was "ignorant" to think that the final release will not look better than the demo----It's ignorant, at least in marketing circles, to expect your core audience to just magically know that.  I would venture to say a vast majority of gamers out there are not details kind of people.  When you say something is a demo of a game on Playstation Network or Xbox Live, then users expect a demo.  It doesn't say "GT5 Demo that is only focusing on the physics, not the graphics or the rest of the game".  It just says "Gran Turismo 5 Demo".

Yeah, um, A) I love the PS3.  Just because I don't like every exclusive for it doesn't mean I hate the PS3.

B) Whoever said it was "ignorant" to think that the final release will not look better than the demo----It's ignorant, at least in marketing circles, to expect your core audience to just magically know that.  I would venture to say a vast majority of gamers out there are not details kind of people.  When you say something is a demo of a game on Playstation Network or Xbox Live, then users expect a demo.  It doesn't say "GT5 Demo that is only focusing on the physics, not the graphics or the rest of the game".  It just says "Gran Turismo 5 Demo". 

If you, like myself, read gaming headlines every day, follow developer blogs, listen to podcasts, and read/listen to interviews about gaming, you are in the minority.  We are a very vocal minority, I will give you that, but I would venture to guess that most gamers do not like to analyze each and every title for its entire develpment cycle before buying it.  They just say, "I am going to shit my pants when _____ comes out," and then they buy it.  If I were one of those people, I would not buy Gran Turismo 5 based on this lame demo. 

Sorry fanboys, but it's entirely possible that this game might just be kind of "blah" as far as sales and reviews.  Maybe I'll be proven wrong and it will be a revolution.  If that ends up being the case, I may just buy it. 

Like I said, I didn't mean to offend you when saying that, but you can't expect much from a 200 MB demo in the way of graphics if you've seen gameplay videos of more advanced builds, let alone some screenshots.

And for your information, I'm not a fanboy (I own a 360 and Wii, and they get a lot of my play time), and I don't have a problem if you don't like the physics of the game, to each his own. But I'm just saying, if you were expecting more than this, then you're going to have to wait till a future demo. This was specifically aimed at hardcore racing fans.

And just to clarify once more--I have no problem with this being a demo targeted at a certain demographic and only focusing on physics, but if that's going to be the case, they need to SAY SO.  If they don't, they're not even going to have peoples' interest enough when the REAL demo comes out later.  I'm a hardcore gamer, but a casual racing sim gamer.  Based on this demo, I wouldn't even be interested enough anymore to download another demo before release.