Gran Turismo 5 Uses PS3s as Browser Games Server
Race from your computer, using your console as a bridge.
Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi has gone and revealed yet another new feature for Gran Turismo 5 - a social networking feature that allows users to use their PlayStation 3 consoles as servers for browser games.
Nestled in the My Home section of the racing simulation, the Remote Racing feature lets friends race online via their web browsers. This is all done through the B-Spec side of the game, which (as reported a while ago) is essentially a 'hands-off' management/role-playing mode. PS3s can be left on and used as servers for these online web-based games.
"Right now the browser game industry and the console game industry are two totally different things," Kazunori said at the Tokyo Game Show. "But [this mode] is the first [that] bridges the two."
Other previously-unannounced features include dynamic weather changes, a Rally mode and a bunch of new cars and tracks. Blimey, no wonder this game is taking so long to develop.
Source: GamePro
Nestled in the My Home section of the racing simulation, the Remote Racing feature lets friends race online via their web browsers. This is all done through the B-Spec side of the game, which (as reported a while ago) is essentially a 'hands-off' management/role-playing mode. PS3s can be left on and used as servers for these online web-based games.
"Right now the browser game industry and the console game industry are two totally different things," Kazunori said at the Tokyo Game Show. "But [this mode] is the first [that] bridges the two."
Other previously-unannounced features include dynamic weather changes, a Rally mode and a bunch of new cars and tracks. Blimey, no wonder this game is taking so long to develop.
Source: GamePro
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