{"id":7324,"date":"2010-08-30T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gran-turismo-5-wants-a-10gb-install-for-smooth-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/7324-gran-turismo-5-wants-a-10gb-install-for-smooth-gameplay","title":{"rendered":"Gran Turismo 5 wants a 10GB install for \u201csmooth\u201d gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polophony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi has<a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/Kaz_Yamauchi\/status\/22290402649\" target=\"_blank\"> tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;that in order to get the best experience out of Gran Turismo 5, you will want to perform the 10GB install.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the 10GB install is not a requirement, and it will be playable with just 256MB of space, however, if you want the game to run &ldquo;smoothly,&rdquo; the install is recommended.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what constitutes a &ldquo;smooth&rdquo; experience has not been specified, but it probably has to do with load times, frame rates and buffer loading stutter while in game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago this would have been a problem, as the original PS3 shipped with a 20GB harddrive. The console&rsquo;s storage space was quickly ramped up 40GB, then 60, 80, 120,250 and soon 160GB and 320GB.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the 10GB install will not be a problem for many PS3 owners, however, it also means that those sitting with early generation console may have issues running that game &ldquo;smoothly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7788-Gran-Turismo-5-10GB-install-required-for-smooth-gameplay\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Gran Turismo 5's 10GB install\">Gran Turismo 5&#8217;s 10GB install<\/a> on our forum.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GT5 will run on 256MB, but 10GB is recommended <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}