Gran Turismo 5 creator Kazunori Yamauchi says that there will be an online update for the game this weekend to resolve issues players are having joining multiplayer games and the online congestion that is even stalling single player gameplay.

"We received a lot of demands for having more regulations placed on the online play. We’re going to perform an update on the 27th that will include things like max power restrictions and weight restrictions. It’s like a living creature, dynamically growing as we speak. I think it’s going to be hard to find an end to that process.

"The data centre was set up to handle 500,000 connections but the number of connections we received greatly exceeded that amount and there was a high chance of experiencing problems as a result.“The design of the GT game really integrates the online and offline parts. So the problems online actually affected the offline play as well. Right now we’ve changed the number of simultaneous connections that are possible to one million, doubling the number, and we’re trying to gauge what will happen, but we don’t know at this point in time."

All well and good, but the game is absolutely riddled with other problems, faults, anomalies and terrible design decisions.

Source: Eurogamer