Did Gran Turismo HD downloads overload PlayStation Network servers? |
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There's a story going about that (a) Gran Turismo HD seems to have been released onto the PlayStation Store earlier than planned, and (b) the traffic of people who flocked to the store to download it was so heavy, it's currently knocked out the PlayStation Network. It's the subject of a thread in the official PlayStation forums where people are moaning about error code 8002A280.No wonder we've been having a few hangups checking for demos this morning - "Hey, free GTHD, let's check it out... Oh crap, why won't this (garbled dialogue) sign on?!?!?!"
People who've called up customer service, assistance, help, or whatever Sony calls it, say that they've been told that the network has been too busy as of late. Combine that with reports of a rather early Christmas gift from Polyphony Digital and the presumption is KABOOM, and we quote, "Everyone, their dog, grandmother, and little sister is downloading that at the moment. Sounds like they need a few thousand more servers."
Let's hope the traffic clears up within the day. Maybe they can swing by a store and pick up a few thousand more servers.
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Don't they have analysts? Or at least people with common sense there?
THAT WAS THE BEST DEMO EVER!!!!LOVE IT!!!! THANK YOU POLYPHONY DIGITAL!!:)
I hope they keep it on the network for when it's released in Europe, I so want to have a go! >_<
BTW atalavera, is your Caps Lock key broke by any chance?
Damn these cars are so Soooo BEAUTIFUL! didn't have any problems at all logging into the store. downloaded in 5 minutes.. yeh
And then checked in 10 minutes and finally got in!
Couldn't log on forever, then came home around 4:30 and bam! Currently downloading. And for some reason, my downloads are very slow. 650mb in 5 mins? How?
It must be really busy on the playstation network. I'm curently trying to download the GTHD demo and i've waited for five minutes and it just went to 1%..
It happens to everyone at some point early in their online store life....
With GTHD released as a demo - it no fuggin wonder it overloaded... goes down in history as most obvious way to overload a server in dictionary
My PS3 demos ALWAYS download slow. It's not like I have a slow internet connection either, I'm running cable, around 5 MBPS, but every single demo I download takes around 3-5 hours to complete. I started downloading the GT HD demo over 2 hours ago and it's only at 45%. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?
amzing, only 500,000 ps3's in the damn world and their servers are crashing, yet sony is expecting like 100 million ps3's to be in the world in a couple of years
fire the IT department
I can't get in either must be the new shipments of PS3's in stores today!
Its because they dont have that many servers for the ps3 YET. When people buy more ps3's they'll add more and more servers as the months go by.
I couldnt get in and i didnt even know about this but i was playing and i kept getting that same error code, so i put that down, played red steel until i died, and went back 5 min ago and i got a message when trying to acess my accound management-Error we are restoring servers or something anyway i rebooted and i was able to get on to see the GT HD trailer on my 46" 1080p plasma i thought of two word
Kick ass
well i just tried to sign on and i was able to get in, but the download is going slower than usual seing as they usually finish in 5-10 minutes, oh well i bet it's worth the wait , currently at 55%
You guys that are saying that they're overloading the servers, they're not. It seems as if Sony is using a certain amount of allotted slots where once you get access to the store, after you finish any 1 download and install it, it disconnects you and allows someone else to take your slot. They're not stupid. If they let everyone try to access at the same time, NO ONE would get it because the server would crash. But the error you get now is NOT a crash, but a computer generated. If you still can't get in, just keep trying. As soon as someone finishes their download, they'll let you in. I'm not sure how many slots there are, but there must be alot since I was able to get in after only trying maybe 5 times. Probably 1,000 users at a time.
What did u expect from $onys crappy server
Sony had already sold over a million PS3s
would you bashers please just shut up? this has NOTHING to do with servers. Not even freaking NASA's data base can hold half a million connections at once.
Hell, don't even get me started. If HALO was ever released for free on Xbox Live I guarantee their servers would be down as well.
Why is this even still up? This server downtime only lasted an hour or so, and it wasn't even down, it was only allowing a certain number of users at a time....
This is one amazing looking and playable demo, that's why I bought it ps3 heh WOW.
I beat the demo 20 cars yuv it...
HHAHA THE PS3 SUXX SOOO MUCH LOL XBOX360 WILL WIN THIS WAR!
Make that Billion! Sony really don't know anything lately!
i reported this yesterday here.
7 hours wait before the servers can accommodate new downloaders. how do i report to QJ directly?
just like my name....PS3 for ever......and p.s. xbox 360 sucks......it can suck ps3's blu-ray laser!
is this demo released on the american PSN? I haven't had my ps3 hooked up to the internet in a couple of weeks. I thought I read it was only going to be released for Japan.