{"id":1589,"date":"2009-08-05T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T12:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-deal-or-is-it\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T17:01:02","slug":"gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-deal-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-deal-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran Turismo PSP Pre-order deal.  Or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Sony is going to offer some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2009\/08\/04\/gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-bonus-items-revealed\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2009\/08\/04\/gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-bonus-items-revealed\/', 'pre-order deal');\" target=\"new\">pre-order deal<\/a> for folks that order\/reserve Gran Turismo (PSP).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Pre-order Gran Turismo, and you\u2019ll get a voucher that will add one of the top cars to your in-game collection of cars in an exclusive color. This means that on day one, you\u2019ll be able to smoke your friends in 4-player Ad Hoc Mode multiplayer races with one of these rare sports cars while they are just getting started saving up credits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This begs several questions.  The article mentions several different cars including 1974 Lamborghini Countach LP400.  Does this mean you get a different car depending on where you pre-order?  If yes, I hate that sort of crap.  What about digital distribution?  Do PSP Go owners get hosed?<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what the sell through ratio will be for this game, but I imagine that there will be lots and lots of online users racing with one of these exclusive cars.  Have at it cowboys!<\/p>\n<p>There was one interesting comment about digital pre-orders \u2026 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hopefully you guys have something special for those of us purchasing the PSPgo and buying the PSN version. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Yoshimoto replied on August 4, 2009 at 4:07 pm<\/p>\n<p>Yes. For those who are planning to purchase Gran Turismo from the PlayStation Network as a download, we will be able to share our plans for you shortly, but rest assured you are not forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, they do not really have a clue how this is going to work.  Oops.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Sony is going to offer some sort of pre-order deal for folks that order\/reserve Gran Turismo (PSP). Pre-order Gran Turismo, and you\u2019ll get a voucher that will add one of the top cars to your in-game collection of cars in an exclusive color. This means that on day one, you\u2019ll be able &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/05\/gran-turismo-psp-pre-order-deal-or-is-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gran Turismo PSP Pre-order deal.  Or is it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,51,32],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-gran-turismo","tag-psp","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}