Sony has stated that tomorrow, Saturday, a patch will go live that will add extra online features to their latest racing experience.s of the game.

Additionally, Kazunori Yamauchi said the patch will also address some of the issues discovered since it was released.

“We’re going to perform an update on Saturday that will include things like max power restrictions and weight restrictions.

Exact issues that will be addressed with the patch have not been fully revealed.

Recent lag and slow play has been blamed on too many people. Sony stated that more people were playing than the game was designed for which makes me think, how many did they design it for?

“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, said Kazunori Yamauchi"

So they were expecting to sell a million copies or more but balanced the online load for only 500,000?

“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.”

Sales predictions had topped out at about 2.5M copies and with today being Black Friday that number could rise sharply. So that would then mean that they created the game so that only 20% of all users would go online. Just seems sort of silly.