Gran Tourismo HD Cars Sold Seperately?

KDR_11k writes "1up reports on a Famitsu article discussing the future of microtransactions for PS3. According to the article, Gran Tourismo HD will require all cars to be bought via microtransactions. More specifically, the 'classic' package will come with no cars or tracks and the 'premium' package will include 30 cars and a measly 2 tracks to race on. Additional cars cost between 50 and 100 yen ($0.43-$0.85) and tracks go for 200-500 yen ($1.71-$4.26) a piece. No pricing was given for the game itself." From the article: "Now, is it possible that the game will be a full-priced title with a built-in download system that allows users to download cars and tracks equal to the number of the game's retail price? We hope the model ends up similar to this. However, right now, details are extremely sparse, and Sony has to have an answer to these questions -- most of the people who can answer are over in Tokyo, we'll update if we hear back. Welcome to next-gen."

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This will work excellent

[CrazyJim1]

If someone is stupid enough to buy a ps3 for $599, and a game at 80$, they have more money than brains, and will probably buy all the tracks and cars too.

Re:What a Winner.......Not

[chromatic]

It flat out floors me that almost everyone I know steals software AND movies AND songs, yet they don't see this as stealing.

Perhaps your contemporaries see a difference between depriving someone of a physical item and making an exact digital duplicate of digital content.

Without making any moral or ethical judgments on the behavior, it's difficult for me to use the same word for both actions when the outcomes are so different.