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GTPlanet is the web's largest online community dedicated to the Gran Turismo racing game series for the PlayStation/PlayStation 2. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ... Gran Turismo (GT) is a racing video game series developed by Polyphony Digital for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable gaming systems. ... For other versions of PlayStation, please see PlayStation (disambiguation) The PlayStation is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ...

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History

The site was created originally as an MSN community group in 2001 by Jordan Greer. It became a fully-fledged website in May of that year and has undergone several functional and visual changes since then. The current version - colloquially referred to as "GTP8" - was released on January 6th 2006.


The site currently has somewhere in the region of 85,900 registered members - well over 30,000 having registered in the 2005 calendar year (coinciding with the launch and continued success of the fourth Gran Turismo game).


Features

Prior to the update to GTP8, GTPlanet featured sections for videos, car list data, prize car list data, race data and screenshots for Gran Turismo 2, Gran Turismo 3, Gran Turismo: Concept and Gran Turismo 4 - the first Gran Turismo having preceded the site's existence by several months, and the Prologue version never reaching US shores. Now, rather than having such a complicated tree of information, all of this has been merged together into the Game Guides section - a Wiki, rather than a library. The original Gran Turismo, along with Gran Turismo: Prologue and the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 and Gran Turismo: Mobile (the latter for the Sony PSP console) all now have their own sections, filling the gap that previously existed and allowing for future releases. A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. ... The PlayStation Portable (officially PSP) is a handheld game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment. ...


The forum section of the site could well be considered to be the core. Though a minority of registered users actually visit the forums, almost all of the information in the other sections of the site is generated by forum users. This also has an interesting consequence in that all of this information is peer-reviewed by the same forum users.


The site has also released, from 15th January 2006 onwards, a mobile-device-friendly version, available at http://mobile.gtplanet.net/


References

GTPlanet.net

External links

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Connecting the Fans to Polyphony Digital Petition (589 words)
We know that it´s not easy to make a game, and we are aware of the series of NDA´s, that developers can´t talk openly about GT5.
But we at GTPlanet share the same desire to have more interaction with Polyphony Digital, and non-disclosure agreements shouldn't prevent some dialog with the people we consider to be some of the best in the world.
The Connecting the Fans to Polyphony Digital Petition to Sony/Polyphony Digital was created by and written by Mohammed AlMomen (adood84@yahoo.com).
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