The funny thing about he PSN being down is that GT5 is severely crippled. With the lack of offline content, I am positive everyone with GT5 is finally seeing how awful the game is with its content. Every person that ditched their copy of Shift to go back to GT5 will come back to S2U eventually. Once the patch is global, even more GT fans will switch. The patches are great and really make S2U shine.
For me, actually the opposite happened.
I had not touched GT5 for a while, when I got S2U.
I tried, to make S2U work before the 1.02 patch and somehow got along the awful handling, as I loved the impression of the game, the cars and the tracks.
When I received a racing seat a few days after I got S2U for the PS3, I saw, that S2U before the patch was not worth my time with racing with a wheel.
I started up GT5 and immediately fell back in love with GT5.
Force feedback is great in GT5.
When limiting yourself to just the sports tires, it has a very rewarding racing experience too.
When the 1.02 patch was released for S2U, I started it up, installed the patch and raced a few 20 lap races.
Only then was it, that I realized, how bad the lower resolution graphic of the tracks actually look, having switched directly from GT5 to S2U.
All other effects, the much bigger field and the tracks though look fantastic in S2U (apart from the resolution issue).
S2U made me enjoy GT5 again and I do a lot of hot lapping and testing in GT5.
The Nordschleife in GT5 is absolutely unreached by any other simulator so far - by far the best experience.
As soon, as the DLC is available, I will pick it up. Should I upgrade my current MBP to a newer model, I might install Windows again, just to pick up S2U for PC (why can't there be a Mac version?).