Tablets(and Android Smartphone sideloads and Bluestacks on PC&Mac)Only, How Does That Make You Feel?

[2cam16]

My trusty iPad2 does the job. Easier for me too since I can trace with my fingers. No complaints here.

 

[kilesa4568]

So the PS3 is powerful enough to generate a track using the instruction data from the app downloaded off of PSN, and the PS3 is powerful enough to render a field of cars in a simulation racer on that generated track, but you very much doubt the PS3 is powerful enough to run what is essentially a vector paint program to make the instruction data to begin with?

I didn't say the PS3 wasn't powerful enough. What I said was resources and a possible lack of them with everything else in the game. Eventually, a straw can break the camel's back.

It's the only valid reason I can think of why the editor isn't in the game itself. Can you think of another?

 

[Red_Bull_Pro]

Well I was looking forward to trying this out until my dad was being ignorant, thus casting my vote.

How? Well, he says that it's "not secure". Why you may ask? Well, he says that Sony has been hacked too many times and he doesn't want to fool with both PSN and  at the same time. 🤬 ME I'M DONE WITH THIS UPDATE! Just kidding, but I am seriously let down by PD at the moment. I mean yes this new way is innovative and is quite cool, and it is quite less frustrating to do with your fingers instead of joysticks, but at the same time makes less people want it due to it not being built into the game, mainly because they don't have a tablet, and for some their parents are quite protective over certain things.

Here's where I'm mad. I'm mad because we got "Run Sackboy! Run" for my iPad and in order to get those exclusive costume(LittleBigPlanet stuff, off topic ) and I had to sign into PSN via iPad in order to get the codes. Here we are at the Course Maker, SAME EXACT PEOPLE WHO GOT RUN SACKBOY RUN ONTO THE APP STORE! And yet he doesn't want to fool around with that but with the LBP app? I'm sorry but that's 🤬 ignorant!

Without the full advantages with this I am quite bored with this update myself, because 0 new cars and only sound improvements.

Sorry about me going on a mini-rant but I am quite mad right now.

I'm gonna have to add @nascarfan1400 and @GTRacer22 for their NASCAR tracks

 

[nascarfan1400]

Well I was looking forward to trying this out until my dad was being ignorant, thus casting my vote.

How? Well, he says that it's "not secure". Why you may ask? Well, he says that Sony has been hacked too many times and he doesn't want to fool with both PSN and  at the same time. 🤬 ME I'M DONE WITH THIS UPDATE! Just kidding, but I am seriously let down by PD at the moment. I mean yes this new way is innovative and is quite cool, and it is quite less frustrating to do with your fingers instead of joysticks, but at the same time makes less people want it due to it not being built into the game, mainly because they don't have a tablet, and for some their parents are quite protective over certain things.

Here's where I'm mad. I'm mad because we got "Run Sackboy! Run" for my iPad and in order to get those exclusive costume(LittleBigPlanet stuff, off topic ) and I had to sign into PSN via iPad in order to get the codes. Here we are at the Course Maker, SAME EXACT PEOPLE WHO GOT RUN SACKBOY RUN ONTO THE APP STORE! And yet he doesn't want to fool around with that but with the LBP app? I'm sorry but that's 🤬 ignorant!

Sorry about me going on a mini-rant but I am quite mad right now.

I'm gonna have to add @nascarfan1400 and @GTRacer22 for their NASCAR tracks

Check Ameers thread. You don't even need to send an fr

 

[Red_Bull_Pro]

Check Ameers thread. You don't even need to send an fr

Sorry bro but what do you mean I don't have to send a friend request? Wait I didn't read what you said

EDIT:

Check Ameers thread. You don't even need to send an fr

Nuuuuu it won't work for me!!!!! I'm sending a friend request tomorrow

 

[NandoRock]

Two and half hours later, all drivers updated, still a failure, with the bonus of my internet connection being lost. Now I have to use a kindle to try to Google a fix. This sucks.

I'm sorry to hear that. Try to restore your system. You know Vista is not the best OS, right?

 

[Tornado]

What I said was resources and a possible lack of them with everything else in the game. Eventually, a straw can break the camel's back.

What else could the word "resources" possibly mean in the context you're using it in besides the system not being powerful enough, especially now that you've reiterated said context?

Can you think of another?

So they don't have to do nearly as much work if the feature shows up again, as the UI is completely modular. So they don't have to have anyone even involved with SCEI or PD maintain it. So they can use it as a carrot to force people to move on to GT7 when the GT6 servers are shut down. So they can try and push Sony tablet sales. So they can track the usage rate for the feature through PSN and the popularity on Google Play. So they can take better advantage of Remote Play on the PS4 for GT7. So they didn't have to bother designing a UI around the DS3. So they didn't have to bother implementing the GPS function separately from the track designer. So you could edit tracks on the fly while you were still testing them. Because Kaz thinks tablets are cool.


PD's reasoning for making the decisions they do for this entire console generation have consistently been completely indecipherable; but since the actual track creation part seems to function the same way that GT5's did (the track is generated on the PS3 after the data points are already fed into it, with the obvious difference being that the data points are controllable now) there's nothing really suggesting that the PS3 simply couldn't have run what is essentially the pen tool from Photoshop on a 2048x2048 image canvas.

 

[SGETI]

And yet he doesn't want to fool around with that but with the LBP app? I'm sorry but that's 🤬 ignorant!

Ignorant is your rage on a public forum regarding your blood , your family, your dad. You could always go out and buy your own tablet. Your rage comes across as being a spoiled brat.

The golden rule from my father;

Live under my roof, live by my rules, this is not a democracy but a dictatorship.

Instead of an arrogant rage about your dad, go give him a hug and be thankful for family.

 

[kilesa4568]

What else could the word "resources" possibly mean in the context you're using it in besides the system not being powerful enough, especially now that you've reiterated said context?

Resources=ram.

 

[Snake1405]

PD will expand the compatibility range to other android devices, I'm sure of that.

But for me, meh. I'm waiting for the new sound engine. Until when, Kaz?

 

[Froudeybrand]

I think, even if you device says not compatible on the website look in the store any way, my tablet wasn't compatible but I installed without and issue

 

[SkylineObsession]

There will be a lot of people out there, me inclusive, who won't buy a tablet just to create a track in a game on a last generation console. I don't know anyone with one either.

Was quite looking forward to this, and now i can't even use it. Epic fail PD.

I also don't own a smartphone fyi, not that it would matter if i did since that can't even be used.

 

[NLxAROSA]

It's the only valid reason I can think of why the editor isn't in the game itself. Can you think of another?

Several. One of them being that PD couldn't be arsed to build something themselves because they moved on to PS4/GT7, so they outsourced this (or insourced it) to a different team/developer. The could also have made the decision to have it as an app so you can use it at the same time as you are using the PS3/GT6. And I can come up with a few more if I want to. All speculation though.

 

[strela]

There will be a lot of people out there, me inclusive, who won't buy a tablet just to create a track in a game on a last generation console. I don't know anyone with one either.

Was quite looking forward to this, and now i can't even use it. Epic fail PD.

I also don't own a smartphone fyi, not that it would matter if i did since that can't even be used.

I tried Andy the emulator. Works fine. I manged to transfer the track to my PSN. I used an old laptop. Hope it will help you. Unless of course you are one of the haters and don't want to play with it no matter what!

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Resources=ram.

If the PS3 wouldn't have enough RAM to run a simple vector program, it wouldn't have enough to run GT6 at all.

@Tornado and @NLxAROSA both give plenty of good reasons why this might be tablet-only, or at least, why PD didn't bother with an in-game editor. Naturally, it's all speculation, but the idea it ties into a course creator for the next game makes a lot of sense. After something like half a decade or more of fiddling with user-created courses, it'd be monumentally silly to drop it now.

 

[Chrunch Houston]

My tablet was incompatible last night, but I checked again today, and it was compatible, and installed with no problems.

 

[Wydopen]

All of you haters with smartphones need to click the link on page 9 like I did. This is more addicting than crack.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I'm starting to get the feeling that the system will interface with any hardware system of reasonable modern tech. And the guidelines were more to either save their asses if it didn't work on many different systems and face more backlash. Or more so help out those that sell tablets like Sony and thus have an on the go type system in line with the GPS other half, since being able to mess with GT outside your home and console is the new push from Kaz.

So I don't think people should find themselves lucky that this happens to work on their phone or computer or non-table device and so on. Which actually says a lot...

All of you haters with smartphones need to click the link on page 9 like I did. This is more addicting than crack.

I'm glad you got cleaned up, crack is one hell of a drug

 

[super_gt]

Several. One of them being that PD couldn't be arsed to build something themselves because they moved on to PS4/GT7, so they outsourced this (or insourced it) to a different team/developer. The could also have made the decision to have it as an app so you can use it at the same time as you are using the PS3/GT6. And I can come up with a few more if I want to. All speculation though.

It is very interesting that you can use those tracks only if you are online.

 

[R5]

Can we change the thread title? It seems most people are reading that alone and taking wrong information from it.

 

[G.T.Ace]

I at least would like my vote changed to the emu option now.

 

[syntex123]

Can we change the thread title? It seems most people are reading that alone and taking wrong information from it.

To what?

 

[strela]

To what?

Tablet no longer a valid excuse, what do you hate now? Maybe?

 

[R5]

To what?

Add something like "Emulators and Android phones do work though"

 

[Imari]

I didn't say the PS3 wasn't powerful enough. What I said was resources and a possible lack of them with everything else in the game. Eventually, a straw can break the camel's back.

It's the only valid reason I can think of why the editor isn't in the game itself. Can you think of another?

Because Polyphony are so concerned about the presentation of everything, that they're willing to limit the devices that the player can use to only those that are absolutely perfect for the course maker.

A tablet probably is one of the best devices for this. It's certainly an excellent choice, for those who have one. But a phone works just fine, a mouse and keyboard would work just fine, and the DS would work just fine. But Polyphony don't want anything that isn't the best, so they intentionally crippled any other input method.

I mean, why else limit phones? I can get it working on my phone just fine by sideloading, so why did Polyphony make the specific choice not to allow that by default? The only reason for that I can think of is design, because there's sure as hell no hardware restriction.

And if that's true, then it's totally reasonable to assume that any other platform they've excluded, like PC or PS3, is for the same reason. There's no hardware restriction on PC, and I find it hard to believe that there's one for PS3 when I look at how little resources the app consumes on my toaster of a phone.

There are good reasons why they chose to make it an app independent of the game itself, but there are only terrible reasons why they chose to make it a tablet app.

 

[cjr3559]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/06/ga...in-2014-tablets-to-overtake-pc-sales-in-2015/

My guess is most PCs are sold as corporate office machines. I haven't had a desktop in 10 years and my laptop from 2012 rarely gets used. And I wouldn't consider myself on the cutting edge of technology. Yet I have a tablet.

 

[Rallywagon]

I didn't say the PS3 wasn't powerful enough. What I said was resources and a possible lack of them with everything else in the game. Eventually, a straw can break the camel's back.

It's the only valid reason I can think of why the editor isn't in the game itself. Can you think of another?

I don't think some people understand that the ps3 only has 512 megs of ram. Actually, it has two blocks of 256 megs. One handles system memory, the other handles video. Wanna know why engines sounds suck, and standard cars are in the game? Mostly because of this. The overhead needed probably keeps it from being viable in game. Now, as a companion app released for the PS3 would have been a better option, but, its not the way PD is going with its add ons I don't think. I am will to bet a lot more things will be done through a smartphone/tablet. Look how many PC racers utilize them already for button boxes and displays. It's sort of the nature evolution.

 

[Brend]

I was looking at old news articles regarding GT6 and it did say that there would be mobile apps for GT6. Its just a shame that wasn't interpreted as some features being app specific and this disappointment would have been avoided.

 

[Esotic1972]

Best I can tell this is only available from the Google play store (so no kindle support yet).

I would personally avoid super cheap Chinese tablets. Good deals can be had over at edealinfo.com or woot. Asus makes some decent budget tablets. If you can find a nexus 7 2013 for cheap those things are pretty fantastic.

 

[Rallywagon]

Best I can tell this is only available from the Google play store (so no kindle support yet).

I would personally avoid super cheap Chinese tablets. Good deals can be had over at edealinfo.com or woot. Asus makes some decent budget tablets. If you can find a nexus 7 2013 for cheap those things are pretty fantastic.

If you wanna go that route, but it is working on smartphones and emulators, so, I mean, there is a much cheaper option out there. The price of downloading chrome, bluestack and the APK.