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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.

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[edit] History

The site was created originally as an MSN community group in 2001 by Jordan Greer.[1] It became a fully-fledged website in May of that year[2] and has undergone several functional and visual changes since then. The current version – colloquially referred to as "GTP8" – was released on 6th January 2006.[3]

The site currently has somewhere in the region of 95,000+ 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) and features over 2 million articles posted so far.[4]

[edit] 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 HD and Gran Turismo: Mobile (the latter for the Sony PSP console) all now have their own sections, filling the gaps that previously existed and allowing for future releases.

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/

[edit] References

  1. ^ GTP Insider interview with Jordan Greer
  2. ^ http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1434560#post1434560
  3. ^ Welcome to a new GTPlanet!
  4. ^ GTP Forums front page

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