![]() From what we can see, the differences come to an end there. Those with the disc version have to insert the disc every time they want to play, whereas the download version is accessible at all times from the XMB interface. There's some added convenience in having the game exist as a download on your PS3, of course. Regardless of which version of the game you get, the real Prologue manual is viewable in digital form through the game itself. We'd have mentioned the paper instruction manual as well, but it's really just a short guide to the controls with no mention of the rest of the game. Take that into account, and we got the retail version for about 500 yen less than the download version, and walked home with a case, an actual disc, a set of bonus Gran Turismo stickers (presumably to apply to the white model system), and the assurance of no hassle in the event that our PS3 of choice should spontaneously explode (hopefully without the Prologue disc inside). It may come as a surprise, but, despite Sony's official MSRP of 4,980 yen, the retail version of GT5 Prologue was actually the cheaper of the two versions for us! And it's even cheaper when you consider that many retailers in Japan have customer rewards programs giving 10% back in store credit. that's right, you can collect them and store them away in your privatest of places). The other, with credits from a digital wallet that we charged using one of those new 5,000 PlayStation Network cards released by Sony to Japanese shops today (different from the PlayStation Network Tickets released through convenience stores earlier this year, these are actual cards, similar to the cards offered for Xbox Live and Wii. One comes on a Blu-ray disc while the other comes as a bunch of bits and bytes downloaded from Sony's PlayStation Store to your PlayStation 3 hard disk.
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