Gran Turismo 5 online suffers under high traffic

After a long wait,
Gran Turismo 5 has been released and lots of players, including yours truly, are playing the game, offline and online. However, the online portion has been severely limited over the past few days because Sony didn’t anticipate so much traffic — Sony’s GT5 servers are able to handle up to 500,000 connections, but that has been vastly exceeded over the past few days, resulting in lots of lag. Sony is working on a patch which will ease the congestion.