If you like Gran Turismo, why would you be happy with an alternative? It is the best selling simulation racing game series, people have not shown a preference for other similar games, Forza on X360 does not have GT level of success, yet it has higher metacritic than recent GT games. How many exclusive simulation racers will appear on X360 to make Gran Turismo fans decide to not wait for GT5?
Or bad news. Race lovers in the west might get a 360. A lot of good racers are there, by the time GT5 is hitting, the decision on the size of the install base has been made.
This actually seems to be good news for the game. It will give the PS3 a chance to gain more ground and add to its potential user base. The only issue is whether they can keep the hype up for that long, with a couple of demo releases they might possibly be able to, but we will have to wait and see.
Well, I hate to say I told you so, but… IGN has an interview with Kazunori Yamauchi, the game studio's founder and boss. In this interview, Yamauchi tells the world what some of us had suspected: GT5 may well not see the light of day until 2010. In fact, PD is not even focusing on the game right now, and is instead working on GT5 Prologue.
It might be little more than a throwaway comment in a lengthy interview, but Polyphony's Kazunori Yamauchi, he expects to be have all the major car manufacturers ready for inclusion by the time Gran Turismo 5 is released.
"Our goal is to become another medium for car companies, like magazines and TVs. We're the perfect game for that and ideally we could become the MySpace or Facebook for auto enthusiasts," said Taku Imasaki in a Reuters interview.
Kazunori Yamauchi, the head of Sony's Polyphony Digital - responsible for the Gran Turismo series - has said that the franchise, a long-time PlayStation exclusive may debut on PC to attract Chinese gamers.
In the interview, he also explained that new game GT5 - the Prologue demo-style version of which is currently the UK's bestselling game - had been in the works by 150 people for four years and has cost 50 times more to make than the original GT1 on the PlayStation.
“We really, really want to put damage onto our vehicles,” he said, speaking in a video interview you can find after the link. “We’ve had a lot of discussions with the manufacturers and although at the beginning they hated the idea of deformation, now they’re slowly coming around to it. We’ve still got a few to convince, but we will. Expect deformation in the very near future: very, very soon.”
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If you like Gran Turismo, why would you be happy with an alternative? It is the best selling simulation racing game series, people have not shown a preference for other similar games, Forza on X360 does not have GT level of success, yet it has higher metacritic than recent GT games. How many exclusive simulation racers will appear on X360 to make Gran Turismo fans decide to not wait for GT5?