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Polyphony has become notorious for its long delays for their games. In an interview with import and tuner, Kazunori Yamauchi said that they are busy working on updates for Prologue and GT5 won't be out so soon, 2010 at the earliest. That is a long time to wait.
As good as Prologue is, what can we expect in the full version of GT 5?
To be honest, I haven't given a lot of thought to GT 5, so I don't have an answer. And it's too early to talk about GT 5 because we still have updates coming out for Prologue.
Is there an ETA on GT 5?
It won't be this year and nothing's scheduled for next. It may be out in 2010, but like I said, we haven't really discussed it yet.
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Sure, not doubting the games popularity, which the developers are playing on. A typical Japanese trend actually. They believe they have all the power and fans will simply wait . .period. Much like Sony has done - in the past - not so much now. They learnt their lesson.
If Forza did that , or say Grid, Colin McRae PGR etc etc, you'd be screaming blue bloody murder, and how dare those stupid developers do that etc etc.
They need to put out a game each 2 years, which allows the a year in pre-release period to work on the future iteration, like every other normal developer does, and they SELL copies and ppl would buy the NEXT iteration at the same rate, making them more $$ and getting the same, if not more support from fans.
This is a slap in the face to any GT5 supporter, basically saying, well we don't care how much you might want it, you're not getting until we're ready, even if that takes 5 yrs . .and that 2010 is only a "rough time frame. What happens if they come out mid 2010 and say . . well, we've had to adb=vance the game as the PS3 has had advances (or Sony has put the PS4 out) so we have to re-work the game or do more to it.
See what I mean.No company, developers or even design studio can simply put off the product until it's perfect, there's no such thing as perfect or uptodate. It willno sooner go into pre-release lock down, several weeks before suggested release, and they'll decide to put more in it.
Developers get to a stage where they can no longer put more in the current edition/iteration. They must put those advances and assets aside and asign a smaller team to work on the next iteration, while the current team finalises the current release game.
This is how ALL developers do their games, which is whay GRAW, Rainbow Six, are well under way now, (released 2009) and COD6 has been in production for well over 8-10 months now, even though COD5 was only released a little while ago, irrespective of the development house doing the task.
Polyphony think they are the gods gift to racing genre', bar none, and it will cost them dearly.
Polyphony also show that it's worth the wait i mean Gran Turismo 5 is not a small project, each car in Gran Turismo 5 is the same polygon count as 5 cars in Project Gotham Racing 4, thats a lot of detail and each car takes a design team 6 months of meticulous crafting. This game once released will be as close to perfect as a racing game has ever gotten. We are lucky they even gave us a prologue to test the basic gameplay and sample the graphics, other developers wouldn't i mean Square Enix has kept gamers waiting 5 years for Final Fantasy XIII and not even a sample demo or anything.
PS. I apologise if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense it's Christmas Eve/Day and i've been drinking with a few friends, i'm not in intellectual mode. It took me like 20 minutes to type this correcting spelling mistakes.
It's a strange way to approach game development, but I don't see any problem with it. They're not short changing us or ripping us off.
It's also important to note that any development time spent on Prologue is not wasted, since that same programming will be in the full game anyway. In this sense, Prologue cannot be the cause of delays for the full release. Any delays that are occuring would occur regardless of whether Prologue is being updated or not.
Polyphony, you are idiots. Prologue doesn't need updates.
Like you mentioned, I'm not liking their mindset of themselves being developer Gods, and only releasing a game when it's absolutely perfect. If every game did that, not only would there be no games on the shelves, but they'd constantly be saying "Oh, we're going to delay it because after we delayed it last time, we fell behind today's trends, and now we have to update it again to suit today's needs." They keep doing that and the game will never see shelves.
As I said, this game will likely not release before the PS4 comes out. Because if their rouch release timeframe is "at least" 2010, you can count on the fact that they'll delay every last second of it. I don't understand why they'd update Prologue; you update it too much, it's almost like the final game. When the final game releases, nobody will want it because Prologue suits them just fine. Thusly, GT5's sales will plummet, hurting Polyphony.
Bloody idiots indeed.
I love all GT games, so this is a must-have for me.
XD
TBH they should've released GT:P and just forgotten about it whilst they continued GT5.
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