Kazunori Yamauchi Discusses Mobile Gaming, Formula 1 Licensing at GameLab 2012
Kazunori Yamauchi sported a Spanish soccer jersey at one point during a media session in Barcelona today at GameLab 2012, and some of his early interviews with local news outlets are now being published.
They hold some very interesting comments, though keep in mind the specifics may have been lost in translation (originally spoken in Japanese, translated to Spanish, and finally to English).
Kazunori’s words to Terra.es will be of particular interest to fans hoping for a Gran Turismo title on the PlayStation Vita, as he discussed the future of gaming on mobile devices:
“Before the game was limited to the living room of the house. But no turning back and is inevitable that a game console may be in the new mobile devices. [...] As new consoles and new platforms emerge, the language of the game changes. Evolution must offer the user the most intense experiences possible and with an increase in perceived quality.”
While speaking with Elmundo, he also shared information about Polyphony Digital’s attempts to create an officially-licensed Formula 1 game:
“[...] we were interested to create a game with the Formula 1 license but had to withdraw. That industry is a monster, so big that any agreement you want to get forces you to make a financial outlay that we can not afford.”
Also in Elmundo’s article, Kazunori discusses just how far driving simulators have to go in terms of realism, claiming that even a simulation on a machine radically more powerful than the PlayStation 3 would be far from perfect:
“[...] we are close on issues of aerodynamics. No simulation can achieve 100% because even the great Formula 1 teams use models to refine their models , but we are close. We could not achieve a perfect simulator or even if we had machines that were ten thousand or a hundred thousand times more powerful than today.”
As previously mentioned, GameLab 2012 is open to the public throughout this weekend. Kazunori Yamauchi will be making an appearance and signing autographs for the public on Friday.
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July 1st, 2012 at 11:12 am - #Blinkou
that’s it? there is no more news? after a € 5 DLC, nobody complains? it’s amazing you have to wake up ………… when will we have true information about gt5? should know if gt5 is abandoned or if it will be improved …… and not with the DLC ridiculous. I love gt5 gt5 …….. I play all the time but I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the content since January. I hate forza but there were 100 cars against 25 for gt5 ….. done something, we must make things happen. otherwise the GT series will flow.
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July 1st, 2012 at 2:53 am - #toospiciecc
Maybe,just maybe it would be a better idea to get the IndyCar license to put IndyCars as well as new DTM’s,WTCC,2012 WRC and classic Grand Prix cars from the 50′s and 60′s + more new cars from Renault,Citroen and PLEASE……..Bring Porsche to the GT series.
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July 1st, 2012 at 12:13 am - #WedgeX
This is bs from Kaz… will someone sit this guy down and force him to swallow his pride and play iRacing if he wants to see the current state of realism …. read some threads in the iRacing forum about what GT5/iRacer’s think about it …. I’m also happy they didn’t get the License for F1 because Code-masters is doing a smashing job with that series … every track in F1!!! and Texas before the track is even finished …. I very much doubt that would happen with a GT spin off
GT series needs to go back to the Gran turismo 1 thru 4 menus where you had a beautiful map to explore and places to go …. all the classic tracks need to come back and they should give the player a more meaningful experience that can develop you as a driver…. a proper driving school from street rules to track skills …
then they need to add servers to Online … I know what your thinking Pay to play right? NO… only admins/clans who want to run their own servers would pay…. Look at Battlefield 3 online … ZERO Lag!…. because it has proper servers and its doing well…. and the experience of shooting in BF3 works flawlessly while GT5 is a cloud of lag cars floating around.
then they need to add serious car damage … Not cosmetic damage – but the kind that takes you out of a race for bad driving…because racing is about the rush of being on the edge…. no edge to fall over no rush of driving….
etc etc.
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July 4th, 2012 at 11:34 am - #Blessorship
You need better internet.
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June 30th, 2012 at 7:53 pm - #DYLAN777-is-not
I wish GT gets tje full F1 license (mainly hope full NASCAr license) so there could be for once a game where they get it all correct. And f**k EA
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June 30th, 2012 at 11:45 pm - #e30 freek
we were interested to create a game with the Formula 1 license but had to withdraw. I dont think they’re making it
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June 30th, 2012 at 3:00 pm - #paulpg87
with the crap he delivered with gt5 i’m happy he didn’t succeed in getting his hands on f1 licence. However he would have made a formula nissan game.
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June 30th, 2012 at 10:05 am - #RTSolvalou
And they need to ditch the experience system if they want GT6 to sell. Otherwise GT will remain a role playing adventure since it dictates when you can and cannot drive each car.
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June 30th, 2012 at 12:48 pm - #Tomeggyilkos
no experience sysytem is the best this isnt NFS what u play thru in 6 hours
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June 30th, 2012 at 1:19 pm - #foefke
ever playd GT4 ???
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July 1st, 2012 at 12:02 am - #WedgeX
agreed 100% .. either that (and remove all restrictions) or go full on with the role playing in something much more engaging…. the current system of grinding thru crap races against moving pylons has to evolve
I wouldn’t mind something where you start off from scratch and develops yourself as a driver (real driving skills) from the ground up (from karting to f1 etc) if it was actually fun …. The driving in GT series is superb but everything else that surrounds that experience is horribly dull and needs major overhaul
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June 30th, 2012 at 9:51 am - #Sergio Perez
Why do we have to get GT6 so soon? It’s going to be GT5 with a few tweaks but the graphics would be completely the same as well as no in-car cameras in the standard cars. These guys need to learn that if u just keep pumping out new versions of the games, and there isn’t many differences, no one will buy it. And for the F1 licensing you don’t need to have an FIA license to have an openwheel car. If you want another openwheel car use the Lotus T125. It’s a F1 car that you can buy for £600,000. It has more downforce then an F1 car of today but it has less power. It is about 4 seconds slower then an F1 car and GT5 should be smart enough to know to have an openwheel car you don’t need an FIA or an IndyCar license.
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June 30th, 2012 at 12:47 pm - #Tomeggyilkos
1. u need to learn first what the fk u talkin about
2. u r like why u want mercedes when u can have skoda? u r a funny guy
3. “but the graphics would be completely the same” hahaha no comment u idiot
4.” if u just keep pumping out new versions of the games, and there isn’t many differences, no one will buy it” show me pls an auto sim what is sold more copies than GT and yes no big differenc for u cuz the first GT u played was the GT5
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June 30th, 2012 at 1:22 pm - #foefke
Tome……. f.ck.ng right man
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:12 pm - #DYLAN777-is-not
Why you hating on what GT does well. It doent pump out new games quickly at all! Gt6 will be shockingly good. Gt5 was an unfinished game (not rushed just unfinished) and its easily better than its rival forza. And another obvious thing you got wrong all standard cars do have cockpit views.. Theyre all unique but blacked out to give gt6 A NEW feature. As for your “fix” to the F1 license, thats idiotic. Who wants a dumbed down version of a F1, plus it was on top gear to make it worse. I hope gt6 will come out soon becauae GT knows how to make great driving games.
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June 30th, 2012 at 9:42 pm - #PorkyTheRacer
I disagree with the “if you make the same game no one will buy it,” hhabe you seen CoD, it works for them. If gt6 came out we would buy it, and people would complain.
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July 1st, 2012 at 2:16 pm - #MuoNiuLa
@DYLAN: Easily better than Forza? I don’t think so.
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July 3rd, 2012 at 7:56 pm - #e30 freek
@Moinila I do think so
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July 4th, 2012 at 6:09 pm - #another_jakhole
^^^ Me thinks so too.
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June 30th, 2012 at 7:30 am - #sandwiches
Ya GT6 will have to be on the ps4. This crack of the loading times must be cut down and the online gaming must have a better race selection screen only showing the rooms that can be entered with reception and network compatibility. And the possibility of weather and time progression on all tracks. And if we could have a few enduranse seasonal races every now and again….
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July 1st, 2012 at 12:57 am - #LtFunyun
I agree with Dylan on the fact that GT is better than forza. Even Clarkson from topgear says GT is better on new forza.
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June 30th, 2012 at 5:47 am - #Buzz17091991
Why do you want GT6 on PS3? Do you want another compromise with the Standrad vs Premium Cars? Do you want blocky shadows when rain is falling or smoke apperars? Do you want long and often loading times? Do you want 16 instead of 32 cars in races?
GT6 must be on PS4, PS3 is on the limit.
At all GT6 must have many changes. GT5 is a very good racing game but there are things I never want to see or hear in GT6. I want realistic and powerful engine sounds like in Forza 4 and Need for Speed Shift 2. I want a better menu with more comfortable options and faster loadings times or no loading times.
Then the AI must be better and more human. Rain on every track, different daytimes on every track. A better tuning and colour management would be also great.All in all, GT6 has to deliver the real racing atmosphere better than actual.
In this case, it would be the Number 1 of all racing games.And never Standard Cars and average engine sounds.
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June 30th, 2012 at 6:22 am - #ADDiCT3D_2_BASs
Couldn’t agree more. We need the PS4 for GT6.
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June 30th, 2012 at 7:21 am - #Pugxsi
Need more different races as well, and why limit to level 40, got that on a & b spec with game only 75% complete, some cars are not competetive in any race even if tuned to max
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:17 am - #DuskTrooper
“Why do you want GT6 on PS3? Do you want another compromise with the Standrad vs Premium Cars? Do you want blocky shadows when rain is falling or smoke apperars? Do you want long and often loading times? Do you want 16 instead of 32 cars in races?”
Why do I want it on PS3? Because:
1) It’ll take a lot less to develop, because PD already has a base (GT5) to mess around with and improve. If GT6 is on the PS4 then most likely PD would have to create yet another new game engine to support that game too, which means they will have less time to improve upon the actual game play.
2) I know for sure that many of us aren’t going to spend another 599.99 U.S dollars just to buy a new unit, only so we can just one single video game.
3) PD would be stupid to release GT6 on the PS4 when the PS4 launches because the majority of people haven’t and won’t switch to that console just yet. Therefor the user-base for the PS3 will still be likely quite high for at least 3-4 after the PS4 is released. Any smart company would release their product for the PS3
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:24 am - #DuskTrooper
Damn thing posted my comment when I wasn’t finished typing it all… Anyway, continuation:
Any smart company would release their product for the PS3 because the PS3 would still have a higher user-base therefor PD (and Sony too) would make more money doing it this way.
“Do you want another compromise with the Standrad vs Premium Cars? Do you want blocky shadows when rain is falling or smoke apperars? Do you want long and often loading times? Do you want 16 instead of 32 cars in races?”
Chances are the days of seeing those standards will be over with once GT6 is released. Also, it is perfectly possible to add only premium quality cars to GT6 and completely get rid of those standards. You don’t need a new unit for that.
Personally, I don’t mind having some blocky looking shawdows for slightly pixelated rain drops, as long as the core game pley is better than GT5′s is.
I also don’t understand why having load times is a bad thing. I mean, the game has to load the models and textures, other wise you’d either get nothing showing at all, or everything would be completely white. Load times are not a bad thing in a sense, as long that the times are reasonable enough, like GT5′s are.
I don’t mind having only 16 cars on the track at once, hall I personally wouldn’t care much if we had only 8 cars on the track at once, as long as the AI was smarter, way smarter for that matter, than it is currently on GT5.
Ugh, now my fingers are tired! D:
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June 30th, 2012 at 8:26 am - #DuskTrooper
Hmm, too many grammar mistakes on that post, oh well. :|
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June 30th, 2012 at 12:30 pm - #TokoTurismo
You PS4 people are nuts. What you gonna do, buy a system for who knows much for just one game? Plus waiting for how long? No thanks. Forza 4 was worked on for the Xbox 360 and look at how that turn out. PD just needs to get more used to the system itself, but now since GT Vita is probaby coming, Which I bet it is. I can see GT6 being a PS4 game, knowing Sony. Ugh…
Oh well at least GT Vita may have all cars premium with all tracks back, but I don’t trust it if its to get PS Vita good sales just because of GT.
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June 30th, 2012 at 12:40 pm - #TokoTurismo
Who knows PD may make GT6 for both PS3 and PS Vita. ^.^
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June 30th, 2012 at 12:52 pm - #Tomeggyilkos
1. its alrdy the number 1
2. ifu want more real than this go out to a track in rea life….
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June 29th, 2012 at 11:09 pm - #Amac500
Ya know what F1 car we could get that I want? That misfit Ferrari F1 car from idk what year that was probably the only Ferrari factory race car that was not red. This F1 car was….. white as blue! What model / year was that?
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June 30th, 2012 at 3:09 am - #Fisha695
1964 Ferrari 158 (and 1512). Enzo was having issues with the Italian Motorsports Sanctioning Body so they “Withdrew Factor Support” for the final 2 races of the 1964 season & their cars were repainted White with Blue Stripes (USA Racing Colors) and entered by NART (North American Racing Team) which was a Ferrari Sportscar team. John Surtees officially won the 1964 Championship in the NART car.
In 1965 they entered the 2 cars again in the final 2 races though the factory Ferrari team competed in those races.
Do a Google Image Search for “1964 NART” and you’ll find a few pictures of it.
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June 29th, 2012 at 11:02 pm - #TokoTurismo
Ask Kaz to add bikes to GT6 like they did with GTHD as a project. It’ll be fun to race with both cars and bikes on the same track with probably all the tracks coming back in GT6! :D
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June 30th, 2012 at 9:49 pm - #PorkyTheRacer
That would be idiotic. Maybe if they made sections of the game like: street cars, race mod cars, le mans, trans am muscle, NASCAR, trucks, etc. It sound like alot but those cars are in the game now.
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June 29th, 2012 at 3:55 pm - #MarcoM
I am still hoping for a Vita release. A man can dream.
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June 29th, 2012 at 12:42 pm - #danger23
oh yeah PD don’t forget the YUGO 2.5 LOL
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June 29th, 2012 at 12:22 pm - #danger23
LOL DAYTONA PROTOTYPE kaz deals with cars that proven them selves at some shape way or form if daytona proto’s want to be proven tell them to go to lemans oh those car basically are just getting there feet wet are you kidding me
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June 29th, 2012 at 3:20 pm - #Mac K
How old are you? 12? Or am I to high?
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June 29th, 2012 at 5:26 pm - #danger23
yeah wait til the high comes cuz ur dumb high
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June 29th, 2012 at 7:03 pm - #DuskTrooper
I think that answers your question, Mac K.
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June 29th, 2012 at 11:00 pm - #Amac500
What’s wrong with DPs??? The 2nd gen weren’t that cool but the new 3rd Gen DP’s are AWESOME. They separated themselves from knock off LMPs, now with the 3rd gen they give the manufacturers identification for their street cars. Just look at the Corvette Daytona Prototype, thats one dam good looking car and it looks like the street cars. LMP’s showcase the technology and are on the cutting edge, but they don’t look like street cars. That is the difference between DP and LMP you idiot, they aren’t even comparable. Any and everything you said is totally invalid, don’t waste our time with your IQ of 2.
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June 30th, 2012 at 3:16 am - #Fisha695
The 3rd gen DPs (Bodywise) are pretty close to some of the late 90s LMGTP cars, infact a DP is basically a GT car with a Prototype style body on it (I believe a slightly modified one even raced in WTCC or SuperGT or something like that a few years back).
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June 29th, 2012 at 12:00 pm - #Mr2Fast4U
I own a Vita and would love to see a Gran Turismo on it and some more dlc for GT5 wouldn’t hurt either like a car pack including the new Camaro ZL1 and Shelby GT500.
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June 29th, 2012 at 9:14 am - #DEV-DAVIDE
“We could not achieve a perfect simulator or even if we had machines that were ten thousand or a hundred thousand times more powerful than today.”
They could not achieve a perfect simulation because they don t want to, Netkar Pro would run perfectly on PS3…GT5 is still a nice game, but it s hard to say that it s the best simulator
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June 29th, 2012 at 9:11 am - #danger23
man i’m hoping for something big after this dlc package,if there’s even going to be one.maybe they should have a bigger rim selection i runing out options for my cars lol i wouldn’t mind seeing some spinners spining after a car just did 200 mph and come to a complete stop they would probably spin off the wheel that would be funny. let be for real they had two big time dlc packages in the 2plus years of existence this one coming up is like the goodfellas selling tubbawear i’m just saying.
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June 29th, 2012 at 8:11 am - #DRambo
Plenty of FIA stuff I wish they would include – GT1, GT3, WEC. Blancpain Endurance? Why not license other open wheel formulas; F1 is not the “be all and end all”.
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June 29th, 2012 at 9:44 am - #danger23
The f1 series is star studded that why,its becoming big as far as motorsports is concerned(not saying its not big but here in america its getting big),i think there building a track here in america as we speak.if you watch it who are most you hear about?louis hamilton,sabastian vettel,lol i forget the guy who drives for farrari oh yeah the old veteran micheal shumachker,don’t mind i’m not good at spelling peoples names from other countries lol.i don’t watch it as much as i’d like to but i know who they are.even though i like leman and i’m american i should be liking nascar but there’s really no action no drama there, i sometimes watch nascar and fall asleep looking at the cars going around in a circle “just kidding” but i can see how that type of motorsports can get bigger in america.I think america can grow to love f1 racing or le’man or whatever i know there alot of people that love the sport including me but not as much as nascar some people have no idea.but if does R.I.PIECES NASCAR.
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June 29th, 2012 at 10:27 am - #researchALLwars
boom. great post.
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June 29th, 2012 at 10:43 am - #Pit Crew
Unfortunately its a mute point as Kaz has already squashed The Idea. Daytona Prototypes for GT6 and maybe some ALMS Events
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June 29th, 2012 at 12:15 pm - #danger23
Ok that’s true but if they had the money it would have been another great game for polyphony digital and another exculsive ps3 tiltle.i would love for them to make a f1 series title.
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June 29th, 2012 at 12:24 pm - #danger23
no buddy those aren’t ready to be on gt6 gt7 gt7 gt8 there just getting those corvette on the prototype seen
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June 29th, 2012 at 7:06 am - #Olegonic
Gran Turismo IS a sponsor of D1 champ. Please give us ALL TOP D1 CARs.
1. Kawabata’s SILVIA
2. Saito’s Chaser
3. Imamura’s Silvia
4. Kumakubo’s Subaru
5. Hibino’s Corolla
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