Polyphony Digital Focusing Development on Gran Turismo 6
After more than a year and a half of regular software updates to Gran Turismo 5, they have become increasingly infrequent since 2.05 was launched back in February.
Today, Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged and explained the slowdown with a post on Twitter, confirming Polyphony Digital is focusing development efforts on Gran Turismo 6. As translated by our own Shirakawa Akira:
@Newsportsx: that recent updates have become small or that there aren’t cars on DLCs, is this because you’re putting hard efforts on [GT] 6?
@Kaz_Yamauchi: Yep. (This can also be translated as “Well…”, thanks to Dai_watt for the additional clarification!)
Of course, this certainly does not signal the end of the road for Gran Turismo 5; the new GT5 Academy Edition is scheduled for release in Europe next month, and is suspected to contain a few surprises according to the wording of its press release.
Kazunori Yamauchi also specifically confirmed that more new downloadable content is planned for GT5 during an interview at the Spanish GT Academy finals. Until then, stop by our now Gran Turismo 6 forum to discuss the future of the franchise.
GT5 Photomode image by hawk2201.
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August 18th, 2012 at 2:56 pm - #wolvesrcomin
I was so looking forward to gt5 i didn’t even care about the low def shadows,repeat engine noise…… but there just isn’t enough game for me to keep going back , the endurance section of the game might as well not be there for me, ditto b-spec, and there aren’t enough seasonal events being produced.
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August 17th, 2012 at 10:33 am - #TurboProp
All I want is New and Improved Premium Horns…really
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August 16th, 2012 at 11:19 pm - #helliphinon8
My main concern is the amount of American made cars, classic and modern that will be available in GT6. Forza 4 has GT5 beat all around, so the maker’s of GT6 NEED to realize that 95% of their player aren’t JAPANESE!!!!! Most of the countries that love Grand Turismo love classic American muscle cars. Yamauchi needs to wake up! He’s got me buying an Xbox since it takes him 5yrs to make a “decent” game.
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August 18th, 2012 at 12:35 am - #badboyg316
Also, one thing you need to realized is that this is not a classic car racing game. It’s gran turismo, a racing simulator. Not a game to show off classic vintage cars. On top of that no one said anything about this game being targeted to Japanese. (so you need to fix your racism there) An other thing is that you have to remember that this guy is a game designer and a race car driver, so give him some time. Maybe if you play the game properly you might see the “decent” in it.
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August 29th, 2012 at 3:40 pm - #77
racism; noun
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races…
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September 11th, 2012 at 3:03 am - #jujunosuke
@badboy
“Also, one thing you need to realized is that this is not a classic car racing game. It’s gran turismo, a racing simulator.”
With more than 1000 cars available there is no excuse to not have all these classic American cars that everyone love.
(And i am not American). So i don’t get your point when you say that gt is a racing simulator.
The fact that its a simulator make it impossible to have old American muscle cars ?
You are just wrong.“(so you need to fix your racism there)”
Where does this guy has been racist ?
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September 13th, 2012 at 12:01 am - #another_jakhole
I love Japanese cars, especially the classics, whether they’re Japanese or not, in GT.
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August 13th, 2012 at 3:24 pm - #Prodriver13
I think the real question would be, is it going to be released on PS3? Or PS4?
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August 13th, 2012 at 2:50 pm - #MGTGT5
For GT6 to be great, NO STANDARD CARS! Everything has to be premium. No excuse for a dark shadow interior for anything.
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August 9th, 2012 at 10:35 pm - #tpark103
Agreed!Its refreshing when people get to the point?
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August 10th, 2012 at 9:50 am - #mister dog
Yep.
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August 22nd, 2012 at 12:06 am - #RCslayer
There wasnt a excuse for it in GT5. This game should have been 30%better then what it is right now. The gap between 4 and 5 was way to high for this game to not be better, dont get me wrong Gt5 is good, its just not what I was expecting after all these years. Standard cars, like come on. There shouldnt even be such a thing. As much as it pains me to say this I think Forza has gt beat, in everything but the handling, and the look of the premium cars, and trust me there isnt a bigger fan of the GT games as me.
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August 30th, 2012 at 9:58 am - #counter345
^^^^^
Then you had your expectations too high.
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August 9th, 2012 at 5:16 pm - #mister dog
“Yep” …damn, what an in depth interview with kaz the great, outlining all the points we wanted covered. He does it again mister communication to the fans himself! Great stuff
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August 9th, 2012 at 4:17 am - #flink racquet
There is no excuse for non-premium cars in GT6, every Forza car has a detailed interior and car models. B-spec needs to disappear completely, along with museum cards and all the other superfluous junk that encroaches on development of cars, tracks, events and decent online infrastructure. Remove ridiculous tracks like Cape Ring and all the Mt. Aso type tracks, add some point to point and more real world tracks and GT6 would be unbeatable.
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August 9th, 2012 at 4:33 pm - #DuskTrooper
I stopped reading your comment once I read the about removing tracks. Why in the world would they do that? The more tracks the better, even if they are fictional.
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August 9th, 2012 at 10:35 pm - #SonicConqueror
B-Spec will not disappear; it’ll stay with Gran Turismo for as long as they want. Museum cards will not disappear, neither nor the original circuits of the series. No point-to-point races will be allowed in GT6, as they rely heavily on circuits. Point-to-point races are only allowed in NFS.
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August 8th, 2012 at 10:31 pm - #SonicConqueror
The one car that was ever used in GT as an Australian car was the 2000 Ford F a l c o n XR8 standard model car. For GT6, I strongly request that there should be a MASSIVE lineup of V8 Supercars from this years’ V8 Supercars Championship to present, since the Mount. Panorama Circuit is being included. If so, then there should the historic Bathurst 1000 endurance race exclusively for the V8 Supercars of Australia. For B-Spec, 2 crew drivers are needed, unless there is a request for more drivers needed from a certain crew. In all, it’ll be MASSIVE!
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August 14th, 2012 at 3:00 pm - #LordMarklar
I would love to be able to categorize my vehicles in seperate garages. for example- Nascar garage, American Muscle Garage, Formula Garage……etc.
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August 8th, 2012 at 8:04 pm - #Dude27
ONE word: SOUND and especially ultra realistic EXTERNAL sounds should be the main objective of GT6…. the graphics just need more power in order to be perfect (graphic with AA, no more artifacts, HD shadows and particules)
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August 9th, 2012 at 4:35 pm - #DuskTrooper
The objective with for GT6 should be to create a fun and challenging game, with plenty of high quality content.
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August 8th, 2012 at 2:27 pm - #BestRacerEver
Please no more stupid trophies and challenges like red bull races. It make speople cheat. The game must be fun, not that hard that you lose interest because its impossible,
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August 8th, 2012 at 4:18 pm - #DANfourTWENTY
I like the trophy challanges, not the redbull though thats the biggest bit of crap in this game, if it was a real car then that would be fine but it aint so no more bs cars please PD
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August 8th, 2012 at 10:24 pm - #SonicConqueror
I prefer any trophy challenge that I like to do. Even if it’s a very hard one to do, it’s well worth it.
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August 9th, 2012 at 4:38 pm - #DuskTrooper
“The game must be fun, not that hard that you lose interest because its impossible”
I say the more challenging the game is, the better it will be. Look at the older GT games, they were challenging, yet they were so fun, they kept you playing for long amounts of time. If anything, GT5 is more boring than fun, and that’s partially because of the lack of challenging game play.
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August 8th, 2012 at 10:52 am - #DANfourTWENTY
Get rid of the money boosting and grinding, Honestly its so much fun when at the begining you cant afford anything so you upgrade your EK civic one piece at a time and appreciate the difference it makes, now i got more money then i know what to do with so any new cars get immediately maxed out and i lose that aspect of the game, true i could upgrade one piece at a time but who is gona do that when they got 19,000,000 in there account.
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August 8th, 2012 at 2:36 pm - #Progress823
I don’t know about that. Even with 20,000,000 credits, I still upgrade cars piece by piece. There really should not be a credit limit at all; ever notice when you buy a 20 million credit car, you have nothing to upgrade it with?
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August 8th, 2012 at 4:16 pm - #DANfourTWENTY
yes that is true, but 1 seasonal with the performance difference (which is a good thing) and the 200% login bonus (bad thing) and your back to 1 million credits again which is enough to fully tune most cars.
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August 9th, 2012 at 4:42 pm - #DuskTrooper
I completely agree with this. It is way too easy to get money in GT5, and because of this, the game loses a lot of the replay value that older versions of GT had.
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September 11th, 2012 at 2:54 am - #jujunosuke
I also agree with this !
The old GT was really fun in that way.It was damn painful to win races, so with the little money you had, you made a change in your car and possibility win the race to make more money etc…
Getting good cars immediately is just not good.
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August 8th, 2012 at 10:38 am - #DANfourTWENTY
GT6 pah, Im still waiting for a premium EG civic oh and all those other crappy psp models updating, (i think it was a thread like this which left me under the impression that it was planned for them to do that) GT5 was a let down and all the hyping you guys are putting in this thread is just setting gt6 up to be a let down also. did anyone else hear the rumour/hype people were saying about there been like a proper network of roads with traffic lights and tickets for speeding running red lights etc.. ? Oh yeah that was BS hype of a thread like this also.
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August 8th, 2012 at 2:36 am - #hassan Qureshi
How many years will it take to develop this game as we have died to get our hands on gt5 previously, also the number of cars with interior view just sound amazing cant wait for it.
Car Wish List:
1 Ferrari FF
2 Ferrari F50
3 Ferrari 360 Modena
4 Bugatti supersports
5 Audi A5 coupe (RS5)
6 Mercedes benz S500 AMG
7 Mercedes GL
8 Lamborghini diablo
9 Porsche 911 gts
10 Porsche cayman turbo
11 ford raptor F-150and many more :)
In tracks i would like them to add Abu dhabi gran prix track because its awesome and beautifull specially night view
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August 7th, 2012 at 11:29 pm - #tpark103
GT6 is going to be Epic! The question is when will we see GT6? HMMM
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August 7th, 2012 at 11:00 pm - #ss3kidgoku
As I agree with most of the suggestions here, my personal thing is the music. Please have a team work on that music department. There were a select few songs on GT5 that were great. Mostly by Daiki Kasho, I just don’t think I should have to download my own music to race to when you guys usually nail this department. Make it like GT4 and it’ll be swell.
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August 7th, 2012 at 12:04 pm - #SMOKEYBEAR
Please add porsche we need Porsche ..
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August 7th, 2012 at 5:02 pm - #mr_pepps
This. Just this. Unless some new RUFs are in the pipeline. ‘S’long as they’re 911-shaped :)
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August 7th, 2012 at 11:51 pm - #Angels
They can’t add Porsche because EA owns the rights for porsche.
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August 8th, 2012 at 12:37 am - #Pit Crew
@SmokeyBear Its all about the money bro, If PD pays EA price we could see Porsche.
RUF could be the best option. I believe another Porsche tuner exists that could be available. Kaz also has to open a “line of communication”.
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August 8th, 2012 at 9:18 am - #HKSBro92
@Pit Crew Midnight Club 3 used this company called “Gemballa” which was also tuned Porsches.
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August 9th, 2012 at 1:18 am - #Pit Crew
^Good lookin Out HKS Thanks bro
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August 6th, 2012 at 4:06 pm - #CreeperManiac
NOW GT6 ohhhh my god… this is gunna kill me…
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August 6th, 2012 at 8:04 am - #japlkofk69
They have to take their time and make it a perfect gt or at least close to, i think we can wait long since gt5 still has a lot of potential only needs dlc
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August 6th, 2012 at 8:10 am - #Big Ron
They didn´t make a nearly perfect game within 5 years. What do you expect for GT 6? As long as they don´t change their game concept, GT will not become better.
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August 6th, 2012 at 11:42 am - #TeamCZRRacing
@Big Ron They’re working with the same engine that was in GT5. They’ll probably keep the premium models they have now, and hopefully they’ll remove the standard cars and make any new cars premium. I think they learned their lesson with premium/standard cars. It seems that no one in the GT fan base except a few people care much about how fun a car is to drive, as long as it looks and sounds good.
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August 7th, 2012 at 12:00 pm - #MaterA113
@TeamCZRRacing I get your point, but I honestly don’t care if cars are standard or premium as long as drive realistically. All I want in GT6 is a longer and more diverse career, so you can drive almost every car in an event. It would be a bonus of all cars were premium, but that’s not at the top of my list.
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August 7th, 2012 at 4:04 pm - #DuskTrooper
@ TeamCZRRacing: I paid for a PS3 game, so I could use high-poly cars models like those of premium status. I did not pay for a PS3 game so I could use low-poly PS2 conversions.
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August 7th, 2012 at 11:24 pm - #tpark103
Wait a minute, we’ve been waiting since GT4!
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