They're not going to give away any substancial DLC for free, they didn't even give paint chips away for free.
Well they are giving the potential of winning a race drive for free, and have added through patches quite a few cars for free already. Giving away previous / new DLC content as prizes is not a far stretched idea as they have given away a free SLS as a prize before, tickets to an F1 race and what have you in other competitions. There are not that many DLC packs they have released, the lowest they will go is giving away a free in-game car or maybe a free paint chip
. I think if it is not substantial, maybe it will just be the GT Academy cars realistically.
I see you conveniently left out the 360 in that question, any reason in particular? But even if you do can you name a game on the PS3 or PC that took over 5 years to develop? PD are not efficient developers, not at all. They spent all of that time modelling the leather stitching on the interiors of the premium cars whilst leaving 800 other cars with no interior at all and a half assed single player game. Their priorities were completely wrong.
Well only one game on 360 has more fully modelled interior cars on that platform and that is Forza 4. Considering they have more people working on car modelling on that game than, the entire PD workforce, it is not a huge achievement is it? The amount of people who worked on Forza 1 since 2001 is similar to the amount of people who worked on GT5 so you can see why PD will struggle to compete with them as out of all Sony and Microsoft's first party studios, Turn 10 have the most resources out of them all though.
Games like TDU2, rFactor 2, iRacing, GTR 3, Assetto Corsa do not have the same number of cars out the box as GT5 has in terms of premium cars numbers but they most likely spent just as many years getting to the stage they have. PD do not have much more employees than these companies too. I don't hear unrealistic demands or huge complaints directed to these developers, that they are slow for not delivering say 1000 cars with basic modelled interiors which is the expectation of PD in the same time frame. Simple reason being it is unrealistic. PD could have scrapped all the standard cars with only say a handful more premium cars, maybe if they did that, people would not expect unrealistic content from them.
Efficiency is measured also in terms of long term. Would you prefer PD to make say about 500 cars with less detail, that they have to remodel from scratch a couple years later or build for the future while releasing the most number of cars of any game at that standard. I think their priorities are correct and are thinking of long term and making use of their development resources as best as possible. I mean they would be completely be destroyed on the next-gen consoles as they will probably have only released say 100 cars if they followed your development plan idea instead of now potentially 400 in the same time frame. They might also have wasted even more resources on a legacy core platform if they stuck with say the GT4 base and online code and built on that for GT5 just to make GT5 a better game in the short term. Sure GT5 might have been a more fun game but the GT series would have paid a heavy price for future games due to the poor use of resources that you suggest and have taken a 5 year step backwards compared to where they are now. The situation of GT5 would have been what GT7 would be if they stuck to developing legacy assets, but now we can look forward to a solid, focussed GT6 and GT7.
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GT5 has time and weather, yes, but only on a handful of tracks. That doesn't take 5 years of work. Just look at Project CARS, they're in BETA/ALPHA less than a year into development and they have a 24 hour light cycle on EVERY track, weather to follow.
That is quite a high level of ignorance shown there. Project CARS is based on an engine that has been developed for the last 5 years at least. If you are going to backdate GT5's engine to when it first started being created, why show double standards towards other games. Project CARS also will not be running at 60FPS on consoles, this is a criteria PD have to try their best to meet. Sure PD could update GT5 with weather and night now on all tracks without any further optimization towards the GT platform if they wanted to, but that will be quite a big sacrifice for a driving sim on a console due to the frame rate hit.
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