I voted no.
How come every new game that gets announced we need a thread like this where people from the super serious sim society come down from their perch to criticize Gran Turismo for not being something that it will never become?
Gran Turismo’s physics are great for the kind of game it is. It’s realistic enough for professional racers like Lewis Hamilton and David Perel to be interested in it, but still easy enough for JDMFan1992 to jump on and pop sick drifts all over Suzuka East for hours on end without needing a wheel.
You gotta remember that giving Gran Turismo uber realistic physics is a business decision as much as it is a gameplay decision. The game carries with it a huge casual fanbase that PC sims could only dream of having. Try dropping rFactor physics into GT7 and see how many millions less it will sell after alienating a sizeable chunk of the fanbase.
Now I’m not saying GT7 can’t improve upon the physics engine at all, but expecting Sony to have a system selling racing game and a full-blown simulation title at the same time is asking too much.
EDIT: I also thought, why would GT even need to lean more towards being a hardcore sim now anyways? The Sim Racing genre is already so oversaturated, people who buy into those kinds of games really don’t need another option on the market when they’re so catered for already. If you’re reading this and you’re a hardcore sim racer, you probably already have a preferred platform so why would GT need to fulfill the same niche as a game you already own?
Last edited: Jun 12, 2020