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If it's unacceptable for you don't play it or waste your precious time in a forum for a game you don't like.
It might be new for players, but Yamauchi said it was already modeled when the game was released. Allegedly missed the timeframe for inclusion "at the last minute".
Forza did have XBox cars in it in Forza 2. Microsoft can afford to hire a number of design studios in the East to model content for them, and so they reworked them, a LOT, for Forza 3 and 4. But keep this in mind. Forza 4 had 400-plus people working on it, and after five years of Forza, we only have 500 some odd cars. Evidently it really does take a few months to model a single car, and a year or two to model a track in this HD age. So keep that in mind when complaining about Gran Turismo and Polyphony's staff of 100-plus.
At the supposed rate of 6 man-hour-months of time needed for each car (made from scratch), PD's 50 3d car modelers could have made 100 completely new cars for GT5, by now.Tenacious D
The point was that they didn't waste much time over the last 12 months in modeling the Scirocco, as it was already done (or nearly done) by the time the game got released. This is in answer to "so they must have been modeling it for quite some time".sikbeta
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Fact is, no PS3 game should have PS2 content in it. People would LOL if Forza 4 would have 400 xbox cars in it and 100 xbox360 cars.
) and in April they had a freaking Tsunami that pretty much screwed them (no really them, but the place where they work) and their plans, the fact that they're moving to another location should mean something related to that natural disaster
(I find it weird that no one is glad that with the upcoming update, we'll be available to change rims in Standard cars
hate the Renault and Peugeot cars for not having any aero part available to put in them 👎 love the Supra '88
True enough, but software is where the money is, not hardware. MS has a much bigger purse, and they're not shy about sprinkling money in certain areas just to be sure of establishing a "platform", not necessarily worrying about immediate profit. The platform can be used to bring in a constant flow of cash, in the form of DLC; which is, of course, unaccounted for in sales figures
You seem to have a very flawed idea about how the physics model works in just about any racing sim, and that includes GT5 and FM4.
While this is true, do you want the team working solely on content for GT5?
You don't understand economics. If SONY was JUST Polyphony Digital, you'd have a point. But they're not. Microsoft is made of money, because about the only thing they make is software, very little hardware. And they sell that software for a VERY high price, especially to businesses and governments.
While this is true, do you want the team working solely on content for GT5?
Do you want them working at all on GT6??
Do you want everything they make for GT6 released as DLC for GT5?
This is the thing. Polyphony can't compete with five or six modeling studios which amounts to at least four times the number of staff cranking out content. And then the other matter of releasing it as DLC. Some people are happy to get ALL the content for Forza 5 as DLC early, or most of it, in F4. But consider that if this means as much as 24 car packs. Or let's just say 20 for the sake of math. At $7 a pack which I think someone quoted it as, 70 cents a car, that's going to be $140 for all those cars. Plus there are DLC tracks too. And then, yay, you get to buy them all over again when Forza 5 ships. While I don't think this is outrageous like some would, I also don't like it. I don't want Polyphony to descend to that point, that all they care about is the almighty monies, and selling us everything they make twice. Maybe I'm weird, but I do like surprises. Save most of it for GT6.
You don't understand economics. If SONY was JUST Polyphony Digital, you'd have a point. But they're not. Microsoft is made of money, because about the only thing they make is software, very little hardware. And they sell that software for a VERY high price, especially to businesses and governments.
On the other hand, SONY is more than SONY Computer Entertainment, a massive software conglomerate. They're actually three divisions, SCE, SONY Studios making films, music and other entertainment, and SONY Electronics. Now because of the worldwide depression the planet is in, the electronics division is suffering a lot, because they actually make stuff, and making stuff is VERY expensive, especially the past few years. It's only because of the studio and gaming divisions that SONY is still doing as well as it is. I googled around for info on this, and because of the shell game SONY is doing with their money to keep the electronics division funded, I'm not sure SONY as a company has made any profit last year. Meanwhile, Microsoft is swimming in $18 billion in profit, last I checked.
Since SONY basically owns Polyphony Digital, writes the checks and calls the shots, Kaz can't just decide on his own to hire 100 people, which could cost $5 million a year or more in payroll and benefits. Not if you're using Peter's accounts to pay Paul's and keep the company afloat.
Now I'm hoping that Kaz will get the funding to hire a lot more people to work on Gran Turismo, but as of right now, no one can tell if that's happened.
The thing just is, there aren't 80 Skylines just with different engines. There are cars with that name ranging from the 1960's to the late 2000's, but the name doesn't matter, when the cars are extremely different compared to eachother. Yes, there are a lot of R34's in the game, but even these can differ a lot.
