Presumably it's bad news, or something that would be received badly by the general public. If it was good news they'd be falling over themselves to tell us.
Why wait then? Possibly because the best way to make sure that bad news doesn't have too big an impact is to either package it with or follow it shortly after with some good news. Timing can make a difference.
Kaz and the SONY CE folk have been pretty tight lipped or vague about anything till some offering is pretty close to release in the PS3 age. Of course, that doesn't mean that what you're saying isn't exactly true...
This is such a weird time to be a GT fan. It seems clear to me with two different people at different times leaking clues about GT7 Prologue that this has to have been okayed by SONY, or deliberate. Now the question is, with work on GT7/Prologue going on, what does that mean for GT6? Especially with the silence after such meager updates - really more like patches this month?
I've always been of the opinion that people complaining about GT5 Prologue holding up GT5 proper, they were off base. There were only a number of interviews in which Kaz said that making GT PSP was really hard work, and a long period of really hard work, to the point that all of PD had to quit work on GT5 to focus on PSP building. That means coders, modelers, artists, everyone, trying to squeeze something bigger than GT4, 5GB, into the PSP, 1GB. In comparison, I'm pretty sure that GT5 Prologue took a small portion of the team to fuss with some assets and game code made for GT5 and massage it into a mini-game. I suspect just one lead coder, modeler, network guy or whatever, and a few subordinates to do the work and test things. Kaz has never said to my knowledge how it was actually tasked out, but much of the work is just lifted from GT5 work itself, so I suspect my scenario is fairly accurate.
So the question for me is, how ambitious does Kaz want this prologue to be? GT5P was the biggest racing minigame I can recall, almost as large as Live For Speed. And in discussing GT7 Prologue here on the boards, people have wanted a bigger game yet. One guy mentioned 400 cars if I recall, it was a lot, and more tracks too. The PS3 models have been stated to be good enough for PS4, so they should port right over. But what if Kaz wants to really show off and make people take notice of what they can do? I mentioned "living worlds" with a lot of stuff going on, more environmental detail, dynamic crowds with more individual movement and not looking like 2D mannequins, flags waving in the wind realistically, Speedtree-like foliage that responds to breezes. Race locations that look dirty and well used. Fan favorites like beefy sound and damage. An online system like GT5 and 6 really should have had. Time of day transitions on all tracks, and more realistic weather, including things like wind gusts - how many games have wind gusts? Who knows how many cars will be on track at once?
What if some of that user content is there, like a Course Maker 2.5? Race Mod and a basic Livery Editor? Some of that GPS work? Online club and league tools? A game that grows not just from updates, but from what we add to it? A real mini-GT7?
Yeah, that's kind of crazy talk. But, it would change a lot of people's minds who are sure they'll never touch Prologue with a ten foot network cable. And keep fans a lot more happy until GT7 itself is ready. But that is quite a bit of work, and then there's the matter of the team piling on to GT7 itself...
Have they already piled? Is that why GT6 has seen almost nothing released for it for two months? If Lawndart is right, April is going to be Normandy for Kaz. I'd never abandon Gran Turismo, since nothing feeds my need for speed like it does, but I'm a lot more accommodating. He's going to HAVE to have something to share with the class in a few weeks, or the Stormgriperz will attack in force.
Another fact is PD clearly took the piss out of gt fans by marketing all of those features whilst obviously knowing they wont be ready for well after a year of showing them off, All of you guys defending everything and making excuses for whats lacking in gt6 just remeber PD/KAZ are taking the piss out of you! You get nothing for not opening your eyes, Defending them doesnt make you the greatest fan ever, There is no honour to be won, Just whats inside your wallet
Well, piss.
This might vex you, but because there is no comparable racer to a GT game, I'll be there for my PS4, my Prologue, and if I need a wheel controller for PS4, that too.
