I originally thought that, hey! If we download cars later on if the game comes out, that's a great idea! But then it dawned on me:
If PD goes with that option, that will screw us royally. There's many reasons for this:
1) It will mean less rewards
If you think about it, sure, getting additional cars is good, but don't you want to be able to WIN them? How can you win them if they're not available when the track comes out? I mean, the only way you could win them was if we had to install the whole game, and then we'd need to patch it after every car. And one starts patching as soon as the first patch comes out and always gets the next patch, that's great, but what about those who don't buy the game right away? Or don't get PS2 until about a year after the game comes out(luckily, I already have a PS2 and GT3,), they'd have to download a HUGE patch! And if they had 56K as their primary internet connection(who knows what else the could have, but most people still do have a 48.8 connection sadely(luckily, again, I am not one of those people), that would take them AGES to download! And to make it worse, they probably couldn't play while they download, because it could be like saving your game, you just get a blank screen that only has a progress bar.
2) Less supprises
Sure, finding out what cars are released would be awsome, but there wouldn't be any more "secret" cars, like Spoon, Poly/F1 cars, etc., after the game was released.
3) Less suspence
Yeah, um, we'd know when the cars are coming out, but in the meantime, hey, play some GT4....
Now, I don't want to sound all negative, so here's some +'s about this:
1) Glitches could be solved.
I don't know about you, but I hate that one glitch on Cote de' Azur where if you go on the yellow edge of the road, you hit an invisible wall...
2) We could ask for specific cars
Granted that we know they don't have licensing to all the cars, perhaps they could get addition licenses for cars there's a 'high demand' for. Hey, it could pull in additional GT4 sales later on from the additions.
3) Less disks
If we can get additional cars, then we don't need 3 disks!(I didn't say 2 because I think 2 would be a wise thing, here's my theory on how this could go down:
If we get some REALLY large sizes for the courses, and basic cars and the movies, then we can have those on a disk as well as a basic instillation program for either the HDD or, if we get some larger memory cards, to format those for GT4, so we can have patches and additional cars on there. See, if we just had the basics on the DVD or, hopefully not, a CD, then we can download all of the rest of the cars. Now, we'd only have 1 disk for the barebones, but it would REQUIRE you to download, let's say, a PLUG-IN. Now, if you have a broadband connection, that's great! However, if you have a slow DSL, ISDN, or 48.8 connection, you don't want to waste all that time(probably several days), right? So instead, you get another version of GT4. This version contains the 1 disk that the broadband users have, but in addition, a second disk could contain the plugin. There, no need to spend several days downloading huge files due to interruptions or outages(for 56k, you can get disconnected, or for anybody, the power might go out, or your lousy brother could reset the PS2 with a game he wants to play)
That's just my hypothesis on what should be done and my latest* thoughts on the subject
*As of 01/08/02 1st of August, 2002
