Has this been posted?
"Massarutto: Assetto Corsa has gone way beyond the goals we set for ourselves in 2011, when Stefano Casillo and I have started the project with four collaborators and a total budget of 70.000 Euros. With various affiliations, more than 30 people have worked on Assetto Corsa, with a total cost of almost 3 million Euros. Nonetheless, we remain the smallest firm in the sector to have produced a sim like Assetto Corsa for both PC and console, based on official licences of the highest level, and so appreciated and kept in such high consideration. It is a small Italian miracle of which we couldn't be more proud. During 2016 we have carried deep evaluations regarding our future projects, and precisely because we desire to confirm our DNA with realistic simulations, we have chosen a direction that could guarantee the maximum stability possible. We work with Digital Bros/505Games since 2014, and since then the publisher has kept all its promises, giving us the opportunity to take a high-level simulation on console, even in the knowledge that it would not be a racing game "for everybody." Digital Bros has placed its bet on us, and with this acquisition, has raised its stakes, showing once more that it believes in the business model ideated by KUNOS: this will bring stability and indispensable resources, in an extremely competitive sector as our one is, to keep doing what we have shown we know how to do: driving simulations that please the simracers and that also are capable of involving the new generations, with the objective of making Assetto Corsa an even more important brand. Stefano Casillo and I have ceded KUNOS ownership, but we keep our respective roles, as it is also for the whole development team, with the advantage that we can now be more focused on the products we developed, instead of the management of the firm and the collection of resources necessary for complex projects such as Assetto Corsa and those that will follow. With the objective and the promise to keep astonishing and pleasing the "AC" fans."
Not only did the move to console give us better performance on PC (multi-threading) and presumably more income for Kunos to keep bettering the game, but also compare the forums here before and after console announcement. A lot more people, diversity, people giving opinions and tips ... in short a much more fun and lively place to be.
I don't have anything against the game and it's probably done its share to bring more people into this hobby which I think is great, but there are so many better options on PC that I decided it wasn't worth my time. If I was still a console racer I would have played the hell out of it and probably enjoyed it quite a lot since there weren't really any better options on the consoles.
SMS released Need for Speed: Shift in 2009, Shift 2 Unleashed in 2011, and PCars is built on a modified version of the engine that ran those games. So no, they did not start from zero with PCars.
