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Edge went to Polyphony's new HQ somewhere near Yokohama, to find out what has been happening with the long-delayed GT4.
In B-spec (management) mode you can follow the race either from replay view, or a statistics screen that shows the positions of all the cars and their tyre / fuel status in real-time. You can enter tuned (garage) cars in the races, and time can be accelerated.
PD considered releasing a 'GT3: B-spec' including the management mode, to follow 'GT3: A-spec' in Japan, but decided that a second game with the same cars and tracks wouldn't be original enough to sell.
The GT4 network code is fully developed. The excuses given for not rolling it out are that it's not a big deal in Japan (?) and that it will take a lot of time and effort to set up a suitable network of servers to support online play, especially in Europe. 'First we need to sell GT4, and then we'll work on building an online play service with adequate play conditions'.
Basically, Sony doesn't have anything like Xbox live, and without that it's going to take PD ages to set up their own servers worldwide.
But there's worse: "The online version will not be released any time soon after GT4, because we want to maximise the game sales".
In any case, it seems like they haven't even started sorting out suitable servers. I will be surprised if PD manage to produce GT4 Online before Sony launch PS3, especially in Europe...
Better news - 'GT 1 to 3 shared the same physics engine, but we've rebuilt it from scratch for GT4'. Also, the AI is said to be less aggressive, more natural, and more polite. I guess this means cars not grinding into each other as they converge on the first corner, but falling into line. Yamauchi-san reckons that the car physics are now 'good enough', and it's time to work on the AI. B-spec is as much as anything, an ongoing 'laboratory' for them to improve AI. But don't expect too much - he reckons that GT4 AI is at 'one or two percent of what would be a satisfying level', and that it will take the next ten years to get really good AI. Er... right then.
GT4 on PSP is planned to have the same physics, but the reduced graphical power may mean that the number of cars on track is reduced to 4, or maybe only 2 or 3.
Cars - 650 cars, including 'more than 200' from previous games.
GT development - at all points in the game's development, it is playable. So GT4 has been progressively 'evolved' from GT3, presumably going through various intermediate points on the way.
There are lots of pics of the new HQ as well as a few from the game, showing drag racing etc.
AI? Online? I think I feel sick
The Promise seems to be fading away fast.
O.K good new physics, New cars and tracks, but what about racing?
Edge went to Polyphony's new HQ somewhere near Yokohama, to find out what has been happening with the long-delayed GT4.
In B-spec (management) mode you can follow the race either from replay view, or a statistics screen that shows the positions of all the cars and their tyre / fuel status in real-time. You can enter tuned (garage) cars in the races, and time can be accelerated.
PD considered releasing a 'GT3: B-spec' including the management mode, to follow 'GT3: A-spec' in Japan, but decided that a second game with the same cars and tracks wouldn't be original enough to sell.
The GT4 network code is fully developed. The excuses given for not rolling it out are that it's not a big deal in Japan (?) and that it will take a lot of time and effort to set up a suitable network of servers to support online play, especially in Europe. 'First we need to sell GT4, and then we'll work on building an online play service with adequate play conditions'.
Basically, Sony doesn't have anything like Xbox live, and without that it's going to take PD ages to set up their own servers worldwide.
But there's worse: "The online version will not be released any time soon after GT4, because we want to maximise the game sales".
In any case, it seems like they haven't even started sorting out suitable servers. I will be surprised if PD manage to produce GT4 Online before Sony launch PS3, especially in Europe...
Better news - 'GT 1 to 3 shared the same physics engine, but we've rebuilt it from scratch for GT4'. Also, the AI is said to be less aggressive, more natural, and more polite. I guess this means cars not grinding into each other as they converge on the first corner, but falling into line. Yamauchi-san reckons that the car physics are now 'good enough', and it's time to work on the AI. B-spec is as much as anything, an ongoing 'laboratory' for them to improve AI. But don't expect too much - he reckons that GT4 AI is at 'one or two percent of what would be a satisfying level', and that it will take the next ten years to get really good AI. Er... right then.
GT4 on PSP is planned to have the same physics, but the reduced graphical power may mean that the number of cars on track is reduced to 4, or maybe only 2 or 3.
Cars - 650 cars, including 'more than 200' from previous games.
GT development - at all points in the game's development, it is playable. So GT4 has been progressively 'evolved' from GT3, presumably going through various intermediate points on the way.
There are lots of pics of the new HQ as well as a few from the game, showing drag racing etc.
AI? Online? I think I feel sick
The Promise seems to be fading away fast.
O.K good new physics, New cars and tracks, but what about racing?
let me laugh. Heck, Forza is coming out in February and there are some high chances the AI will be a lot better than what GT4 will offer and all of this on their first try. All you have to do is hire the right specialists. And to those who will say that the Forza video with the 350Z shows the cars ramming each other like stupid , that video was made specifically to show damages, so the pilots wanted to hit each other to create havoc and simulate coolisions.
I really believe that he got something up his sleeves that will be thrown at our face to make us CELEBRATE! 
, instead they waste time on photo mode & B-Spec, niether of which improves the 'driving' element & release countless demos... I mean I could've lived with crap AI if there had been online, but sounds like we'll have to wait for that (again).
I think PD should be careful since their competition is getting better & better