I was wondering if there was any specific reason why watkins glen or infineon weren't added into gt5 as they added sprint cup cars. I find GT to be more of a road course game because there are no short track ovals or 'mile and a half tracks' yet i would have guessed infineon or watkins glen would have been added since they were basically the only road course tracks that nascar races
Part of the reason that Watkins Glen and Infineon aren't in the game is that this isn't a NASCAR game. Courses included in the game aren't influenced by the marginal addition of NASCAR. Watkins Glen and Infineon are indeed road courses, and the sort of courses GT is mainly about, but the world is full of many hundreds of road courses that would have been more or less similarly worthy of addition to GT5. NASCAR has absolutely nothing to do with it.
GT5 was rushed. Kaz the developer of the game said in a interview that he wanted another 2 years to further develop and refine the game. That is why there are so little events and tracks IMO.
It really doesn't matter what Kaz says. For one thing, he didn't need more time. He and his team just need to figure out what they're doing and how to properly do it. He spent more time delivering less content than other developers like Turn 10 offer in less time. Nowhere else on Earth would it be considered acceptable for someone to spend sixteen hours doing an eight-hour job, but the Gran Turismo Fanboy Defense League feels that it's somehow acceptable spending at least half a decade offering less than two years worth of content.
"Oh, but GT5 has over a thousand cars!" Yeah, but 80% of them were recycled. You don't get credit for recycling old crap. GT5 only offered 200 or so new car models. FM3 offered twice that many, none of which were simply recycled since every single car had ten times the polygons of FM2's cars.
Had Kaz enjoyed another two years, you still wouldn't have Infineon or Watkins Glen. I haven't seen him say that he really wanted those specific tracks in the game but just didn't have the time. If two more years would have produced any additional tracks at all, it could be any of the world's countless tracks and not necessarily those two.
Kaz needs fired. Plain and simple. Replace him with someone who can get their crap together.
Oh ok i figured that was the reason
It wasn't the reason. GT fanboys pull that weak excuse out of their butts to defend Kaz and PD, but it's not the reason.
