I replied this to another thread, but it rather fits here:
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Here's what I think is happening at PD:
1) Less than a dozen people spend time prepping the GT5 seasonal events and getting ready for any final, closing updates for 1-3 full days apiece every week. Seems plenty reasonable.
2) The main bulk of the people who worked on finishing GT6 (presentation, menu, gameplay, etc) now don't have anything to do. (Since that has been finalized and is now released.) So, I can see from 30 to 100 people spending the great majority of their time conceptualizing the new game and working on any advancements, as well as simply becoming familiar with what the PS4 can, and will, do.
3) 30 to 100 people (yes, I'm counting that not everyone works on ONE thing only) are working on polishing GT6 and getting new things out to us.
4) Everyone else is supporting these roles and/or checking code and debugging.
That should easily cover what they are doing. Speculation can cover what we think their ideas can (or we want them to) be, and where the resources are REALLY being used.
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Now, for what I think PD could communicate:
1) They don't have to tell us WHAT they are working on (would be nice, but, really, do we want them to give away EVERYTHING?)
2) They can tell us how many groups they have
3) They can tell us the percentage of resources being given to each of those groups
4) As one group goes from a percentage of effort (whatever that may be) to low or no percentage, we will know that the release of a/multiple new update(s) updates is/are coming soon.
Speculation could abound! (And it might all be a bit more positive!) (And, yes, haters are going to hate.....
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Enjoy!