Makes enough sense. It's getting annoying.
Cars don't cost $50. The point of GT to let people experience cars and racing. If it fails at this, and the fans voice their disappointment, it's only natural. If you don't care about GT, stay silent about its flaws, but don't hinder the people trying to help the series.
GT4 was more hardcore than GT3, sells worse.
GT5 is even more hardcore on racing side (realistic), about all of you don't like it, sells worse than GT3.
It's not like I'm not agree with you. But PD know what they do. They created a history. Not like us.
By the way: waiting for GT6 then I'm done with GT.
There are numerous factors besides realism that could account for sales differences, like competitors for instance. And I don't think GT4 was all that much better than 3. 4 is probably the low point in the series.
Proof? I think there would be plenty of people that would dislike having the highest levels of realism. To make GT a racing simulation game with all the options and rules and penalties is a big change and I'm fairly sure that would disappoint some people.
Sure most people on GTP would like it, but there are others. There's a huge number of people that play GT for what it is now.
Yes, I do agree that they could add options so we can choose what way we want to play, but to say what PD is doing is wrong is just silly.
The game is what it is right now. Yes they could add other options to it, but that doesn't mean that what we have now is worse than what other games offer. Not for everybody anyway.
But offering the highest level of realism won't prevent people who want more arcady driving form having it their way. SRF is already in the game to satisfy arcade drivers.
Well exactly, I don't get why gamers are always so blind when it comes to this. I mean, do these people ask why BMW can't make a 2,000bhp M3? It's not because they don't know how!
GT5 isn't a 2000 hp M3. It's a M3 race car with aerodynamic parts that are only there for the visuals. I've already taken into account that it's going to take PD work to do something. But I don't accept lack of effort.
Resources are always limited, and I'm not talking about computational power.
Let's say, for example, that PD has X total man-hours available and they can choose to devote those man-hours to either exhaustively modeling tire deformation or to making a car look better on screen. Guess which one they're going to choose.
The man-hours required to model something like tire deformation are better "spent" in other areas for a mass-market game because the return on investment is better in those other areas. Exhaustive modeling of tire deformation may attract one or two people but better-looking cars will attract hundreds. Since they don't have unlimited programming resources, they have to concentrate on the areas that provide the greatest return.
Whether we like it or not, exhaustive, down-to-the-last-detail physics will never be what provides the greatest return to games like GT. iRacting, for example, boasts "over 25,000 members," tell me if you think that PD would be happy selling only 25,000 copies of GT5. Business concerns are always going to take precedence and this game will always be set up to a large degree for mass market. Sucks, but there it is.
First you can't pin iRacing's limited number of sales to physics alone.
Second I know that PD's time is limited. My main point was that PD would not need to remove arcady features from GT to increase the realism. Though to actually do this, they
might need to drop certain things for the sake of time.
GT5's development didn't seem very efficient to me, though if PD were to explain in detail why everything took so long, I would listen.
may be you should then play iracing and rfactor then?
PD has different priorties. And after selling over 70 million games, i think they know where their market lies
One thing they teach in marketing is that when you're first in the business, you've got an advantage. PD captured the market with GT1, and that is part of the reason why it is so hugely successful.
GT5 is a decent game, but I don't think that PD put enough effort into it. They didn't have their priorities in line during development, they didn't make enough use of GT5P, and they weren't clear in their communication with fans. I'd bet they could have faired much better than they have.
If GT had those kind of physics, it wouldn't sell has much. Simple as that.
I really doubt it. It wouldn't be any harder to drive, and it would stop PD from adding driver aids and less complex physics models.
PD should really consider more expansive options. GT mode has always been set in stone, with no way to tailor the experience to the player. Why can't someone choose to have damage, or real grip reduction in A-Spec? It would let more people play as they want.
Look on the cover of your game. "The Real Driving Simulator"; not racing simulator. As stated in the post above, there is a difference.
The meaningless subtitle doesn't determine what the game is about.
