Oh, come on, what's wrong with getting a little inventive every once in a while?
Sim fans need to lighten up.
To state a game as something which will threaten GT5, it must be in a similar section of the market, namely not an arcade racer, or one which claims to be hardcore sim when it's actually not (yet again we're looking at you Shift). There's nothing wrong with being inventive at all so long as it's done well and I don't think anyone is saying it's wrong.
Konami would have to drop those things mentioned which they've had a trend for recently, or that is implied I don't know what Konami have been doing personally, in order to compete with a more realistic simulation based game such as GT and thats just the facts in order to appeal to the same consumer base.
Keep in mind that if you're in a thread about a game which 'WILL threaten GT5' as described in said threads title, you're going to get people interested who are interested in GT5, and therein interested in a generally more realistic experience as a whole. I personally have nothing against arcade racers, I may prefer one to the other but it's irrelevant in this topic which is undoubtably focused on the simulation side straight from the title.
It would be wise to not focus on what appeared to be a comment in passing as if it was all they said considering the rest of the post, and indeed the rest of the other page which you've chosen not to mention. Sim fans don't need to lighten up, they just don't want another game like Shift claiming it's gone all sim in it's promotion when the reality is it just wasn't much of a sim at all and thats not a problem in itself, it just went against what we were being lead to believe.
As for the game itself, keep in mind it's a massive sequel, so if thats correct we can be pretty safe to assume it's something we've heard of. NFS generally doesn't come about this time of year, but we haven't really had any details at all about the latest one bar it's being made by Criterion and it's due out this year but NFS isn't on the 12 month cycle anymore so we don't know when it's coming this year, just that it's this year and has been under development for a long period. There's also the possibility a Grid 2 or other track game from Codies is on the way judging by the trends of Dirt/Grids so far. An Enthusia sequel I can't see as being the game unless they're overstating 'massive' as I don't think it's in the general gamers mind at all it was kind of forgotten in the GT whirlwind in the genre. Similarly if it's being made by Eutechnyx I don't think massive is really a fair reflection, it's another game I know most gamers here wouldn't really know about (SCC and FC).
The other questions are those others have been asking, is it really going to compete with GT5 or is it actually not aiming at the same e-petrolheads? Is it really a
massive sequel? Who knows.
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