Yamauchi: GT5 still isn’t finished, will be “shortly”

Ever the perfectionist I suppose, maybe some other developers should take note.

Five years.

FIVE! BLOODY! YEARS!

It’s releasing november 2, so it needs to go gold in october.

It’s now august, so being in developemt at this time is right on target with the release date.

It’ll go gold by mid october, my guess

Gran Turismo is one of the few racing games i actually like, I’m obviously not a car fanatic, but i could play this for hours on end, i will not rush to the store to buy it though, the only reason this game is taking so long is that Polyphony are perfectionists & Sony apparentally has the time & money for it, no doubt that it’ll pay off though

Five years of We want > Damage, weather, 3d, psp etc…

Take long to pleased fanboys

@1 : I agree, and studios nowadays are more eager to collect money than release something polished.

We had two bloody fantastic Forza games and this is still in development… wow

@alimokrane : Turn 10 dont work alone not like PD…

Surely the game hasn’t been “worked on” for five years? I would have thought much of that time has been due to postponing it’s release for other reasons, maybe Move support etc?

I could never get on with Forza. Just didn’t like it. Project Gotham on the other hand was brilliant, although not quite a sim.

But gimme GT everytime.

PD have released a psp game & a prologue of this in the past 5 years, & also some ps2 motor bike sim-tourist trophey or osmething like that

fuck me if this dont go more then a 7.5 on all reviews

FIVE! BLOODY! YEARS!

By the time it’s released, it’ll actually be 6 years since GT4.

Which is an acceptable timespan to work on a game imo.

Red Dead was in development for five years and StarCraft 2 for seven years, yet no-one complains about those…

Why is this different?

RDR wasn’t announced so far in advance and was not a major IP then
Starcraft we expect to wait years for it

GT5 was supposed to be a damned launch title (or at least closer to release than it is now)!

I think that’s mostly because no-one cared about RD Redemption after Revolver (because revolver was awful). As for SC2, I saw loads of complaining about how long it was taking, same goes for Diablo 3.

Playing a sim and driving cars with a specific handling is cool, but in terms of being a game, GT always let me down. I can’t remember being challenged or forced to learn anything in the way I drive, like the Toca series does.

@15 That’s why you don’t work in the industry then. 5 years constitutes a major jump in terms of technology, so you’ll likely be spending quite a lot of time playing catchup to bring your old code up to snuff. Or be releasing a game that looks like crap.

Personally, i don’t care. Racing sims bore the fucking shite out of me. I’d take a fun arcade racer i.e. F Zero GX, Burnout, Grid, Dirt 2, Mario Kart, Outrun, etc over the likes of GT/Forza anyday.

Also, just because a game is 5+ years in development doesn’t mean to say it’s going to be good. I mean, just look at how shite Alan Wake turned out to be. lol

An old insustry saying; “Once your game is 90% complete, you just have the other 90% to do”
After a while, it begins to make sense.

only if Yamauchi never saw a NASCAR race then this would of been out ages ago

No GT fan will care about the reviews. This will sell several million copies. I mean even GT5 prologue sold over 3.3 million and it was just a glorified demo.

@15
“Which is an acceptable timespan to work on a game imo.”

I think that depends on what the end result is. Will it implement damage well? Will it do online well? Will it still squeal as you go round every single corner? It needs to match Forza 3 in several key areas to be worth the wait.

There are areas I think it will safely exceed Forza 3 – car selection, car porn, tracks, variety in what you can do. It needs to step up in the really quite important areas of handling, damage and online though.

No “BAD” review score can make a fan of GT not buy this game (sorry D’toid you can try but you’ll be shot down).

I do hope this will be the only GT this gen though. I think every new gen of PlayStation from now on should have a prologue and a number series. So for PS4 a GT6 prologue and a GT6 complete. GT3 and GT4 on PS2 were just the same game with additional cars and modes in 4

GT fans – such as myself – won’t buy the game if the “bad” reviews say that you still bounce off walls and other cars, and if the AI is still as bad it was in GT5P.

@25
They already implied a little while back that the length of time was due to building a GT framework on the PS3 that could be easily reused. So expect something more this generation.

You will still buy the game Orphanage….maybe not day 1 but you will still buy it.

Game coming out in three months from now isn’t finished yet? Whodathunkit. Next you’ll be telling me that LBP2 isn’t finished yet either.

Oh shit – that release date could SLIP AGAIN!

Ridiculous that they didn’t include a car and track shop in Prologue.

They could have made a mint by now. I’m not even much of a GT fan and I would have bought in. got Prologue as it’s an essential PS3 game while GT5 keeps slipping. If I could have bought some cars and tracks I’d be all over it, as I still can’t pass all of those bloody cars in whatever single lap race I’m stuck on, 12 months on!

The last 10% takes 90% of the time! I had more fun playing TOCA2 than I did GT3/4, but I’ll probably pick up GT5 after it’s been out a while.