Are we sure about that timeframe on the PS4, or are you going by the man hours it took to make them on PS3?  I would imagine given the architecture being a hell of allot simpler, that each car won't take as long (still plenty of time, mind you...but not the amt of time it took on the PS3).

Kaz said that put the 3D model in the game is pretty fast... matter of days... create the 3D model is the hardest part and took 2-3 months each car.

It is the details that needs to be designed by the 3D animators.

Gotcha, I know where the time comes into play, just wasn't aware that he'd given a quote on the length of time for GT7 cars.  Thanks for the info :)

Well it didn't said GT7 exactly but he said all premiuns cars 3D model was created thinking in the PS4.

I don't know why they don't just outsource the standard cars to be upgraded to premiums, I mean it's not like they haven't had offers before from companies, and it's clear that they can't handle the workload.

There isn't really a downside to doing this, it free's up PD to create new content, and help develop the roster more (we need more classic American Muscle PD, let alone more European cars in general), whilst also dealing with the standards problem.

Personally I feel that the truly shit standards need to get dropped, such as the Suzuki Alto, and other similarly offensive cars, whilst keeping the cars that are clearly touched up and look ok.

yeah that's what i want. upgrade the premium cards to PS4 ultra cars and upgrade standard card to ps3 level cars. But no cardboard boxes! Well actuallt they should leave in 1 car from each of the old GT's even GT1. It would be a bit like being able to play as mgs1 8bit snake in the newer games :D 

You might also want to consider the making the cars on the PS4 could be a lot easier and less time consuming than on the hard to develop for PS3.

In stead of taking 3 months 1 car might take 1 month now.

The premium PS3 models won't need upgrades. In the modern world, when you create the 3D models for a game you use millions of polygons. The you will downgrade it to a few dozen of hundred thousand polygons and put in the game. For PS4, you will just downgrade less the original models created during the modeling. A good example I saw some years ago was the models used for Drake on UC3 with millions of polygons for his face. The final mode used 30k polygons for the entire character.

The time to make a car is basically capturing the car appearance and modeling it on 3D, getting physics info, engine, etc. It's pure visual and statistical data. It won't be faster on PS4 because of the architecture. It will be faster because they won't need to model any car again and will just take the time to model new cars that weren't on GT6. So they have 600 cars ready, will model a dozen new ones and maybe upgrade some of the 600 standards.

I really wish people would stop saying this. The standard cars have been upgraded every game and now look nothing like the ones in GT4. I'm sure they'll get upgraded again with GT7.

Thanks very much for the informative reply. That makes sense. 

Do you know how many cars were upgraded to premium from GT5 to GT6 if any? 

Sony really should be looking to target a release date for next christmas. Either that or uncharted 4. Now that the PS4 is dominating unlike the ps3, series like uncharted will do even better than last gen.