Sony Exec: Gran Turismo 5 Launching “This Fall”

[lestatdark]

NJ5 said:

lestatdark said:

NJ5 said:
This game will sell no matter what, but back in 2007 they expected to launch the game in 2008, Yamauchi himself said so:

http://www.meristation.com/v3/des_articulo.php?pic=GEN&id=cw476568836d01b&idj=&idp=&tipo=art&c=1&pos=1

At some point it just smacks of bad management to let it slip 2 years.

Right from the start he says "If we keep on the same rythim that we have now, GT5 will be ready in December 2008. That's too long for any fan to wait since GT5, but we still have many things to do".

It was probably bad management, probably some developing slow down, probably resources being pooled to the completion of GT PSP, but it's for certain that they didn't keep the same developing rythim for GT5. 

Agreed... I'll just add that in the next question, they specifically ask if Christmas 2008 is the expected release date, and he says yes.

It probably also suffered from feature creep... wanting to add more and more stuff to the game to make it better, and delaying it in the process.

 

You're right, Kaz is taking his perfectionism to a higher level but it's causing the game to be postponed even further. The latest process of adding damage to the cars also made the game to be bumped up to 2010, which means they weren't planning to release the game with damage at the moment of Kaz's interview.