Yamauchi Hits Out At Gran Turismo Competitors WOW!

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damndl0ser on 13 February 2010

Its not turn 10 so no one cares if he's being a dick! YAY!!

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Xoj on 13 February 2010

but gran turismo doens't have anything close competition, more like games that want to be like GT. yet 1/10 of it quality and sales.

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cura on 13 February 2010

HappySqurriel said:

Grand Turismo 3 was my last installment in the Gran Turismo series because I found it to be very pretty but shallow ... I'm not a fan of simulation racing in general because I find this is a common failing of the genre.

With that said, when you're spending (what has been rumoured to be) over 5 years and $100 Million to develop a game and your competition releases 3 $20 Million games in the same time your game better be dramatically better; and sell dramatically better too. If you spend dramatically longer and dramatically more money to achieve an incremental improvement you have really been wasteful.

I presume you have sources to back your statements up? Or are we just suppose to take your word for it?

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HappySqurriel said:

Grand Turismo 3 was my last installment in the Gran Turismo series because I found it to be very pretty but shallow ... I'm not a fan of simulation racing in general because I find this is a common failing of the genre.

With that said, when you're spending (what has been rumoured to be) over 5 years and $100 Million to develop a game and your competition releases 3 $20 Million games in the same time your game better be dramatically better; and sell dramatically better too. If you spend dramatically longer and dramatically more money to achieve an incremental improvement you have really been wasteful.

Yamauchi himself says that the budget is $60 million.

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cura said:

HappySqurriel said:

Grand Turismo 3 was my last installment in the Gran Turismo series because I found it to be very pretty but shallow ... I'm not a fan of simulation racing in general because I find this is a common failing of the genre.

With that said, when you're spending (what has been rumoured to be) over 5 years and $100 Million to develop a game and your competition releases 3 $20 Million games in the same time your game better be dramatically better; and sell dramatically better too. If you spend dramatically longer and dramatically more money to achieve an incremental improvement you have really been wasteful.

I presume you have sources to back your statements up? Or are we just suppose to take your word for it?

Last I heard the development team was (roughly) 200 people working for 5 years ... Even if half of the workers were in a sweatshop in China you'rer still dealing with a $50+ Million budget. Regardless, if Rainbird is correct and it is a $60 Million game, if you spend 3 times as much and 3 times as long as your competition to produce a game your game better be dramatically better.

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XxXProphecyXxX on 14 February 2010

More trash talk from devs? I expect turn 10 do be even worst when forza 4 is near release.

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HappySqurriel said:

cura said:

HappySqurriel said:

Grand Turismo 3 was my last installment in the Gran Turismo series because I found it to be very pretty but shallow ... I'm not a fan of simulation racing in general because I find this is a common failing of the genre.

With that said, when you're spending (what has been rumoured to be) over 5 years and $100 Million to develop a game and your competition releases 3 $20 Million games in the same time your game better be dramatically better; and sell dramatically better too. If you spend dramatically longer and dramatically more money to achieve an incremental improvement you have really been wasteful.

I presume you have sources to back your statements up? Or are we just suppose to take your word for it?

Last I heard the development team was (roughly) 200 people working for 5 years ... Even if half of the workers were in a sweatshop in China you'rer still dealing with a $50+ Million budget. Regardless, if Rainbird is correct and it is a $60 Million game, if you spend 3 times as much and 3 times as long as your competition to produce a game your game better be dramatically better.

I agree on sentiment, but you seem to disregard Prologue, and I wouldn't be surprised if its sales had actually earned back the money spent on GT5 so far.