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shio on 14 April 2008
Kazunori Yamauchi, the head of Sony's Polyphony Digital - responsible for the Gran Turismo series - has said that the franchise, a long-time PlayStation exclusive may debut on PC to attract Chinese gamers.

“It is very, very improbable that GT will comes out on another consoles.

“But perhaps it comes to the PC. Particularly [for] the Chinese market."
 
he also explained that new game GT5 - the Prologue demo-style version of which is currently the UK's bestselling game - had been in the works by 150 people for four years and has cost 50 times more to make than the original GT1 on the PlayStation.
 
He also added that it would be his "dream" to take a break from making games about cars and develop an RPG "with a similar high quality as GT" - however it remains a more distant possiblity

http://www.developmag.com/news/29626/Polyphony-looks-to-PC-game-development



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Rock_on_2008 on 14 April 2008

World of Warcraft may come to consoles.



FreeTalkLive on 14 April 2008

I'd be shocked if GT5 didn't come out until 2010. I hope he was talking about outside of Japan because Sony needs that game in Japan ASAP.



 

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saibotex on 14 April 2008

"50 times more than the original"

thats a boatload of money



shio on 14 April 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:
World of Warcraft may come to consoles.
The quotes came directly from the head of Polyphony Digital, developer of Gran Turismo. Besides, with the rampant online revenue you'd think a GT coming out on PC would be a success: Free-to-play with each car being sold for a couple of bucks, and tons of ingame advertisement that doesn't ruin the fun.

 



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KillerMan on 14 April 2008

Sony owns Polyphony Digital and rights to GT series so i doubt that we will see PC version.



FreeTalkLive on 14 April 2008

I don't get it. Why does Sony owning it = no PC version? Maybe it has something to do with making up the cost of the game? Or, as mentioned in the article, reaching out to China and encouraging them to get more into Sony games. Sony is known for also making PC games.

MS owned studios release tons of games on the PC. Heck, MS publishes DS games.

Maybe something like this
GT5P for PS3 2008
GTsomething for PSP 2009
GT5 for PS3 end of 2009/ early 2010
GT5 for PC 2010
GT5 for Mac 2011?



 

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shio on 14 April 2008
FreeTalkLive said:
I don't get it. Why does Sony owning it = no PC version? Maybe it has something to do with making up the cost of the game? Or, as mentioned in the article, reaching out to China and encouraging them to get more into Sony games. Sony is known for also making PC games.

MS owned studios release tons of games on the PC. Heck, MS publishes DS games.

Maybe something like this
GT5P for PS3 2008
GTsomething for PSP 2009
GT5 for PS3 end of 2009/ early 2010
GT5 for PC 2010
GT5 for Mac 2011?


It doesn't have to be a straight port of GT5. Infact, it would be very unlikely to be a GT5 port: A free-to-play GT with cars sold digitally and ingame adverstement is the best way. The fact that Yamauchi stated that they would target China is a hint.

 Also, we all know how Sony is dieing to have an online PC game being successful.



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HappySqurriel on 14 April 2008

The estimate I have used many times is $100,000 per developer per year when you factor in all costs (wage, benefits, office space, support staff, etc.) ... This rough estimate would put GT5 as a $60,000,000 game



DMeisterJ on 14 April 2008
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