Weather Changes, Night Racing in Gran Turismo 5

http://www.gtplanet.net/weather-changes-night-racing-in-gran-turismo-5/

You don’t have to decrypt any secret messages for this tidbit of news!  Coming straight from Kazunori Yamauchi himself, weather changes and night racing can be expected soon.  GTPlanet user MGR managed to dig up the following interview with Yamauchi-san, conducted by Audi.  It’s part of the Audi R8 Meets Gran Turismo 5 mini-site and documentary, which gives two professional drivers the opportunity to compare the R8 in both the real and virtual world (also check out the video - including footage of the Nurburgring Nordschleife running in GT5: Prologue - on GTPlanet’s YouTube Channel).  Unfortunately, the video is in German, but Yamauchi’s interview is in print and can easily be translated.  In addition to dynamic weather and lighting, he also reiterates the inclusion of damage.  Here’s what he had to say…

Please excuse the rough, automated translation.  The original can be viewed on the last page of this PDF document.

FIVE QUESTIONS TO KAZUNORI YAMAUCHI

Audi:  The graphics of GT5 Prologue “is incredible realistic. What can you still in this game improve?
Kazunori Yamauchi: GT5 is a greater choice on motor vehicles and Routes offer. And we provide more features for Online communities to Disposal. We are also working with high live close to a graphic representation for rain and night.

Audi: How do you manage it, the cars as realistic in the game is over?

Kazunori Yamauchi: In order to replicate cars so graphically that they are each model the same position they need we are the real models. At the Audi R8, it was particularly difficult for high-quality materials of the interior to reproduce. Even with the body, it was not easy, level, This incredible precision to express. Not only the cars, as every tree looks at the Nürburgring his real counterpart frighteningly similar. Such influence Details the game behavior? We have the greatest respect for the innate
Power of the cars and also the nature. Therefore we consider every detail very carefully — even if it’s just a bush on the edge of the racetrack is. Our passion and our commitment are perhaps not always immediately, but they seem subconsciously to every player.

Audi:  What games can the fans of GT soon expect?

Kazunori Yamauchi: We are working on it, including weather changes, a race which may affect index. And damage to racing cars we will soon be able to simulate.

Audi:  We dare a glance into the distant future. What is Gran Turismo 9 anything to offer?

Kazunori Yamauchi:  I find it difficult to follow closely the developments so far predict. Gran Turismo is growing with the Automotive industry. When we consider the future of GT, we also consider the future of the Automotive industry.

I want this game!!!!!!!! God I love GT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

waiting to hear more at E3

not my type of game but i understand why people love it

Excellent news. This game is going to sell shitloads.

weather changes? didn't nfs already have this in one of there versions on the PC. I can't remember which.

any how this should be good overall.

Thank God. This should shut a fair few people up.

Real weather changes with realistic change of driving, finally.

I won't be happy tell I see it. PD has a terrible history of talking about cool stuff, then saying they don't have the hardware to do it.

These things are not something that we should be exited about anyways. These are features that GT5 has to have. If GT5 is just GT4 with online and better graphics, they will be killing the franchise. There is no reason a team of over 200 people working 24/7 should not be able to make this a reality. GT5 without the mentioned features would make PD one of the biggest jokes in the industry.

Hopefully they are actually working on making this available for GT5 and not GT6. I think they need to work on their priorities a bit and spend less time on making sure every shrub on a course is correct and more time on the things people actually care about (i.e. weather, damage, night/day cycles, gameplay, game modes, more tracks, etc.). It seems so late in the game to just be working on this now if the plan is to release the game for the holiday season. Judging by his (translated) words, they're perfectionists so it seems odd that they would just toss these features in at the ends without a ton of work on them. Granted, they probably have been spending time on it for awhile, but it doesn't really sound that way from the interview.