Kazunori Yamauchi Live Twitter Interview With @Honda Transcript

GT series creator Kazunori Yamauchi is taking your questions live, right now, via Honda’s official Twitter account! If you’re on Twitter, submit your questions by including the “#Honda” and “#E3” hash-tags in your tweets. I’ll be following the interview closely and will update this post accordingly. The interview starts right now, at 12:00 PM Pacific Time!

For those of you not on Twitter, I’ve embedded these two live streams of tweets, which should update automatically – just sit back and watch! Of course, if you are on Twitter, now would be a great time to follow @GTPlanetNews as well.

Here’s a quick transcript of all of Yamauchi’s tweets from the interview:

We’re making Honda HSV now but may not be in time for GT5.

CR-Z will be in GT5 and performance is accurately recreated.

The CR-Z is a car that is really interesting once you tune it. And I’m considering buying one myself just to tune it.

Might be fun to add a turbo or something like that.

Because you can make a really fast car if you take off from low speed off of electric motor then have turbo take over on top.

Game will simulate hybrid braking on CR-Z.

The final number of tracks hasn’t been fixed yet.

The VTEC sound had been reproduced ever since GT1, it switches at proper range according to cam profile.

There might be something from LMS or ALMS could be added.

I don’t think Bernie Ecclestone won’t allow F1.

Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?

Can’t talk about details on customization but yes, you’ll be able to customize.

Customization in GT5 will be better than GT4.

Most of the Civis from the 90’s and on should make it into the game.

I drove the Honda CR-Z on the Honda test course in Japan and it handles really well.

If you go into a corner with good amount of load on the front tires the rear slides at a very controllable rate.

Technically it is possible to have bikes in the game but haven’t really thought about it yet.

Regarding weather effects…rain, etc… Maybe.

There will be a lot of cool lounge and jazz music in the game.

Unique music for ea manufactuer would be something cool to do.

By blackframe, I meant same as in PSP (re: cockpit view)

In that case, it would be technically possible.

What kind of things did the last part of the movie trailer with Red Bull make you imagine?

@GTPlanet I like you too!

Thank you all very much for joining. Please look forward to November!

While it is unfortunate that questions remain about the status of interiors for standard cars, I am very thankful to Yamauchi-san for the GTPlanet shout out in his second to last tweet – we are definitely looking forward to November!

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Comments (302)

  1. Genosha

    My point is when u start gt in career mode u start with little or no credits to buy a crap car, then it takes u hours and weeks to build up to the big boys. Will u start of with standard cars with no cockpit. If u do then this game is going to piss me and loads of people off. The question i need to know is, how far into career mode do have to reach to start enjoying the benifits of the over hyped cockpit view.
    loads of people on this forum have knocked turn 10, but they got it right in forza 3. Codemasters are even better.

  2. Carrie Sier

    I have to say, I enjoy reading your article. Maybe you could let me know how I can subscribing with it ? Also just thought I would tell you I found your website through Bing.

  3. Black Chamber

    I would rather have a “generic” black-frame cockpit-view on all the standard cars than none at all.

  4. AudioProject

    Just go done reading the article at http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d5247p3.html and I am not impressed. I think Kaz’s priorities are misplaced and that they could’ve used their time more wisely. I don’t know if it will really enhance anyones GT experience knowing that their has fully modeled backseat and carpets. C’mon PD, these are features we don’t even need to see in a racing game, so why waste all this extra time modeling them. I would’ve much rather had every car have cockpit view, or none at all. Now the game’s car collected is striated and there is a definite difference in quality grade between one group of cars and another. I enjoy GT like anyone else, but some fans act like everything Kaz craps is gold. This lack of interior for 80% of the cars makes the game feel unfinished. Basically what we will be given is 20% of the garage is overdeveloped and 80% is underdeveloped.

  5. NS

    As far as cockpits are concerned I think that there will be interiors, because like other people mentioned, it would be really stupid on PD’s side to work on track details for years, and leave cockpit views unmodeled.

    If anyone noticed GT5P interiors didn’t all have the same amount of detail. Amuse S2000 interior seems a little ‘naked’. And if you read at what has been said, Kaz said that ‘premium cars are modeled to the last detail’ which doesn’t mean that standard cars aren’t modeled at all.

    ..and although ‘interior views’ are mentioned I also believe it’s a translation error. Premium cars have ‘dislocation of body panels’ and that is why they have ‘interiors’ modeled as well (engine, inner body panels, etc)…

    Although I am personally happy so far, only this statement bothers me “* Damage is not necessarily applied to all races in the game.” What does this mean anyway? That my car can be damaged in THIS race, but NOT THAT one? :S

  6. Jimbo

    Heres my thoughts, Forza was able to model the cockpits on all cars in the game. What was the development time of the game?

    Standard cars im assuming are all the cars from the 80’s, 90’s and all the cars from the 00’s that arent the heavy hitters. Anyone who owns a car from this period will attest that the cockpit is not ecxactly glamorous, especially 80’s and 90’s cars. Im very confident all cars will feature a cockpit view, maybe not as intricate as the Premium cars, but a representation/basic laser model of the actual car.

    As if Kaz would release a game with only 200 cars featuring a detailed cockpit and 800 completely without. Technology advances surely allow them to acheive this.If they go to all the effort of remodelling the old cars im sure they have done the interiors aswell.

    It also brings me to the fact that there are alot of nugget standard cars on GT5P that feature a cockpit view. I mean come on, Daihatsu Copen, Suzuki Cappacino Premium cars? Whatever. They got interiors so im putting my money on all cars having model specific interiors. Wake up people.

    I think its just a big misunderstanding of terms.

  7. GMW

    “Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?” This statement could mean he has basic less detailed interior views but is curious as to why we might want black frame interior views.

    However, at this stage I don’t really car as they can always DLC or better yet, release another 1000 premium cars as they are released in real life!!

    Regarding weather effects…rain, etc… Maybe. I would almost 100% believe they will be at the very least a wet track like in GT3 and GT4. Interesting that they might add rain. However the day night cycle is included and that looks amazing!

  8. Hoodie

    Ok, it seems obvious to me that the 800 standard cars will NOT have any interior view at all. You can see in the screenshots the standard cars just have blacked out windows, not even simple generic interiors are present which may have been used for standard cockpit views.
    But to be honest, I can live with this. I’ll probably drive the premium cars 90% of the time anyway, and 200 cars is still a lot. Not just for the interior views, but also for the realistic crash damage.

    Would anyone REALLY play the game using a generic interior view for standard cars that showed a dash with no accurate resemblance to the real car? What would be the point? You’d have to ‘imagine’ you were driving the real deal anyway, so why not just use bumber cam like always? This is a non-issue I think.

  9. Dom

    It’s good that Kaz made some clear comments, which will kill the hype. It’s good, because now GT5 can be enjoyed when it comes in Nov and new, unexpected features will get the attention they desirve!

    So once again:

    – We won’t have cockpit view in regular car models that are transformed from GT4.

    – We probably won’t see rain or wet tracks. Not what he said, but maybe is rather a nicer way to say NO.

    And finally, the number of tracks hasn’t been fixed yet. So wait, if they need up to 2,5 years to develop ONE damn track, how will they not know the final number of tracks for GT5 by now??? Got him…

    You know what, wheater he is an ignorant wanna be racedriver producing a videogame without respect for the wishes of his fanbase – OR he is fooling us all with false information because he is a nerdy bastard who enjoys to tease – OR he simply has no clue what is going on with PD and the progress of GT5 – OR the translator guy needs to be replaced (lets hope not).

  10. NicolasG

    Forza 3 has now more than 600 cars ALL with interiors…
    800 cars Without even a simpler dashboard+wheels(NOT black like psp) is a REAL SHAME! I would have prefered to get rid of most of these 800 cars (especially the 40 iterations of the same car) and propose new 2006-2010 models with a proper dasboard.

    And even if F3 is not GT graphic like, they have a very good base already there and surely much more improvment coming in F4 (for XB720?)

    1. Mr. Premium

      Flatly, no. Part of the point of GT4 is the inclusion of so many different cars, including “normal” ones, because they all have their fans.

      Kaz doesn’t like compromises.

  11. smoke1485

    Whiners seriously go away this is still all good news complain on another forum this site is for people who like gran turismo not for those who think the game should be individually tailored to what you want or think it should be

  12. Aaron

    Hi guys,

    Is there any word if the psp can be used as rear vision mirror? It was announced along time ago that it would but nothing about it in a long time

  13. ralph89

    You all need to calm down on all cars not having In-car view and using a black frame from PSP (he will get fired if he do that). I’m sure KY is toying with us on all of this info. It’s a sad truth. He probably told all his team not to mention all the critical info and stick to what they are supposed to say. If you watch the gamespot and IGN interview, the guy from PD (Turn 10 guy from last year?) said the same thing on both. He even manage to dodge the standard/premium question. The IGN guy was like, “OK….” So top with the “OMG NO COCKPIT VIEW IN GT5!!!!”

  14. chrisrar

    both american and gb gt5 website differ on the statement regarding interior and difference between premium and standard.

    us – Exquisitely detailed, Premium cars are stunningly recreated both inside and out.

    gb – Detailed and Beautiful “Premium Cars” come to life in intricate detail

    Updated and Included from Previous Series, thre is a huge range of “Standard Cars”

    updated ie upgraded to match the visual fidelity in some way. they will have interior but not as intricately modelled as premium.

    From the Exterior Down to the Last Button on the Centre Console, the Level of Recreation in a Premium Car will raise the bar in Video Games

  15. WTH

    He is a F*cking waste man
    A waste of 5-6 years, I understand that it’s hard to model all 1000 interiors. But still
    Its not the real driving simulator. It’s more of part time driving simulator!
    Depending on wat car u have.

  16. LeStique

    sorry for triple-post, but the reply-function doesn’t work somehow… I tried to comment @ElieTheBear

  17. chrisrar

    so the golf IV gti 01 would count as a must have premium car, in place of a lamborgini gallardo or bugatti veyron?

    it would make no sense at all to spend 3-6 months (approximately 1/10th gt5 dev time) remodelling a vehicle which already exists. a quarter to half a year wasted . modelling something which could be optimized with a script/ or something a clean up artist could achieve.

    by the way the tinted black windows of the yellow camaro z28 was in gt4 and also has a steering wheel and seat in that render…

  18. icant55

    As long as the headlights work on all the cars i’m happy, it might take a long time to make interior madels and im tired of waiting so good job pd and squeeze as much cars as you can in the game… we will still drive them in GT6 too lol…

  19. airjoker88

    What if he means do you want black frame for internals under hood, underbody, etc (“interior view”).

    because instead of saying same as in PSP (re: INTERIOR VIEW) he put same as “PSP (re: cockpit view)”

    “Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?”

    “By blackframe, I meant same as in PSP (re: cockpit view)”

    im pushin it lol, damn that would be bummer if not all have interiors.

  20. seckander

    i just noticed you cant delete nor edit your own comments lol that kinda blows nah but i believe all cars will have cockpit views hasnt been denied that possibility so far and as a big matter as it is it would’ve if it was true so lets shut up and enjoy the world cup lol

  21. FlareKR

    I don’t care about the 800 missing interiors, they’re all the cars from GT4 that we already drove!
    Is there any info on how the customization will be done? I’m not asking for Midnight Club customization levels, at least they should put custom coloring, rims, decals and vinyls, and no body customizing.

    1. LeStique

      Yes but then please not that “look at me”- show off decal-stuff you can see in NFS and stuff =)

  22. chrisrar

    if all interiors are of the quality that the golf IV gti 01 from gt4 is i certainly wont be dissapointed. I really cant see them remodelling a car from gt4 to waste 3-6 months.

    1. ElieTheBear

      I hope its just the difference between full detailed and not … its not even clear yet in te gran turismo news website

  23. CanAm1968

    After reading most of the comments….Im very SICK and TIRED of hearing all the whining and complaining about how bad it sucks that all 1000 cars dont have the same interior view. GET OVER IT….seriously! There much worse things that Kaz could have neglected to address. What if he just chose to keep the 200 that have full interiors? If you have a problem with the interior either dont drive it.. or use a different view.

    It just seems like very few of you are offering praise for a job well done. I guarantee everyone of you that the new GT5 will blow away every racing game ever released. We will definitely get more news with the upcoming video game conventions scheduled later this year. I just hope they dont decide to change the release date because I like many of you caanot wait to get it home and enjoy PD’s hard work.

    1. ElieTheBear

      you have to understand that people like the cockpit view because its new .. because its more like a simulator view … and because we’re used to it now from the prologue … so its normal to not like that bad news … told us at the very end of the development

    2. Matt123456

      Finally, someone who agrees with me :). PD dont owe any of us anything and the fact that this many people are whining about what they arent getting is pathetic. We bought all the previous GT’s with just the other views and they made the best racing series ever. I think that they have done 200 VERY high quality interiors will end up being enough in the end when youve got to the stage that theyre the only cars you use anyway. I know that everyone wanted 1000 interiors but is that realistically possible? I know that i cant wait for the game and am sure it will not be matched as a game for years. If anyone wants to go ahead and make 1000 interiors, then they can by all means do it themselves.

  24. JesseDeya

    Can someone show me where Kaz confirms there aren’t cockpits for all cars?

    Reading all the tweets I only see two (possibly three) references:

    “Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?”

    “By blackframe, I meant same as in PSP (re: cockpit view)”

    “In that case, it would be technically possible.”

    Without knowing what question was asked how can anyone jump to the conclusion there will only be black frame cockpits for 800+ cars???

    What if the question asked was

    “Kaz, are we going to have the same interior view for standard cars as the PSP?”

    to which he may have quizzically replied…

    “Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?”

    Then a completely different person, seeing the above reply has asked:

    “Kaz, what do you mean by black frame interior view?”

    to which he has accurately answered…

    “By blackframe, I meant same as in PSP (re: cockpit view)”

    I don’t know what to expect now, but I think it’s a little odd that if there are 800+ cars with black frame interior views that we haven’t seen a single shot or video of it.

    1. ElieTheBear

      PREMIUM CARS” From the seductive curves of exotic sports cars, to the inviting sight of the road ahead when you slide into the driver’s seat and peer past the glass, down to the intricately detailed instrument panel and dashboard… Every one of the over 200 premium cars recreate every last detail of the car, inside and out.

      Gran Turismo 5 contains over 200 of these “Premium” level cars.

      THERE’S NO INTERIOR for all 800 gt4 cars .. in the image theyre all tinted black window : ( im sad …. only flaw of the game … cockpit and maybe rain !

    2. Billy

      If you read on it goes on to say about face tracking how would that work without cockpit, No where does it say NO COCKPIT

  25. Andy

    I think you’ve all got the wrong end of the stick to be honest. All cars will have interiors, theres no way they can’t. If they don’t i actually will eat my own shoe. I agree with jBat17

    “remember KY is japanese and that q&a was being translated back and forth. he thinks everyone knows that all cars will have cockpit view and that’s why he asked for clarification instead of giving an answer.

    if KY can speaks english, his reply would be: are you are retard? why would yo want a cockpit view like the one on gtpsp on a ps3 game? i already made 1000 cars with full cockpit view and you just want a black frame instead of the real deal. fine, i’ll look into it… what a bunch of insatiable whiners!”

  26. ElieTheBear

    impossible that all cars in gt5p are premium … maybe he was speaking about cockpit view(damage)

    1. LeStique

      What about this?: They had in mind to recreate every single cockpit and then they brought us GT5P. After that they realized that it is an impossible goal, if they want to keep the dev time under let’s say…a thousand years. Because lets be honest…who of us would have waited such a long time, eh?.
      So they came up with an idea: why not make some supercars, racingcars and some other exciting cars something like “premium cars” and all this boring stuff they had in GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 and GTPSP “standard cars” (which as well could be named “not-fully-finished-in-time-cars-because-we-were-messing-with-stuff-like-3d…-cars”)
      So they threw away the cockpits for lets say the cappucino and so, so their new idea could be implemented.

      As much as I wish that what I just wrote isn’t true, I fear it is.

    2. LeStique

      This was again sarcasm.

      Why don’t anybody get what I’m saying today? Why, why, why?
      I think I’m going to cry now. No wait, be strong…ok.

      No honestly: I said this because you always read that the 800 standard cars are cars they updated from previous versions to blend in with the rest…so you could come to the conclusion that the slr and the veyron are standard cars and so not “exciting” enough to get the premium status.

      Got it now?

    3. LeStique

      But do you really think they would make a dacia logan premium? Come on…there has to be something special about the car to become premium. For example speed or rarity…

  27. LeStique

    All of you who are still denying that GT5 will “only” have 200 interiors are just fooling themselves. I also hoping that it all was a big misunderstanding and that the final game will have a thousand-million interiors…but still. I think it’s time to face the facts. Even though it makes me a little sad. I was so looking forward to driving my own, real car in cockpit-view (Yes, I don’t have anything like those expensive premium cars).

    Now I just need clearance about weather and an European release-date

  28. chrisrar

    just fired up gt5p and selected golf IV gti 01 same car as from gt4, interior view is there. why would they remodel from scratch a car present in gt4?? would make no sense.

    tried with ferrari f40 which would be new to gt franchise. ie a new model, an interior obviously.

  29. ElieTheBear

    GT5 = we’ve made 200 new cars with damage and cockpit view the other 800 cars are just scaled up from gt4 ! sorry for the delay ! have a good play ! KAZ

  30. JustCause

    The only thing I would like answered is what is the european release date. Other than that I will be happy with what I get in GT5.

  31. Nixo

    aww crap year ago almost finished game and now its 1/5 finished game and it gets released, talking about perfectionists.

    1. Erik

      The released game will be finished. The game will include 200 premium cars and 800 standard cars. It has been a fact for a long time. The only thing we dodn’t know was what premium and standard actually meant, and now we know a bit more about it. That’s all.

    2. Nixo

      do they really enjoy piss people off with this kinda things about the cockpit, why cant there be any clear answers..

  32. Paulo

    If they are saying that they are maxing out capacity on the Bluray disc, there is no way in hell they will be able to add 800 more cockpits.. They are going to have to start omitting content, or releasing double Bluray discs for GT6.

    1. Erik

      I think it’s a matter of time rather than space. They could always make double discs if they run out of Bluray capacity.

    2. Paulo

      Yea i know, I can understand it takes a super long time. Not only are they modeling the dash, but they also do both left, right, and rear views as well, which goes above and beyond.

  33. S3 Racer

    ppfff stupid forza fanboy stuff

    800 cars that handle more realistic than forkaka and need for sh** combined,…

    Cockpit isn´t even realitic if driving with a wheel or do you know 1 car which has 2 wheels one behind the other

    hoodview is realistic.

    Go play forza and leave Gt to the big boys, who don´t whine about everything

    Stig you´re an idiot an should not be allowed to have such a name if you say 800 trash cars.

    at least some sane people in here and in the forums.

    And has forza or NFS a community like these….

    Did the server of forza broke down monday after forza?

    Or so happy that on 2/11 you all will shut the **** up

    1. JustCause

      @S3: Are you saying most of the people on here arent GT fans then because I see most people on here cry about some aspect of GT5 on every news item.

      @The Stig: Iwould say he is a little boy with a big mouth because an adult (most adults) wouldnt spout such noncence.

  34. DrTrouserPlank

    Seckander, I think that’s where the focus for this game has been lost. These 200 premium cars are obviously performance or “supercars”, stuff to bring the mass audience in with their powerslides and almost “alien” handling. What they “may” have neglected is that the old GT fans find enjoyment from taking a “boring streetcar” around a lap and squeezing every ounce there is from it…

    I’m still skeptical though and I think this is misdirection from KY and PD…. to have the most definitive racer in the last 5 years without “decent” dashboard views whilst racing just doesn’t make sense, and isn’t in line with the high standards they have set for the rest of the game. Regardless of their accuracy, I’d “expect” generic interiors for the other 800.

    The textures for interiors take up no space on a blu-ray, especially seeing as there are 10+ models of the same manufacturer. It’s not an excuse.

    I expect our concerns will be relieved in the coming 6 months

    1. seckander

      great post, i agree with you on everything and i just really cant do no more than hope and pray, it would make a really big difference to me in what i think it’s the overall greatness of this game if cockpit views are in for all cars

  35. DirtyE30

    For all of you saying “I’m not buying this game, because it’s not to my standard” please leave, you’re pissing in an already overcrowded pool.

  36. jBat17

    remember KY is japanese and that q&a was being translated back and forth. he thinks everyone knows that all cars will have cockpit view and that’s why he asked for clarification instead of giving an answer.

    if KY can speaks english, his reply would be: are you are retard? why would yo want a cockpit view like the one on gtpsp on a ps3 game? i already made 1000 cars with full cockpit view and you just want a black frame instead of the real deal. fine, i’ll look into it… what a bunch of insatiable whiners!

    1. test

      You should read the question asked, there was no mention of PSP, there is no reason for him to even come up with the term BlackFrame and then later say he was referring to the blackframes in GTPSP

    2. Erik

      You don’t have support for that interpretation anywhere in the text… Sure, it is a possibility, but there is nothing in the text backing it up…

    3. jBat17

      You don’t have support for the no-cockpit-view-for-all-cars ANYWHERE. Give me one link that categorically say that there would be no cockpit view on standard cars.

      Don’t you think the media would be all over this by now? Where are the articles?

      You babies are just overreacting. Wait, this not overreaction; this is you typical whine and whine reaction from cry-babies.

      Waaaah! No damage.
      Waaaah! No day/night cycle.
      Waaaah! No reverse light.
      Waaaah! No cockpit view.

      All you have left is: Waaaah! No skid marks.

  37. Quasikoki

    I don´t believe a single second that 800 cars won´t have cockpit view, there´s no way they would release a broken game like that (especially considering prologue).
    It would be ridiculous, Kaz would make a complete clown out of himself if he´d make such a big mistake.

  38. DarthStig1

    Thank you very much KY! We love your dedication & effort towards this game. The GT series has become a much more personal thing for me – its more than a game.

  39. SPM

    why is black frame such a big issue? gt1-4 didn’t even have interior views yet were still considered the best. the crappy games people compare gt with only have a few hundered cars total. the 200 + premium cars will have way better detail than anything ever seen. this could be a game in itself and I suspect most people will be driving these cars anyway. the 800 standard cars are from previous series. people should quit their bitching since interior views suck anyway

    1. guy

      SPM, the only thing obvious is that you suck by not respecting other peoples view.

      PD screwed up if there won’t be cockpits on all cars, it’s really as simple as that. The whole premise of GT5P was to give a glimps what GT5 is going to be like. All cars in GT5P have cockpits except the GTR Black Mask as far as I know. I’d say that’s a pretty mighty fail on PD’s part to compe up with GT5 now and having to take a step back on the cockpit side of things :(

      I only drive with cockpit since it’s the closest thing to driving in real life.

    2. Erik

      @ guy: The only thing it can be argued that PD has screwed up on is the marketing around Prologue for not saying that the cars in Prologue won’t represent all content in the actual game. You can’t say that they screwed up on making the game, because modelling 1000 cockpits would probably take ten years and the only way they could screw that up would be to take ten years for modelling and then fail to produce after that.

  40. seckander

    a racing game without a cockpit view these days falls behind i just hope they dont let us down and feature cockpit views on all cars, because imo most of the special cars in the game are actually the ones they call standard…

  41. chrisrar

    find it hard to believe some things from KY. its always a game to keep the fans guessing.

    Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?

    By blackframe, I meant same as in PSP (re: cockpit view).

    the answer to this would be NO.

    this is neither a confirmation nor deny kinda thing.

    gt psp is scaled back not just black but with mirrors. the interiors will be in, some shape or form. just wont be as detailed as premium, or there will be a generic setup to carry over to each manufacturer.

    id say get on gt5 prologue check for standard cars carried over. only one car has no interior…. and that was because it was the concept…i think.

    1. jBat17

      to KY, proper cockpit view on all cars is a given. this is not a justturned10 game like flopza 3, where all cars have tinted windows.

      you can see in his reply that KY was just confused as to why would you want a black interior view when you already have a proper cockpit view. but KY listens to us, gamers. he’ll look into putting a blackframe view because he thinks that’s what the fans want.

  42. CeeJay

    Man, I wish they hadn’t bothered with the blacked out interior view. That’s gonna look pretty generic. I couldn’t stand how cheap it looked in the PSP version. Kinda weird they went with that.

  43. freshseth83

    you can all go here- http://www.operationsports.com/newspost.php?id=420269 and read what KAZ has said, and has planned. More news will be available in august. But from this site a few things worth noting.

    More F1 teams. Bernie won’t have a problem with it. Nascar insisted ALL their cars be available to play, on ALL circuits- they want to get their name out! ALL cars will accumulate dirt and have functional horns. All cars will have REVERSE LIGHTS! Option to synchronize games time of day with the track’s local time!

  44. DomoKun

    The only 200 with cockpits are extremely detailed….

    Thats when perfectionism comes back to take a chomp of that ass. Even Forza had 410 @ retail cockpits, shitty cockpits u might argue, but cockpits nonetheless… in 2 and a half years.

    Polyphony needs to start taking resumes… YESTERDAY

    PS thats the longest sentence i had written with a whole lot of “cocks” squeezed in…. what?

  45. test

    If he does give us a very simple psp like cockpit view for all the cars that are not suppose to have any cockpit view.
    I could live with that, but still very disappointed.

    1. Erik

      If it in fact is the case that only premium cars will have cockpit view, I fully understand that 1000 cars is a lot to model cockpits for. On the other hand I also understand why a lot of fans as disappointed. When we got the Prologue it was assumed to be a demo of what the full game would be like, and since all Prologue cars have cockpit view (and there is no indication that the Prologue cars are premium cars) we were led to believe that all 1000 cars would have cockpit view. To release Prologue without any further explanation on what it represents in the final game was not the best way of marketing as it seems.

  46. Whatbrown

    To me, it is and has been abundantly clear that we are not getting any interior view for the 800 standard models.

    I am curious to know what is going to happen when you roll a standard car? What will the under-carriage look like?

    Also, are they just going to tint the windows on the standard cars? What about looking through the front windshield?

    Seems to me that they should have just left a bunch of cars out from previous GTs and focused on getting the most important and sought after cars up to the same premium quality.

    1. deathcabdan

      What made it “abundantly clear” for you? I would say that’s a pretty strong conviction with the current evidence.

  47. Brett

    I’m buying the game regardless. I honestly don’t even use the cockpit view when racing. I treat as sort of an interesting feature. So no biggie to me. I really hope they get weather in there though, I love racing in different weather conditions.

  48. smoke1485

    I am extremely satisfied so far, no game is without fault even the infallable gt series. But as of now, I still consider a hammer blow to all other racing games and cannot wait to get my hands on it, cockpits and reverse light and skidmarks or not

    1. ElieTheBear

      i think the cockpit view was .. really important.. for many people .. and a basic feature … is it me or he had already confirmed that all cars will have a cockpit view ??

    2. Erik

      @Elie: Cockpit view has as far as I know never been confirmed other than for premium cars. We were hoping though that “interior” meant “under the bonnet” etc. but it looks like we were wrong.

  49. Brett

    I also thought it was interesting he gave a “maybe” to weather effects. Obviously they are having trouble getting the game to run optimally with rain effects – I hope they manage to figure out a way to make that happen.

  50. Erik

    To make a quick analysis I think that the game Gran Turismo 5 is mainly about the 200 Premium cars. That is what they have been working on trying to set the bar for future games to come. The 800 standard cars “are classics brought in from previous games”, with a little touch-up to match the rest of the game. It’s quality versus quantity and it seems like if we’re not willing to wait another five years for the game (modelling 800 cockpits with the Prologue quality seems to be a rather time consuming business) this is the only reasonable way to go. HD definition unfortunately demands a lot of work on part of game producers and to combine the quantities of previous games with the quality of PS3 is some heavy business. All creds to Polyphony for what we have seen so far and keep up the spirit!

    1. Paulo

      Makes perfect sense. They could easily rush through crap and make everything look unpolished, but that is not PD’s way. As hard as waiting for the game is, it’s always worth it in my opinion.

  51. Spazza

    Please (if the questions have not finished), if somebody is kind enough, could you ask about the chase cam? to see if it will stay really stiff or will it change?!

  52. DrTrouserPlank

    well deathcabdan I am with you there… I never saw anything categorically confirming or denying it… so they are either trying to shield the “bad news” or are suddenly going to charm us in the next 6 months by telling us “oh by the way, all cars have proper interiors”

  53. gtkiller

    It would be a shame if all 800 cars didn’t have a cockpit view but with all new add features I’ll be happy. I’m especially pleased we get day and night cycle, and if they can add weather that would be really nice added feature. OH, if tuning as been further improved then I can live no cockpit view on every car.

  54. deathcabdan

    I’m confused. When I was following along I did not see anything that for sure was a confirmation about the cockpit view…he seemed to not answer it directly. Did I miss something?

    1. Erik

      You can just pretend that the other 800 cars aren’t there. Noone is forcing you to drive the standard cars…

    2. JustCause

      Hopefully more cry babies like you wont buy the game then so there wont be a shortage of supplies of GT5 on release day.

    3. lilmann73

      Well Marcus, why don’t you make a better game with 1000 highly detailed cars with super-realistic interiors and true-to-life tracks and hyper-real physics. Then you can complain. Until then, shut up and grow up.

  55. DrTrouserPlank

    blackframe is a bit of a disappointment… it’s better than no cockpit view at all and being left riding bumper-cam, but please people don’t try to justify this as being a minor issue. I’d be happy if the interiors were somewhat “generic” but if you are introducing interior view for the first time in the series, surely it’s important to have continuity across all the cars otherwise the concept is meaningless.

    Once again I can’t help but feel that damage and NASCAR has wasted valuable development time that could have been directed towards more important endevours.

    I know they need the US to buy into this game, but is US even on the radar as far as motorsport goes… categorically no.

    1. ElieTheBear

      you damn right .. for a perfectionist like kaz , the priorities was not there … .. premium and standard cars … it was never there in gt series .. they never split all cars in two big categories .. its damn not good .. and because of damage and nascar !! because he wanted too much thnig in it .. he had to split the more important …. cockpit and no cockpit …. i really dont understand that … its a FAIL

    2. Brett

      Don’t forgot all the time they spent designing a super car for Citroen and the time they spent designing the computer system for the Nissan GT’R

    3. Brett

      Oh, and not mention the 3D stuff and the eye cam stuff they’ve been working on. If they just concentrated on modeling cars and interiors I’m sure they could have made many more than 200 have full interiors – of course it would have probably taken more than the blu-ray disk to hold the game. But with hard drives you could have used downloads as a way to increase the available space for the game.

    4. Erik

      @ Brett: So you think that every employee at PD does everything? I’m pretty sure that the people modelling interiors are not the same people who were designing the GTR computer or the Citroën… But maybe you also think that the entire PD staff follows Kaz around the world whenever he is racing somewhere or visits a game show etc.

    5. Brett

      I didn’t say anything about game shows, but I guarantee it took more than 1 programmer to program the innovative LCD display inside the Nissan GT’R and it took more than one programmer to work in the Citroen design and it definitely took more than 1 to do the 3D implementation and eye cam stuff. Think if all the resources devoted to those causes were instead devoted to interior design – how many more cars could have it?

      The 3D technology is just a strategic marketing push by Sony. They know that GT5 in 3D will sell 3D televisions so they probably pushed Kaz to make it happen for the game. I’m sure the eye cam stuff will be neat, but someone should have polled GT fans and see if they wanted that or if they wanted more than 200 premium cars. I’m guessing a poll of fans would say screw 3D, screw eye cam – work more on car design.

    6. FES

      DrTrouserPlank and Brett, you are absolutely right! add the GPS kinda possibility to load your real speed on som track into the game. The waste of time!

  56. Brett

    One thing I don’t get – the 1000 cars – a lot of these cars are just slightly different versions of the same car. There are probably going to be 50 skylines in the game, 30 different civics, etc. Why not create one modeled interior for these different cars and put the same dashboard in all of them? Changing the color would make each of them looks slightly different, giving variety. Then for the premium cars you can go all out and make them exactly perfect, but for everything else, especially the cars that are copied repeatedly in the game – why not just have a generic dashboard?

    1. Billy

      @Brett I think thats going to be the case for months everyone on here has been crying over the release date and now they have one they have found something new to cry about. Boo hoo not buying it, get over yourselves you know you will and it will be everybit what you expect, ALL CARS WILL HAVE COCKPIT VIEW SOME JUST MORE DETAILED AND PRECISE THAN OTHERS. NOW SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

  57. ElieTheBear

    we can now substract 70 cockpit views from the prologue to the 200 premium … so well have just 130 new cars from gt4 ??? lol in 5 years ?? with 30 nascar .. 100 new cars aiaiai no cockpit view no buying damn seriously … !!

    1. lilmann73

      No. Wrong. Say 70 cockpit views from prologue, and maybe 50 from GT4. There are still 80 new cockpit views that are highly detailed, and 800 with a GTPSP-like view, simply do to the fact that he ran out of space on the disk by making everything else perfect to make you happy. Instead you cry like a baby. Grow up.

  58. Will

    So I return to GTPlanet after about a year for E3 and I find the site overrun with spoiled children. I’d like to say I’m surprised, but that’s not really the case. :/

    Seriously, people, hyper-detailed cockpits aren’t the most important aspect of the game. Would you be happy if every car had such a cockpit if the physics hadn’t been improved? I would think, especially, with the hood view available, that people would realize this isn’t a top priority when it comes to improving the quality of the game.

    1. Shokz

      This is actually the first time they’ve come crawling out of the woodwork in a while… I thought the GTPlanet community was more mature than this.

    2. JustCause

      Nah most of the spoiled children came out to play. From a lot of the comments I say some of the people commenting on here arent even 18 yet (Especially those who call forza Flopza).

  59. Daryl

    The interior/cockpit views question isn’t really answered. According to KZ’s tweets via Honda, it seemed like he misinterpreted the cockpit questions and thought we wanted the black-fame like in the PSP GT – to which he said it could be done.

  60. Erik

    Actually I wouldn’t mind a blackframe. It’s of course nice to have all the gauges, the wheel and driver arms, but but if it would take too much time to model for standard cars I’d be more than happy to have blackframes, it’s better than the bumper cam.

    1. Erik

      Given the number of questions he got about cockpit view I think it’s a safe bet to assume that GT6 will have cockpit view for all cars :P

  61. Narly

    wtf im confused as hell… will there be a COCKpit view for standard cars or not… lets get clear once and for all… god damn it they had a lot of time to implent them… I really do not want to see that blackish patent same as PSP :S:S

    1. Erik

      @ Stig: Well, this is quality AND quantity at the same time. If you don’t like the quantity part, don’t drive a standard car. It’s not like the 200 Premium cars won’t be there anymore…

  62. Strikey182

    Gahh, i don’t get twitter, would anyone like to gather all the information in one nice package please? It would make it a lot easier for spazz’s like me to understand :)

    1. Marcus

      CR-Z included
      Customization included
      maybe whether
      possibility of bikes in future
      cockpit from gt psp

  63. Ferrari

    I really don’t find the cockpit view that bothering
    I mean as long as every cock HAS a cockpit view I’m fine with it.
    and all cockpits look semi-real so I wouldn’t mind

    1. Ferrari

      and plus guys, there can always be DLC addons
      as he mentioned, the Blu ray disc is full in size so he really couldn’t do much more
      time to start being realistic now

  64. DrTrouserPlank

    right, for the people like me who don’t know what the PSP interior is… what is it?

    Interiors as we know them from GT5P are only on 200 cars….. do the other 800 cars not have “drivers eye view”???..

    If so that’s a real cock-up.

    1. anominus

      in gtpsp they are inside the cokpit, but you cannot see the hands or the steering wheel or anything, its all blacked out

  65. [The Stig]

    no cockpit view for standard cars :(
    wish they better have only 400 cars and all the same quality,all premium,all with cockpit.
    but now we have 200 cars and 800 TRASH.
    I mean come on…. now all racing games have cockpit :(

    1. Marcus

      exactly even nfs has cockpit. WE DON’T NEED 350 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME CAR KAZ. That is what has taken up all the space. Stupid little cars have taken up the space we needed for proper cars and interiors

    2. ElieTheBear

      yeah for me what i was waiting for … without a doubt .. was all interior views(cockpit) … so its really a 200 cars gt5 game for me and like you said 800 trash just scaled up from gt4

    3. Strikey182

      They have filled up a BluRay disc already. Be realistic!
      Of course PD will have wanted to get everything 100% correct and accurate but its simply not possible and if you think they have done such a bad job, please feel free to try do a better job!

    4. jBat17

      LMAO Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?

      he was just messing with you, crybabies. of course, there is cockpit view for all 1000 cars. it’s like asking him whether the sky is blue. he cannot comprehend why sane person would ask that question. he had a similar reaction when some dumb journalist asked if the e3 09 gt5 trailer as cgi.

      but yeah, flopza fanboys, we all know you don’t have a ps3.. go play flopza with kinect.. only problem is you can’t sit down while using kinect.

    5. Strikey182

      Yeah but then that would have pushed back the release date, thus making even more people complain!
      It must suck being PD, no matter what they do, somebody is there critising!
      And besides, 200 Premium cars is still more cars than NFS have in total, and these are modelled so amazingly well!

      But i don’t care if you don’t plan on getting it, because i do, im not gonna throw a fit over the fact that it doesn’t have super detailed interiors for all 1000 cars. As i said before, if you think you can do better, nobody is stopping you!

    6. Billy

      @[The Stig] heh you wish.
      I think jbat17 has a point its you thats talking rubbish, if its going to be trash pop over to the forza forum grab yourself a new xbox and enjoy.

    7. JustCause

      @Jbat: Quit talking rubbish about Forza. You dont have the game and I am sure you havent played either it because you are a childish fanboy and if you did play the game you wouldnt be so critical about it.

      I own Forza 3 and I also own a PS3. I am waiting patiently for GT5. Not everybody is a one console owner you know.

    8. lilmann73

      IF YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOU THINK THIS GAME IS TRASH WITH 800 CARS WITHOUT A PROPER INTERIOR VIEW, PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE. A Blu-ray disk can only handle so much memory. The 800 cars without interior view is because PD did such a good job making everything else perfect. To be honest, we’re lucky we get 200 interior views. On the official GT website, they show side-by-side comparisons of the cars interiors. I could hardly tell the difference. 200 is A LOT for the amount of detail in it. If you don’t like it, I challenge you to make a better game with more detail and more interior views. Grow up princess.

  66. ElieTheBear

    no cockpit views for 800 cars … sorry kaz I’m not buying a 200 gt5 cars five years in development game

    1. Rasmus

      Oh yes you are, and you know it.

      See, that’s the (only) problem with GT fans, myself included. We can complain as much as we want and even go play Forza, but at the end of the day, 95 % of the people commenting on here will buy GT5 when it gets released…

    2. ElieTheBear

      better to be black framed than nothing !!! shame on that feature !! really bad news … better to have the cockpit views than damage !!! how the hell we are supposed to drive a simulator without a cockpit view ….. the fooled us with the prologue because they all were inside cockpit view :S aiiaai baddd

    3. JimInPT

      Many of us aren’t concerned; if I have 200 interior views to piddle with and go sightseeing, fine. But I race from bumper or hood view, so no big loss AFAIC.

    4. Erik

      Well, that is obviously the time it takes to model 200 cockpits in GT5 quality, wether you like or not.

  67. Marcus

    Bad news. Why did he waste time asking about hondas. I might hit something. Horribly dissapointing. Jordan can you get sage to drive a standard car just to clear up. Also he said ‘ technically possible’ suggests no cockpits yet. Balls

  68. lsl

    did i miss something? when did he confirm the psp like interior part?
    “do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?” it could mean either things…

    1. Marcus

      imagine being in a car bathed in black light. ie not even the steering wheel is visible. Far as i am concerned gt5 p is better

    2. Brett

      I did google it, and now I’m asking you guys who are quite knowledgeable because I didn’t find anything immediately revealing. Quite unnecessary comment on your part.

  69. S3 Racer

    Finally the big ??? about interior is solved. But not like hoped.

    Pfff either way i race hood view

  70. Thor

    I love Kaz but if he were my boss it would drive me nuts! Never a straight answer. Oh well, here’s hoping GT6 will have cockpit views in all cars.

  71. SPM

    most interesting part: What kind of things did the last part of the movie trailer with Red Bull make you imagine? ^KY

  72. smoke1485

    Customization should be better than gt4, with nascar now in it you need to be able to adjust each corner of the car individually something that wasn’t allowed so far

  73. DrTrouserPlank

    I don’t get this… is he actually answering questions or is this just a stream of submissions that’ll be answered at a later date?

    Saw this..

    GTPlanetNews @Honda Just to confirm, standard cars will not have cockpit view of any kind in GT5? #Honda #E3

    I’d love to see that answered for certain. My understanding is there are cockpit views for racing, but the interior is more “generic” than the premium models.

  74. icleolion

    What kind of things did the last part of the movie trailer with Red Bull make you imagine? ^KY

    CONCEPT F1 CAR… pls pls pls pls pls

    1. Billy

      I don’t think thats the case don’t be to quick to jump on that. I don’t think PD will let us down i see it that only the premiums will have very detailed exact interiors and standards will just have generic interiors there will be cockpit view for all and besides are you going to buy all 800 standard cars cos on gt1 through to 4 i only had 20 – 30 cars at any one time.

    2. lilmann73

      @Billy
      They ran out of space on the disk. A Blu-ray disk. That means they only have enough memory to have a black GTPSP-like interior with no detail.

    3. NotaSonyEmployee

      Why do so many people think that because one disk (or three) get filled up, you can’t add another disk?
      Krikes, one of my flight sims comes on 8 or 9 disks. It’s not like PS3 has a disk number cuttoff. You could have has many bluerays has you want has long has the HD has room for the install.

    1. Tarlach

      I was reading this the other day… japanese people never say no, they often say words to that effect but will never say it outright as they don’t want to spark conflict. it’s a business book btw.

    2. NotaSonyEmployee

      I’ve lived it when stationed in Japan, lol, it’s true. They do quite a few things that would be considered dishonest in the west, but it’s not malicious. It’s more like “Little white lies” and such. Save face, avoid conflict are more or less the main goals. Just better hope the guy your asking for directions actually knows how to get there, or you might end up getting sent the long way round the block rather than getting an “I don’t know.” lol.

  75. Thor

    ” Regarding interior view…do you mean you would want a black frame interior view?”

    ARGHHHHHHHHHH! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!!! I FEEL LIKE I’M ON ‘LOST’!!!

    1. lilmann73

      Won’t not means he will.
      For example:
      I won’t (negative) not (negative) eat that cookie.
      Translation:
      I will eat that cookie.
      So he means he WILL allow F1.

    2. NotaSonyEmployee

      LOL, I just wasted time posting the double neg = pos about four posts up, then I read this and (smack forehead here) realize I’m late to the class again.
      Dang, gotta learn to read ahead and come back to stuff….

    1. Mike

      Double negative there, most likely means there won’t be official F1, as Formula 1 is very protective and it is currently licensed to codemasters for a new F1 game.

    2. NotaSonyEmployee

      I think it means exactly what it says. To put it another way: I think Bernie E. will allow F1, Or I don’t think B.E. will prevent the use of F1 in GT5…
      Reason I get that from the qoute is that expressing a positive through a double negative, though bad grammer, is actually a fairly common practice. Most people don’t even notice it when it’s spoken that way, but for some reason or another get confused when it’s put into print.

    1. FlareKR

      At least it’s not Nissan; out of the 700 cars they had in GT4, 100 were all Nissans (and don’t forget the OVER 9000 versions of the GT-R, seriously, Midnight purple edition?)

  76. ICWUDT

    seriously enough about the cockpits

    how hard is it to realize interior modeling put in the same sentence as ‘undercarriage modeling’ obviously means to engines etc rather than cockpit view or not

    if you have 200 cockpit views, you dont focus on dynamic crowd or reverse lights trust me

  77. Drogahnus

    EXTENT OF CUSTOMIZATION AND LIVERY! I have no idea how to work twitter, so someone please ask about this! :)

  78. Vincent

    I’ve sent in questions about standard vs. premium models, and in particular whether standard models would lack a “dashboard view,” and also asked him to clarify what the terms “location” and “layout” mean, precisely.

  79. mOnsta

    i don’t have a twitteracc too. Could someone ask him about the carsounds? They are realy bad and i hope they change something befor the release.

    1. FES

      Then just ask if all the Hondas will have cockpit views))))) if yes – then it`s almost 100% that all cars will have it!

  80. S3 Racer

    i don´t have twitter. Can we go through here Jordan??

    If yes ask :

    Next year again at the 24 on the nürburgring??

    Will he post his laps on Gt5 as reference so we can compete with him and maybe other drivers? (Loeb, Acadamy winners,…)

    Can we race against the celebs on the top gear track??

    Can 24 hours (endurance) races be paused to not harm our beloved ps3??

    And a big thank you, from me and surly the whole Gt community

    In Kaz we trust

    1. S3 Racer

      What views are possible, Bumper, hood (with hood or without)

      Thanks Kaz for 10 years in automotive entertaining us

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