This kind of feature is simply not profitable on its own. Very expensive to develop, custom made everything (in practice that aspect costs way more than what people think), years of testing and all that just for a niche that is a boy's dream of the future (mind you a very nice one).
Considering that I've got a free app on my phone that does a lot of what this app appears to do, bar the visual representation of driving around the track, I don't see why it's such a big deal.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.racechrono.app
GPS tracking has been around for some time now.
Without the endorsement it would simply be impossible to make, just like GT Academy without Nissan or the Oculus Rift without Facebook.
I don't believe that at all. As above, a significant amount of the technology exists already, all that is required is filtering it to appear sensibly in a GT6 replay. I'm sure that's probably pretty tough. Does it require major investment and support from one of the world's largest automotive manufacturers? Probably not.
[/quote]...and also it's not like the 86 and its siblings are one of motoring's devils you know; if anything it's the opposite.[/quote]
Ah, so because the Toyobaru is a good car, it's OK.
Whether the 86 is a good car or not has nothing to do with it. It's a paid feature designed specifically to sell a car. Whether that car is good, bad, or explosive is neither here nor there.
Finally, it seems I have to repeat the development of this feature practically has absolutely nothing to do with priorities or any other aspect of the game you would personally like to see first. It's not like if this didn't happen then the engineers involved could be making tracks or like that Toyota money handled only for this project would instead go into hiring a different sound staff.
You're saying that the people that did this could not possibly do anything else useful to the game? Am I understanding that correctly? They wouldn't be making cars or tracks obviously, that's a completely different job. But it seems like a big call to claim that they have
no other skills that could be used to improve the game outside of the GPS/data logger.
Does that mean that they get fired, now that the feature is done?