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No. It's based on GT5 and GTPSP and GT4 and GT3.This is all based off of cynicality. Everyone is predicting a very late release date based off of gt5, but that is only gt5.
GTPSP was supposed to be a port of GT4 for the handheld, and it was supposed to come out fairly soon in the PSP's life (launch window, most likely) considering it was announced at the same time the system was. 5 years later, PD dumped what was basically some framework and some licence tests that they forgot to design a game around.
GT4 was originally supposed to come out sometime before Christmas of 2003. They delayed it a year and ultimately gave it a release date of 12/3/2004 for Japan and 12/14/2004 for America, and then delayed it again not even a month before the release date (by little under a month for Japan, 2 months for America) and stripped the online mode from it at the last minute.
GT3 was originally supposed to be something along the lines of an enhanced GT2 that would come out on the PS2 launch. Then it got pushed back to the U.S. lauch. Then it got pushed back a few more months, at which point Sony gave up and decided that they wanted GT3 as it ended up being instead. Then Kaz personally held up development of the game to add more cars to the game, then did it again to add a few concept cars (Acura RSX, Nissan 350z concept, Mazda RX-8) from the Detroit Motor Show when the game was originally meant to come out a month prior to that show in Japan.
The only reason GT5 gets most of the attention is because:
- It had the biggest profile delays and the longest development time.
- Kaz would not stop talking about how the game was in the can and ready for release over a year before it eventually came out, and that they kept delaying it to make it "perfect."
- They made an absolutely monster deal about the final, set in stone release date for the game, and then missed it anyway.
But that precedent started long before GT5. You can say what you want about PD's skills, but time management is not one of them; and arguably never was even back in the GT2 days.
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