i don't get why you would wait when you're going to buy the system anyway just like everyone else, the only reason i can understand is financial obligations...
The same reason I waited until 2010 to buy my PS3; I had no use for it otherwise.
I don't get why you would buy a new system right away if you weren't sold on the game
lineup. Are you also the type that lines up for a new iPhone every year, even if the upgrades are utterly minimal compared to the existing generation? Consumerism for the sake of consumerism is a waste of money for me; I'll buy the system when the pros of ownership outweigh the cons.
and i'm not sure if you missed the memo, but devs hate the CELL processor with a passion, it had very little to do with its "massively increased power" and everything to do with how to utilize that power, which is also why every multi-platform game was natively developed on the 360 and ported to PS3. i'm sure you're aware the PS4 has done away with the CELL and moved on to a much more familiar platform for devs.
Except this isn't a multi-platform; this is a company that has, arguably, some of the best knowledge of the CELL processor. And again, I re-iterate; a great many of GT5's problems have little to do with the console's performance, they were simply poor game design choices.
I personally think that we are still atleast 10 years away from getting really photorealistic real time graphics. The jump to next gen with the PS3 and Xbox 360 was something new. The development studios are now familiar with the creation of hd games. And with the PS4 beeing closer to a pc, we will see faster development. Some developer said that it only takes weeks to port a pc game to the PS4 now.
Oh, I think the same way as you on that. But I'm doubting there will be a huge jump in graphics quality between a hypothetical PS4 GT6 and PS3's GT5, at least with regards to model quality of things like the Premium cars, or the 'Ring.
I mean 8 GB RAM and a high end gpu/cpu are light years faster than the PS3. Will the game look 10 times better? Probably not, but I think that every part of the gameplay will benefit from the new system.
I don't, so long as PD insists on another clunky, poorly-designed UI that suffers from loading times at every turn, or a skimped-out single-player game, or silly paint chips, or making B-Spec 50% of said poorly-planned GT Mode...
The problem was that PGR 4, which was a fantastic game, came out at the wrong time. It was the release window of Halo 3 and some other really big games. More a problem of bad marketing than game quality. PGR 4 was superb!
And Drive Club may very well be; which is why sticking it alongside GT6 would be a bad idea! That said, I highly doubt PD would hit a release date target, anyways.
It is just a matter of the right time to put a game in the spotlight for the consumer. If GT6 would come out as the same time as drive club, you can be sure that it would fail, because everybody would just look a GT.
We agree on that, then 👍
A GT about a year or 18 months after the system's release? I see no problems with that.
you guys act like Gran Turismo is the only deciding factor in buying a new system lol is it really the only game you play?
No, but it's a large deciding factor - or rather, has been, in the past. I bought my PS3 years after the release: I wanted to play MGS4 and GTA4 badly, but I didn't feel the need to drop the cash on the system for just those two, with GT5 in development hell. When GT5 was finally given a release date (which, of course, got delayed), only then did I buy the system. I had no use for Blu-Ray, and had no experience of the new series available on the system (Uncharted, LBP). Quite frankly, I'm glad I waited, since I got a massively bigger hard-drive than available at launch, for a much cheaper price (infact, cheaper than retail, thanks to my system being a special event bundle).
also 1 GT6 sale on PS3 = about $40 at best for PD/Sony
1 GT6 sale for PS4 = about $540+ for PD/Sony if the system is around $500 bucks. think about it when you're talking about pushing more units on PS3, you would need to sell 15-20 times more games to even out in sales anyway.
So you think all the retailers that would be stocking the PS4 would be giving 100% of the system profits to Sony? Suddenly, your other posts start to make more sense...
It took them 5 years because PD weren't focusing solely on GT5. They had GTHD, GT5P, and GT PSP along with a few demos like the GT Academy time trial. Even if limited, some resources went into the GT Academy. They also spent time on race car liveries, body kits for Nismo, car prototypes for Citroen, promo videos and tech displays for various car makers, were Sony's go to developer to promote and push display technologies like 4K and 3D, among more. Had PD been working on just GT5 after GT4 without any of the nonsense we would have gotten a much better GT5 game. The same is true for GT PSP. Hopefully for GT6 they aren't dealing with side projects and are focusing exclusively on GT6 only.
GTHD and GT5P are arguably part of GT5's production; just because PD sees fit to package their (slow) progress up and sell the resultant demo off as a game doesn't mean they've chosen to delay getting the full GT5 themselves. GTPSP could have also been sourced out, as many of the portable versions of series do, but for whatever reason, that option wasn't utilized either.
I imagine, due to the nature of online gaming these days versus previous GT titles, that PD hasn't been able to work solely on GT6; they've (rather obviously, with this hybrid business) got to keep on top of GT5 updates, especially given the history of one update typically breaking another part of the game.
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