They complain about being a small company and not having enough resources to do stuff _they_ want to do (nevermind what we want them to do), yet the boss is rocking about half a million dollars (or more) (in just purchase costs alone) in his garage (nevermind registration/road tax, insurance, fuel, upkeep, and the cost of the building to store all that - especially in Japan). He's soaking all the money up. If more was invested in the company (like more coders, or infrastructure, or researchers, or whatever is holding them back) they'd be further ahead of their current and coming competition right now.
Contracts are contracts though. His hands are probably tied on that one. (just not on making more of the car selection premiums, making more of the cars currently in more accurate in driving model, wheel widths, b-spec, course maker, custom paint colors, more realistic mods, adding other cars from manufacturers that are already in the in the game [especially ones with mechanical twins ALSO in the game already - talk about a freebie - for them], old favorite tracks that are sorely missed (even if seattle has real world reasons for being out - those don't apply to original tracks), etc <- those are not limitations of the PS3 or licensing, they are limitations of staff output capabilities at PD)