A couple items you posted that I am going to address;
- I can imagine that PDI as a company is rather embarrassed over this. With Kaz personally, I would expect some self-torment happening with his self admitted struggles at release time.
- May I ask to whom specifically you are referring to? It hasn't damaged the brand to me, and I seriously doubt that outside of the hardcore elite sim racers, it hasn't either.
On the first point: I can too. It doesn't really change anything, though. It's also not unique: I'm sure other devs are similarly embarassed/shook up when they have to delay their games.
On the second: actually, I think the hardcore folks will be the ones least affected by the news. As evident right here on the forums, some people aren't bothered by any amount of delays: they will buy GT Sport on day 1, no questions asked.
I'm mostly talking about the general media. PD was a low-hanging-fruit joke during the PS3 era and the long gestation time of GT5. A quick scan of the news:
PD announced GT6 and hit its release date. It looked, from the outside, to be a righting of the ship. They waited until two years into the current generation to announce their next title, which lead a lot of us to think it was a similar situation: waiting until they were sure.
The beta got unceremoniously dumped. That was the first red flag, especially with the reason given. That they've spent the last 3 months showing off more or less the same stuff since the May event was another.
I went to an Xbox event last week (mostly to play FH3, but was blown away by Cuphead). After the media portion of the day was done, the public filed in. I got to talk to a fair amount of people about racing games, and while not many of them are exactly potential buyers (since some are one-console-only folks), I heard a lot of confusion about just what GT Sport is, and when it'd be releasing. Comments about how the games take so long to release, that it doesn't get to occupy any valuable real estate in their brains.
Admittedly, it's hardly a thorough overview of the gaming landscape — just like GTPlanet — but it was interesting to hear from a different subset of people.
I'm still wondering about the potential success of GT Sport, and that was before this delay until who-knows-when. I don't know how much Joe Casual will be interested in picking up a game that offers so much less than what the traditional GT games did. While some of us took issue with the kitchen-sink approach of previous GT's, since so many features were left feeling half-baked, it can't be denied that it meant it provided more potential selling points for people.
Why are you so outraged like i kill someone because i don't like forza, if i make this speech about gt i bet you are all happy and you would give me a like
Try actually reading the responses. Nobody is "outraged". We're simply pointing out your utter lack of experience. If someone were to proclaim that they weren't going to touch GT Sport, calling it a bad game because they didn't like GT4 or 5, they'd be met with a similar response.
Or, to put it more succinctly: you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
You've been asked to not try to turn every thread into a Forza complaints section (we have a sub-forum where you can do that). You've also been asked to use proper grammar and punctuation. Continuing to ignore the staff is unwise.
