I should have been more clear in my last post. When GT7 is released, I'd say that no matter what ends up happening with the Course Maker in GT6, GT7 will have to be a complete game on launch date. If they have features "coming in a future update", the people that they've already lost won't be coming back. But, if they announce and release a complete game - it will get people very excited. I don't play ANY games besides GT6, so I don't know if this is a common issue with games or not, release the game and tell players it will be completed via updates...That doesn't sound like a very good strategy to me.
GT7 is going to have to release with all advertised features, if PD wants to actually move units. There are too many people pissed off at what ended up happening with GT6.