Kazunori Yamauchi tweets!

[eSZee]

There's a picture with him and translator-san. I think he just knows the really basic words

On the G4 E3 interview he never let the translator translate what he was hearing, only what Kaz was saying. He understands english very well. Many of the Japanese people I know, native japanese still living in japan, can't speak really well but they can understand everything.

 

[Shinu]

He is just shy. Some people are like that (they don't speak if they are not 100% confident in there speaking skills)

 

[twinturbojosh]

Kazunori doesn't like the way English tastes on his tongue.

 

[Devedander]

On the G4 E3 interview he never let the translator translate what he was hearing, only what Kaz was saying. He understands english very well. Many of the Japanese people I know, native japanese still living in japan, can't speak really well but they can understand everything.

I didn't see that interview but is it possible they just cut out the segments where stuff was being translated to him? sometimes they do that for timeliness in interviews.

 

[SuperShouden]

It was a live interview.

 

[scope72]

Kazunori doesn't like the way English tastes on his tongue.

From Lost I presume? If so, that was a cool character.

 

[TeamStig]

Kazunori doesn't like the way English tastes on his tongue.

That was the first thing I thought of!

 

[SuperShouden]

I think Kaz also speaks Italian and German...and maybe French, but I know at least German and Italian. But, when working with international car companies, you kinda have to speak multiple languages.

 

[eSZee]

I didn't see that interview but is it possible they just cut out the segments where stuff was being translated to him? sometimes they do that for timeliness in interviews.

It was a live interview. If they were to cut anything, it would be that annoying, unprofessional bimbo that did the interview. She kept announcing that she can't talk cause she has a mint in her throat. Like I care what's shoved in her mouth. Followed by stupid, uncalled for and slightly racist jokes.

 

[Conquerer]

She also jokingly said "you can understand me" to Kaz and Translator-san said "yes, he can" in that same segment. Plus like others have said, I've seen/heard Kaz speaking English on a few different occasions.

 

[alba]

Where exactly? Assemble a team of experts and figure this thing out, GTP!

 

[SuperShouden]

btw, Kaz's recent tweets have been about the fact that despite him typing in Japanese, twitter essentially converts his tweets into English and counts the English characters. So, if he types say a 50 character tweet, it could be 140 characters in English and twitter won't let him type any more. That's why he does multiple tweets on the same subject a lot.

 

[Wingu]

btw, Kaz's recent tweets have been about the fact that despite him typing in Japanese, twitter essentially converts his tweets into English and counts the English characters. So, if he types say a 50 character tweet, it could be 140 characters in English and twitter won't let him type any more. That's why he does multiple tweets on the same subject a lot.

No, the guy who commented first wrote:

ken_ohtake says: twitter英語で書いてるとすぐに140文字。日本語万歳！

If you type in English on Twitter, you'll be up at 140 characters at no time. Long live the Japanese language!

Yamauchi says: そうなんですよね。英語圏と日本語圏では同じtwitterでも出来ることがまるで違う。英語だと「神経・情報」レベルのことしか書けないけど日本語なら140文字で「頭脳・意味」レベルまで書ける。

That's true. Even though we're using the same twitter, what we can do with either English or Japanese is quite different. In case of English you can't type anything but neural information [Whatever he means by neural information, I do not know. Maybe you guys with English as native understand.] . However, if you type in Japanese, with 140 characters you can write more sofisticated meanings.

Basically what he's saying is that you can write only information with English, but with Japanese you can express a lot more since kanji counts as one character each, while roman letters takes up more space. For an example:
頭痛 in Japanese means "headache" in English. As you can see, in Japanese there are two characters while in English eight characters.

 

[Wingu]

Next tweet is about car horns and how often people use it, or not use it (real life, nothing about GT5).

 

[SuperShouden]

No, the guy who commented first wrote:

Basically what he's saying is that you can write only information with English, but with Japanese you can express a lot more since kanji counts as one character each, while roman letters takes up more space. For an example:
頭痛 in Japanese means "headache" in English. As you can see, in Japanese there are two characters while in English eight characters.

Ah. So, I was right the first time.

 

[Wingu]

Yupp yupp.

 

[SuperShouden]

newest tweet:

〆切が次から次へとやってくる。忙しいときほど落ち着かないと・・・

From Bablyon:

The deadline comes over from next to the next. When don't calm down as busy time; ...

I think this one refers to working on the GT games and how as they're finishing up one, they're starting on another and during that time (which is now) there's no time to take a break 'cause they're constantly working on something.

 

[Dan_]

^^, I would suggest them to do a better planning for GT6 in this meantime, hire more people, establish what the game will be and determine which features will be in and which won't, you know.

Seriously, the fact of an implicit mention of a new product, even without GT5 on the stores just shows how much credibility PD still has with Sony, the pre-sales figures should be astonishing, or Prologue indeed paid for all GT5 costs. Impressive.

 

[crazedmodder]

determine which features will be in and which won't, you know.

I agree with the rest but this part is not always easy to do. Sometimes a feature can be worked on for a long period of time only to be cut because it doesn't work properly or causes other things to break. Then taking that feature out might break more stuff. Plus development takes a long time, so at some point there may be a new idea they want to implement and they try to work it into the title.

Development is much more of a pain then many people think. Just look at Doom 3, it was a great game but in terms of size it is much smaller than GT. That game took them 4 years to complete.

Working as a tester I remember that there was a title where someone on my team (maybe even me ) wrote an issue saying that the description text for a trophy/achievement should be more specific because to get it you had to finish the game with a specific team and you couldn't use continues. They omitted that you couldn't use continues and that is what we wrote an issue for. They waived the issue and closed it. At first I went why, it is just a text string they need to fix. Looking back though it is not that simple as they would have had to get the new text localized again for all the languages that the game supported and then we would need to spend more time having our localization teams check it to make sure it is ok. Still not a huge task but a simple thing like some text can take a lot more time than many of us realize.

 

[eSZee]

newest tweet:



From Bablyon:


I think this one refers to working on the GT games and how as they're finishing up one, they're starting on another and during that time (which is now) there's no time to take a break 'cause they're constantly working on something.

"The deadline comes one after another. It doesn't settle down at busy time. "

 

[Spagetti69]

Could mean DLC?

Or Kaz has a part time job at the carwash.

 

[steve30x]

^^, I would suggest them to do a better planning for GT6 in this meantime, hire more people, establish what the game will be and determine which features will be in and which won't, you know.

Seriously, the fact of an implicit mention of a new product, even without GT5 on the stores just shows how much credibility PD still has with Sony, the pre-sales figures should be astonishing, or Prologue indeed paid for all GT5 costs. Impressive.

In an interview Kaz was asked about GT6 and he said GT6 is planned already and it will be plugins / addons to GT5.

 

[trk29]

In an interview Kaz was asked about GT6 and he said GT6 is planned already and it will be plugins / addons to GT5.

Some people might think that GT6 would be the same as GT5 with more features then that they didn't have time to put into GT5.

 

[steve30x]

AH Right I see. So your saying Kaz was lying.

 

[SuperShouden]

In an interview Kaz was asked about GT6 and he said GT6 is planned already and it will be plugins / addons to GT5.

So...does that mean that eventually we'll get an update that changes GT5 into GT6?

Seriously, though. I remember way back when GT4 was being developed Kaz said that he wanted to release a game that he could simply countinuously update and build onto instead of releasing 80 games. I'm sure we'll see an actual GT6 for the PS4, but in the 10 years until then, GT5 will simply expand continuously. This allows them to add more cars and tracks and features as time goes on. Essentially, it'll become the largest game ever. Imagine having a 500GB HDD and 250GB of it is all GT5 data.

 

[Sturdy]

Imagine having a 500GB HDD and 250GB of it is all GT5 data.

Imagine how much all that DLC would cost

Still, that's why we have jobs, to pay for toys 👍

 

[trk29]

AH Right I see. So your saying Kaz was lying.

No I am not saying that. I never said Kaz was lying. How did you get that from what I said? What I am saying is that if he said it would be just plugins one might think that it would be GT5 with more features that didn't make it into 5.

 

[CoolColJ]

Just sell an expansion on a Blu Ray. Other games do it, why not a first for GT?

 

[Slurm]

In an interview Kaz was asked about GT6 and he said GT6 is planned already and it will be plugins / addons to GT5.

That's what I wanted to hear You don't happen to know where I could read that interview, do you?

 

[analog]

So...does that mean that eventually we'll get an update that changes GT5 into GT6?

Seriously, though. I remember way back when GT4 was being developed Kaz said that he wanted to release a game that he could simply countinuously update and build onto instead of releasing 80 games. I'm sure we'll see an actual GT6 for the PS4, but in the 10 years until then, GT5 will simply expand continuously. This allows them to add more cars and tracks and features as time goes on. Essentially, it'll become the largest game ever. Imagine having a 500GB HDD and 250GB of it is all GT5 data.

Interesting if true, it sort of contradicts the argument of him not liking DLC or it simply means one basic template for development ( meaning one structure forming the basis of all future games instead of starting from scratch each time ).
I really hope for DLC updates and add-ons and despite those who claim this is unlikely due to his remarks of wanting to release the full package from the start I personally believe we will see DLC.