It's amazing that you can put so much faith in your Japanese stereotype for Kaz and PD, while alternately assuming Sony themselves are a bunch of short-sighted idiots who would have both stopped work on a PS4 GT game only to then overturn that decision a year later and stop support of GT6 to focus on GT7. If you're going to be racist, at least be consistently racist.
Yes, this is exactly what I believe. If you've ever dealt with SONY the megacorp, you might think the same thing. Ever had a SONY professional product maintained? Remember the CD DRM fiasco back in the mid 2000s?
I differentiate between SONY Computer Entertainment and SONY Corp too, because SCE is trying to be all SEGA and cool with the fans, as well as developers. They're being a lot more customer friendly than MS and EA. But SONY the megacorp, while not that bad, seems to be all about the yen.
So you met Kaz. Did he seem like the kind of guy who would chuck his game because the fan enthusiasm just wasn't there like before?
By the way, you're lucky I don't report you for calling me a racist, even in passing. That's pretty unmodlike and ghetto there, dude.
I don't see why saying "Sure boss, what you say may be the expedient thing to do with your focus on PS4, but I will not abandon GT6" is off the table, but it's your scenario, not mine. In your scenario, as far as I can tell Sony has basically total control of PD so it's really irrelevant what Kaz thinks or does.
What I do know is that throwing away support for GT6 is almost certainly a terrible move for the long term. If Sony can't see that, and Kaz either can't see it or can't/won't convince Sony of the need for brand loyalty, the whole thing is a loss anyway.
You keep carrying on as if Japanese business is some kind of democracy or group hug or something. Yes, I definitely DO see SONY as calling the shots. Kaz moving on to GT5 after 4, and on PS3, is just par for the course. Everyone expected that. So how do you explain the situation we find ourselves in now, with GT6 kind of falling into a black hole, and rumors of GT7 Prologue beginning to percolate from within the company? All you seem to have is "Hey, this is all wrong, everyone sucks." Or "Kaz is human, and he'd sell his mom if he had to."
I can't go into everything because a web of hypotheticals will never have an end to it, but I did want to remark about this:
there's good evidence that Kaz is intelligent and savvy, both in development and business.
Now this I'll have to get an explanation for. Not just "Gran Turismo has become the most successful racing game ever," because the business end of that was all SONY.
From everything I know of Kaz, he's a very talented, clever guy. Kind of a polymath, a renaissance man who has talents in more than one area, like coding, game design and production, and racing. More than anything, a man with an artist's or director's eye. Also a diplomat, an ambassador for all things automotive, and for his creation. A man who captivates everyone he meets with his insight and intellect, who invades the automotive and racing world like some kind of rock star. Gran Turismo came about because he had a vision and he managed to bring that to life in a way that was addictive to millions of gamers. That's what I see in him, but what I don't see in him is a shrewd businessman. And if you don't think that people are promoted to positions of prominence as awards for good work versus qualifications, just recall Ken Kutaragi, former head of SONY Computer Entertainment, who by many accounts was forced to retire from his position when the PS3 initially proved too costly for SONY. Fantastic engineer and visionary, lousy spokeshuman and businessman. Who by the way was to be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award at the GDC by Mark Cerny, the lead architect of PS4 this week.
Maybe I'm unaware of Kaz's business prowess, after all I'm not interested in Forbes or Business Week or any of that, so I could be missing an entire side of him. But you'll have to enlighten me on that.
Whatever is going on is of both Sony and Kaz's making, and to try to assign all blame to either party is to miss the point entirely.
Well, that's how I'm going to continue to see it unless you have some evidence to the contrary.
, modelling is fine however 
