I'm about to have a bit of a RANT. Please note this is my opinion. I do not wish flame bait or argue. I would like to know what people think about these businesses we give our money to.
The new Gran Turismo should not have standard cars. For goodness sake every modern next gen arcade racing games like driveclub are building up large car rosters and their is no such thing as standard model and premium modeling in their games. The developing studios are fully modeling their cars. Same with Project CARS. You can bet the same with the Assetto Corsa coming to PS4 from PC are all fully modeled inside and out. So also is the same principles from T10 with their Forza games.
PD should focus more on making their game quality not quantity when it comes to car count and car design modeling. The game needs to fully realize the history of Car culture and what is popular from around the world and expand to have a wider catalogue of manufacturers cars to drive of which there are still many manufacturers not realized by young kids growing up these forgotten manufacturers and cars. Then they need to choose with great variety like what T10 are doing with Forza iconic and popular motor cars from throughout our history uniquely chosen.
We only need 1-2 or 3 of the same car. And multiples only need to be added
(multiple meaning more than 1 such as 2 or 3) if their is a big enough difference in its technical specifications to distinguish it as a different car. For example the lowest base model of a spectrum and either one in between and one of a high end package. What we don't need is 10's of the same Japanese cars. Being a Japanese company and business and game dev studio they have
always been
BIASED against none Japanese car manufacturers. Putting more Japanese cars into their game rather than showing an equal and fair amount of cars from all global manufacturers.
PD as a Japanese Business and Game developer studio will always be
BIASED towards putting more of their own car culture and history of their country than the rest of the world. This is not a fair and equal representation. And no matter what country a game is made in the should focus equally on global car culture, iconic and popular cars and trends and manufacturers. Too much focus is on their own Japanese cars. They need equal and fair diversity and the world to be accurately represented.
PD do not properly represent the global car culture and it just goes to show the presence of business led decisions, beaurocracy, politics and money making. And the game is only a byproduct of making money like any business aim and goal. Businesses need to start realizing their products to be more than cooking up a new product and making money off of it. It has to be more than that. It has to be appealing to customers with more influence coming from community and people and car culture and what they want to see and not from business managers who have no clue about cars and gaming. After all we give them their money, we buy the game. We complain about what we want in our products or what needs to b added or taken away.
It needs to have what customers want in the game and businesses need to listen to people or people simply won't buy. And away with the over false marketing and advertising gimmicks for so many years now. And away with figures claiming 1200+ cars or 1300+ cars just won't hack it anymore. I don't look at these figures and think WOW I must have that game anymore. Quality and content not numbers and other showy figures. These businesses have you all on a tight little leash and you are serving their interests not your own. They don't care about your interests. This is an example of what is wrong with businesses. This needs to change.
Sure you will say these figures and numbers will sell the game. But I say to you no this is actually has no reflection on game quality and content. I'm not saying they shouldn't market and show off numbers and figures. But they need to show off other important facts about the game that will make it sell. Especially the areas of weakness in GT games for a while now. Advertise more about game graphics, mechanics, what is simulated, and be more realistic in their advertising. I don't mind seeing figures as long as they advertise some truth and none gimmicky things. Advertise more than just graphics, car count, car track count. Advertise more in depth features, mechanics and controls. And important facts about the game.