You would get even more criticism of PD being stagnant and resting on it's laurels. Frankly, while the wait for GT5 has been grueling, I've had plenty to keep me happy in the meantime. And if GT5 is as magnificent as we suspect, it's going to be well worth the wait.I must be the only person who would rather get new versions with minor improvements more often than wait years and years to get a new version that has a massive improvement
I'm the sort of person that wants to come home, sit down for a couple of hours and play the best possible racing simulator that's available. Not too interested if its made a massive leap since the previous one, nor do I really care if its massively better than the competition. For that, releasing more often is better, as I know I'm playing the best of what's available instead of playing the best game for a year then waiting 4 years for the next one!
For me this means that all development is done, or rather, PD is done puting everything into the game they decided to do. And also, all the major known bugs are solved. Maybe a few minor ones remain, but their chance of occurance is either very small, or the impact for the player is very small (or both). With GT Mobile being done too, the development team has time to spare (maybe even bored).
Apply for a University that does Formula SAE, its awesome! I've spent far too many all nighters on our FSAE car, leading up to competition I only slept every 2nd night for about 2 weeks, but I dont regret joining in the slightest. An Engineering degree will teach you a bunch of maths and physics and the tools you need to analyse and design things... FSAE actually teaches you REAL engineering, how to build a car in the space of 1 year to compete against other teams.
EDIT: Also, our FSAE team is awesome because we actually build our car ourselves. Many universities just design it then outsource the actual fabrication. We actually do the fabrication ourselves, so I've learnt how to use a mill, lathe, TIG welding and a lot of other stuff which most people going through University never learn or get to experience.
Oh, and I reckon I could design a car that would beat a Veyron around most tracks with only 150 to 200hp, but I just thought I'd cover myself by saying half the power
This is quite a long thread, so forgive me for not reading it all and that someone has already posted what I'm about to do.
For me this means that all development is done, or rather, PD is done puting everything into the game they decided to do. And also, all the major known bugs are solved. Maybe a few minor ones remain, but their chance of occurance is either very small, or the impact for the player is very small (or both). With GT Mobile being done too, the development team has time to spare (maybe even bored).
So this leaves them time for puting in some extra content, content they hadn't thought of yet (hence their visit to the Forza stand at the E3 for inspiration) or content they just hadn't scoped yet for GT5, but intended to give us anyway as DLC or in GT6+.
It all depends on Sony's release plans for GT5 and the impact any additional content has on development and testing. Quick wins with low risk can be put in. Quick, low risk, wins could be finding additional ingame sponsors (track sponsor boards, car stickers etc.), track enhancements (more detail such as oil drums, cars, debris or anything else that is not animated), music, skies and skylines, etc.
I can't think of any higher risk content, simply because it is unknown what they have already put in. If PD goes for additional high risk content, than it will still have to be something that can be made within a few months, anything taking more time will be plain silly. Enough is enough.
Just a few thoughts.
As has been said numerous times, at least by me, and probably by Foolkiller as well, Kazunori isn't the publisher. He can't make the game come out when he wants to. He's not the president of SONY. He has little or no power in the say of this. If you want to rant, go to Playstation.com and enter a complaint message. They read them. I got a reply back within just a few days when I did.
I stopped reading at this point. Nothing against you, but its's a guy on You Tube.
My point was I could both design and build a race car that would beat almost any street car in the same time its taken to make this game
oh, ok.....here's the guy anyway http://www.youtube.com/user/castravetele
just to show who said that the game will be delayed to may/june of next year because of the nascar license
