If by "mature" you mean people in their 20s then yes, People who attend these events don't care about gaming in the slightest.
Yeah, but your line of argument has established that PD wants to speak to the kind of people that aren't gamers, but petrolheads on that age:
100% accurate.
Jordan can confirm this, since he has been among the very rare gaming and actually GT-related people invited to the Silverstone event in May. The actual focus was on the journalist from mainstream, lifestyle and automotive media, gaming-focused press was the least present.
However, I still do not understand why would such praxis been seen as negative?
The coverage and influence GT is getting is way beyond usual "gaming". I am deeply positive about the fact how recognition of GT-series has overcome usual "gaming media" and has spread all over actual "real life", especially automotive culture and industry. Not many games will ever accomplish that, if ever.
I can understand many would love to get as much information possible, but it is just not going to happen. I am almost 100% sure that many, many details will become known at the very day when someone get a chance to actually play the game.
However, I really do not understand the criticism towards "information about GT6". I find all descriptions and vast amount of info already available on the official site as example of great communication and good PR. We already had major reveal (Silverstone), we had official demo, GamesCom reveals, Goodwood reveals, 5 trailers (or 4, whatever..)
I agree, it would be great if we would learn TODAY about way A-Spec will be designed, how will B-Spec evolve, how will Tuning work, will there be permanent leaderboards and official matchmaking, how will Course Maker exactly work and will the rumored GPS functionality become a reality, how will GT6 official mobile application work, what is the final list of cars and tracks, what tracks will be part of the announced monthly DLC-packs and under which price, how the sounds will work (with at least 10 in-game youtube replays with samples to bitch about something until December), what will REALLY happen with "GT5 Standard cars" (with both youtube replays and photomode examples, in PNG please and with no compression), have Trial Mountain, Deep Forest and Laguna Seca been updated graphically, what are the new AI algorithms and how do they work (with youtube replays showing Lucas Ordonez fighting AI in standing-start race for 10 laps without ability to actually win further than 4th position) and deep and full breakdown of all online and community features.
But it is just not going to happen.
Polyphony - or any other AAA developer on that matter - does not communicate with hard-core only or separate with casual/mainstream and hard-core. Wishing such is only setting yourself for disappointment.
I am the first who would like to know answers to all questions above. But I know I will not get 95% of them before December. And it would be highly unreasonable to expect it, in my opinion.
We are by the very description and this place where we gather, a highly hard-core audience. And most demanding one. But in the same time, there are 10+ million people outthere who are not. And those are the actual people that are focus of the marketing people and publisher. And it is damn logical it is like that. If it would not be like that, GT would be just another racing game stranded with inability of developer to actually finish the game and get it out of the alpha or beta phase (rFactor 2, pCARS, Assetto Corsa - Assetto Corsa so far being the only one that will be released soon), or small niche-game that somehow found a way to be published but become dedicated only to hardest of hardcore (GameStock Cars, iRacing).
I don't know. Maybe I am too old to understand some complaining, but sometimes I think many do not understand how modern marketing and gaming-industry works.
Also, I guess many simply can't comprehend that without major push to mainstream and casual, there would be no real commercial success for GT series. And without that, sales would plummet. And there will be no more Gran Turismo. And with death of Gran Turismo, driving genre would quickly come back where it was before Gran Turismo. But I guess many here are not old enough to remember that times.