Keeping on with some of my previous posts, if GT wants to be a simulator, we have to give the users the abilities to tune a simulator to their liking from their own POV. If they continue to live out Kaz's dream, we will eventually run the game into a rut, creating a new game with features already used from the past, with little or no upgrade to them.
I constantly use Microsoft Flight Simulator as an example to compare simulators with. Although it is more in depth than I believe GT will ever go, features could be noticed and brought to the GT world. One of the main things I think which should happen, is a quick menu that I can manipulate almost anything (excluding car tunes and selection) from the track.
Above you can see a quick drop-bar or whatever you want to call menu. Here, you can choose where you are at, the time, weather, vehicle, customize your views, everything. This makes it possible to never need to go to the main menu. With implementation of this to the GT series, allowing users to customize virtually everything from grille to hitch, the overall player aptitude towards the game will increase I would think by a lot. Not ever having to worry about something which they can fix, prolongs a game and makes customers happy. However, when players can not change their surrounding settings, the are distraught, and mad. The game loses interest, and dies, just like Microsoft Flight Simulator did.
Now, if only PD start looking at making a real simulator screen, where the user can adjust to their liking, we will have the snowball rolling down a mountain of cash, giving more cars, locations, and better engines (ohh and more detailed sounds) for the players, making the experience of driving a car which you fantasize about much better. Im not saying that GT is about to die because we cant change our view from locked or tail-happy, but it is something which I think that PD should take seriously into account which could really help them out.
Microsoft laid off their ENTIRE flight simulator team which really sucks a lot. For a sim that did so good on their last release, only to release a game for free aimed at smaller children was a joke. Im not sure if those people are still floating out in the unemployed boat, because this was somewhile ago, but it would be nice if PD could sit down and interview some senior managers as how they progressed over the years, or hell, maybe even hire flight sim engineers for a driving game..
What Im talking about, is that MFS went from a couple locations like Chicago, Seattle, LA, New York, and maybe Las Vegas, and they ended up with the whole world and space. To go that far in a matter of ten years is amazing. It shows what technology has done to the world, and new jobs that are created from it. I REALLY WISH PD could take its time to look at their entire product, and say "Lets make it better, not bigger..."
