Call it a sign of our attention-deficit times, but barely 24 hours have passed since Polyphony Digital head Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that Gran Turismo 5 is finally, finally finished, and already he's being asked if Gran Turismo 6 is in development. Even more shocking: It turns out that...well, yes, Gran Turismo 6 is already in development.
During an interview with Autoweek (via VG247) at the SEMA 2010 automotive trade show, Yamauchi was asked if development on Gran Turismo 6 was "already underway." Yamauchi tersely replied, "yeah." Then he elaborated a little: "It's not something that we can talk that lightly on. It took 2,000 days to get all the ideas that went into GT5. It's just too early to be talking about GT6."
So in other words, maybe ask again in about 3,000 days? And as for why it took so long to get Gran Turismo 5 finished -- particularly the last-minute extra time following a delay just weeks before its set November 3 release date -- Yamauchi explained that it all goes back to what he considers his failures on his first game, Motor Toon Gran Prix for the PlayStation.
"The year and a half that it was in development, the last three months as the release date approached, myself and my staff were getting three hours of sleep a day to try and get the game done," Yamauchi explained. "Near the end, the people from Sony came to our development studio and told us it was good enough and that we could release it. At the time, I probably wasn't thinking very clearly, being as exhausted as I was, and I talked myself into thinking this was good enough and it went to release."
What happened next? Everything Yamauchi felt probably could have been better ended up being exactly what the game was criticized for. "That was something I regretted very much when that happened because I knew it was coming," he explained. "And that happened at the beginning of my career, and it was something I vowed would never happen again."
Thus, Gran Turismo 5's delay. "It was really to adjust it so it would be perfect," Yamauchi said. But despite the game being finished and off for mass production, there still hasn't been a new release date announced for Gran Turismo 5 yet. 作者: ZXQ 时间: 2010-11-5 08:36