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Yamauchi Goes Fourth Comments by Patrick Garratt

15 March, 2005

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi on GT4, what happened and what is happening to the online mode, new games and more.

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Zomoniac
15/03/05 @ 13:14
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Didn't he say at E3 that the PSP version would be the same experience? Obviously the hardware isn't that powerful.
rauper [staff]
15/03/05 @ 13:16
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What a barrel of laughs.
Floppy
15/03/05 @ 13:22
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I think there must be some alternative content in that cigarette of his.
ssuellid
15/03/05 @ 13:27
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Nice bit of avoiding the other driving games questions.
IronGiant
15/03/05 @ 13:29
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Since when did experience mean graphics.
ChrisOTR
15/03/05 @ 14:00
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Fantastic mugshot of him! Very art student...
humanchu
15/03/05 @ 14:12
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wireless GT4 multiplayer on PSP seems very nice.
very very nice (especially with beer).
Fozzie_bear
15/03/05 @ 14:16
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Proof that smoking makes you look big and clever.

But only if you remember to light it first. The tosser.
Bill Door
15/03/05 @ 14:17
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"Obviously the hardware isn't that powerful."

Or the UMD doesn't have the same storage capacity as a DVD...
xangelx
15/03/05 @ 14:44
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"Obviously the hardware isn't that powerful."

isnt that a given?
we already know it aint as good as ps2 but hey, its good enough for me.
15/03/05 @ 14:49
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"Fantastic mugshot of him! Very art student... "

Actually it's nothing of the sort... He had a massive spot on his chin, and he's 'styling it out' :P
jiroczech
15/03/05 @ 15:35
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Fozzie_bear said:

Proof that smoking makes you look big and clever.

But only if you remember to light it first. The tosser
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But it is lit...

What's with the hostility towards this guy? Has he got a reputation for being a dickhead or something?
speedjack
15/03/05 @ 16:33
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Gotta say - the movie of GT4 on the PSP I saw looked looked stunning - assuming its in-engine I couldn't actually see the difference between that and the PS2 version.

As for GT4 ever appearing online on the PS2 - did anyone seriously think this is ever going to happen ???!

mugwump
15/03/05 @ 18:46
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What happened to the arty-farty photograph of him smoking at the very top? Did the very man himself object to it, or was it some political can't-be-allowed-to-put-smoking-in-a-good-light reaction? :-P
Nause
15/03/05 @ 19:10
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Didn't he say at E3 that the PSP version would be the same experience? Obviously the hardware isn't that powerful.

............ After reading the bit about the power of the console not being important and the gameplay being the most important bit..........

Anyway what he means is because you can walk around with the psp he wants to reflect that ability in the gameplay......
Pirotic
15/03/05 @ 21:12
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Wasn't he concerned about the number of cars the PSP could handle at once? whats the betting this 'multiplayer' focus just means you can only race one other car at a time or something.
Nige
15/03/05 @ 22:33
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>You Fortza peeps needs to be a little more imaginative in your insults.

Who said we were Forza peeps? None of us have played it yet.

We just know a dullard when we see one.
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16/03/05 @ 02:18
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I feel that if an online version does appear any time soon, its going to be cut down to shit.
3william56
16/03/05 @ 05:39
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If it was anyone else, I'd think this constant "it's the quality, stupid" excuse for anything they've omitted would be a cheap cop out. But it's obvious this guy is an insane perfectionist (probably too much so IMHO) that it's probably true.

And Nige - this guy is responsible for the greatest anorak-o-thon outside a six week star trek convention. You expect him to be interesting? He's nerddom beyond the wet dreams of Bill Gates (or BGiE :-). But damn, he can make games.
Nige
16/03/05 @ 12:48
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>But damn, he can make games.

At the risk of sounding unpopular... i don't necessarily believe that the entire success of this game hinges on this one individual. And while I admit I don't know what his exact personal impact was on the title, I've seen game development often enough to know that one person is seldom the reason why a title is good or bad. As a producer or architect you can either get the title done to schedule, within budget, and with your original design brief in tact, or you can mismanage it, drop features, run late and over budget.

GT is a very simple principle. It's cars, and tracks. And to be brutally honest, i find the grass roots design of the series naff. Plain and simple. The progression path is pretty simple, the UI is not good, and navigating it is a painful experience. Credit where it's due - they've obviously done a lot research, but that's not what makes you lot buy this game. It's the execution, and it's fantastic. It's so good I can live with the fact that everything bolted around the driving is pox awful. (Or in some cases, missing).

So I say kudos (oops, wrong game) to the people responsible for the quality of the execution... the guys who spent hours testing and tweaking the physics, and the guys who squeezed every last bit out of some fairly aging hardware. I suspect there are hundreds of them.
valli
16/03/05 @ 13:10
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I don't remember reading much about him, but he's very interested in racing (IIRC participated in a few championships in a Honda S2000 as part of the driving team) and cars in general. Sort of the Kojima of the GT series.
The Bodybuilder
16/03/05 @ 15:49
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"That's an area we're still thinking about."

Which is shittalk for "you're never gonna see it on the ps2, let alone this year".

I wonder who would win in a race, yamauchi or kiki wolfkill
COCO
18/03/05 @ 06:39
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REMEMBER MY SELF PLAYING GRAN TURISMO PSX MANY HOURS THE BEST,BUT I PLAY GT4 AND NOTHING CHANCE,CARS NOT CRASHED SAME CARS ,CONCEPT CARS I WONDER ASK ECXSIT,WHERE ARE YOU FERRARI ............................

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