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Gran Turismo 5 – New Confusing Yamauchi Statement

Posted on April 20th, 2010 in Console – 12 Comments

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is currently in the United Kingdom, meeting the winners of the recent GT Academy competition. As usual, Yamauchi is a sought-after interview partner for various media outlets who are looking for more details on the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 title for the Playstation 3.

One of those interviewing Yamauchi was Autoblog UK that published the following statement:

AutoBlog UK: Can you explain more about the difference between premium and standard cars in the new GT5?

Yamauchi: Standard models won’t have an interior view, less detailing and no crash model. The problem is that premium models take a lot of time to create and we wanted to include many more vehicles than before. To make premium versions of all the cars we want to put in would take ten years or more and I don’t think people are prepared to wait long!

That statement directly contradicts the January article in the Official Playstation Magazine that confirmed that all cars will be having a cockpit view and the difference between premium and standard model is about the latter having a less sophisticated damage-model including no cockpit damage.

Keep in mind that Yamauchi usually relies on a translator for these kinds of interviews so this might just be a case of something getting lost in translation. Assuming it is true indeed, this statement would be a huge blow for Gran Turismo 5 as most of the title’s 1000 cars are what Polyphony Digital calls standard models that would be coming without a cockpit view.

Until we figure out the full truth behind this, you can enjoy a new preview video of the Infiniti G37 on the Nürburgring below.

Gran Turismo 5 will be bringing 1000 cars and over 60 tracks to the Playstation 3, including new features such as damage, weather and day/night effects. There’s no date for either the release of the Japanese or the International versions yet. GT5 will be one of the first six Playstation 3 games to be available in 3D.

Via GTPlanet

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  • ForzaBarca88

    Lol. The saga continues…..

  • Tensor

    That would be a mega FAIL.

  • Zenitchik

    people used to be pretty happy about hood cam or trailing cam. and I just do not see how lack of an extra feature would be a mega fail.

    I would rather say that it is Epic that they at least got some of the cars with cockpits :)

  • mikem

    Apparently Autoblog UK removed the interview. The original URL:http://uk.autoblog.com/2010/04/19/autoblog-talks-to-gran-turismo-creator-kazunori-yamauchi/, now takes you to the main page. There’s still confusion as to what a Standard or Premium model means and from the recent videos almost all the cars seem to have interior views- the Super GT racers (SC430, NSX, GTR), production cars everything from the 370Z to the Gallardo, even the WRC Rally cars (Subaru, Citroëns and Ford Focus) and NASCAR. The only car without interior view in GT5 Prologue was the concept R35 GTR but apparently the Toyota FT-86 in GT5 seems to have an interior view.

  • IWE

    I have repeated these facts about cockpits and damage in here already many times since those were confirmed already many months ago. :ooo: :weird:

  • carbonfibre

    Irrelevant interview, nothing new will get revealed about GT5 from now till E3, the fact that Autoblog UK removed it anyway almost proclaims it’s inacuracy.
    Besides that, the 33% of people without a PS3 (like me) are just going to wait till after release anyway. There’s no prizes for putting your cash down in advance, a reserved judgement is all one needs to be armed with for GT5. :wink:

  • DeadStar

    All the PS3 Fanboys have disappeared to comment on this :lol:

  • felipe

    The interview is dead AutoExpress was looking for some hits and I guess they got them but from now on they should get black listed by PD! All I know is that I want to be playin this game and rFactor 2 still in 2010! :weird:

  • EmptyBox

    Anyone who has EVER followed a GT game through development isn’t shocked. Just PD doing what PD does best.

  • max1492

    I wonder if “standard models won’t have an interior view” really means the whole car’s interior isn’t modeled, so you can’t look around. But you will get the dash on all cars. Surely you’ll get the dash.

  • Grozni

    I LOLed :lol:

  • EmptyBox

    BTW, there are only 8 cars on the track.

    Just want to point that out.

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