Interview with Kazunori Yamauchi on GT5s Budget, Release and More

Sigh - 40 days 21 hours ago

you read my mind. Such a waste for M$

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djfullshred - 40 days 21 hours ago

lol, some people were no doubt partying hard with that 50 million dollar payola.

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mastiffchild - 40 days 3 hours ago

Not sure about that one. It's a bery sliding scale and even Asda(Walmart in the UK basically) say they often sell new games at a loss when they retail at around £30-35. and RRP is usually, what, £45? I dunno but it looks like it might be a fairly even cut for retailers and Sony and PD in general when the games sell near RRP.

With dearer and cheaper prices elsewhere IDK so just looked at UK figures. That said, as a musician I do know that sales aren't what makes me the most cash usually-at least not as a percentage of each CD/Download sold(unless it's at the labels or my sites). I remember, in the 80's you were lucky, as an artist to get 10% of the cost of a record as profit in your pocket with retailers clearing around 25% IIRC. I imagine, however, that with many retailers making more from preowned games the percentages are better towards the talent in the game industry.

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KionicWarlord222 - 40 days 20 hours ago

Yeah...pretty impressive .

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cmrbe - 40 days 20 hours ago

That is some insane sh1t right there.

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IDemonstalkerXI - 40 days 20 hours ago

my mind is blown every time they release new media. Unbelievable level of detail.

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beardpapa - 40 days 15 hours ago

you're right. even matte black looks really good.

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aaron5829 - 40 days 14 hours ago

You made my eyes bleed !!

-bubble !!

no just kidding...

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Morituri - 40 days 6 hours ago

Thanks for sharing the car Pron. Bubs up.

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ico92 - 40 days 2 hours ago

and the funny thing is..it looks 10x better in motion

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cmrbe - 40 days 18 hours ago

1. They are PD
2. Exclusive on the PS3.

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Perkel - 40 days 14 hours ago

100, 000 more ?

rotfl , in game forza cars are at best 150k and they don't even have interior modeled from outside cam, it'll be like 150k vs 400k

menu cars in forza are super detailed thats sure, but in-race models aren't even near polycount of menu cars

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aaron5829 - 40 days 14 hours ago

16 of those high poly cars on track ... against 8 of the lower poly cars.

How weird is that...

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Consoldtobots - 40 days 13 hours ago

it's because the cell is "not optimized for gaming" silly wabbit. /s

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aaron5829 - 40 days 14 hours ago

nice ride there...

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mastiffchild - 40 days 3 hours ago

Big Lotus head myself-used to live right by the factory in Norfolk when I was younger and all the blokes used to drink in my mum and dads pub after work-and that was when they had a decent F1 team and testing was going on all the time. They used to come in and get messy if they'd done well at a GP in those days!

Anyway, I was going to my mates a month or so back when one of the really quick Exige SEs flew past me in the lanes. Went yound the bend in front at a hell of a lick and straight into the back of a tractor going about 10 miles an hour! IMO he was real lucky to live as the Exige was basically a half mangled engine and a pile of plastic at this point with him sat in the middle! So, we rang the dibble and I gave the guy a lift to the local A+E to get checked out(ambulance and ppolice would have taken way longer than we would) while the farmer stayed for the authorities. It's a real credit to Lotus and modern engineering that such a light and safety feature free car still sved this loon who, as it turned out, didn't have a scratch on him and was mildy shocked at worst.

Not as shocked, mind you, as he said his dad would be when he found out he's wrapped his trackday car! The lad was only about 18 and had been lusting after a drive of his dads pride and joy for an age he said and had only just taken it out when he crashed. Bless his silly hide.

Lovely car mind, I prefer the Lotus way of making up for the horsepower by anally shaving off the weight and making them handle better than pratically anything else I've ever tried in real life(and I've driven a lot of cool cars through my work in the past-was driving reporter at a local paper for a few years). It just shows it isn't all about power. In the same vein one of those Ariel Atoms flew past me the other day-like a turbo charged bedstead it was! I'd love a go in one of the faster mogels of them-they can even out accelerate most superbikes they say even in a straight line!

Anyhow, like everyone I'm really up for GT5 and after this wait I'm happy to have as long as it takes for them to get everything in AND make it perfect. I'll be upset if they don't manahe weather as I think it should be there in any sim wanting to be taken totally seriously by this generation-it makes too much difference to driving to be left out and living in the UK(and the lakes at that) I know all about what rain can do!

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aaron5829 - 40 days 14 hours ago

Needs money to make ya know...

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ReBurn - 40 days 2 hours ago

Prologue has definitely earned more than $60m in revenue with sales of 3.2 million. Not all of those sales were at $40 since you can pick it up new on disc for $25. But it probably had to earn at least $100m in revenue.

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mastiffchild - 40 days 3 hours ago

Actually, I'm quite a fan of BOTH series but was put off F3 by T10 acting like arrogant tools so didn't get this one. Thing is I thought it reviewed really well, no?

If it did and it's a cool game I can't see why they wouldn't pipe up-have to say, though, that I wasn't blown away by the demo as it wsn't, or didn't feel like the huge step up from F2 I'd imagined it would be from all that sabre rattling that went on. Still, I do expect the game to be a lot better than the little you saw in the demo.

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