Gran Turismo creator speaks on PS3

  • By Walt Wyman, GameSpot
  • Posted Aug 30, 2006 12:42 pm PT

Polyphony Digital head Kazunori Yamauchi wants Sony's next-gen console to change the world, calling it "our weapon for revolution."

Naturally, Sony wants to make a big deal of its upcoming PlayStation 3, and part of that means devoting not just one, but two Web sites to the console. The official Japanese PS3 Web site, which was formally opened today, has been joined by a PS3 Concept Site. Aside from some downloadable PS3 wallpaper, the site is running a video interview with Polyphony Digital's leader Kazunori Yamauchi. Throughout the video, which runs a bit longer than 10 minutes, the Gran Turismo creator discusses what the PS3 means for his flagship driving series and gaming in general.

"We were surprised at how big a leap the increased resolution brings," Yamauchi said. "I think the users will be very surprised, too." Yamauchi believes video games are particularly well suited to the high-definition format, noting, "games have unusual potential in that they are the fastest, easiest way to produce high-quality, high-definition content. High definition might be more influenced by games than by movies."

Of course, if the graphics are flawed to start with, the sharpness of high definition would only call more attention to imperfections. That puts an extra strain on developers, who can't rely on small imperfections to be covered up by a standard-definition display.

"For the first time in video games, we can render graphics that are on a par with movies in terms of realism," Yamauchi said. "This makes life very hard for the developers... It demands even more detailed work than in the past. The amount of data incorporated into games has also increased dramatically. It's very gratifying, but also very hard."

Of course, there are advantages to having that kind of power to play with. Yamauchi noted that the upcoming Gran Turismo series' PS3 debut will take advantage of the PS3 to up the series' draw distance. "In the past, you could only see about 30 [meters] in front of you, at the most," Yamauchi said. "Now, you can see several hundred [meters]. This changes the handling and feel of the gameplay greatly."

He was also very upbeat on the next-gen console's physics-modeling capabilities, noting its applications to the motion of the cars, outside environments, and spectators.

"To be honest, I can't really say the [original PlayStation] or the PlayStation 2 were able to sufficiently represent the realistically modeled physical world we wanted [in previous Gran Turismo games]," Yamauchi said. "With the PS3, we will be able to perform true physical modeling for the first time."

Regarding PS3 network connectivity, Yamauchi said he expected it would provide something "a bit different from the usual Internet experience" people have during day-to-day surfing. By bringing the Internet to millions of television screens, Yamauchi believes that the PS3 will go beyond games. "The PS3 is not just revolutionary for video games; it's revolutionary for television, to put it simply."

Yamauchi summed up his high expectations for Sony's next-gen console with his closing words: "Our job is to make games and deliver them to the user. But at the same time, we want to change society. So for us, the PlayStation 3 is our weapon for revolution."

158 Comments

  • ziutek2

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 7:17 am PT

    If Y. says "In the past, you could only see about 30 [meters] in front of you, at the most," Yamauchi said. "Now, you can see several hundred [meters]. This changes the handling and feel of the gameplay greatly."

    Then he's complete idiot and moron.
    When you last seen driving game with 30 meter view distance?
    In Silent Hill in fog at night I had 30 meter!
    When you drive 100km/h you drive 30 m in 0,something sec!
    At 200-250 you do 100m in blink of an eye!

    He could even land on a moon using fart power - when he says stupid things they are stil stupid no mater what!

    Good thing RSX - graphics processor of PS3 got downgraded! Now Sony fanboys will get even more crapy graphic on their cons.. oh SORRY movie player!
    http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33995
    http://gamersreports.com/news/3647/

    "According to poster xbdestorya over on the e-mpire forums, the RSX downgrade is true. You may be saying, who is this "xbdestroya" fellow? Well, he is a moderator at the e-mpire PS3 forum, a generally honest and knowledgeable guy who conducts interviews with PS3 developers etc, so we tend to believe him."

    "Yes, the Inquirer is trash, but the RSX, pending further news (because it's still subject to change mind you), has been downgraded.

    I don't expect a big performance decline due to this myself, and I'm sure you'll hear many a dev back me up on that point. PS3 = Cell well before it equals RSX, and indeed, I have a pretty monster Cell interview coming up in the next 24 hours.

    PS - Incidently, I don't think RSX was downgraded because Sony couldn't reach the speeds onsistently, I think it was downgraded because to get from 500MHz to 550MHz would have required a voltage bump that wasn't worth the added wattage and thermal constraints to the system."

  • WESLY_SNYPES

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 2:04 am PT

    What I like is how people come to post about their favorite system and claim that the other people who post are fanboys but will go to someone else's console new posts to bash the other system. I bet half of the people I see here will be found on a 360 or Wii post and say A) How much that console sucks and B) How much more powerful and "cooler" the PS3 is. Only the PC fanboys stay on their gaming posts most of the time I wonder why...

  • SoraTheExtreme

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:17 pm PT

    gizmo_logix, something even more funny is that Nintendo fanboys are the ones that goes around talking dirt the most about the competition... seems like it has allways been that way. Oh well, I've said it before and I say it again... I hate fanboys...

  • jams_shop

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:10 pm PT

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  • gizmo_logix

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 6:05 pm PT

    What's funny is that all these xbox minions come in to the PS3 news section to complain about the Sony or claim that their console is better. Whatever.

    If the 360 was soooo good you wouldn't have to come around the PS3 section and brag. Just let the console speak for itself. That's what the PS3 will do.

  • HXCDEW

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 5:41 pm PT

    Sony_fanboy I agree. Sony supporters are just quietly chewing on all the sh*t getting thrown at them. In about a year from now when PS3 is flying off the shelves to gain its position back on top - all these xbox and nintendo fans will run. Mark these words, put them on your sig, make a seeing stone picture of it - and Sony haters have your best shot while you can. That being said, I hope Yamauchi will make the PS3 GT game from ground up. Sure the HD resolution will be breath-taking but there are still features lacking. I want to see vehicle damage, better customisation and of course an advanced infrastructure mode.

  • noxian

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:50 pm PT

    that having been said, any great advancement in computer technology will probably be what you see in 360s and ps3s seeing as thats cheaper than any of the other stuff i mentioned.

  • noxian

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:48 pm PT

    nitrog
    hey buddy ever heard of the micron wall? pc's are hitting there top ends they have to keep reinventing the wheel so to speak just to get more performance out of it...remember DDR? hyperthreading duel channeling or the recent reinterduction of SLI? all of those are examples of haveing to work around just adding more horsepower as is the core "Cell" processors that PS3 has in it. when you make a chip you have to make it smaller to make it faster or you have to make it work harder......if you can't make it smaller and you can't make it work harder without it over heating guess what........you can't make it faster and thats where pcs are coming up to. check out an issue or two of pcworld or wired magazine they always have articles on the micron wall or similar size limitations they pc manufactures are coming across......heck thats why the 64bit architecture was even invented just another way to make the processor work harder.....also you have to redo how you handle programs that arn't writen for the 64 bit processors so they don't get benifits of those chips. Next time don't just blindly say that pcs are gonna surpass these systems because that was the trend before. Do some research and you will find that unless pc's start incorperating the cutting edge innovations that these systems have developed then they arn't going to go much further then they are right now. -----------------

    actually, while you aren't entirely incorrect there are theoretically plenty of ways to boost comp performance that people are working on. you can shrink the chip, but like you said, they're starting to hit a limit to how far they can shrink it. can make it run faster but it heats up, but thats why they experiment with all sorts of cooling methods. They have also been experimenting with different materials however (if you remember your physics, you know why), and there ARE chips that can completely blow away whats available to the casual consumer (even in the form of the 360 and the ps3) AT THIS MOMENT, if you were willing to spend the money. if you read so many comp magazines i would think you know that. and of course you forgot that you can always change the very way the chip works, the way you compute things, the way you organize data. all those things are being researched. So yes, you're right about sizes. but no, there is still plenty of research about on increasing the capabilities of computers in general.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 3:15 pm PT

    can't wait to get this

  • Knisathianterly

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 1:20 pm PT

    I hope that they don't just stay with Sony, as i can see that alot of problems will occur not just with the Blu ray HDD battle, but with what developers of disks can produce, there are talks about using bug protein on dvd disks, which means that they have a potential to hold up to 50 terabytes of information. Check this link and it will help explain a bit as well. You might have to copy and paste.

    http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=17481

  • teamparadox2k

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 11:29 am PT

    I've never seen so much misinformation in the comments in my life. There is so many blatantly made up "facts" about console/pc power, games, developers and everything else it would take an hour to properly post. The average age here must be like 11 years old because...you need schooling.

  • SoraTheExtreme

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 11:28 am PT

    Sony_Fanboy
    even though I somehow agree I still disslike fanboys so... well... that was kinda my whole point... I'll just wrap it up here...

  • standcm12

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 11:04 am PT

    lol. wow, some strong words at the end there.

  • Sony_FanBoy

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 11:01 am PT

    Everyone better get their shots in at Sony now, cause in about a year or less Sony will be back on top. Sony is not stupid, they have never let their fans donw and they won't in the next-generation either.

  • nitrog

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:51 am PT

    "Besides
    In this interview :

    "In the past, you could only see about 30 [meters] in front of you, at the most," Yamauchi said. "Now, you can see several hundred [meters]. This changes the handling and feel of the gameplay greatly."

    Is he complete idiot and moron?

    When you last seen driving game with 30 meter view distance?

    In Silent Hill in fog at night I had 30 meter!

    Whe you drive 100km/h you drive 30 m in 0,something sec!
    At 200-250 you do 100m in blink of an eye!

    Yamauchi you are Sony fluffer! Wipe out your brown-nosed face and see more than 30m! "

    I don't know if 30m is accurate or not. but he probably has the estimate closer then you do. YES at 100km per hour it doesn't take long to go 30m but it's a CONSTANT FILL YOU NOOB! that means when your parked or going 5,000,000kph the draw distance will always be 30m and btw that's draw distance that doesn't include any other programming they have done to get around that, in games that arn't made quite as well you can see where they run out of draw distance it's the part where you can see the car in front of you go from polys and high rez textures to a semi blurry image. Go to the test track where they have everything marked off and see which signs you can see i think you don't have an understanding of the distance of 30m.

  • nitrog

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:34 am PT

    "dsm_guy
    Sounds like Sony is in trouble. They are resorting to lame statements like "we want to change society". Please its just a console, do they take us all for idiots & Sony fanboys? PC's will surpass the PS3 & 360 in a couple of years for crying out loud."

    hey buddy ever heard of the micron wall? pc's are hitting there top ends they have to keep reinventing the wheel so to speak just to get more performance out of it...remember DDR? hyperthreading duel channeling or the recent reinterduction of SLI? all of those are examples of haveing to work around just adding more horsepower as is the core "Cell" processors that PS3 has in it. when you make a chip you have to make it smaller to make it faster or you have to make it work harder......if you can't make it smaller and you can't make it work harder without it over heating guess what........you can't make it faster and thats where pcs are coming up to. check out an issue or two of pcworld or wired magazine they always have articles on the micron wall or similar size limitations they pc manufactures are coming across......heck thats why the 64bit architecture was even invented just another way to make the processor work harder.....also you have to redo how you handle programs that arn't writen for the 64 bit processors so they don't get benifits of those chips. Next time don't just blindly say that pcs are gonna surpass these systems because that was the trend before. Do some research and you will find that unless pc's start incorperating the cutting edge innovations that these systems have developed then they arn't going to go much further then they are right now.

  • nitrog

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:26 am PT

    "timts
    xbox360 arleady brings HD content to HDTVs, mostly at 720p, and PS3 games are confirmed to be mostly 720p as well. for $600, it's not bad for blue-ray, but the $1000 blue-ray player currently in market doesnt provide movie looking as good as $500 HDDVD player.

    so maybe you already threw money in the drain for betamax, MD, UMD, and you would like to throw more down that drain. I never did spend for those things and I dont plan to， for BD."

    REALLY? CONFIRMED? on a system that hasn't been completed yet where most software titles for it are just in the begining phases of development and the ones that are mostly in the launch window like Resistance fall of man are running 720p in beta form with the creators telling us they still expect the final versions to be running in 1080p and your gonna try and feed us that from just your word with no sources or anything...........go back to the xbox 360 forum little boy your fanboy opinions aren't welcome where real gamers are.

  • nitrog

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:15 am PT

    "timts
    "For the first time in video games, we can render graphics that are on a par with movies in terms of realism," Yamauchi said.

    I've heard this one too many times from THOSE people.

    btw, ps2 GT4 supports 1080i, so I dont know where the RESOLUTION　ＬＥＡＰ　is from, it's more detail leap than resolution leap."

    first of all 1080i is not 1080p and i think gt4 had 720p not 1080i. I don't even think the ps2 could run 1080i rez.

  • nitrog

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:03 am PT

    HOLY CRAP! i didn't know the ps3 was gonna have a web browser built in......man that makes things increadibly easy for finding cheats faqs or logging into your guilds website for tracking dkp and what not. with a web browser this looks too over take xbox live if they do it well enough. it's like having live service and webTV bundled into one for FREE! if they can just create some sorta multi tasking enviroment for this console then I don't think there is any way they couldn't consider it a pc. A highly specialized pc but a pc none the less. Thats what sony has been pushing for, for a long time so they can reduce cost to consumers in import taxes in certain areas.

  • gt3killer

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 9:05 am PT

    SoraTheExtreme- well said man, well said.

  • Paul_TheGreat

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 8:35 am PT

    I can't wait for the next-gen GT.

  • zambo1987

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 8:33 am PT

    a bit exalted this yamauchi...

  • Thanos_of_MW

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 8:19 am PT

    Indeed SoraTheExtreme. All 3 consoles have plenty of good stuff to offer, so fanboyism is not for true gamers. People should remember that games are the important thing. Consoles and PC are just a medium to play them.

  • SoraTheExtreme

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:21 am PT

    I can't wait till I get my hands on a PS3, sure Sony made some misstakes but I think this will be the best next gen...
    just like last time. Sony will have the best titles, Microsoft will have awsome multiplayer and Nintendo will continue to improve their own titles like Mario, Zelda and such.

  • Thanos_of_MW

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:14 am PT

    "skitzocyko
    HAIL THE 360!! " spoken like a nazi

    Wow, didn't take long for the fanboys to come down on a PS3 news thread. If you have nothing good to say why post in a thread of a console you don't like? Isn't yours entertaining enough? Makes me doubt about getting a 360 every time I read posts like this one.

    Looking forward to playing GT.

  • skitzocyko

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 6:30 am PT

    HAIL THE 360!!

  • Limonadi

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 6:01 am PT

    i cant wait next formula one and GT game!

  • ftjx

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:45 am PT

    I listened to the interview while reading this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wOW TOTALLY BORING POINTLESS INFO

  • danny_s1

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:38 am PT

    Sure GT cars will look hyper-realistic, but you still won't be able to go head-on with another car causing a total wreck. I mean what good is a nice shiny virtual car if you can't blow it up? Besides GT is an exclusive launch title for PS3; therefore, their comments and opinions are somewhat bias. Of course, they need to speak highly of the PS3 capabilities just as much as Cliffy B needs to idolize his work on Gears of War. MotorStorm on the other hand; now that's something worthwhile to explain how realistically the PS3 models "mud on cars".

  • ewjim

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 4:36 am PT

    "PlayStation 3 is our weapon for revolution." - GREAT words!!! I hope he will do GT series better.

  • modstark9

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 3:02 am PT

    ps3 rules!!!

  • PESon360

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 2:23 am PT

    Sure, 5KG weapon, thats not heavy

  • risi37

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 2:16 am PT

    DangerT3 do us all a favor go away from gamespot

  • WESLY_SNYPES

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 2:05 am PT

    Resistance: Fall of Man was released for the previous generation? Reread my post before you reply.

  • GFofgaming

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 2:03 am PT

    "To be honest, I can't really say the [original PlayStation] or the PlayStation 2 were able to sufficiently represent the realistically modeled physical world we wanted [in previous Gran Turismo games]," Yamauchi said.

    hehe when ps4 comes out he would say the ps3 was not enough.

  • rbrtchng1

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 1:59 am PT

    Resistance: Fall of Man...there's your "more than DVD" game.

  • WESLY_SNYPES

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 1:12 am PT

    DangerT3
    Oh yeah name calling is very mature. You're really cool now aren't you. You really need to start acting your age and not your IQ. Your friend works in a store that's only part of a much larger picture. So are you telling me just because your friend who work in a store gets complaints about game discs being scratched up tells me what? Absolutely nothing. And neither is the rest of your rebuttal. That "old" media you call the DVD has shown no signs of slow down in sales especially with the rise of the DVR becoming more prevalent in today's living rooms. And if you're so smart can you give me at least ONE game on the previous generation consoles that used up more than one DVD for ONE game? Didn't think so. Just because a storage medium is bigger does not mean developers will always and immediately start to make bigger, more expansive games. Yet again, grow up and then you can regain your speaking privileges.

  • The_Spoony_Hou

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 1:00 am PT

    DangerT3
    The_Spoony_Hou, me stupid?, well, my post may sound stupid, but yours are retarded, Spoony_Hoooooo!!!!

    At least I do it on purpose... most of the time :p.

  • mrjasler

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 11:51 pm PT

    oh and Danger_T3, what did Most Wanted grab from Midnight club? seriously what??? what are you smoking? is it just the fact they both have cops? Firstly Midnight club is at night, most wanted is set during the day, the environment is completely different? the whole story structure is completely different, the cars used are different? how can they be the same? If you look at most of these racing games especially GT they really are not doing anything innovative and different, if I am wrong , please explain to me people what GT did in GT4 that was much different to GT3 , and what was different in Burnout Takedown to the last?? ( the fact you could take down a car from behind ? ha CMON ... what a joke

  • mrjasler

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 11:36 pm PT

    GT should be good considering they have so much time to make them.. I seriously think Burnout is over rated, it's lost it's direction and seriously what else can they really do with the series? you say that NFS is not innovative? seriously, what is Burnout doing that is Innovative, the fact you can smash up lots of cars? big deal.. NFS's customization cannot be beat especially the new autosculpt mode which GT , Forza and Burnout don't even come close to, where is morphable body kits ?? Track design on NFS is innovative, where is an open world in Burnout?? doesn't exist, they have been doing closed circuit tracks throughout the series??

  • DangerT3

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 11:10 pm PT

    The_Spoony_Hou, me stupid?, well, my post may sound stupid, but yours are retarded, Spoony_Hoooooo!!!!

  • DangerT3

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 11:06 pm PT

    "WESLY_SNYPES
    Danger T3 You MUST be a developer to come to the conclusion that fighting games are easy to develop. What with all the physics, hit variables, making texture mapping uniform, and trying to debug a game among other factors that should take what five minutes? I think Tekken is whole lot better but exaclty why are there sports games every year? Because developing is easy? Where do you get that features and textures are sacrificed? Have you ever heard of COMPRESSION? Also, games comes out with bugs all the time I am certain the PS3 or the Wii will have games with bugs in them too. My 360 games haven't been scratched and I have like 6 of them what the hell are you talking about? And the last part of your post makes you sound like you're still in elementary school. Go talk to a developer before you make such factless comments. "................................... Ok Wesley-Snipes- Blade-Wannabe, take out that name, u're the one that's more in elementary school having a cerebrity's name, u're just ridiculous, let me know when you're releasing the next Blade, I guess it's not gonna happen cause you're not Wesley Snipes, just a wannabe... My friend works at a game store and there's being a lot of complains about scratching 360 games, specially the Bug with Dead or Alive.... I'm telling u dumb crackhead, not all games comes with bugs all the time, Compression is one thing, but frames, textures, polygones, gameplay are other things, and every single 360 game is on the same old disc format, I like DVD of course, I may not be a developer, but I have to care about a more advance format so games could be more detailed and more free to develop, so that's why Blu Ray is good for game developers, Microsoft should of done the same with HD-DVD and stop acting like cry babies like you!!!!!

  • CitizenKang_666

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 10:50 pm PT

    "We were surprised at how big a leap the increased resolution brings," Yamauchi said. "I think the users will be very surprised, too." Users will be Very suprised. Unless they've been playing an X360 for the past year. Then it will be "Yeah, so what? I've been playing in hi-def for a year."

  • DangerT3

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 10:35 pm PT

    bells_08, I know what u mean, I'm not a game developer, but I do play a lot of fighting games, don't worry I respect ur opinion, but what I'm trying to come up with is to say that fighting games are easier to develop in a game developer point of view, well, but the dude said GT series are gay but for me the gayest are the Need for speed, why??? cause EA does not bring anything unique to the NFS series, don't get me wrong, I like Most Wanted, but it's ideas just came up from the Midnight Club series, and I consider Midnight Club better than Need for Speed, only good thing about EA is just Criterion, the makers of Burnout and Black.... About fighting games, yes I play and I'm good at fighting games, I play Street Fighter, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, Guilty Gear, and I'm trying to get good at the Fist of North Star game, which is absolutely fantastic..... If it wasn't for Gran Turismo, there wouldn't be no Forza, no GTR nor Project Gotham, so please give Yamauchi credit, and no I ain't abusing on the human language like u're trying to say, with all respects!!!

  • The_Spoony_Hou

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 10:22 pm PT

    "The Wii is like a television, the 360 is like renting a movie, while a PS3 would be like actually going to a movie."

    Man, what a stupid analogy...

    Well, I can watch a bunch of programs and movies on TV, and it's cheap; I can rent a movie, and watch it a bunch of times before return it, but that is very boring. I can go to a movie, and it's fun, but it's short and expensive.

    Hmm... Maybe it is a good analogy after all.

  • khellendros1

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 9:09 pm PT

    Next to Final Fantasy this is my favorite franchise. I will be buying the PS3 update to GT4. I just hope they will at least add some of the features they were supposed to for the PS2 version. As for the people saying that Forza has car damage, I'm not sure I want car damage. A cool solution would be to have an option to turn it on or off., which i think most games with damage do. I would just prefer to spend my money on upgrades or new cars than parts if I try something different. How much would that suck if you were trying out different settings and having to pay for parts when you screw up. I 've only played the Forza demo so I don't know how damage works in career mode.

  • WESLY_SNYPES

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 9:04 pm PT

    DaleJrFreak Once again you start putting opinions out as fact. If the Blu Ray is uncontested as being better because more companies are backing it you still do not have an argument to stand on. HD DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, among others. In terms of major studios, HD DVD is currently exclusively backed by Universal Studios, and is non-exclusively backed by Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Studio Canal, and The Weinstein Company. If you can't count past two companies then you are hopelessly ignorant. Gran turismo is not the reason console have simulation games when were you born? When the Playstation came out? Racing sims were put on the map by Papyrus' Indy 500 in 1990 and ran on the 8 bit Commodore 64. Please get some knowledge first then you can get back your speaking privileges.

  • yukine

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:55 pm PT

    I don't have much confidence in Polyphony anymore, not since Gran Turismo 4. Forza was the better game.

  • Valen_Ca

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:33 pm PT

    "The Wii is like a television, the 360 is like renting a movie, while a PS3 would be like actually going to a movie. Translantion: You will be having the best entertainment on a PS3"
    Fancy bells and whistles ( or in this case, bigger+prettier pictures and sound) are all fine and well but not even going to see any of the Matrix sequels or Episodes 1+2 in the theatres made them better movies. Point being? Content is king, plain and simple, it doesn't matter how much like a theatrical experience you give me in my living room if all I am going to be experiencing is junk.

  • rbarahona

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:32 pm PT

    I think that the guys at Polyphony Digital should be very happy with the power behind the PS3. They have done great things with the PS1 and the PS2 in terms of simulating the physics of the cars, however, as Yamauchi san states, only with a more powerful console they can keep improving the system they have built.

    I'm really excited about a new GT game, however I was a little dissapointed with Vision Gran Turismo. I mean, it sure has some improvements over GT4, but it's not a new game. I think that I should wait until they really unleash the new GT game.

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