GT5 dev costs...oh my

Cygnus · 11-05-2009, 08:07 PM

I am sure the SDF will jump in and say "Bu-bu-but these guys are perfectionists!" What a joke: 5+ years and $60+ million..still with no official US release date for gran torino 5?? Meanwhile Forza has come and set the standard in console sims...

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/05/gr...on-to-develop/
Yamauchi roughly calculated the cost of creating Gran Turismo 5: a cool $60 million. That's what five years of development on a single game has cost Polyphony Digital thus far, an amount Yamauchi says was totally justified in order to "get it right."

"We threw away the legacy code from GT4 and started from scratch ... It's been five years from [the release of] GT4, and that's the same amount of time it took to develop the first GT4."

GLOW · 11-05-2009, 08:15 PM

Making a game better than Forza 3 ain't cheap.

**kamspy** · 11-05-2009, 09:10 PM

I don't own stock in Sony, but I will own this

^^Look at the detail in the building in the background

Forza 3 did set the bar. The game is a 10/10 in my book. But GT5 will annihilate it entirely.

venomxr8 · 11-05-2009, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by kamspy

I don't own stock in Sony, but I will own this

^^Look at the detail in the building in the background

Forza 3 did set the bar. The game is a 10/10 in my book. But GT5 will annihilate it entirely.

those pictures are so beautiful they deserve to be seen twice!!!

btw who in the hell (except for share holders) cares how much a game costs to develop

it could cost triple that and it still wont make a difference to me, in fact this thread should be changed into the screenshot thread for GT5

Pinoy · 11-05-2009, 09:46 PM

So it cost $40 million LESS than GTA4? Or perhaps we should say it cost them less than $2 from every copy of GT ever sold... Big deal.

junehhan · 11-05-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kamspy

Forza 3 did set the bar. The game is a 10/10 in my book. But GT5 will annihilate it entirely.

I don't know about that yet. The graphics in Forza 3 are going to be tough to beat. It is going to be hard to annihilate a game that has set the bar so high. I still can't believe how good F3 is, but I was also never a fan of the GT series.

We will see though, as a game that costs that much better be damn good.

Mase · 11-06-2009, 12:17 AM

The cost is not as much as some might think, its the dev time that has me perturbed, I am not a racing sim fan, they can be fun and Forza 3 definitely had my intrest and scaled really well to my lack of skills.. But to my point, if I were a fan I would be pissed to wait 5 years for a game, I would move on. Since soo many people are not moving on, I can safely assume its one hell of a game.

MikeRox · 11-06-2009, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by junehhan

I don't know about that yet. The graphics in Forza 3 are going to be tough to beat. It is going to be hard to annihilate a game that has set the bar so high. I still can't believe how good F3 is, but I was also never a fan of the GT series.

We will see though, as a game that costs that much better be damn good.

I remember thinking the same thing when I was playing F355 Challenge on my Dreamcast "How can Gran Turismo 3 beat this?" It didn't beat it, it fucking blew it out of the water.

The first Gran Turismo title on a console has generally raised the bar in visuals to a whole new level each time. (Be it GT1 on the PS1, GT3 on the PS2 or GT Mobile). I have no doubt my eyes will bleed at the visuals on GT5... then after a week I'll realise it's still the same old GT with a pretty coat of paint and be bored again

Oh Polyphony, how you sucker me in each and every time with those seductive graphics... then given me a 32bit racer in a higher resolution

Cygnus · 11-06-2009, 08:37 AM

The huge difference is GTA4 was released on 360, PC, and PS3 with 360 exclusive DLC. gran torino 5 will only be on PS3. Thus I doubt it will ever be profitable, sorta like the PS3 itself. "Big deal" indeed

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Originally Posted by Pinoy

So it cost $40 million LESS than GTA4? Or perhaps we should say it cost them less than $2 from every copy of GT ever sold... Big deal.

MikeRox · 11-06-2009, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Cygnus

The huge difference is GTA4 was released on 360, PC, and PS3 with 360 exclusive DLC. gran torino 5 will only be on PS3. Thus I doubt it will ever be profitable, sorta like the PS3 itself. "Big deal" indeed

You do know the 360 will never be profitable either right?

awol · 11-06-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeRox

You do know the 360 will never be profitable either right?

Not with the amount of money MS must be paying him to continue to spread his FUD...

EddieDZ · 11-06-2009, 09:51 AM

how much did forza 3 cost to develop.. im sure it wasnt a few million either. what killed GT5 in terms of cost is the time spent on it... any game being made for 5 freaking yrs is going to cost a lot regardless if its for PS3 or 360.

by the way, those screenshots are fucking jaw dropping!! i havent seen any screenshots lately of GT5, the last ones i saw were from like E3 when they finally showed for the first time vehicle damage... this game is going to be so photorealistic

steve3050 · 11-06-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeRox

You do know the 360 will never be profitable either right?

I have a feeling that it wouldn't be profitable because none of them really have.

Pinoy · 11-06-2009, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Cygnus

The huge difference is GTA4 was released on 360, PC, and PS3 with 360 exclusive DLC. gran torino 5 will only be on PS3. Thus I doubt it will ever be profitable, sorta like the PS3 itself. "Big deal" indeed

And look how well GTA4 turned out. Sorry to say, despite it's big sales, the game kinda sucked IMO. The layer of dust on it I had to blow off yesterday as I packed it up to move was incredible.

The GT franchise has sold over 50,000,000 copies and every full iteration of GT (not prologues or concept or PSP versions) has sold an average of 11 million copies each. Yeah... I'm sure it'll flop. Even if it does like I said: Big deal, as long as I get to play it.

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Originally Posted by awol

Not with the amount of money MS must be paying him to continue to spread his FUD...

awol · 11-06-2009, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Pinoy

The GT franchise has sold over 50,000,000 copies and every full iteration of GT (not prologues or concept or PSP versions) has sold an average of 11 million copies each. Yeah... I'm sure it'll flop. Even if it does like I said: Big deal, as long as I get to play it.

Not to mention in the past it has been a system seller. There are people who will buy a PS3 just for GT5.

11-05-2009, 08:07 PM	#1
Cygnus The Bringer of Balance Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6,832	GT5 dev costs...oh my I am sure the SDF will jump in and say "Bu-bu-but these guys are perfectionists!" What a joke: 5+ years and $60+ million..still with no official US release date for gran torino 5?? Meanwhile Forza has come and set the standard in console sims... http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/05/gr...on-to-develop/ Yamauchi roughly calculated the cost of creating Gran Turismo 5: a cool $60 million. That's what five years of development on a single game has cost Polyphony Digital thus far, an amount Yamauchi says was totally justified in order to "get it right." "We threw away the legacy code from GT4 and started from scratch ... It's been five years from [the release of] GT4, and that's the same amount of time it took to develop the first GT4." __________________ Toshiba 57H81 Kenwood VR-616 Comcast DCT6412 III XBox 360 GamerTag Sec0nd2N0n3

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Mase Way of the Samurai Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tempe,Az Posts: 2,563	The cost is not as much as some might think, its the dev time that has me perturbed, I am not a racing sim fan, they can be fun and Forza 3 definitely had my intrest and scaled really well to my lack of skills.. But to my point, if I were a fan I would be pissed to wait 5 years for a game, I would move on. Since soo many people are not moving on, I can safely assume its one hell of a game. __________________ PlayStation 3 : legnd Killer Xbox 360: Legnd K1ller Steam ID: Legnd_Killer Currently playing Uncharted 2(PS3) Borderlands (360) NBA2k10 (360) COD4/WaW (360)

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kamspy Esteban Moderatoro Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati,OH Good Posts: 12 Posts: 13,042	I don't own stock in Sony, but I will own this ^^Look at the detail in the building in the background Forza 3 did set the bar. The game is a 10/10 in my book. But GT5 will annihilate it entirely.