Pressures to deliver Gran Turismo HD demo

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Pressures to deliver Gran Turismo HD demo

Posted Jun 14th 2006 12:00PM by Adams Briscoe
Filed under: Interviews, Demos

Imagine you're in one of the most premier developing houses around, and you've suddenly been asked to ensure the showing of a historically impressive franchise at the biggest videogame gathering in the world. And you've got three weeks to do it.

This is what was going through Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi when he was personally asked by Ken Kutaragi to have something ready for E3 concerning Gran Turismo. So with three weeks to go before the big event, the staff set to work. The magic happened thanks to hi-res car models from the Photo Mode in Gran Turismo 4.

Now if only every developer had that kind of work ethic (Duke Nukem Forever anyone?).

Tags: demo, e3, gran turismo, gt, hd, ken kutaragi, playstation, ps3, sony

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1. "The magic happened thanks to hi-res car models from the Photo Mode in Gran Turismo 4."

If by "magic" you mean "underwhelming" then yeah, I'd agree with you.

Posted at 12:19PM on Jun 14th 2006 by Vader582

2. Well the reason it was underwelming is because its a ps2 game. It was a demo of a ps2 game running at twice the framerate and 12x the resolution. Even Yamauchi said that the next gran turismo will look nothing like this, but much better.

Posted at 12:46PM on Jun 14th 2006 by bobeotm

3. Why even show it if it looks bad and isn't indicitive of the final product? A no-show would have been better publicity for Sony.

Posted at 2:09PM on Jun 14th 2006 by tom

4. Well this guy obiously has problems, needs to get a life too.

By the way Wii will only be strong with the Nintendo games, (mario,zelda, etc) other than that, I dont think its going to have that much success with 3rd party developers, but its gonna do a hell lot better than xbox 360.

Posted at 11:23PM on Jun 14th 2006 by Erick

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