Actually, GT5 has changed engines.

GTHD Concept? That was going to be GT5 before they scrapped GT4 HD engine and started fresh, that's why it's taking so long. Even GT5P to GT5 has had numerous engine enhancements.

Hmm...guess you do learn something new everyday. I thought it was taking ages because of the high-poly modelling and damage modelling that they were doing this time around. Anyway, whatever the case may be, I can't wait til GT5 releases, my favourite racing series by far.

The GT4 HD engine has nothing to do with GT5.
They just scrapped the HD game to focus on the actual GT5 game.

If they had gone with the GT4 HD engine then we would have a game that looks only marginally better than Forza 3. Polyphony Digital love being the best so new engine it was.

i don't get it, What GT4 HD engine you are talkin about ?

There was no GT4HD engine or Vision engine or any other engine thatn prologue/GT5.

GT4 engine can't be used to do quick GT4 in HD for PS3. And all materials are on same engine with is constantly upgrading with development..

When Vision Gran Turismo was announced at E3 2006, they were planning to launch it with it being a "download what you want" set up before "Gran Turismo" proper came out. Vision Gran Turismo was a sequel, but it was meant to be a quick launch to tide people over to, what is now, GT5.

They scrapped this plan, because the plan was stupid and it was running on an old engine that wasn't delivering the results they wanted. They released Gran Turismo HD Concept, which was running on that engine, the same engine GT4 was running on, as a demo and, namely, a concept of what Gran Turismo HD would have been.

Remember, an engine is just the bare bones, it can be tweaked and changed and, in this case, a new coat of paint and HD resolutions on GT4 made GTHD.

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".