Comments on: GTHD Canned

By: bobeotm

bobeotm — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:02:35 +0000

I think its good news. GTHD was always seen as sort of a “cup of coffee to the line-sitters” sort of gesture anyway. Giving the folks something while they wait on GT5. So its only good news to me that they are focusing almost exclusively on GT5 and not waisting too much time, on a halfstep. It takes them long enough to release games as it is, so the last thing I would want is for them to push GT5 even further in the future than it already is.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:47:36 +0000

I think they were going to release the GT:HD to hold people over until GT5 was released. In so many ways this is bad for Sony. They don’t have one of their best titles for atleast a year (by my estimates). I would rather they release a complete game instead of the news we heard about GT:HD.

News has not been good for Sony for a very long time. Hopefully Sony will have some great games soon.

By: fleakitten

fleakitten — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:51:51 +0000

I wonder if this has anything to do with the shuffling at SCE.

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:26:54 +0000

Free. Yay!

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:03:33 +0000

I predicted this. I said that GT:HD wouldn’t turn out anything like what they had announced (I’d like to dig up my exact quote). It sounded too much like the kind of early brainstorm ideas that get culled out during development. The micropayment system sounded particularly crazy, and I knew it would get dropped or radically revised into something sane. Can you seriously imagine them trying to ship that as they were talking about? I can’t. Remember how upset and up in arms people got over that? All for nothing.

I’m definitely looking forward to GT5. And a free online demo is a much better way to give people a taste of things to look forward to.