Gran Turismo 5 has taken 3 YEARS and 320,000 MAN HOURS WOW OMG

GT5 Prologue has taken roughly 3 years and 320,000 man-hours to get this far, creator and producer of the Gran Turismo series, Kazunori Yamauchi has said. He said they have 120 people working on the game 40 of whom are car modelers. In the first Gran Turismo, one car model took an average of one day to create, where now it takes them 180 days to do one car. In GT4 they used 4000 to 5000 polygons to create a car, in GT5 the number rises to 200,000. Yamauchi's interest in cars started when he was around 4, but he didn't get his drivers license until the age of 24 because of the expense in Japan. He currently owns a Nissan 350Z, Honda S2000, Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, Porsche 996 GT3 and two Ford GTs.

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=22913

DAYAM!

Well its 3200000 divided 120. Its a lot of time anyway. And the amount of polygons this time is WOAAHHH!!! Just by checking the demo of prologue you see that its looking amazing :D

I just want to see more about the damage and weather system, but we wont see them in prologue, since they are being keptd for GT 5 :(

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I don't know how to feel.:cry:

All I have to say is this...Is owning 2 Ford GTs really necessary? lolThe_Rick_14

Believe me, if I had the cash, I would have to of each car. 1 to use, 1 to collect.

They must be getting paid a lot for product placement and a lot from Sony... otherwise this wouldn't be a profitable venture at all.dewmandew7

GT3 + 4 were two of the top selling PS2 games ever, so you can bet your buttons that GT5 will sell like crazy.

Fair to say that GT5 may be near perfect when it finally comes out, hopefully beating Forza Motorsport 2 =]

Though i hope they use the latest models of all their cars, cuz recently i've heard that many car manufactures are releasing new models or redesigned models of previous cars, like Audi may release the R4 (downgraded version of the R8 ) in the next few years.

I really hope that doesn't mean that there will be less than 800 cars in GT5... wallpaper42

Well i just did a little calculation and it came to the conclusion using the numbers given that 40 cars would take about 86,000 of the 320,000. So with those numbers 800 cars is looking slim, but maybe i did something wrong. this using an esitimate of about 12 hour days, assuming they probably had shorter days but probably longer days i just said 12. But since i don't know the length of their work days it could get closer with every hour taken off the day.

All I have to say is this...Is owning 2 Ford GTs really necessary? lolThe_Rick_14

lol, he's talking about 320,000 man hours and 200k plus polys per car and thats waht you focus one :P

thats funny.

Nice, i am really looking forward for this game. Some of those numbers in the article are amazing.

GT5 is going to be a worldwide phenomenon when it comes out sometime next year. Seriously...1 million people around the world will upgrade to PS3 when that game comes out. GT5 is THE RACING SIMULATOR. Hardcore enthusiasts don't waste their time needlessly playing good, but inferior rivals such as Forza Motorsport.

Gran Turismo is a HUGE franchise. The hype surrounding GT5 is massive...Me personally? I can't handle the game, it's too damn realistic for me. Give me Burnout any day. Still...there is no doubt that I love and respect the sheer amount of stuff in the game for car enthusiasts. Honestly, I'd buy the game just to use as a showcase piece for my PS3...

Mad respect to Polyphony Digital...those guys seriously know their stuff.

The greatest driving simulator is back, and the fifth installment will be the most impressive one.

The only car racing game I'll even need. ^_^