{"id":97430,"date":"2016-07-01T09:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97430"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:26:27","slug":"the-playstation-3-was-a-nightmare-gran-turismo-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/97430-the-playstation-3-was-a-nightmare-gran-turismo-developer","title":{"rendered":"The PlayStation 3 was a nightmare: Gran Turismo developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polyphony Digital CEO and Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has conceded the PlayStation 3-era was a \u201cnightmare\u201d for the Polyphony team, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/au.ign.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/01\/playstation-3-was-a-anightmarea-says-gran-turismo-creator\" target=\"_blank\">IGN.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This, combined with the launch of Gran Turismo 6 after the release of the PS4, is why the title sold so poorly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We always have the pressure that we have to sell numbers,<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the conditions for GT6 were really against us, mainly because the PlayStation 3 hardware was a very difficult piece of hardware to develop for, and it caused our development team a lot of stress.<\/p>\n<p>So [GT]5 and [GT]6 was really a nightmare for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yamauchi added that this was not the case on the PS4, and that development on the next Gran Turismo was much smoother.<\/p>\n<p>Polyphony and Yamauchi are currently working on Gran Turismo: Sport, which is expected to release on 15 November.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing gaming and tech specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97232-amazing-gaming-and-tech-specials-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing gaming and tech specials<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why your driverless car could try to kill you\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/96503-this-is-why-your-driverless-car-could-try-to-kill-you.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why your driverless car could try to kill you<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to ASUS and MSI reveal aftermarket Radeon RX 480 graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97314-asus-and-msi-reveal-aftermarket-radeon-rx-480-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">ASUS and MSI reveal aftermarket Radeon RX 480 graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>olyphony Digital CEO and Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has conceded the PlayStation 3-era was a \u201cnightmare\u201d for the Polyphony team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":84735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,7013,7017,15399,71],"class_list":["post-97430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-gran-turismo","tag-polyphony","tag-ps3","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97436,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97430\/revisions\/97436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}