Yamauchi: I don’t pay attention to other racing games

Polyphony Digital head honcho Kazunori Yamauchi had some rather harsh words for his competitors in a recent interview with Eurogamer.dk. According to the father of the Gran Turismo series, he finds it hard to play other racing games for more than five minutes at a time due to their low quality.

Polyphony Digital head honcho Kazunori Yamauchi had some rather harsh words for his competitors in a recent interview with Eurogamer.dk. According to the father of the Gran Turismo series, he finds it hard to play other racing games for more than five minutes at a time due to their low quality.

Here’s what Yamauchi said in reply to a question of whether or not he checks out the competition while developing his own games (please forgive Google’s sometimes garbled translations):

We skeleton not to other games while we develop Gran Turismo – it is solely based on what we want to achieve with the game. In fact, I find it hard to play the other games in more than five minutes at a time. Previews low level of quality really shines through in the other games and I can not keep them out!

Harsh, but then again, the man and his team have put out awesome racing games in the past. Gran Turismo 5 may not have a set release date yet, but judging by the previews we’ve seen it seems to be up to the high standards of Yamauchi and his crew. Well it better be, what with all the delays.

Via [Eurogamer.dk]