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Polyphony Digital Have Made A Point Of Not Talking Down Their Competition.

Ever since E3, Turn 10 – developers of the Forza franchise – have been privy to talking down their competition, Gran Turismo. Call it disrespect, arrogance, or even just plain confidence in their product, no one is going to deny Forza 3 is a bad product. It’s not, it’s a great game. But the reputation of Turn 10 as developers left a sour taste in our mouth here in the PushSquare office. Intentional or not, they were disrespectful about the competitor they’ve arguably learned a lot from and that didn’t gel well with us.

Finally, months later, Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi has mentioned the competition to his Gran Turismo franchise in an interview with NowGamer. And unsurprisingly, there’s no need for the genre’s master to talk down his competitors.

“[...] I keep my eye on them from a distance. My observations tend to more often than not centre on, ‘Oh, so they’re concentrating extra hard on this’, or ‘oh, so they’re not worried about that’, or ‘they’ve really got a lot of passion for that’. All my observations are first-impression sort of things. I don’t look at the games in too much detail. Just a one-glance observation is good enough. I think about what they’re trying to do, how much time they’re spending, how they’re going about putting the game together, how do they feel about the game as they’re making it… that sort of thing.”

It’s a stark contrast from the words of Turn 10’s Dan Greenawalt, who spoke of Yamauchi earlier in the year:

“So, props to Kazunori Yamauchi-san and the PS1 team. That said, I feel that he’s passed us the baton. Perhaps he hasn’t meant to, but we have taken the genre to new levels and they’ve stopped evolving the genre. So again, tremendous respect to him, but I’d say the differentiator is they’re old school. The emperor’s naked, and I don’t want to, you know, I don’t want to slap him around, but no game competes [with] us right now.”

It’s irrelevent whether Gran Turismo 5 is better than Forza 3. All we know is that we’d rather hang out with Yamauchi than the folks at Turn 10. Sorry guys, but you opened your mouth one too many times.