Häromdagen kunde vi presentera samtliga 200 bilar som kommer att finnas med i Forza Motorsport 5 och konstaterade samtidigt att det saknas omkring 300 bilar som fanns med i föregångaren. Creative director på Turn 10, Dan Greenawalt, vill dock vara noga med att poängtera att man inte snålar med bilar bara för att släppa de senare i form av nedladdningsbara paket - för en kostnad.
Han menar nämligen att det numera tar sex månader att replikera en bil digitalt till Forza Motorsport 5, och att man helt enkelt inte har fler bilar redo.
"We're not keeping anything back. I think people misunderstand the way these things work. It takes us six months to build a car, so when I say there's a ten-car pack launching day one - they're not done. We're not done with them yet."
"So we're not holding anything back, we were crunching to make sure we had this level of quality on all 200 cars. Every one had to be Forza level of quality. This was as many as we could build - straight up. We've built this whole process."
Greenawalt lägger också till att man hela tiden jobbar efter en deadline som innebär att bilarna blir färdiga precis innan de släpps i form av nedladdningsbara paket.
"It's a bit like firing artillery. We started building these cars in waves, so the 200 would be done just in time to get it printed for disc, and we started, three or four months later, the first of the ten that are going to be delivered on day one, and about a month after that we start the first of the ten that are going to be delivered the month following. The whole thing is timed so that we're getting them done right before we launch them."
"And if you want to have a hot car, you need to start it as late as possible, which means finishing it as late as possible. And that's why DLC has worked so well for us, because we can start shooting these artillery shots. So the whole idea that things are being held back..."
Tack, OXM.