Playstation 3 var en riktig best till maskin när den släpptes men den var också ökänt svår att utveckla till. Det tog flera år för Sonys utvecklingsstudios att bemästra dess komplexa struktur och den var tydligen en mardröm. Så var det åtminstone enligt en av skaparna bakom Gran Turismo, Kazunori Yamauchi.
"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," berättar han i en intervju.
"So [GT]5 and [GT]6 was really a nightmare for us."
Mardrömmen verkar dock vara över för Polyphony. Nu arbetar de hårt på kommande Gran Turismo Sport och Yamauchi har inget annat än goda saker att säga om Sonys senaste konsol, Playstation 4.
"Compared to that the PS4 is a piece of hardware that really has the ability to answer to our expectations. I've said this over and over again but this, Gran Turismo Sport, it really has the level of innovation you haven't seen since Gran Turismo 1 and we're having a lot of fun developing it, and we're discovering a lot of things as we develop it."
"So it was actually good for us that we started developing for PS4 later on because we then really had the time to do [research and development] on the performance of the hardware which enables us to do things like the physics-based rendering, so it was really good for us that we weren't in a rush to get something out."
Gran Turismo Sport släpps den 16 november.
