GT5 Creator Disappointed With ‘Leaks’

Kaz Tweeting like crazy.

Published: 13:30, 23/06/2010 by Staff.

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Remember this story from Monday? The one about GT5 having stunt arenas, karting and sharing your own tracks, coming straight from the horse’s (well, Yoshida’s) mouth? Well, it seems like Gran Turismo creator Kaz Yamauchi isn’t happy about the news, and in a series of Tweets claims that the information shouldn’t have been revealed yet, and blames SCEE’s marketing department for the ‘leaks’.

“There’s a lot of confusing news leaking out of the UK,” he said, re-iterating that he “didn’t promise anything at E3″.

Even the most cynical would struggle to call anything on PlayStation.com a ‘leak’ but it does appear that Yamauchi wanted to reveal the new features himself. Translations are tricky, but he’s referring to the information and the way it ‘got out’ as “chaos”. “The story has been made by SCEE’s marketing department and I fail to understand why they would do that,” one translation reads.

One translation of another Tweet, from GT Planet’s Shirakawa Akira reads “Mr. Yoshida can speak about PlayStation in general,” Yamauchi continues, “but regarding information on individual games, as he doesn’t know the details, we asked that we would’ve liked him to report news upon first confirming the information from the various developers in charge. However, it appears he didn’t.”

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cc_star [Team TSA: Writer]
23/06/2010 at 13:42

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If you look at a problem for long enough, you’ll always find SCEE are to blame somewhere along the line
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- 3shirts [Member]
  23/06/2010 at 13:45
  
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  Does SCEE employ Algerian footballers?
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  - cc_star [Team TSA: Writer]
    23/06/2010 at 13:50
    
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    No, but they have given Joe Cole an invisibility cloak
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  - Pete_UK [Member]
    23/06/2010 at 19:30
    
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    SCEE’s always been the weakest link of the chain IMO, especially since the bald dude whos name currently escapes me left.
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- Danza Di Fuoco [Member]
  23/06/2010 at 13:57
  
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  lol SCEE
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- hunterstryfe [Member]
  23/06/2010 at 16:09
  
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  as always :)
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3shirts [Member]
23/06/2010 at 13:44

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“Oh noes! Even more hype created about GT5. It probably helped pile on a few hundred pre-orders”

Even the least cynical bone in my body still feels this was entirely deliberate. Yamauchi is all pissed cos someone got there first and it was his turn :(
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bunimomike [Member]
23/06/2010 at 13:48

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They’ve stolen his thunder. Either that or delayed the game by two years as the features aren’t in there at the moment. Ha!
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- 3shirts [Member]
  23/06/2010 at 13:50
  
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  I wonder if there is a game-related betting site? I’d love the know the odds of GT5 slipping
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  - bunimomike [Member]
    23/06/2010 at 13:53
    
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    “Hello. I’m Richard Branson” 8-)
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  - Danza Di Fuoco [Member]
    23/06/2010 at 13:58
    
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    NO…no I don’t want it delayed
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teflon [Community Team]
23/06/2010 at 13:56

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Leaks suck. Simple as that.
Apple has the right idea when they try to lock this kind of thing down, and Jaffe’s misdirection was spot on too.
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- cc_star [Team TSA: Writer]
  23/06/2010 at 14:01
  
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  Yes the reveal was surprising, as would the iPhone 4′s if Gizmodo hadn’t ‘stolen’ a unit
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  - Uhyve [Member]
    24/06/2010 at 23:19
    
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    I am rubbish at detecting internet sarcasm… that was sarcasm though, right? Since Apple bring out a new iPhone revision every year…
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  - Kitch [Member]
    26/06/2010 at 00:28
    
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    You do realise a guy committed suicide over the leak? The entire plant that make Iphone is under investigation? Good old Foxconn.
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  - Kitch [Member]
    26/06/2010 at 00:30
    
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    Linky. http://gizmodo.com/5319275/report-iphone-leak-interrogations-drive-foxconn-employee-to-suicide
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- 3shirts [Member]
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  Oh please, that Apple ‘leak’ was as choreographed as any marketing campaign
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  - shields_t [Member]
    25/06/2010 at 11:23
    
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    They should put Chris Nolan in charge of plugging the leaks, how on earth he’s managed to make an apparently $250m DiCaprio movie, due for release in a few weeks time and barely anyone on the Internet knows a thing about it is anyone’s guess. Looks ace though from the trailer.
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BioEye [Team TSA: Writer]
23/06/2010 at 14:10

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I think Kaz could be to blame if the game’s been teased for so long, yet continuously pushing back the launch. The people will demand more information.
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Kevling [Member]
23/06/2010 at 14:31

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“I fail to understand why they would do that”
Yeah, why on earth would they want to generate more interest in your product? ;)
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Radiitz [Member]
23/06/2010 at 15:14

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As punishment, Yamauchi will now delay GT 5 for another year *Not that he wasn’t planning on doing so anyway ;)*
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KeRaSh [Member]
23/06/2010 at 15:50

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Boo hoo Kaz… The game should have been released half a year ago. Be happy people still care about your game at all.
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toutski [Legend]
23/06/2010 at 15:57

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Well the easy thing to do is release the product already!
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hunterstryfe [Member]
23/06/2010 at 16:11

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i doubt coding is even finished anyway, probably took a year to create the vid at e3 lol
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