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.”