people is always bitching about publishers rushing out games, yearly unpolished sequels and so on.. 
 
then when a developer/publisher take all the time to make a game as polish as they can.. they will bitch the other way.. I saw the same crap with Starcraft 2 all kind of dumb comments saying they tanking "to long"   
 
crazy crazy internet..           

I rather wait for a few real quality games to play than waste my time with fast food video games (COD im looking at you)

I think the bitching has been more about the delays, not the actual development time.

Well, from the sounds of it, it is hard to tell what exactly caused GT to take so long. Sounds like it has some issues despite being an overall good game.

I think games have a sweet spot in development between a COD and a Gran Turismo time frame. And people bitch because for the time it took in development and hyping, the game was expected rationally to be perfect. See KaosAngel's threads for that matter. Still like everything there isn't a perfect game, and the more time games take, after the sweet spot, generally the less impressive they become. I think that happened with Alan Wake and Gran Turismo. Hype and complacency killed the beast.

" @DonPixel: Have you even read any of the complaints? I'm guessing no, because if you had, you would know that people's main issue is that, so far, they don't see anything about the game that would explain such a long development time.   If a game is in development for six years, getting delay after delay with the claim of, wanting it to be perfect, and then that perfection isn't delivered on, people are going to bitch.  "

Man. Blizzard are always tanking so hard. They should stop.

Like Kazona said, seems to me that most of the bitching is aimed at the shoddy quality of the game, rather than the delays... I'm all for taking more time to improve a game, but if that's all they could come up with in all that time, how abysmal was the original product to begin with?!

Loading times in GT5 are brutal.   They should have taken more time for development.

" @DonPixel:   Yeah, and now even though PD went through the trouble of putting in 200 amazing cars and 800 mediocre ones, now people are bitching about how their grocery-getters get to 60 in 10 seconds in real life and in GT it takes them 10.2 =(.  My beetle doesn't handle correctly =(. Forget that the most complex cars on the planet are done better than ever before, I want MY car to be perfect. "

How many people does PD have exactly? I know they're tiny but not how tiny.

" How many people does PD have exactly? I know they're tiny but not how tiny. "

" @somejerk said:

" How many people does PD have exactly? I know they're tiny but not how tiny. "

110 total. "

There is a big difference between a company using a couple of extra months for polish and one that takes half a decade longer than the normal development cycle. but if they make good games, i don't care how long it takes just don't promise it at a certain time then push it back a year. 

" Loading times in GT5 are brutal.   They should have taken more time for development. "

Yes because iterating some software some more is going to make the hdd and the blu-ray drive in the PS3 spin quicker. 

I don't know but I feel the main source of the length of time it took to get this game out was that they decided they wanted to render 16 of the best looking cars they could at a solid 60 fps at 1080p on the PS3 and that is very difficult thing to get right. 

They were over ambitious for the first game on a new console but now they had it done they and go on to make a much more polished GT6.

" @KaosAngel said:

" @somejerk said:

" How many people does PD have exactly? I know they're tiny but not how tiny. "

110 total. "

That's hardly tiny. "

@Kazona said:

" @DonPixel: Have you even read any of the complaints? I'm guessing no, because if you had, you would know that people's main issue is that, so far, they don't see anything about the game that would explain such a long development time.   If a game is in development for six years, getting delay after delay with the claim of, wanting it to be perfect, and then that perfection isn't delivered on, people are going to bitch.  "

mm well i dont know about this, regardless of the quality of the final product Im glad ther´s still projects that take the time to do or at least try to do things right whatever it takes.  And as far as living at the expectations its to soon to claim it won´t.. i played prologue and it was awesome to me, but I do know my personal taste it is not the final indication for the general success of the game.   
 
At the end Im talking about bussines ethics, no one but the developer and publisher knows exactly why it took so long .. still im glad they don´t rushing things for me it speaks good of Sony.. they had a lot of pressure with the lack of titles and overall weak launch of the ps3 and still they holding up in trying to get quality games out there. 

I think the overly long development times generally hurt quality rather than help it.