So I check this thread for the first time in a week and people are still making excuses for the technical issues?! Leniency is fine, but only when it leads to acceptable sacrifices. Framerate issues aren't one of those sacrifices, especially for a sim racer (At least this is what Kaz and GT fans claimed in the past). An eyesore, like tearing, that in some cases can make the game unplayable for certain people with motion sickness issues, is not one of these acceptable sacrifices. More reasonable sacrifices/areas to give leniency include scaling the resolution back to 1280x720, reducing car count from 16 to 8, scaling weather back (Yes, I know the latter two can be beneficial to gameplay), etc... Those sacrifices still allow for great picture quality without the ugly, distracting, and potentially detrimental effects caused by the framerate and tearing issues. And before anyone says, "Well you're just saying those sacrifices are acceptable because that's what Forza went with", I simply believe those are the smart sacrifices, it has nothing to do with the developers or the franchise that made that decision.
Another thing I'm curious about is how something like this can be said, "GT5 clearly pushes the PS3 more than Forza 3 pushes the 360." Do you come to this conclusion simply because GT5's highs are better than Forza 3's? Because I don't see the correlation between that and pushing one system more than another. Or are you saying it because GT5 is pushing more cars, a higher resolution, weather, etc...? Because taking into account some of GT5's technical issues makes that (and any graphical comparison, really) comparison sorta "apples and oranges." I mean, what if the Forza team was told that they could have an inconsistent framerate, tearing, 80% of their cars being upscaled Forza 1 cars, less track details, bad shadows, or w/e other graphical flaws that GT5 has. T10 might have been able to do "1080p", 16 cars, weather, or higher quality ("premium") cars.
