Absolutely broken logic and broken by the very same Turn10.
This is the full contextualized quote from Dan Greenawalt prior to very Forza 4 release on X360 regarding possibility to have day/night and rain in FM4 on X360 hardware in 2011:
Very own Forzamotorsport.net interview:
Eurogamer interview:
Those were last-gen excuses. On the 512MB RAM hardware. And today we have 8GB RAM hardware. Talk about 12X raw performance increase.
It just boils down to priorities and what you actually want to deliver from your game. What do you actually want your game to be. To achieve.
I am aware how vast majority of FM players do not take wether or time of day as important. Same as for wheel support and problems with linearity, buffers and such that Forza series has been plagued with on X360. But there are people that care. And that would really love to get as much as *simulation* possible for the game that calls itself simulation and love to praise itself as "becoming best in the world".
I don't know. I will not even take GT for an example, I will go to small independent developer Slightly Mad Studios and ask myself how can them: with less then 50 people working on the project coded for multiplatofrm release achieve stunning daytime changes, night racing, 24 cars on track and stunning rain effects, open wheel classes with animated suspenisons and such on the budget not greater then 2 million euros annualy.
I am fully dissapointed. Things just have to be contexualized. Forza have to be contextualized. If you thrive to be perceived as simulation and you have 10 years of consecutive AAA budget on your disposal and you have all resources imaginable and 400 people working on your game and you have access to everything thaks to Microsoft and you love to think about yourself as best in the bussiness and promote yourself like that as well, you have to bite the challenge.
Saying that you have "best simulation of tyres and physics" and then highlighting that same physics engine as reason for not actually having rain races is not logical. It is just not logical.
Same goes for variable daytime. First you say you have "best graphics, 1080p native@60fps.." and then you say that graphics is the reason why there is no nightime racing. It does not compute. It really does not. Same reasons as in 2011. It is just not right. Really it is not.
But hey, it is only my subjective opinion.