Hey, I've never been --- before. Sorry, I got carried away!
But on the topic of making money. Lets say it takes 6 million to make GT-HD. There is nothing new except GT 4 in HD. I am not going to buy it -- I have already played GT 4. Now It takes 12 million to do GT-5. Will be in HD from the beginning with alot of new stuff -- gonna buy that one. Now as a studio you might get lucky and break even on the GT-HD. However, if you are already taking alot of flak for just highrezing a title you already brought out chances are you are going to lose money.
Folks want new with their new PS3 so why not make everyone happy and put your money and efforts towards GT-5? All your programers are going to be working on it instead of being split between two titles, so in the end you will be saving money on a title that has the ablility to bring you significantly more sales and money. And you might be able to bring it to the public sooner. So how is that not smart?