There’s a common misconception about the way MotoGP is updated each year, it’s not a palette swap at all. In fact there is a heck of a lot of work that goes into redesigning, remodelling and making sure everything else is up to date with the current season of MotoGP. Everything is revisited and photographed for reference. The riders all have to photographed again, because they’re another year older and possibly wiser and wrinklier. Bikes are photographed from every angle.

There’s a ton of pictures and more about the process on the Capcom-Europe blog . There was also a QA with the dev team which you can check out here .