From a Bizarre Creations (developer of Microsoft’s Project Gotham Racing 4, a new 360 racing game due this fall) staff member at their official forums:

You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.

Source: Bizarre Creations Forum

Looks like the limitations of DVD are starting to show up more and more in next generation game development.

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