Development
Announced in January 2000 under the working title of Type-S, Driving Emotion Type-S was developed by Escape, a subsidiary of Square. Its development team had previously worked with DreamFactory on Ehrgeiz and the Tobal series for the PlayStation. The announcement was later followed by a four-page advertisement in the Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, which stated that the game would be Square's first release for the PlayStation 2.
In Japan, a playable version of the game was showcased at Square's "Millennium Event", a show held on January 29, 2000 in Yokohama. Television advertisements of the game were among the first ones to air in Japan for the PlayStation 2. The game was also showcased in the United States at the Electronic Entertainment Expo of Los Angeles, from May 11 to May 13 of the same year. This demonstration was not playable however, as focus groups were revising the game to improve upon the Japanese version. According to the American website GameSpot, the level of body details and shading was also refined. The European and North American versions of the game were eventually released ten months after the Japanese one.
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