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..and the last. Don't know how they keep getting away with it.I LOVE PD, but this is a true statement. They screwed up this whole generation.
..and the last. Don't know how they keep getting away with it.I LOVE PD, but this is a true statement. They screwed up this whole generation.
Gran Turismo franchise sold like 60+ mln copies worldwide, so we can assume Sony isn't to harsh on Polyphony.
That's your answer right there. They needed to deliver out of the box but they botched the start. Yes the game got better with patches and DLC, but the damage was already done. The user score on metacritic is still pretty terrible. It also sold worse than GT6 or GT Sport from what I've read, so that surely didn't help.I for the life of me will NEVER understand why they got rid of the company that made DriveClub. Sure they screwed up the roll out of that game, [...]
Gran Turismo franchise sold like 60+ mln copies worldwide, so we can assume Sony isn't to harsh on Polyphony.
I'm not spinning anything. If you actually read my comments closely, I never gave my opinions on whether GTS is doing well or not. I simply made two arguments against the notion that bigger userbase automatically means better sales, both of which you have not disputed.You really can't spin this into something positive. There's 75 million PS4 consoles, three times as many Xbox One. Gran Turismo is a PS4 exclusive, and being beaten with over double as many sales as Forza Horizon 3, that is available on three times less playerbase.
Gran Turismo SHOULD have sold better, but it didn't. And we all know why. The game is mainly online, which scares of most of the fans since PS4 gaming in majority is about SP gaming.
I for the life of me will NEVER understand why they got rid of the company that made DriveClub. Sure they screwed up the roll out of that game, but that game was more fun than GT Sport. And It would have been great if Sony had 2 companies making racing games at the sametime.
That's your answer right there. They needed to deliver out of the box but they botched the start. Yes the game got better with patches and DLC, but the damage was already done. The user score on metacritic is still pretty terrible. It also sold worse than GT6 or GT Sport from what I've read, so that surely didn't help.
Evolution Studios kept losing money. As great of a comeback Driveclub made to hit 2 million sales, it wasn't enough to persuade Sony to keep the studio running.
We don't know for a fact if PD is profiting or losing money from GTS. All we know is that online player count has continued to rise.And yet we have to know for a fact that PD is losing money on Gran Turismo right now at the point right? Like nobody here believes that the "maybe" 3 million sales of this game is a profit driver anymore do they? I"m pretty sure GT cost more money than DriveClub probably cost at this point.
Compared to other GT titles it is flop. GT6 already was a flop and this seems to be another one which is not suprising really if you followed GTsport. It is amazing racing game and one of only two games that can be called like that but it is targeted to very niche audience, all of the stuff normal people care about is just bare as fuck.
GT3 had more cars than GTS. Around 150. GTS seems like it has a lot of cars but in fact most of unique cars come with 3-4 versions of same car for different league which means that if you want to count unique cars you are looking at probably maybe 50 cars of less.
Polyphone can't be excused anymore. Forza 7 after releasing 3 games in time of one GTS have now 700+ cars and if you include DLC around and you can't even make argument that GTS cars are better looking as difference is minimal.
Honestly speaking as fan of series i think that most fault lies in Yamauchi. He apears to focus more on his personal experiences in motorsport that creating game. Sure GTS online is amazing and you have to give him credit for actually making first console racing game. Still it should be feature of full release GT not online only game onto itself.
Gran Turismo franchise has sold over 80.4 million copies as of May 2018.......Gran Turismo franchise sold like 60+ mln copies worldwide, so we can assume Sony isn't to harsh on Polyphony.
I agree, and I've expressed that sentiment so many times before, but it seems EVO just can't launch a title that sells well on debut these days.....Motorstorm Apocalypse was delayed and due to an earthquake in Japan, it launched to subpar numbers, DC launched with some servers load issues and people complained of the lack of content, weather did not make it in at launch.....Then disingenuos persons made a whole shitstorm of the PS plus version etc..Notwithstanding, EVO games are not for those persons who want the game to basically play itself with racing lines, rewind et al...I for the life of me will NEVER understand why they got rid of the company that made DriveClub. Sure they screwed up the roll out of that game, but that game was more fun than GT Sport. And It would have been great if Sony had 2 companies making racing games at the sametime.
I still till this day strongly believe that Kaz leaned in on Sony to push CodeMasters or whatever that dev was out of the picture because he was threatened that they'd eventually make better races games than he would.
I heard Vincentian Kush is pretty good......I mean, you have to be flying as high as a kite to believe that Sony would get rid of an 80.4 million franchise, because an offshoot GT was good enough to pull in 5.5 million players after 9 months....Wow, such a studio should be shuttered? If these numbers are bad, this means Forza studio and Horizon Studio should be shuttered ages ago...That luck has to run out eventually, the cost of keeping Poly open compared to sales of the last 2 releases...? And we wait another 5 years for the next? There's a reason fans are falling out of love with this game and the competition has leaped ahead. What happens to every remaining race fan out there when we lose GT completely? That thought logic is probably the only thing still keeping them open as it is.
So if GTS was 3.4 million in May. With the E3 sale and the recent one where GT made several top ten charts, I expect that figure to be much higher, perhaps inline with those online numbers, but we shall wait on the official update on the charts by PD in a few months...
You really can't spin this into something positive. There's 75 million PS4 consoles, three times as many Xbox One. Gran Turismo is a PS4 exclusive, and being beaten with over double as many sales as Forza Horizon 3, that is available on three times less playerbase.
Gran Turismo SHOULD have sold better, but it didn't. And we all know why. The game is mainly online, which scares of most of the fans since PS4 gaming in majority is about SP gaming.
GT5 sold nearly 12 million copies lifetime
GT6 sold over 5 million copies after 4 years.
Forza Horizon 3 had over 9 million players in less than 2 years.
Those Forza figures probably includes demo players too. Shouldn't compare actual sales figures to how many players have played the game.
GTS had a demo, too.
Which is the last we heard, and not forgetting that there was a mixup on Target where many got the game for $19.99 pretty early on......just a few days after release too...Where are the sales figures? Horizon 3 sold 2.5 million in 3-4 months on Windows 10 and Xbox One, which is likely well over 75 million users/gamers total.
With the way player numbers are being sprung on the back of two platforms, you never know.Those Forza figures probably includes demo players too. Shouldn't compare actual sales figures to how many players have played the game.
Extremely weak excuse...Which is the last we heard, and not forgetting that there was a mixup on Target where many got the game for $19.99 pretty early on......just a few days after release too...
With the way player numbers are being sprung on the back of two platforms, you never know.
On the flip, GT had several betas, but Kaz did tweet a number within the first few hours of the open beta. So the figures here, have nothing to do with that....
Extremely weak excuse...
Which is the last we heard, and not forgetting that there was a mixup on Target where many got the game for $19.99 pretty early on......just a few days after release too...
With the way player numbers are being sprung on the back of two platforms, you never know.
On the flip, GT had several betas, but Kaz did tweet a number within the first few hours of the open beta. So the figures here, have nothing to do with that....
Yeah no doubt, GTS just charted again recently across Europe the last few weeks and it's not like Horizon has not been on sale recently too. Beyond Europe, Gran Turismo just made the PSN list for June and I'm sure it will make it for July, as digital sales are on the rise by and large and it will get a boost from the last sale. I personally don't buy discs anymore, I bought GTS day one at $60.00, but there have been some nice deals for persons since then....It's more of a guess how well GT Sport did in comparison to Horizon 3 in 2017 and 2018 in Europe and in the US. If GT Sport is charting above Horizon 3 across Europe and the US, then I would assume the sales figures of GT Sport have been better than Horizon 3 since 2017, which could be around 4 million copies sold. The only way I can see the figures getting that high based would be players who have played the demo, used multiple accounts, etc.
This is why I don't like when companies state how many players played the game because many people believe the sales figures are close to being that high.
Have to agree here, it’s just so annoying. The team has so much talent and I understand they wanted to try something new, hey great but somewhere someone has to light a fire under their asses and wake them up to the sounds of their fans that they have been neglecting since gt4. Either expand the team so they can turn around the games faster or bring on another studio like Evo and make a more arcade style racer or at least a racer with a solid single player campaign.There's no way that game sold more than 4 million copies by now. I just wish PD would get pushed more by Sony to just be better! There's no competition to naturally make them feel like they need to be better either. I get the feeling that all the other devs Sony has push each other either directly or indirectly to be the best version of themselves.
Whereas PD just sits there and does what they want, when they want.
Part of me wonders if this was just Kaz taking out competition as his product is failing to effectively force people to buy GTS as only sony racing game.
As someone said in some post i will never understand why Evolution studio was sacked. They should be joined with Polyphony as western branch of Polyphony instead of sacking it. IT is clear that polyphony lacks manpower and Forza/Forza Horizon assets sharing works REALLY well, new blood would also move around people in Polyphony to get better.
Part of me wonders if this was just Kaz taking out competition as his product is failing to effectively force people to buy GTS as only sony racing game.
If you still have the game and haven’t tried it since launch day you really owe it to yourself to pop that sucker in and try it fresh / all over again. It’s a fantastic game and the inclusion of motorcycles and all of the new tracks is well worth your time to give it another chance.I loved GT Sport and consider it the best online racer available on consoles. Forza 5/6/7 have been getting progressively worse than the last gen counterparts, the Horizon series (while I love them), is more focused on arcade racing, and Asseto/Project cars just feel *bad* to play. I keep hearing how Drive Club has improved drastically since launch, but that launch was just so bad it burned me on ever wanting to play that game again.
Forza and Forza Horizon get their assets from a third party. The same one that supplied Evolution Studios for Driveclub. Polyphony is actually huge in terms of staff compared to Turn 10 and playground games but they do things internally.
PD usually provide sales numbers on their site for the public. That may or may not continue to happen but I assume it will . Forza has never provided official sales numbers at least not individually because it tends to do the worst sales wise. Mariokart is always and will always be the sales king on individual releases. The attach rate on that game is crazy.Why didn't Sony and Microsoft reveal the exact number of sold copies like Nintendo with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe = 9.22 Million copies sold
GT Sport = 5 Million players = Sold ??
Forza = 9 Million players = Sold ??
PD usually provide sales numbers on their site for the public. That may or may not continue to happen but I assume it will . Forza has never provided official sales numbers at least not individually because it tends to do the worst sales wise. Mariokart is always and will always be the sales king on individual releases. The attach rate on that game is crazy.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...o-game-steering-wheel-compatibility-nightmareI only wish my Logitech Driving Force GT wheel from the PS3 days would work with this game. That for me at my interest level/ budget/ space within my apartment this is the only wheel I want to use.
They do it only when they sell enough coppies because probably they don't want to post emberasment. Which is why they updated their GT5 sales in no time after release and we had to wait about 3 years to see 6mln number for the first time on their site.
Thats awesome and a Canadian based company too, shipping shouldn't take long as I'm in Vancouver, thanks so much for sharing.
This. The more you start to understand exactly what it is trying to do, the more you love it.Just put a 30 hours to GT Sport and have to say that game grows on you with every passing 60 minutes. But still, from the third installment Forza Motorsport is the king in the genre.
I'd say it's okay at any time. If you're not much of an online player then yes - there's nothing time sensitive about single player and the game actually has a fair bit of single player content now.I'm just gonna go ahead and ask if it's okay to jump into this game? Rather is it too late?
How is Sport in comparison to 5 and 6? I honestly thought those 2 games were absolute trash in comparison to what Forza has been doing.
It has zero performance modifications. No more intake and turbo upgrades. The tire model is still absolutely rubbish. Cars still have no real torque curve and driving feels sterile.
The online aspect is great though, online rammers are usually pretty rare and its probably the only console game that encourages clean racing
Forza 7 surprisingly destroys GT sport in terms of physics, tire model and car behavior. Its so far ahead in terms of physics that I am absolutely flabbergasted that it hasn't gained more attention. The general consensus is GT sport has better physics but in reality its the furthest thing from the truth.
Forza 7 car sounds are horrid though.
I have played alot of GT Sport in PSVR and with my wheel after picking up the collective minds drivehub and that is pretty much as good as it gets for this game. I've come to really love driving an F1 car around the Nurburgring, in VR with a steering wheel, it actually feels intense. My hope would be they expand the VR section to include more cars vs a one on one and more tracks are always welcome too. Great game and well worth the $30 CAD I paid for it.