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Unconfirmed: Gran Turismo 6 officially announced (Holiday 2013 / PS3)
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Psycho_Mantis
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Hype reaching dangerous levels.
Relaxed Muscle
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PS2 assets everywhere still, only 200 premium cars more, PS3/Vita only.
Shitstorm is coming.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yes it is, PS3 and PS4 have completely different architectures you can't easily port and if you did it'd take a while if the PS4 is sold at a loss maximising sales may not necessarily be the best thing at the expense of a large profit intake (of course you still want the thing to sell well, you just don't want to greatly reduce potential profits to get more sales.
DriveClub with the GT name is like Dark Souls with the Final Fantasy name.
MrCookiepants
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Dragon1893
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What's funny is that casual gamers will automatically assume that it's on PS4. The marketing campaigns for both will be in full force simultaneously and it's a very small leap to assume that the new game runs on the new system.
Guy enters gamestop: "I want a PS4 with GT6."
I have a feeling this will happen a lot lol.
Guy enters gamestop: "I want a PS4 with GT6."
I have a feeling this will happen a lot lol.
If Trial Mountain isn't redone for PS3 standards... I will rage. lol
Relaxed Muscle
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They didn't care for brand damage when they offered the watered down version of GT on PSP.
Maybe PD could have looked over the project and see if it was quality before even saying no without giving the game a chance.
It worked for Horizon.
Simple math. PS3 has an install base on over 70 million. PS4 will not have nearly that much. So let's say the attach rate for GT6 is 10% (I'm just making this number up); you'd have sales of 7 million vs much less on PS4.
Plus there's that other racing game launching with PS4, having a GT launch with PS4 would hurt sales of that game and potentially hinder it from becoming the large franchise Sony is aiming for.
Sidewinder
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Jigolo
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My guess would be that they don't want to make conflict with DriveClub. If GT6 were on PS4, all the gamers that would buy the PS4 would most likely have to choose between the two.
they should make it multiplatform so more people can play it
Yes. Spread the love, screw war!
BruiserBear
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If it's actually 2014 FOR REAL, then sure. This is fine.
But knowing Polyphony, they're not gonna have it ready next year.
uncharted86
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AWW YISS
GPS?
It's a good thing you don't work at Sony. This is how you water down a brand, NFS-style.
If they are looking to differentiate it away from PS4 (for DriveClub's sake?) - one way that would do it would be Vita cross play/buy (not to say whether Vita market would make it worthwhile - although PSP did despite universal hate on Gaf).Reiko said:
To be fair - "NFS style" actually worked for a few years (the yearly releases, the idiotic movie tie-ins and story-based games etc.) - NFS:U was NFS at its highest sales ever.Angst said:
Samir Sedlar
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if you think about it then it will make sense, more or less.
GT maybe a system seller, but it is also a huge brand for Sony, Sony wants to prove they will continue to support the PS3 even when they launch the PS4, so you see them releasing GT6 on the PS3.
At the same time, they are making another big (?) racing game to be released on the PS4, DriveClub, they want to give the racing fans on the PS4 something as well, of course you can argue that they should have done the opposite, but that wouldn't really work.
GT6 on PS3 or PS4 will sell millions, DriverClub on PS3 may not sell that much, being on the PS4 with no competition sort of speak, puts it in the spot light, not to mention again no GT on PS4, so people will get DriverClub to get their fix, or so I think.
Sony is continuing to support the PS3, from God of War Ascension, to The Last of Us, to Puppeteer, to Beyond Two Souls, and now GT6, they will continue to support it going forward, and they kinda need to put big names on the PS3 to be worth it.
GT maybe a system seller, but it is also a huge brand for Sony, Sony wants to prove they will continue to support the PS3 even when they launch the PS4, so you see them releasing GT6 on the PS3.
At the same time, they are making another big (?) racing game to be released on the PS4, DriveClub, they want to give the racing fans on the PS4 something as well, of course you can argue that they should have done the opposite, but that wouldn't really work.
GT6 on PS3 or PS4 will sell millions, DriverClub on PS3 may not sell that much, being on the PS4 with no competition sort of speak, puts it in the spot light, not to mention again no GT on PS4, so people will get DriverClub to get their fix, or so I think.
Sony is continuing to support the PS3, from God of War Ascension, to The Last of Us, to Puppeteer, to Beyond Two Souls, and now GT6, they will continue to support it going forward, and they kinda need to put big names on the PS3 to be worth it.
MrCookiepants
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No. Usually the opposite happens. People see next gen game advertised and go in asking for it on their old console. Then they're mad when they can't play it.
Slayer-33
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Is that a move cursor over that gps menu?
gundamkyoukai
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How the game that barley sold anything close to regular forza title and GT sell twice as much as Forza .
Darkangel
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for data logger.
Calm down everyone!
It wasn't for God of War 2 when it came out for PS2 alone.
What the fuck!
And this folks is a part of the reason why exclusives and games can be successful and sell a ton when releasing near launch for a new console even though the install base for the new console is significantly lower than the previous existing ones.
And no, I'm not one of those folks saying that it should've been ps4 exclusive. Just saying it could've worked.
Relaxed Muscle
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It's a midly sucessful spin-off. I don't think no one was expecting normal Forza sales...let's see if Drive Club manages to do those numbers...
uncharted86
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But GPS? My PS3 is pretty stationary
SolidSnakex
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VirtuaMe is claiming to have info and the GPS feature apparently builds tracks based on data. Which would be a very big deal. But I don't really see how it'd work.
SirIgbyCeaser
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Sidewinder
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But GPS? My PS3 is pretty stationary
Vita confirmed.
Slayer-33
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SirIgbyCeaser
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From the other thread:
@solidsnakex
WAIT A GOD DAMN MINUTE...
Imagine your cell phone sending data to your PS3 as it creates a course through your driving of your own car...
You could make a race track of anything and anywhere, holy fucking shit balls. Race track to work omfg.
I hope not. It seems lazy of them to do so and they had what 3 years?
I don't like going to used car dealers lol.
L1 button... GPS...
Vita confirmed.
That's what I thought immeditately, but are the shoulder buttons called L1 and R1 on the Vita or just L and R?
It wouldn't surprise me if this feature is Vita-exclusive... cool nonetheless.
uncharted86
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Watch it be just smartphone GPS data integration, and not Vita
They are called L and R on Vita.
Sidewinder
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That's some crazy good idea!
That sounds ridiculously insane.
I don't think any game could manage to pull that off, but it would be incredible.
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