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Polyphony Digital website revamped; Sales data updated to September 2015
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ethomaz
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GT5 is a bigger and better game.
GT6 is a cut GT5 with some new and nice features.
GT6 made me miss GT5 a lot.
GT5 is a truly masterpiece.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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I'm surprised there wasn't a GT6 Vita port. I know people kinda expected it for PS4, but as Y2Kev mentioned, the engine was probably old and garbage and they needed to hit the reset button there. A port to PSV made sense to me, but I'm thinking the effort to get it running at an acceptable framerate and graphics were probably too high.
SolidSnakex
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GT6 struggled to run on the PS3. I can't even imagine what it would be like on the Vita.
LegendofDragoonLives
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Damn GT6 bombed by GT standard. :\ I didn't buy it either though. Will be there day 1 for GTSport, but I don't know if a non numbered GT game will sell as much as a mainline GT game. I suspect GTSport will probably only sell 5-7 million next year. It would be wise if they actually release it during summer time like mid June right after E3. Though knowing them, they will release it in November. -_-
PD only has 110 staff members.
SolidSnakex
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I don't think they update that data much. Looking back at archives of their site, that 110 employee figure first appeared in February of 2008.
The Baron Count
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How the heck did the PSP one sell that well?
I haven't played it but I saw nothing but complaints about that game when it came out.
I haven't played it but I saw nothing but complaints about that game when it came out.
One thing that people aren't noticing is that the franchise sold approximately 1.5 million between March 2015 & September. So it's still trucking along even on dead hardware.
That would be stupid, Gran Turismo belongs in the holidays, Gran Turismo sometimes outperforms even CoD & FIFA in the holiday weeks in Europe, including Christmas week, releasing GT Sport in the Summer would be dumb. Gran Turismo doesn't "run away" from big AAA releases, it's the other way around.
That would be stupid, Gran Turismo belongs in the holidays, Gran Turismo sometimes outperforms even CoD & FIFA in the holiday weeks in Europe, including Christmas week, releasing GT Sport in the Summer would be dumb. Gran Turismo doesn't "run away" from big AAA releases, it's the other way around.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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the new website is slick!
hopefully GT Sport is bundled with the PS VR at launch.
hopefully GT Sport is bundled with the PS VR at launch.
LegendofDragoonLives
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It's not a mainline GT though.
entremet
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PS3 was also long in the tooth. The audience was ready to move on.
qa_engineer
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Wow. GT6 sold really well given the circumstances.
Edit: Seems like there is a lot of Sony activity today. All good things.
Edit: Seems like there is a lot of Sony activity today. All good things.
Good to see GT6 at nearly 5 million. It's pretty impressive after all the things it had going against it.
Launching less than a month after 2 next-gen consoles just came out. Competing franchise already having released a next-gen version of the game. Rumors of a next-gen port for GT6.
I know quite a few people who held off/didn't buy GT6 because of these reasons, including me.
Launching less than a month after 2 next-gen consoles just came out. Competing franchise already having released a next-gen version of the game. Rumors of a next-gen port for GT6.
I know quite a few people who held off/didn't buy GT6 because of these reasons, including me.
There wasn't nearly enough development time or resources for that.
GT6 was being developed for the PS3 before the PS4 was close to being finalized.
Well it would only have to run at like 100x30 based on some vita games.
privitsan02
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It outsold the entire Forza franchise to date.
Gran Turismo 6, which is the biggest flop in the series still outsold the last 4 Forza games combined as well.
Best wishes.
Ingueferroque
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I haven't played a (recently released) non-native res Vita game in a long time.
I guess a 2016 release for the prologue version or beta is unrealistic?
Whoa. I've never paid attention to Forza sales, but figured they were decent for MS to put so much focus on it, and for it to get so many iterations. I guess GT obliterating Forza in sales comes down to MS not aiming the Xbox outside of the US market.
I've found it interesting that the first numbered GT in each console gen sells much better than the same-console numbered sequel. That's been my feelings for the entire series. Loved and played the ever living fuck out of the first ones, then the sequel underwhelms and only gets a fraction of the playtime.
emperor's naked dude.
serversurfer
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Wax Free Vanilla
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lowhighkang_LHK
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When your FRANCHISE bottoms out at 4.5 million as a worst case scenario.
.....you have a pretty good franchise.
.....you have a pretty good franchise.
Insane Metal
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Oh man. GT Sport has the opportunity to become the best selling in the franchise. Not that I think it will happen, but since the PS4 is selling like hot cakes... the chance is there.
Probably an enormous amount of outsourcing, too.
Where is h.......ahhh there he is ^_^
It's not gonna hit 15 million, GT3 sold that much when the US market bought the franchise.
I can see it do as well as GT5 though (not including prologue of course).
The most interesting thing on that chart is GT5 being the second largest GT game in the franchise on the lowest selling PS console at a time where the PS brand was at its lowest. And we had people saying that GT was no longer what it used to be. The demographic span of GT is ridiculous. With the wave Sony is enjoying right now, I expect GT7 to sell as much as GT5, and Sport to do a bit better than 5 prologue. I think PD is gonna move to one main game per gen.