Can Sony create a new franchise as big as Gran Turismo?

[Mr Puggsly]

letsdance said:

Mr Puggsly said:
If you ask me, the reason Sony has thrown so much money at software development is in hopes of creating a franchise as popular as GT, Halo, CoD, etc.

They haven't done it yet and I don't see it happening this decade either.

So much money? are you on crack? Their 2 best games have the same budget as 1 Natal game from THQ. And Natal doesn't have the user base as ps3 (probablly will never have Ps3s current user base) and I highly doubt THQ would expect Halo type numbers. Good try though.

BTW - Those are the only 2 games we really know the budget for and I doubt sony would green light games for much higher than that considering ND is a proven developing company. (oh sorry. excluding PD in this comment since their sonys bread and butter and GT5's budget is just a little bigger than that THQ game anyway)

Haha, you crack me up. You now compare everything to a big budget Natal game we know nothing about?

 

I know they said the budget of Uncharted 2 was $20 million. But you don't actually think that includes advertising? They might have dropped $10+ million on that. Which isn't uncommon for a big budget game.

God of War 3 was said to have a budget of $40 million. I'm not sure if that includes advertising.

Killzone 2's budget was $40 million, that does not include advertsing budget. They said they spent on $2 million on adveringing in the UK alone. Imagine the advertising budget for the rest of the world.

 

You're entitled to your opinion. But you don't have to be a douche when you share it with me.