jedians, hype, PR and the fact that often GT games were first good racing titles to grace playstation consoles. plus there's the part of huge number of cars and accesible arcade-simulation gameplay. in categories i chose GT is not the best game, not even close. it just like with Koei games - they can makehuge changes in the series and still "gaming journalists" will call those games crap without even playing them and give 'em 4-5/10(same thing is with many wii games).
GTs complete lack of speed just make this series feel like work and not a fun game.
PD have to do a lot of work to make GT series as realistic as Race Pro and as fun as Forza series/NFS Shift.
it's like Fuel - great concept, average execution and many flaws(except GT was backed up by sony's PR machine and hype). Fuel was really good game(especially for fans of open world racing games) but had many flaws and problems.
aragod, please spare us the PR talk cause people into racing sims know it's not true AT ALL.







