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Jaywood2010 on 07 December 2012
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sales2099 said:
platformmaster918 said:
sales2099 said:
Oh god......not GT6: Prologue. Id hope they would stop this trend.

Me too just come out with the real game or keep working on it instead of giving us the half version.  Imagine how huge it would be if they came out at E3, showed a tech demo or went over specs, then introduce it like "of course none of these stats mean anything.  We need something we can see with our eyes.  So let's let the most popular Playstation franchise of all time do the talking for us *GT6 demo or trailer*"  then right when the press conference is about to be over "Oh and there's one more game you may be interested in *uncharted song starts up before rolling into trailer of Uncharted 4 or whatever they call it*"

Its an anomoly in that its morally wrong to charge money for a demo, but not only do the fans love it and love PD for it, they buy it in the millions, completely financing the real version before the real version is out. So when you do buy the real game, your spending $100 total instead of 60. No wonder they give so much free DLC, which generate so much love from fans, when it was really financed by the Prologue sales.

It works, and I support business models that work, but the hypocrisy is what gets me.....that in this case, the fans dont mind.


Yeah they pissed off a lot of people this generation.  They took way too long to make GT5 sold a glorifed demo for $40 and both GT5 and GT5P fell short of expectations.  Because of this gen they hurt the brand name of Gran Turismo so this might be a good strategy now but long term success no.  I predict gran turismo's user base to shrink next gen slightly because of this.  Not by a lot but by a mil or 2. So for you to call this a good business plan, I dont see it that way.  You should always plan for now and long term.  Same thing applies to the fable series.  They have hurt it's brand name this gen.