CONFIRMED: Gran Turismo 6 announced for PS3, releasing Holiday 2013

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AnthonyW86 said:

eFKac said:

AnthonyW86 said:
I can't believe some people seriously thought this was coming to PS4, you could have seen this coming years ago. They alway's launch a second GT game late in the generation. You're nothing going to launch a title this big and expensive on a system with zero install base.

Also supporting you're system longer with quality titles can actually boost sales of the new system, because people will realise that the new system will probably last them just as long.

@bold. Yeah maybe, but there again, the first Xbox was supported for 4 years and then tottaly cut of, and it didn't discourage 75 million people from buying the X360, unfortunately I think customers have very short memory when it comes to these things, the bunch of core gamers may see the benefit of it but I doubt many other will.

As to the first paragraph, well you can't just compare it like that.

First of all Gran Turismo 2 released 4 months before the Japan launch of the PS2 almost a year before NA/EU

Gran Turismo 4 released more than a year and a half before the PS3 launch in any region

Second of all both GT1 and GT3 released earlier in the respective consoles lifecycles then the GT5 did on the PS3 and the second installment brought pretty big changes.

And the last thing. Before the PS3 the only way to include new cars, tracks, options was by releasing a new game. Now we have patches and DLCs that Polyphony was effectively using to introduce new things so GT5 could evolve and get way way better game then it was at launch.

I agree it will differ between people, most people will probably buy a system if something comes along that they really want. Though you can't really afford a system to die out to early causing a system to collect dust long before a new one comes out. I guess bad memories stick longer than good ones, Wii-U pretty much is proof of that.

However Sony probably wanted to release the PS3 before the holiday's in 2005 and even a more definitive launch date in the sprind/summer of 2006 was delayed. GT4's launch date was probably picked with that still in mind. It also makes sense to boost the sales of the old system because that turns a profit for each unit sold, witch is important especially for Sony right now.

I do agree about the fact that adding a few cars these day's doesn't really warrent a new game but who knows what the new engine will bring, maybe this time around most or even all cars will be ''premium'' quality?

I agree with the second paragraph, and definately the revenue from GT6 should be big, and is the only good reason I can see in launching on the PS3, but then again I would argue that it is short-sighted or shows SCE is in really desperate need of money.

As for the third paragraph, if all cars would be premium it would be godlike :D but sadly I'm afraid it may not be the case, but there is hoping that GT6 will be something more than just GT5.5. E3 should tell us more, either way I'm very excited for the game itself, even on the PS3 :D