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KingdomHeartsFan on 17 October 2013
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bugrimmar said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:


It's not a mistake. The PS3 has tens of millions of users, and a franchise like Gran Turismo is too big to become a launch title. It'll sell faster than PS4s will move off the shelves. This is the same reason why Rockstar chose to put GTA5 on the current gen. Massive franchises (potential 10 million and above sellers) can't be launch titles.

Well it would not have been a launch game, being on the PS4 it would have taken longer to make and would be coming out next year, which is perfect since Halo 5 is coming out next year and the only franshise that Sony has that can compete with Halo is GT.


Even if it were to come out next year, the install base wouldn't be big enough. You can't compare the existing PS3 users with PS4 users after a year. Only a small percentage would have adopted the new console by then.

Moreover, if Sony delays GT6, it would cost them millions of dollars in additional development costs for a new console, especially since Yamauchi is so obsessed with maximizing his games for the hardware.

A racing game doesn't compete with a shooter. Just because they're both big franchises doesn't mean that they're in competition.

All games compete with each other, if you released 7 games in a week and they were all different genres its ridiculous to say they are not competing with each other.  People only have a limited amount of cash for video games and can't buy everything.  Your thinking about this wrong, I'm not saying releasing GT6 on PS4 would mean they would make more money, GT games are Sony's biggest system sellers and given the choice to put it on a system that's already out and make some cash (which won't even be much if things keep going like this) or putting it on their next gen console and investing in that console that will be around for many more years the answer is obvious.  Actually if things keep going like this and Sony doesn't advertise the game I think it would sell more on PS4 than on PS3, if it was on PS4 you can bet Sony would be advertising the crap out of it, but since its on PS3 I'm guessing Sony is focusing all their advertising resources to the PS4 this holiday and not gonna bother with the PS3.