I Believe DriveClub Will Outsell Forza 5. And You?

[Chris Hu]

Scoobes said:

Azzanation said:

AEGRO said:

Do you think that Poliphony Digital is being subsidized by Sony? Or do they profit enough by releasing a GT every 4 or 5 years? 

You tell me how Poliphony make there income? There next game better break record books, no company wants to wait years to sell underwhelming numbers. If you research on how companies fall or are sold off in the gaming industry, its normaly becasue they take took long to make a game and on release thoise games never live up to sales expectations. Rare under Nintendo is a good example.

It's pretty easy to figure out:

GT4 to GT5 Prologue: 2004 > 2007 = 3 years

GT5 Prologue to GT5: 2007 > 2010 = 3 years

GT5 to GT6: 2010 > 2013 = 3 years

GT6 to GT7 (scheduled): 2013 > 2016 = 3 years

+ paid for DLC

A money making product every 3 years is pretty normal for a game studio. Considering each game sells around 10 million with even the Prologue selling around 6 million, that's plenty of income right there.

Now if we look at costs, Polyphony Digital has 110 employees which is actually pretty normal for a game studio. For comparison sake, Turn 10 who release a Forza game every year have around three times the number of employees.

Wrong Turn 10 doesn't release a game every year Forza Horizon is made by Playground Games.