SvennoJ said:
Nem said:
I think GT lost it's audience to Forza. The forza series has regular upgrades and keeps a satisfying level of quality while alternating with the more arcade sub-series. This built the brand, even though i think they overdid it.
But polyphony is the exact opposite. They are histically slow at developing GT entries and that has been diluting the brand. GT6 is an amazing game, but it was too late. GT sport is not the sequal fans want and also got delayed.
Sony built a big brand with GT but it's letting it slip. They have to bet big on it and instead of laying off evolution studios, they should have made them work on an Horizon version of GT rather than calling it driv club and positioning it as a competitor of GT.
Quite honestly, as much as i like Yoshida, he is not doing a very good job in this regard. Sony needs to get serious about GT or they will be wasting alot of potencial revenue. If it isn't too late already. Myriad of poor decisions i must say. |
Forza never grabbed me like Gran Turismo can. GT has a lot more personality with the oddball cars and much greater variety in disciplines and tracks. Much better 'fantasy' tracks too, I never cared for the non real world tracks in Forza. In GT5 you could go rrom cart racing on the Nordschleife to taking a Volkswagen Bus out in the mountains and snow to F1 races in London or Nascar rallying, GT5 simply never got old.
GT6 should have been a cross gen release, stupid stupid move. I guess the architecture of ps3 and ps4 were too different to spend time on that. GT6 was great anyway, many more dynamic time and weather races, great new tracks, although it lost out on endurance races, procedurally generated rally stages and no track editor. GT Sport seems to go further backwards by ditching dynamic time and weather :/
Forza Horizon is a lot of fun, better than Forza imo. I don't want GT to dilute itself to add an open world companion. It doesn't fit GTs style at all. GT is all about shaving of ms on prefectly crafted tracks, not about kudos, manufacturer afinity and other rpg like nonsense.
I'll give GT Sport the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully they've vastly improved the online experience and made a real effort with psvr. It's the only game I want to play online. GT5/GT6 online was tons of fun, much better audience than Forza. Ofcourse it helped a lot to have hosts moderating their lobbies. So much nicer to race with people that slow down to let you pass after they screw up and acidentally hit you.
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I like GT better aswell. But we have to look at the sales numbers and realise that there is obviously a problem that led at a huge sales drop. I don't think just cause the PS4 came out shortly after can be pointed as an issue but the fact that the competition was bringing a next gen entry already.
My theory is that competition+slow development process is diluting the GT brand in the mind of consumers. In the time of GT3... GT was HUGE. IT has fallen quite alot from grace. That is not normal. Something happened.
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