| Nem said: 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. |
Perhaps online happened. I do recall many people were happy playing GT5 online instead of going over to GT6. There was as much time between GT3 A-spec and GT4 as between GT5 and GT6, both 3 years apart. GT5 however got a lot of support and was a huge game already. Sure GT6 added 200 more premium cars and as many new tracks as in the release version of Forza 5, yet with so much content already and a big active online community in GT5, why upgrade.
As for the more casuals players, releasing GT6 in December after the ps4 release was a bad idea. There wasn't much hype around it, all focus was on ps4. Plus there was confusion whether it would also release on ps4 or not, or whether a ps4 GT version would be coming soon.
Then there's the overall decline in interest in the racing genre. Shooters have taken over, racers simply don't sell very well anymore in general. Even the everlasting NFS series seems to have thrown in the towel.
Snoy's marketing department has a big job ahead of them with GT Sport.
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