Gran Turismo 6 sold 5 million and and GT5 sold 12 million!

[DonFerrari]

Mr Puggsly said:

DonFerrari said:

I didn't said Forza sim is annual, what I said is since they have a forza per year (motorsport and horizon alternating) we could put the 300 people on 1 year window or 150 people on 2 year window (unless we hear the team got bigger) so it would have a similar budget to GT 100 team over 3 years (even though GT5 and GT7 will take more than the average 3 years on the series).

So your comparison is comparing GT6 alone against 3 forza to make it more pumped? Ok I guess, but if you want to say 3 games costed the same as one I would have to strongly disagree.

Sony is a lot more open with their studios on this point, very different from MS that want to push Halo, Gears and Forza on schedule no matter what. I would like to see MS allowing ND to drop Uncharted or TLOU, GoW, GT, etc if the team wanted to.

I know what you said, I was just pointing out the Forza sim games could be annual. I was pointing a sim one year and open world the other helps prevent fatigue.

It pointless to discuss staff, we don't know how many people actually work on these games. But I assume more people work on Forza for annual releases.

Its possible multiple Forza games have the same budget as a single GT game. Polyphony spends so much time making a single game that hits $20 after a year. The Forza games can generate more revenue having a new $60 every year with DLC.

At the time of FM 4 or 5 they said they had a 300 people team, while on GT 5 and 6 PD said their team were 100 people, with increased staff on final stages. But considering similar scope they shouldn't have a too different budget.

You may say the game hit 20 after a year, yet GT5 sold likely 8M on first year and GT6 3M. And seeing Forza hype and all in Xbox I'm hardly pressed to believe it have a bigger revenue, much less a bigger profit with the 2 games alternating strategy. But I do agree that is the best they can get.