I'm a old user here and everythime somebody says in a racing game thread that the genre is dying... that the FPS genre is dominating and nobody care more about racing games.

That always makes me think a lot.

First because there are a lot of racing games being released every year... same or more than the PS2 era... so how can we say the genre was dying?

And now? After the crazy GT5 numbers every company wants to have a racing game for the next generation.

• Gran Turismo 6 (PS3) - Polyphony Digital, Holiday 2013
• Forza Motorsport 5 (Xbone) - Turn 10, Holiday 2013
• Drive Club (PS4) - Evolution, Holiday 2013
• Project Cars (PS3/PS4/360/Xbone/Wii U/PC) - Slightly Mad Studios, Q1 2014
• Next Need for Speed (?) - Criterion Games, TBA
• The Crew (?) - Ubisoft, TBA
• Next Grid (?) - Codemasters, TBA
• F1 2013 (PS3/360/Wii U/PC) - Codemasters, 2013
• Next Project Gotham Racing (Xbone) - Bizarre Creations, TBA
• Gran Turismo 7 (PS4) - Polyphony Digital, TBA
• New Mario Kart (Wii U) - Nintendo, TBA

So how can anybody say "the racing genre is dying"? Seems like the next-generation will be even better for us racing gamers.

Mario Kart?

Or do you not consider that a "racer"

Errmm...Racing games died years ago with Daytona Usa from sega being some sort of racing game zombie....Sorry bro....

lol... I forgot because I didn't saw any new about the Wii U version... added.

I think you forgot the 26 PC racing games or do they not count?

Compared to what it used to be, it died years ago. In the PSone days after the success of GT and GT2 there were a crazy amount of racing "sims". On PS2 there were tons of every type. Nowadays not so much and almost all the ones we get are generic and assy imho.

It died to me with the cancellation of Blur 2 and Split/Second 2 -_-

Just kidding, but it's a shame they were cancelled. I lately played Split/Second at a LAN party with my friends. We originally intended to play some Left4Dead down the road...nope. Split/Second for about 15 hours straight :D

It is just the yearly iterations that don't inspire same kind of buzz. I've never been more indifferent to a new Need for Speed being announced as i was with this next gen one. Looking forward to Mario Kart U the most.

It's not dead or dying, it's just not 'dominating' like it used to anymore.

If a game is great in all the areas of importance it will sell. It does not matter the genre.