Maybe it's more because i'm not very good at realistic racers. Like i tried the GT6 demo (academy) once and it was just so realistic that it felt that i needed a wheel to even have a chance at doing well in the game. I just crashed so much. But to be honest, there's no point for me when they don't keep my attention for long. I guess i like racing for a little while then want to do something else, which is what i like about GTA. Not a racing game but it's got some good races in it. But yeah, i can see that people like them. Otherwise they wouldn't be made anymore. 

Watched the review for TDU on ign the game looks decent for a game from 2006.  The game sold less then 300K copies and never was available on games on demand I'm sure there where never a ton of people playing it and by the time they shut it down it was probably close to a ghost town.

I didn't realize TDU sold so poorly. According to Wikipedia TDU2 sold about 900k per May 2011. 300% increase is not bad. The multiplayer never really worked for me, too many failed race starts and racers on the open world often simply vanished. I'm still amazed at how burnout paradise got the online multiplayer working so stable and seamless. With NFS Rivals I turned to single player again because host migration kept interrupting the gameplay. New gen, take 2 steps back first...

TDU had plenty to offer in single player though. I liked how it used achievement points as xp required for leveling up. It was actually useful to get achievements.

The follow up game to TDU2, TD: Ferrari Racing Legends sold super poorly and got bad reviews it pretty much killed the franchise.  Despite no longer being online you can still get most of the achievements in TDU 950/1000 I might buy it one day if I can get it for really cheap like around the $5 dollar range.

seams like another undertracked game on VGC, TDU was very popular in 2006 and even before the servers were evenually shut down there were still plenty of people playing it.

this is the kind on antics i used to do on TDU note the H represents hardcore mode which was poorly impemented in TDU2.

Probably is undertracked by a fair amount sequels usually don't sell three times as much as the original game the European numbers are wrong for sure.  I'm pretty sure most people that played it eventually moved on to PGR3, then PGR4 and then Burnout Paradise and then Forza Horizon.

i started with PGR3 then TDU, PGR4, BP, TDU2 and lastly FH, Forza horizon i found to be a dissapointment especially after TDU/TDU2, their maps were huge and you could go where you wanted, Forza horizon had no where near the levels of freedom TDU offered.

oops forgot to add Fuel though although it was a big game it had tons of flaws especially when online, also there were 110 online achievements on TDU, i 1000Ged it back in 2008 and let me tell you it was not easy.

The map should have been bigger but Horizon still has a very good selection of cars for a arcade racer and a very good day and night cycle, plus the online is a lot of fun especially infected and king mode.  It also has a better soundtrack then any of the main Forza games.  Plus I got hooked on the metals which added more replay value to the game for me.

I played Ferrari racing legends and would never have guessed it was from the makers of TDU. I thought it was a sequel to Ferrari Challenge. The historical circuits were a lot of fun to race around, but it kinda lost steam in the modern era, too much repetition of tracks.

The console racing landscape is getting pretty sparse nowadays, annualized NFS + F1 and GT / Forza are left. Hopefully Driveclub can bring some new life into the genre, otherwise The crew in a year. (although the forced multiplayer aspect doesn't sound very appealing)

it's all cause everything has to be uber realistic, arcade racers as much fun as they are are just to shallow these days there is not enough to them to keep people playing, its time to bring back the old arcade racers, the ones that stood out, we really need a new TDU and another much updated burnout paradise only with a map 5 times bigger with at least 16 player online mode (that was the worst problem with BP, only 8 players spread out across the map the online marked man events were pretty much pointless).

what id really love to see is PD releasing a Gran Turismo game like GT3 A-SPEC, no licences and the ability to get straight into races without having to spend hours tweaking and tuning the cars, i guess this is why i find GT3 to be my favorite out of all the GT games, that said even Forza has become a bit of a bore fest, for me the best Forza is Forza 3, lol 3 is a magic number but 7 is supposed to be lucky so maybe PD can salvage GT. (even though ive got GT5 and GT6 their still not as good as GT3 or at least for me in my opinion not as much fun as GT3).