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Forums - Gaming - Are racing games now in the same category as Fifa or Madden? Or still central to gaming?

 

Racers...

Still a central gaming genre 23 33.82%
 
Moving on more into the sports genre 17 25.00%
 
Are now niche because of lack of interest. 19 27.94%
 
The splitting into sub ge... 4 5.88%
 
Lets see how GT Sport sells.... 5 7.35%
 
Total:68
pray4mojo on 04 September 2016

I think they're still mainstream in EU but in the US, not so much.



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hershel_layton on 04 September 2016

only racing game I hear about in the US is mario kart.

Back when Wipeout was extremely popular it was also mentioned a lot



 

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Neodegenerate on 04 September 2016

I think they have moved more into the niche/sports gaming section of the world. Not much hype around them these days.



SvennoJ on 04 September 2016

There's pretty much zero interest in racing game on vgc. No attention to Assetto Corsa, hardly any interest in FH3, was there even a thread about F1 2016? And GT Sport gets mostly negative attention.

It seems the racing genre is in the same slump adventure games were/are in. Perhaps as a result of the lack of local split screen with racing less suited to online play. Online there's a whole lot of waiting around for a race that's usually determined in the first corner. Instead of making online play more fun, racing games tend to go towards realism with damage and car upgrades which only increase the gap. Plus the "get a good wheel" attitude developers have nowadays isn't helping either.

Casual side, biggest problem is lack of split screen, needs 4 player local with catch up mode.
Realism side, biggest problem is uninviting to anyone but fanatics.

I'm curious how GT Sport will sell. It seems it's ditching a lot of its casual appeal, but maybe the name is still strong enough to lure people in.



Kagerow on 04 September 2016

One of the reason why I find this genre to be driven into niche is their devotion to realism or inheriting existing and completed game, like Mario Kart.

There has to be more room, right?



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COKTOE on 04 September 2016
hershel_layton said:
only racing game I hear about in the US is mario kart.

Back when Wipeout was extremely popular it was also mentioned a lot

Waitwhat? There have been some pretty decent selling racing games since "wipeout was popular". :) I think the biggest racing games in history were released subsequently. Some other goodies too.



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baloofarsan on 04 September 2016

Here is some depressing news for F-Zero fans:
Redout was released a couple of days ago on Steam.
Great reviews but only a couple of thousands bought it yet.
http://steamspy.com/app/517710
Price: $31.49 
Score rank: 87% Userscore: 93%
Owners: 1,694 ± 1,046 



sethnintendo on 04 September 2016
SvennoJ said:
There's pretty much zero interest in racing game on vgc. No attention to Assetto Corsa, hardly any interest in FH3, was there even a thread about F1 2016? And GT Sport gets mostly negative attention.

There are still some death cries for F-Zero every once in awhile.



LadyJasmine on 04 September 2016

I noticed a lot of guys used to love Gran Trisimo but it was a game you just played casually.



ktay95 on 04 September 2016
SvennoJ said:
There's pretty much zero interest in racing game on vgc. No attention to Assetto Corsa, hardly any interest in FH3, was there even a thread about F1 2016? And GT Sport gets mostly negative attention.

It seems the racing genre is in the same slump adventure games were/are in. Perhaps as a result of the lack of local split screen with racing less suited to online play. Online there's a whole lot of waiting around for a race that's usually determined in the first corner. Instead of making online play more fun, racing games tend to go towards realism with damage and car upgrades which only increase the gap. Plus the "get a good wheel" attitude developers have nowadays isn't helping either.

Casual side, biggest problem is lack of split screen, needs 4 player local with catch up mode.
Realism side, biggest problem is uninviting to anyone but fanatics.

I'm curious how GT Sport will sell. It seems it's ditching a lot of its casual appeal, but maybe the name is still strong enough to lure people in.

Pretty sure a lot of the GT fanboys disappeared in the mass Sony cull. Maybe try VisionEck.