Many of the high profile big budget attention grabbing games go for cinematic experiences with actors and plot stuff. When that's added to a racer it's often boring padding that distracts from the core racing gameplay.

I remember some awful racer on the 360 where your were bored out of mind ploughing though lengthy openings with tons of crappy dialogue and a stupid amount of time spent walking around on foot; the whole time just wishing you could get into a car and start the bloody game. I actually don't know if the racing side was any good because I didn't play much. Too much padding.

Also games tend to opt for rpg esk elements with elaborate upgrading mechanics. That's not in it self bad, it just seems to be everywhere and it's not needed everywhere. It means every single racer involves going though the same old menus with buying cars and tweaking stuff rather than just getting into the car and learning to drive fast.

I don't think Mario Kart would be as popular with that kind of padding between courses.

True. Though some of that came from it supposedlhy being the GT and Forza killer. And it's already a year ago.
DriveClub still gets some chatter because of VR, very little though.

Then again Fifa and Madden get no attention, so not in the same category yet!

Once racing games got rid of local co-op my interest died. I just want an arcade couch co-op racing game like Burnout used to provide.

I don't consider FPS as central or essential to a gaming library. In the last 2 generations (7th and 8th) I've never paid money for a FPS. I received one as a gift and got Bioshock infinite because it was free on PSN+.

OT. I have also never seen racing games as essential to one's library, even though I have enjoyed a few over the years. My last non-kart racing game was on PS2, Burnout Paradise.

GT 6 sold extremely well for a racer that was barely marketed and came out after the current gen systems. Sure if it was a launch title was well.....it would have been a 10 million seller. PS is huge in Europe still, and I'm sure it'll sell really well. The bulk of Forza sales are in Europe....problem is Most the Xbox Ones are in the US...where racing isn't as big

I used to make a point to get at least one racing game per console, for the visuals and to scratch that "gotta go fast" itch. But then racers in general got too simmy for my taste after 5th gen, so that ended. (Actually, sports in general got too simmy for my taste after 4th gen.)

I love my racers still. I love forza Motorsport, gran turismo, burnout, Mario kart, need for speed and more. Just got forza 6 two weeks ago with my x1S and love it!

I like racing games such as Forza, GT, Mario Kart and I know lots of my friends that do also but that's only a small portion of gamers.

When was this? No aggro.

Wow, thanks for this didn't know about this game. Looks fantastic I'll definitely look at picking it up sometime!