You could argue that Sony supported the PlayStation 3 too long. Sony Santa Monica and Naughty Dog both released big games for the console during the year of the PlayStation 4's release, and the likes of Gran Turismo 6 deployed after the new-gen device. Unsurprisingly, that decision had a negative impact on the latter's sales, as ongoing litigation between Sony and flooring company VIRAG has revealed that the sixth instalment has sold just 2.37 million copies to date.
While that would be a reasonable number for most other brands, the Gran Turismo series is historically the Japanese giant's best performer – with mainline entries averaging around 10 million sales per instalment. The franchise as a whole has shifted 72.6 million units to date, which should give you a rough idea of its popularity. Of course, time will tell as to whether this is just a blip, or a sign of the series losing its grip. Given the popularity of the PS4 in Europe, we reckon that the inevitable Gran Turismo 7 will be gigantic – assuming that it's good, of course.
[source gtplanet.net]
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Directly a consequence of releasing so late on the PS3. I'm surprised it was not ported to the PS4 considering the games popularity.
Why hasn't it been Remastered thats the question?!
@NEOTDS I assume they want PS4's first taste of Gran Turismo to fully take advantage of the hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if GT7 was announced at Paris Games Week.
Maybe the "poor" sales are also because people weren't waiting for GT6 two years after GT5 which wasn't the great game everyone expected. In GT6 the sound still wasn't fixed (and the sound still isn't finished).
Curious if GT7 would be a succes in sales with AC and pCars also on the PS4. The game must be much better with tons of HD cars instead of all those standard cars from PS2.
If I'm in the mood for driving I'll play Mad Max or Rocket League, tarmac precision doesn't much appeal to me anyway.
@Kohaku I'm going to say GT7 will be absolutely massive right here and now. We can bet some matchsticks if you like?
GT6 came too late in the game IMO. Ps3 was being at the time replaced with ps4 and this meant GT6 was released to a system many were looking to upgrade. Forza 5 was a rush job. But least it gave x1 owners a racing game day 1. With drive club delays and even when released being very broken, GT6 on the ps4 with half its current content and upgraded resolution and improved sound would have I feel sold better ...
But now we await GT7 and now it's got some stiff competition with forza 6, project cars and acr. GT7 is going to have to be a stonker to recover I feel . graphically , content and sounds all need to be higher quality or on par with what's out there currently. No easy feat.
I love the handling and the underlying physics so much in GT6 that it's still my favorite racing game today. Forza 5 hogged the spotlight because it came out on next gen, but GT6 is in many ways the more beautiful and better game. Forza 6 is going to take the lead when it comes out, cause it's a wonderful game, but I reckon GT7 will blow it away if they build on what they've accomplished in GT6 and stop screwing around with the PS2 car models. I do hope that it will come out in early 2016 though, because I don't feel like waiting a year or more.
@Boerewors Sadly, I think we'd know about it already if it was Early 2016. My guess is next Christmas.
Kinda lost interest after the second one, wouldnt say no to 7 if they pull out all the stops, though...
I surprised we havent gotten a gt prologue again for ps4 just to tide us over. Then again i found it to be the height of stupidity that gt released so late on ps3. It takes poly so long to make those games (the good gts at least) that winter of 2017 is the earliest im even dreaming of a gt on ps4. In the meantime, project cars will hold me over quite nicely. If they would just get some more cars and patch in online 24hr lemans support. Thats all i want really, a real time lemans i can challenge my buddy in to see which one of us makes it.
I thought this was a bad call from the beginning. The Last of Us and Beyond: Two Souls were new IPs, so by all means put those on PS3, but I thought to strengthen the PS4 launch lineup, GT 6 should've been a PS4 game. The console sold much better at launch than I expected so I don't know how much GT would've benefited it but the hype of PS4 would've helped GT 6's sales, It also would've give Evolution a little extra time and there would've been less pressure to deliver on DriveClub because PS4 would've already had a great exclusive racer. DC could've been pushed to this year and maybe avoided some of the issues that really hurt Evolution's rep. That's all hindsight though. Hopefully things go better for GT 7.
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I'd love to see it Holiday 2016 but sometime early to mid 2017 seems more likely. If we don't see anything at of before this year's PlayStation Experience I'm going to assume 2016 is out of the question.
Leave my 1998 AUDI S4 alone! Who cares if it's SD, it's the freaking PS2 model. But my point is every car still has unique handling etc which makes the PS2 cars just as viable as any other. Yes I love the pretty interiors, but I usually race 3rd person so that's moot to me. I'm sure 7 will be everything we expect, but 6 is one K.A. game. 2 mil is an injustice.
I'll be honest, I didn't even know GT6 was released until someone at ebgames asked for it when I was there. I've been thinking of getting it, but also expecting they would have made a ps4 version, lime they did with most games released at that time.
I think a lot of people didn't take to well to the microtransactions either, now what's this lawsuit all about?
Gran Turismo 7s competition on the PS4
Driveclub
The Crew
NFS
That's it.
Loved how the game handled. Hated seeing those PS2 ported cars.
I got bored of gt after 4 and 5. There was only so much I could take driving the same cars at the beginning of every series. Dull dull dull. To If gt became more creative like the need for speed series I'm confident it would help spunk up the series
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