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GT Sport now has 8.2 million users
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Microsoft announced 6m users for KI in 2016 after the PC port had released. KI is f2p anyway so why are you even bringing it up here? If you don't have a source for what you're claiming (that MS counts demo users in full game users) then not responding at all would be better than this sort of irrelevant deflection.
Sell-through on older catalog titles would be close to sell-in anyway. It's really just GT Sport that would've had any notable inventory in channel at that point and unless you think it had around 700k sitting on shelves then no it wouldn't have been close to 4m.
I see a lot of text but no source. Sounds like tall tales, frankly.
How long has it been since you last played it?
The single player stuff right now is great in the game, imo.
Drivatars get created whether you play the demo or buy the game, you are incorporated into the user base/player numbers. They have never said this in an explicit statement, but they were never claiming sales to begin with. Its the same thing with a F2P game or beta test, they are looking for user engagement to use in PR pieces.
There would be no other way for FH3 to reach 9 million so fast like that especially when Game Pass was still barely taking off.
Its an inaccurate conversion either way because the standard was changed and they are dealing with a ballpark amount. If they had the numbers and just had to subtract and what was left was the number, I'd understand. But the estimate could have easily been 700k off when it was trying to weigh it across the franchise history of 80.5 million. Even they said they guessstimate a "(very rough) 3.3 million".
There is a ton of SP content. There's arguably almost too much in its latest incarnation. I've played online for only a few hours when the game launched, with the majority of the other hours being with the SP content, VR, and taking pictures. I find it to be a really relaxing and high-quality game that is easy to come back to.
Yeah no.
Maybe for the Sport mode, but definitely not the definitive racing game this gen when Forza Horizon 3 and 4 exist. Especially when you still need to get online.
Not really comparable don't you think?
Edit: Nevermind, read it wrong.
Forza Horizon 3/4 are primarily enjoyed for being good driving games, not good racing games. To the extent they feature racing they do a poor job.
How is it compared to per say Driveclub? (I am playing that right now and never played a GT game before lol)
They're two very different games. I think of Driveclub as an arcade-style racing game dressed up in realistic graphics. Forza Motorsport is kind of in-between Driveclub and GT for me. It's more sim-like in structure/presentation, but still feels arcadey.
I like the goals you are encouraged to hit in each race in DC though, and I had fun with it for a little while. GT is more about the sportsmanship of racing and the appreciation of car history and culture. I think it looks pretty phenomenal on PS4 Pro and gameplay runs at 60fps.
My personal bias is that I have been into Japanese car culture since the 80s/90s, so GT's importance to me (especially the first game) can't be understated. It peaked as a series for me with GT3 and GT4, but the commitment to craftsmanship and detail in GTS takes me back to those days in a lot of ways. There's still a sterility that the series adopted in the PS3 era that GTS can't shake, but that's a personal preference thing. Lots of folks like how classy and pristine it is, but I want some of that grassroots dirtiness and hobbyist/enthusiast feel that made the culture accessible and welcoming to struggling teens like me in the first place.
That's probably way more gibberish than you wanted, but I have feelings about this series. LOL
GT Sports mentions 10.1 "total profiles" (includes beta players), based on the extraction from gran-turismo.com, which is close to my estimate.
They are also not sure how this discrepancy can be explained.
First mainline GT I haven't bought. Good to hear it's being supported and has got a ton of content compared to release. My best friend used to play on Xbox, switched to PS4 this gen and bought this a couple of months ago. He went ahead and bought the wheel already, he's loving it lol
Really hope GT7 when released has a very extensive and hopefully inventive/unique single player campaign.
Really hope GT7 when released has a very extensive and hopefully inventive/unique single player campaign.
So no source then, only PR conspiracy theories. I should've figured.
It doesn't matter that methods changed because sold is going to be essentially the same as shipped on legacy titles. Only GTS would see any meaningful change between sell-in and sell-through in 2018+ and so it's pretty easy to estimate it's sales by subtracting shipments on those legacy games. If anything doing this is more likely to inflate GTS sales slightly too.
And yes the 3.3m is a ballpark estimate but it's the best number we've got. Theratio there between sold through and 5.5m players seems reasonable too, far more reasonable than saying GTS has sold close to 10m based of 8.2m users now.
My favorite Gran Turismo. It's been 2 weeks since I played it, but I fired it up this week to do some Sports mode races, and it still is an absolute treat.
Incredible just how easy it is to jump into evenly matched clean races. Everyone and their mother will copy this format (which is based on iRacing, I know).
Incredible just how easy it is to jump into evenly matched clean races. Everyone and their mother will copy this format (which is based on iRacing, I know).
It's way better than any mainline forza game and it's neck and neck with forza horizon.
you seem to be Pretending that it's doing worst than it is. Why is that?
You have that backwards, I just don't believe sales are magically higher than users somehow.
No you are pretending that sales couldn't be higher than the 3.3 million or even the 5 million you quoted but there are way more users than that now I know it's not a 1:1 translation but saying there is 8 million users could definitely mean that 6-7 million sales are possible.
Wouldn't a better metric for service games be MAUs? It doesn't say much of anything to just total up everyone who has ever created an account.
Disappointing that the initial poor marketing and FUD around the game damaged the sales of this GT.
It's the best racing game this gen by far, it deserved better.
It's the best racing game this gen by far, it deserved better.
Wrong. Go back and reread the conversation.
6-7m sales is exactly what I was saying was likely based on 8.2m users, lol
I gave you a valid and factual explanation, but you seem incapable of accepting anything, AT ALL, I tell you lol.
Nope its not, you are assuming that the numbers are the same when the conversion literally changed all the totals. Actual sales recognized on shipped units is never as high as the actual shipments, and given its across the series it can easily add about a million sales when the amount of players is more than 2.3 million higher than the estimated units sold.
And we may not know the numbers but even if its 7 million copies sold out of 8.2 million users, its on its way to 10 million sold. We can at least end this pointless exchange on that note
The PS3 was hard to develop for, but there were 2 GT games released... both selling alot of copies.
PS4 is WAAAY more easier to develop for... but they only released one game? (I know its a different approach for the series)
Is this what they are going to do for PS5? Release one game? Are they making that much money from Online?
PS4 is WAAAY more easier to develop for... but they only released one game? (I know its a different approach for the series)
Is this what they are going to do for PS5? Release one game? Are they making that much money from Online?
I love how every time a GT game releases (since GT4), it launches with numbers that gets people worked up and concerned. But then a few years go by and it manages to just leg its way to a solid sell through. Gran Turismo has all been a game with incredible long term sell legs.
Nah it doesn't imply a huge difference. The game hasn't been given away on Plus or Now. By four years in it will likely be on par with other historical GT games or at least GT2.
Most people don't realize that those old GT games took years to get to 10M. GT3 had a good 5 years on the market and was bundled heavily too.
GT:S was also on pretty much firesale pricing a few scant months after release. Bomba style pricing inLate November which resulted in megaton sales. I dont think it ever went back to full price but that's partially why it never got a real boost from the marketing side of playstation. Previous GT games would have lasted full price for at least one full holiday season. Sport never even had that chance.
Game of the generation. And best console racer by far ! Been playing since release and with the way they supported the game with free dlc is just amazing!
I play it daily and love it !
I play it daily and love it !
It was the holidays. Even Call of Duty dropped in price. It went back up and didn't get an official price drop till October 2018.
If you buy the recent Playstation Hits release you should get almost everything on one disc, so it's a great time to get this.
It is very difficult for GT to be added to the Plus or Now line-up due its licensing agreements with licensors.
I dunno, feels like you're just making the claim without any evidence. Killer Instinct never had a demo, you know it's incorrect to even attempt to frame it that way, it's a F2P game with a variety of convenient purchasing options.
Here in the US, it was barely marketed because the market for the genre shrunk so much. It wasn't going to get Uncharted 4 or Horizon: Zero Dawn traction so the efforts to push it were light at best. The probably thought brand recognition would be enough, but it had very little content when it actually launched. Not many people could justify buying it at full price like with SFV, but games like that grow over time so entry price doesn't affect it nearly as much.
And GT Sport was an experiment and Sony pretty much treated it as one till it because they now have many series that have grown bigger than GT. I believe the next GT is going to be much more traditional and Sony seeing how strong the series still is will make it give it a proper backing.
Sorry it is a demo in my mind since you don't keep the characters and they rotate to try. And I know this is just a forum where people can't help but be have as such saying "Give me sauces, support specific evidence that I know MS would never disclose!" but nothing I have said was contradictory from what MS actually does.
Player numbers have always been big numbers to tout that can easily be amassed, and something where a F2P download of KI is another player and the FH3 demo on Xbox and Windows created a Drivatar and could be counted as a player are perfect to get those mult-million player engagement PR pieces. Yet evidence is needed for things that are self-evident, apparently.
I really wanna play this for the VR, but I absolutely can't do sim games. Cool to see it doing so well though- I remember early reception being kinda meh.
I suspected forgetting something like beta users, thanks for the reminder !
It's the most user friendly sim racer. Plenty of hand holding if you so desire.