Gran Turismo 5 is the fifth edition in the long running racing game series by Polyphony Digital. The game sports over 1000 vehicles, damage modeling on race cars, a dedicated television channel, lots of races, 16 player online multiplayer, and active weather.
This is great sales, but compared to other GT games it's not very good. The sales are definitely declining if you take a look at the whole series.
I bought it though, and traded it in like a week later. I was getting so pumped about it thanks to SOMEONE on these threads, but that game has way too many faults for me to have kept playing. So boring and inaccessible.
But if 4 million of those were in EU alone... that doesn't mean very good sales in other continents :/
As of the 1.06 update, GT5 has already been improved on enormously. The game will probably pass 10 million in sales by summer, especially if the rumored PS3 price cut at GDC turns out to be true.
4 million in EU still means 2.37 million everywhere else, which is nothing to sneeze at.
" Someone explain to me why Europeans like bad racing games. Edit: I just realized that tone doesn't exactly translate over the internet. I was half-joking. Nobody attack me. :P "
" Someone explain to me why Europeans like bad racing games. Edit: I just realized that tone doesn't exactly translate over the internet. I was half-joking. Nobody attack me. :P "
very nice, i was one of the people that bought the game. i tried playing a little bit of it. i tried doing B-spec but the drivers are stupid in this game. i tell them to pass and they pass but end up slowing down to get passed again.
I like the game, having only played it from version 1.05 onwards, but I still hate the PS3 controller for racing games so I need to get a wheel or a 3rd-party controller that's more comfortable. Not the game's fault though.
" Someone explain to me why Europeans like bad racing games. Edit: I just realized that tone doesn't exactly translate over the internet. I was half-joking. Nobody attack me. :P "
They like pancakes on their dogs:
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That explains everything, "
I love the little guy:
I got impatient with the game after a week or two and abandoned it, for everything it did right there was three things that seemed to annoy me in equal measure. It also quickly turned into a loading simulator, every action had a loading screen behind it. By all accounts it only improves with each week though, this game might be the embodiment of the release now, patch later attitude most developers seem to be taking nowadays.
I guess we just like our racing games, the Colin McRae were virtually unknown outside of Europe until Dirt opened it up to a wider audience. I remember for the longest time there being no reviews for the series on Gamespot way back when.
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