LAS VEGAS – When it comes to racing franchises, Sony has gotten a lot of mileage out of Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo games. The driving simulation has sold over 60 million copies worldwide since it launched on the original PlayStation in 1998. The most recent version, Gran Turismo 5, sold over 5.5 million copies globally last year. For the first time ever, Sony is expanding the game through downloadable content. The first DLC pack has already sold over 1 million copies at $9.99 per download.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
I thought this photomode pic of GT5 was real for awhile lol. Makes me want to venture outside of the states. Hope I get a chance to one day.
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Wow, it does lol.
PS3 it only makes professional drivers :)
sold 5.5 million last year that's good numbers was only out for a few weeks last year
over a million downloads of the DLC, impressive
Who said GT had lost its crown to some other game? I don't see any competitors doing ANYTHING like this.
At various points in time, I've had to sell/get rid of/trade my game collection away for various reasons. My GT games have stayed, and always will.