Inquirer.net writes:
"LOS ANGELES--America's love for Japanese sportscars is getting a boost from video games that allow driver-players to "virtually" experience new models before they get behind the actual wheel. No fewer than three "supercars" this week made their North American debut at a car show in Los Angeles that opened to the public Friday after two days of media-only access."
In the article Tim Colbeck, vice president of sales for Subaru of America, says: "The video game phenomenon, with Gran Turismo, I think drew a lot of demand".
Further down in the article Janis Little, director of product and brand communications for Mitsubishi Motors North America, says: "So those people who played videogames, and of course the ones who were aware of Gran Turismo, helped to build the base for Evolution. They became acquainted with us in video games and so Mitsubishi has enjoyed a nice relationship with the people of Gran Turismo"
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
My hate for every other car (especially American) boosts my love for Japanese cars. Toyota ftw!!
I am a Subaru guy. I drive an STi.
I only wish that they would but the "lower end" WRX in to the GT series.
I enjoy the fact that before I owned the STi, I could at least get a sense of driving it.... virturally at least :).
You don't see this kind of news about racing games other then GT, which is a proof of how close GT to reality.
Meh, I'm a muscle car/truck fan. When I play racing games, those are the cars I pick. So this article really doesn't apply to me.
For anyone who doesn't know, Subaru got its start in America from Gran Turismo 1. This news is mOLD.