This statement makes me wonder if you try to deliberately offend or are ignorant of the spirit of GT. Or maybe both.
GT4 for instance has gone to incredible length to familiarise the player not only with the game, but the fundamentals of driving and racing as well. Just taking a brief glimpse of the previews and written instructions - that's incredible....................
There hasn't been a Gran Turismo 5 demo made. Just a time trial, and a prologue. The prologue sold 4.5 million and had people complaining about the physics then. As far as a Franchise making money, its safe to say GT doesn't need to worry. As its sold more than Uncharted2 & Killzone2 combined.Yet, those games were made. KY himself said, his job isn't to sell the game. Its to make it. Lets just save this thread for when GT6 comes out, just as Uncharted 2 has come out, and Heavy Rains etc.
You can't compare a FULL GT4 to GT5p, GTHD, GTConcept, GTTime Trial. We haven't even had our hands on the damage demo, yet everyone seems to want to fall in love with the idea that the time trial is as good as GT5 is going to get? Please. You're playing a TIME TRIAL for a competition. They are expecting people that want to compete to know what a car is I'd imagine. People are being way too condemning of the Time Trial, even though it says "this is a demo of GT5" so does the Tokyo Track version, which no one has touched. Yet this is definitely the best foot PD has to show?
I enjoy the demo. Haven't been able to really concentrating on cracking my time down, but I'm at 1`39 for Tuned and 1`54 iirc for the Stock. Not the fastest person, but I see the mistakes im making, and they aren't due to me spinning out of control and flying into the stands. No, its because Im braking too soon/late. Things like that. At the same time, im seeing the lack of polish that was even in prologue, which clearly leads me to know that this isn't their full GT5, unless GT5 ships without cubemaps reflected in the vehicle for grass/track anymore, as well as shadows cast on the car from chickenwire fences(which is all present in prologue & the tokyo demo footage). Its 200mb, and hardly explores a demonstration of GT5's career mode/online/anything outside of the physics, which PD said it was for in the first place.
People need to wait to see a real demo, or at least the Tokyo demo in their hands before crying about the future of one of the larger Simulation franchises out. When the main people involved, the investors.. don't seem to be too worried. So much that they don't even release news about the game.
If you want to argue sales, Prologue has sold more than Forza3. I mean, GT makes sales. Not liking the physics is one thing, not liking the demo is one thing, But pretending GT isn't going to sell is asinine.
No offense intended to anyone, and happy holidays 4 all!
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SOCOM:
Yea, Socom. Socom is one of sony's best franchises, and Slant 6 ruined it while Zipper developed MAG. You can't really say that 1 socom, out weighs Uncharted1&2, Resistance 1&2, Heavenly Sword, Killzone2, MGS4, Motostorm 1 & 2, Little Big Planet, Gran Turismo, Wipeout-HD, other PSN Games like Flower, and Warhawk. Thats 1 to an entire 2 years worth of second to none quality titles. I think Socom's quality is a valid argument, but there are too many other franchises like MLB that have retained their quality. I bought Socom after the beta, and was devastated to find that the retail game was worse than the beta. The community stuck around though, and the game is at least playable now. But its definitely a blemish on Sony's record.
You're a day premature, or 23hrs to be exact. 
Our New Zealand brethren get to christmas in less than 11hrs as it's already 1PM over there and they are pretty much the closest country to the International Date Line. 
