Do you have a source for this? Given it sold over 200,000 copies in Germany alone within it's first month on sale and over 200,000 copies across the UK and Japan in it's first week, I highly doubt that over 5 additional months and hundereds more countries they have yielded less than 600,000 more sales.
I unfortunately don’t, but video game companies do like to brag about their games selling over a million units and so far PD has not, all the data points to the numbers you mentioned, 200k Germany, 190 in Japan, is sketchy in the US because Elden ring beat it out that month but just hearsay at this rate, typically speaking from what I hear a lot of ps5 exclusives are barely selling over a million anyways 🤷
Given there was no song and dance over GT Sport hitting 1 million sales (at least as far as I can remember), I don't think we can rely on that as an indicator for hitting 1 million sales. Sales numbers are incredibly hard to come by these days for a lot of games. Some publishers chuck figures out for some gameswhich you don't always know are accurate, some keep quiet about some games.
Forza Horizon 5 seems to manage...
I don’t think its that big of a deal. Smaller brands can either have no reward (or a small one) with it added later if their roster grows, and bigger brands can just have a larger prize from the getgo that doesn't need to be adjusted.
Ask yourself this question, was the Tomahawk glitch ever patched, or was just it hidden away for four months after it was “patched”? All of a sudden it was discovered last month like it was there in plain sight.
These days Sony very rarely publishes PR for sales numbers. Unless it’s referenced in a broader statement, ie when HZD released on PC.
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PD are a subsidiary of PlayStation Studios. While they’ll have significant creative freedom, the business & marketing angle, will ultimately be decided by Sony.
That's wrong, GT 7 has sold a few million copies already.
Also wrong. Sony stated that the disk drive PS 5 turned profitable on August 2021 (https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ps5-turning-profit-sony/). And the reason they're selling games on PC is not because console gamers are not buying them, it's just because blockbuster games have become more costly to produce as they’ve gotten longer and flashier and because Sony finally realized that PC is not a direct rival of consoles. So, the extra money PC sales generate are very welcome.
Do you really need evidence for that? Is it really not that easy to see? Have you ever questioned how long does it take to grind money for a car in this game? Did you hear what Kaz said about this feature 7 months ago? If a team of developers that is capable of creating such a complex game as GT7 cannot implement a really simple feature such as selling a car for some money then it is impossible that they have created all this franchise in the first place. Especially when this has been a feature on every other installment of the series besides GT Sport. You don't need evidence when you understand that this feature could drop the profits for the shareholders quite notably for some time... Simple business knowledge is the evidence I suppose.
Again, I was talking about the Sony doing the pressuring part. It's far simpler to believe that it's all PDs doing based on what we know about them and their past. There is no evidence Sony are the ones forcing them to hold it back for MTs, or that Sony are the ones who made them implement MTs in the first place. It's all PD as far as I'm concerned until we see evidence to the contrary.
bug fixes tomorrow
"Why is PD adding so many street cars we can't use in Sport Mode? We need more modern GT3 cars like (proceeds to list 25 current GT3 cars). Also another group C? Where is every single hypercar from next year?"
I wouldn't want the M3 or SP3 (I desperately want the 88C-V though) so, as with every update, not everyone will be pleased. I was quite happy with the last update and got shut down, so that shows something.
I think the issue here is the things that us end users see as problems, are not problems to PD.
