Gran Turismo World Series Round 2 Nations Cup Will Broadcast This Weekend

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Mtk
Why isbthere no north American driver there?
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None qualified from the World Series Showdown.
The online “Round 1″ was followed by the live World Series Showdown in Austria in July, and the top 12 drivers from that have qualified for this weekend’s race.
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All cars with race number #102 on the grid.
No race numbers during the race.
JPN flag on V.Gallo's leftside door race number during the podium

it's not much but feels sloppy.
 
Samus
<10k views on a game that sells 10 million +. Got to wonder when they decide these are not worth doing.
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Hopefully soon, I've had to unfollow all of the Gran Turismo social channels because of eSport spam.
 
Auditore
Gt7 sold 10 million copies?
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Probably should have added 'series' for clarity, as in all but one mainline GT game has sold 10+ million. I'm sure GT7 will be no different eventually but not yet, no. So that is the potential overall audience for Gran Turismo, roughly speaking.

Mind you, I'd expect GT7 has sold 3-4 million by now and 10,000 of that is still only around 0.28%. Sure, nobody would expect millions to tune into these eSports events but I think they would probably hope for better than <1% of the playerbase. 10,000 from 10 million potential would be 0.1%.
 
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Continually holding them at the same time Europe is tuning in to F1 races and highlights of F1 races can't help. It's a good job R3 won't be broadcast on the same weekends as the USA and Mexico grands prix (although at least the timezones means both are after the GTWS broadcasts)...


At least the World Final will be after the F1 season has finished.
 
I think the fact the event isn't live plays into it too. And if you know where to look and who to ask you can find out the result in advance anyway, so why watch it "live", or even at all when there's so little at stake.

The in person live events at least have some fanfare about them, and of course watching something as it plays out is generally a better experience.
 
The real live events always held good numbers,especially when there were game content revealed in them, the Lambo VGT went viral when it was revealed back in 2019 if i'm not mistaken.
I don't know how the gran turismo stuff compares to the bifgest esports like League of Legends but as far as sim racing goes it's up there.
I understand why online events were needed and they can be good but i would take in person events like Salzburg any day of the week they're great.
 
Auditore
The real live events always held good numbers,especially when there were game content revealed in them, the Lambo VGT went viral when it was revealed back in 2019 if i'm not mistaken.
I don't know how the gran turismo stuff compares to the bifgest esports like League of Legends but as far as sim racing goes it's up there.
I understand why online events were needed and they can be good but i would take in person events like Salzburg any day of the week they're great.
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The live events need to get far bigger numbers because they cost so much more to put on, shipping players from all over the world and putting them up in luxury hotels, etc. Some of those early events were used to showcase content coming in updates which will have tempted more people to watch, it might just be a coincidence but that stopped pretty soon afterwards when it became apparent that the finalists couldn't be trusted to not leak literally everything.
 
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The live events need to get far bigger numbers because they cost so much more to put on, shipping players from all over the world and putting them up in luxury hotels, etc. Some of those early events were used to showcase content coming in updates which will have tempted more people to watch, it might just be a coincidence but that stopped pretty soon afterwards when it became apparent that the finalists couldn't be trusted to not leak literally everything.
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They've been doing this for a few years i would expect them to know the economics about it. Hard to even speculate if they are bleeding money or not since we have no expert talking about it.
 
Auditore
They've been doing this for a few years i would expect them to know the economics about it. Hard to even speculate if they are bleeding money or not since we have no expert talking about it.
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If you can believe the Jalopnik hit-piece and the line "you guys (eSport players) will get paid when we do." it implies that PD/Sony are making no money from the events and most likely losing from each of them.
 

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