You know what I meant. No matter how successful it's still different to see a GT game promoted with a lot of fictional cars, unrecognisable to casual car fans.
I dunno, that's hard to pinpoint because it's hard to specify and quantify the "casual car fan".
If we remove the "videogame users" subset, I think it would still be safe to say that the remaining "casual car fan" set would be the majority in:
IAA 2015, where Bugatti shown their car, had 931k visitors.
Tokyo Auto Salon 2015 had 300k visitors, LM55 is exposed there this year.
Goodwood's Festival of Speed in 2014, where Aston's DP-100 debuted had ~200k visitors, 2015 had the LM55 in the statue. Wouldn't know the numbers of car magazines and websites and their visitors, or numbers of all manufacturer
followers in Instagram or Facebook, but they seem to have featured most VGTs too.
To contrast,
E3 2015 had 52k visitors.
That's not to say that being exposed to them means they have outstanding memory retention (for their recognition), but that can be said about any car I suppose.
That was a rhetorical question.
Or maybe, just maybe I meant in the forthcoming promotion of the game, whenever that may be. A trailer that already happened isn't soon, is it?
Then it was all rhetorical. Unless those 6 cars are the only new ones, that guarantees others will be revealed
later.
All is good, that's the only reason I'd ever use that image. Well that and I'm a firm believer some food just isn't the bee's knees without salt
It embarrassed me because I didn't bother to read the post I had linked, just saw some random image and didn't associate the two at all. Serves me right.
And yeah, can't have unsalted french fries!
In fact, it's kind of the antithesis of how GT became popular in the first place. By being a game with a large number of "normal", non-supercar vehicles.
I was going to write (in another place some time ago) about how racing games are
lacking common/high sellers (old and current) production cars from various regions because I believe not having cars you own (or could own, or know someone that has owned) contributes to the apparent decline of racing games interest, but even the GT series (from 3 onwards, especially) doesn't escape from that.
But your post made me go look for old GT ads to see how they were marketed and
I found this. Too good.