Guys ask yourself can GT6 withstand two more years even with Course Creator and B-Spec.
How many people will play GT6 another two years?
I don't understand the questions.
Why does GT6 have to "withstand" anything? Are you talking about extra sales? Or DLC purchases (which we've seen zero of so far)? What does it matter how many people still play the game long after they purchased it?
It's only in the case of DLC that numbers of players really matters, but DLC surely must not be banked upon for income up-front, rather only added in if it looks like it'll work out at the time. It'd be a recipe for disaster to just rely on it in the planning stages, unless you're going F2P / service-oriented, which must be very difficult for a GT game.
Clearly, DLC in GT6 is not a priority for Sony, because there is none. That implies Sony doesn't need DLC for income (or doesn't think it would be profitable, somehow), which implies Sony doesn't need
existing player numbers to continue to be high for income, either. Maybe it'll carry some marketing weight, who knows.
If DLC were to arrive, then there will probably be a short-term injection of profit, depending on how much it costs to market and distribute and how much they actually shift. So, unless PD / Sony string out the DLC over the next two years, long-term player-count still isn't an issue.
Adding DLC, and a "big update", might entice erstwhile players and new players alike to the game, again, mostly on a short-term basis. The best way to do this, in terms of cost, is to use content and features intended for re-use, perhaps content and features that might get a new lease on life on a new console thanks to increased detail, depth, variety etc...
But the bigger long-term consideration, to my mind, has to be topping up that long tail of new sales. That'll be most effective if there are things in updates that we
didn't expect.
