Should GT6 include cockpit view when 95% of players don't use it?

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Youngun
Aint this a GRID poll not GT, if they did a GT poll, got to be higher than 5%. Grid was harder to drive in cockpit but GT isn't.
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Correct. If this was a GT5 survey, it would be around 20% or higher.
Which is about 1.1 million players.
 
When you think of it, allot of resources go into cockpit view but as the OP says not many use it. I think the option is nice to have but I do not use it when I race seriously but do sometimes when messing around. It is a good question. Having a Cockpit for the sake of it or because competitors have it is daft and a waste of good time and effort which could be better spent on something else.

Its good but shouold not be high on the list of priorities imo.
 
PAPPACLART
When you think of it, allot of resources go into cockpit view but as the OP says not many use it. I think the option is nice to have but I do not use it when I race seriously but do sometimes when messing around. It is a good question. Having a Cockpit for the sake of it or because competitors have it is daft and a waste of good time and effort which could be better spent on something else.

Its good but shouold not be high on the list of priorities imo.
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The OP says not many GRID players use it, which has nothing to do with GT.
 
i would use it more if it was higher up, coz i knew the japanese are short folk, but i didnt know they are THAT short lol
 
Where did you get that only 5% of GT5 Players used cockpit view?

Codemasters acquired their data from monitoring it's online servers for players using the cockpit view.

If PD were to do that, I'm sure that they'd end up with a different number than 5%. It would be more or less, but not exactly 5%

Also, people moaned so much about the lack of "cockpit view in standards" that they added it, despite it looking like some static pieces of tape stuck to my TV.

That shows that there's likely more than 5% using cockpit view.

@OP Please be accurate before assuming such a fact based off of something only vaguely related.:grumpy:
 
For me. I always go cockpit view when im doing trackdays online which is 90% of the time. I turn of hud and lap to have a more realistic feel. Many others must of done this before aswell.

GT6 should have cockpit view.
 
HOODFIELD
I already linked the GT Planet poll. ;)

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7459312#post7459312

It's more like 50-50.
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You're mistaking 'GTPlanet users' with 'GT5 users'. The majority of (casual) GT5 players is not on this site. I wouldn't be surprised if figures for GT5 are quite similar to GRIDs.

That said: I don't want it taken out. You can't justify rendering the serial numbers on headlights if you don't put in a cockpit view (a real one, not the blacked out standard one).
 
NLxAROSA
You're mistaking 'GTPlanet users' with 'GT5 users'. The majority of (casual) GT5 players is not on this site. I wouldn't be surprised if figures for GT5 are quite similar to GRIDs.

That said: I don't want it taken out. You can't justify rendering the serial numbers on headlights if you don't put in a cockpit view (a real one, not the blacked out standard one).
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I understand your point, but that is the best sample we have. Plus the post I was responding too was suggesting the Grid figures were take from a 240 person sample (which I already know is wrong) but making my point none the less. PD has been know to change things based on this board so don't underestimate GT Planet.
 
PAPPACLART
When you think of it, allot of resources go into cockpit view but as the OP says not many use it. I think the option is nice to have but I do not use it when I race seriously but do sometimes when messing around. It is a good question. Having a Cockpit for the sake of it or because competitors have it is daft and a waste of good time and effort which could be better spent on something else.

Its good but shouold not be high on the list of priorities imo.
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A lot of resources go into modelling exteriors too, and how many people use chase cam? If we disregard things like Photo-Mode and customization and assume for now most people use bumpercam, why waste time modelling cars at all when a simple photo of the real car in the garage screen would do and they only have to spend time dialing in the specs for the cars physics?

Cockpit view for me is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, additions to the GT-series since GT4, it completely changed the whole gameplay experience for me.
I only switch to other views when for example racing closed Standard cars casually as I can't stand the black cut out solution, or for example recently in GT-Academy I switched to bumpercam to extract the last hundreds of seconds and purely focussed on that purpose alone.
Other than that, I use cockpit view, also in online races as the enjoyment it provides me outweighs the potential loss of a few seconds (if it's that at all most times).

Before I joined this forum I assumed almost everyone would automatically love and use it instantly like I did, how wrong I turned out to be...
Different strokes and all, or old habits dying hard perhaps, but it's a given now and shouldn't just remain a high priority but part of the standard procedure.
Not saying it's perfect though, there should be an option to position the camera in the driver seat of each individual car given that they modelled the entire interior anyway.
 
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Yes, they should keep it! this will totally destroy the meaning of a simulator game.

Cockpit view ftw 👍
 
What Jamie661 said. A driving simulator without cockpit view is like playing a 3rd person shooter and not being able to look down your sniper scope. GT6, in my opinion at least, needs cockpit view.
 
mjm23race
Why is this thread 8 pages long when there has been no mention of removing cockpits?
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Because racecar.

Seriously, though. This thread is six pages long because many GTplanet users enjoy utilizing cockpit view(myself included). Some are also offended simply because the title is misleading and based on information of a different game, entirely.

EDIT:Gamerdog6482, that's exactly what I meant.
 
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USARMYCOMBATVET
Because racecar.

Seriously, though. This thread is six pages long because many GTplanet users enjoy utilizing cockpit view(myself included). Some are also offended simply because the title is misleading and based on information of a different game, entirely.
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It's not just the title is misleading, it's that the title and OP state that something is a fact when it is not true.
 
EliteDreamer
Except that he had a source...
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The title says "Should GT6 95% of players don't use it."
This will obviously be taken as meaning that 95% of GT players use a view other than cockpit, but that is not true, and the source he has only mentions GRID.
 
What you just said has nothing to do with the statement you made. "OP state that something is a fact when it is not true." He has a source proving otherwise. He did not say anything about it being relevant to GT6. Only a question wondering: "If it appears that way for this game, could it be that way for the other?" However, the OP is a little hard to decipher.
 
Regardless of semantics, assumptions or research, taking away cockpit view is a bad thing. It's a step back whatever way you look at it. It's a sliding scale, because next thing, they're taking out manual transmissions, because '90% of players uses auto'.

Note: I don't even use cockpit view.

EliteDreamer
Only a question wondering: "If it appears that way for this game, could it be that way for the other?"
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The thing is, on this website you are surrounded by GT enthusiasts (okay, GT crazy people :D), which are not representative for the GT playing community as a whole, because the casual players outnumber the enthusiasts by huge quantities. So even if 100% of players here would use cockpit view, that's still only 10% or so of total players (maybe a bit more or less, but you get the idea).

I suspect the 90-95% is about right. Casual players use the chase cam, the really fast guys use bumper cam (because it is faster), and that leaves the hardcode enthusiasts that love the immersion of the cockpit view. And that's definitely a small percentage of total players.
 
If PD wants to have the best racing game in the world, they have to put the interiors in the new cars and all the gt5 standard cars because black interiors isn't the solution because forza have almost 700 cars with cockpit view so they have to put it. And i thought in adquire grid 2 but without interiors is not a game for me, even juiced 2 has interiors and driver:san francisco so codemasters wake up
 
Nomadpt1
If PD wants to have the best racing game in the world, they have to put the interiors in the new cars and all the gt5 standard cars because black interiors isn't the solution because forza have almost 700 cars with cockpit view so they have to put it. And i thought in adquire grid 2 but without interiors is not a game for me, even juiced 2 has interiors and driver:san francisco so codemasters wake up
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grid1 was awesome no matter physics or content. So ahead of its time.
 
Yes and we need options to enforce the view, to use a virtual mirror and turn off the cockpit mirrors!
 

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