Why does Polyphony have trouble licensing cars?

[paskowitz]

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Sounds logical to me. My complaint is with Lambo and Porsche not really PD. They are doing to best they can with what they got.

 

[Lucas]

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Well said!

About the games selling consoles part... It is true indeed. I used to play GT2 three years ago. As soon as I watched GT4 in YouTube, I was like "Oh, damn, I've got to get this 🤬 game!". Every day I dreamt of driving the cars on it. I swear. But not dreaming per se, but rather daily dreaming. Dreaming of drifting, and such. Once I got the game, everything was paradise. I still enjoy it plenty. I admit that the only reason I bought a PS2 was to play the god damn game. If I had the money, I would certainly buy a PS3 just to play GT5. Worst thing that may happen is, once they launch GT5, they will launch GT6 in a PS4 I also had the bad luck to enter to GT4 once GT5 was already announced, and GT5: Prologue was out. So, everyone was with GT5 more than GT4. Luckily, there are still members on these boards that can only play GT4 👍

 

[M5_dude]

The 9-3 Viggen was in Midtown Madness 3 and I think both Forza and Forza 2 (Forza 2 for sure), while Per Eklund's 9-3 Pikes Peak racer has been in a few rally games, and the 96 was in the PC game Rally Trophy. In short, Saab isn't exactly the stingiest carmarker out there when it comes to game licensing, IMO.

We also has a 9-3 rally car in DiRT I believe...but rare they are indeed in most games. I would love to see a 9-3 Aero convertible in GT5 but like what everyone else has been saying I'll take what they give us. My only question is will they really give us anything?

 

[QSpec]

I don't understand. Why would a car company NOT want to be on GT?

 

[Forgetful]

I don't understand. Why would a car company NOT want to be on GT?

There are many reasons, though the first is most likely.

PD won't pay as much as other devs have in the past.

They're under contract with another dev, for the rights to recreate their cars in a Video Game.\

The Manufacturer doens't want their cars up against the world (someone else said 'Losing to 1000HP Skylines')

They don't want their cars subjected to 'simulation' crash physics, that might warp public perception of the crashworthiness of the real car.

 

[RedBaron]

This is somethingly stupid minded, their cars compete daily in tough conditions of real world and that's OK, so what is the point not to let them do the same in the game?

 

[paskowitz]

I do not get it either. But I think Porsche/Lambo is worried that people would take a game like GT seriously and that it would influence what car they buy. Which is so stupid because in order to buy a 911 GT2 or a Gallardo you are almost obliged to go for a test drive. Not to mention GT is a VIDEO GAME not life 2.0. If you have enough money to buy one of these cars, then why on earth would you let a video game influence your decision. All the video game should do is alert you to the existence of the car. So again I do not get it.

Actually it is most likely contracts with other game companies and just greed in general.

 

[SUPER NUMBBER]

"Oh, wow...my Subaru STi crashed and fell to pieces in GT5; I'm not buying one in real life now!"

 

[FoolKiller]

"Oh, wow...my Subaru STi crashed and fell to pieces in GT5; I'm not buying one in real life now!"

Yep, and they waste millions of dollars a year doing marketing and advertising to make their cars look good, and Subaru, Mitsubishi, and Nissan saw silly things like demand for their cars after GT, so this kind of thought process will obvioulsy never happen.

The simple fact that marketing and image are the driving force in selling a lot of stuff means that many car manufacturers are seriously afraid that this thought process will happen.

 

[jgillis]

If i worked for PD, I would do what their doing now. GT1 through 3 were huge successes in terms of man hours spent vs sales. GT4 sold less with substantially more time invested. So they add Ferrari. This in it's self will give GT5 a boost in sales. Arguably the biggest manufacture in terms of popularity is Porsche. So if I were PD I would purposely hold off on licencing Porsche until GT needed a boost in sales.

PD never add gimmicky aspects to GT, this limits them on expanding the franchise. Most of the things we want them to expand upon or add are directly limited by processing power. Licencing new cars is a way to expand the franchise without having to wait for more processing power. It is beneficial for them to stagger licencing the few popular manufactures left.

They should licence Lamborghini before Porsche. and wait for GT7 or GT8 to licence Porsche. They just acquired Ferrari, no need for Porsche so soon.

 

[911~Lad]

I think that because Porsche and Ferrari are so big on sports cars, they are rivals, so they might refuse to have their cars in the same game. (Mainly because they are paranoid their cars will be worse than Porsche's and vice versa.)