WRC Licence Changing Hands

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Just seen over on Gameswire that Black Bean, the people who brought us Superstars V8 has secured the licence for the WRC.

Now I know the above is not entirely GT5 related but with the licence changing hands mid-development of GT5 yet WRC still remaining within the game does add one question for me at least.

Does this give us hope of having Formula 1 in the game aswell?
 
Good news!!!!!!!! Great to see that a videogame company it's going to make a rally game with the WRC licence. I'm a little afraid about how WRC will be in GT5, so that are good news if in GT5's WRC aspect it's not how expected. But I'm so optimist with PD work. I expect to have real point to point WRC stages.
 
Would it possible that GT5 and Black Bean WRC game both have WRC license? They didn't say their license are exclusive to them.
 
I was gonna make a topic about licenses earlier. GT5 have licensed the cars,but not the tracks AFAIK..Meaning you will be driving WRC cars on tracks like Tahiti maze and so on but you wont be completing any actual rally stages. I think the same is going to be true of Nascar, It will not have the whole championship in the game, just a small championship of daytona,indianapolis,daytona,indionapolis,daytona.........
 
Siufu
Would it possible that GT5 and Black Bean WRC game both have WRC license? They didn't say their license are exclusive to them.
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Exactley, there's no reason two or more comapnies can't both have a license to represent the same product. It just means that none of the companies in question can have an exclusive license.

If every license was exclusive we'd never see the same cars, tracks, brands etc in more than one game at a time.
 
Scoop2004
I was gonna make a topic about licenses earlier. GT5 have licensed the cars,but not the tracks AFAIK..Meaning you will be driving WRC cars on tracks like Tahiti maze and so on but you wont be completing any actual rally stages. I think the same is going to be true of Nascar, It will not have the whole championship in the game, just a small championship of daytona,indianapolis,daytona,indionapolis,daytona.........
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Actually they have licensed the SERIES... which includes cars tracks championship etc.
 
SUPER NUMBBER
Maybe PD is doing the same thing EA is doing and handing out sub-licenses?
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I don't get what you mean by this.

Just because one company has an exclusive liscense doesn't mean others won't have the cars.

For example, EA and NFS have the exclusive Porsche license but T10 had the license for the cars before EA.

So, FM3 has Porsche even though they no longer have the license.

Chances are that this other developer now has teh WRC license but since PD already have the WRC cars in the game they can use them.
 
Honestly, if GT5 just has a full grid of cars per relevant championship event I'd be happy. The licences are nice but not deal breakers for me.

For example F1 in GT5: 5 cars from 2007 season, 4 from 2006, 3 from 2005 and 2 from 2000, 2 from 1994.💡 16 car F1 grid across the years in a fantasy kind of way, like GT has always been. And no real hassle getting the licence for those individual cars. I'd still be over the moon. :)

Hearing of licenced NASCAR or WRC didn't do much for me...
 
Car companies rarely do exclusive licences anymore (the last instance I can even think of is that CLK-GTR mess of 10 years ago). The Porsche license wasn't exclusive to EA in the first place anyways.
 
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No Turn 10 didn't get the license before EA got the exclusive license. EA has held an exclusive license for Porsche since Need For Speed: Porsche Unleased, way back. This is confirmed by Porsche. The only reason Porsche appears in other games from time to time is eaither a: illegally in which case Porsche follow up with legal proceedings or b: the company negotiates a sub-lciense from EA.

Toronado
Car companies rarely do exclusive licences anymore (the last instance I can even think of is that CLK-GTR mess of 10 years ago). The Porsche license wasn't exclusive to EA in the first place anyways.
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Yes it was, it is, and it has been since Porsche Unleashed ;).
 
Dave A
Exactley, there's no reason two or more comapnies can't both have a license to represent the same product. It just means that none of the companies in question can have an exclusive license.

If every license was exclusive we'd never see the same cars, tracks, brands etc in more than one game at a time.
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Aye, though you will find parts of the IP will be exclusive, rather than the whole license itself.

We know that any F1 cars on GT5 will have to be pre-2008, as Codies have the exclusive F1 license for the Official 09 cars.
 
it's good that another team will made a specific wrc game.. i truly believe that PD will waste its wrc licence.. for what we have seen, we have cars from season 2008 and fictional rally like tuscany. (The problem is that superstar v8 sucks and has ps2 graphic.. i hope they improve their skills in making games before releasing wrc 2010 that looks like crap)
 
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Well, they also made World Superbike 09, which looks good. V8 Superstars was a budget title, iirc.
 
Because it's EA who are handing out sub-licenses to other companies. Presumably for a fee ofcourse. Why no agreement can be made between EA and PD I don't know, it could be finacial or it could be EA flexing thier corporate muscles which if rumours are to be believed is something they have been doing with Sony for a while.

Put simply, back when Porsche gave EA the exclusive license EA landed on a right cushy little number and as things stand EA hold all the cards, not even Porsche can force them sub-license to another company even if they want to and accoring to a Porsche rep, they want to be in GT.
 
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The hand on the cards is a weak(er) one. They cut over 1,000 jobs at the beginning of the year and have shut some, or will be, of their facilities. They've made some chunky loses too lately.
 
Well you arn't in business, it's where the demand is that drives the market. THere are companies that let PD use thier cars for free, like TVR and I know there are companies that have approached PD (and other games companies) and said they'd be interested to be part of the game. But when it comes to a brand that doesn't have to do anythgin to be awnted, like Ferrari or Porsche, they can ask for what they want. PD want them in because the fans want them in, PD know that having Ferrari in GT will create hype and sell more copies of GT. From Ferrari's perspective, being in GT isn't likely to sell 1 more car a year. no one is going to buy a Ferrari because it was in GT. So it's not unreasonable for Ferrari to ask for a certain ammount of money to be represented.
 

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