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This article was published by Jordan Greer (@Jordan) on November 27th, 2018 in the Gran Turismo Sport category.
I want to believe. I really enjoyed all the content.
But the Youtube view counts sure do tell a different story. 67k for the Nations Cup livestream and 39k for the Manuf cup livestream in English. Is that enough? I'm not sure.
Add the other language versions and then add the other stream sites that carried the races. Most of which are listed in the link in the first post.I want to believe. I really enjoyed all the content.
But the Youtube view counts sure do tell a different story. 67k for the Nations Cup livestream and 39k for the Manuf cup livestream in English. Is that enough? I'm not sure.
I want to believe. I really enjoyed all the content.
But the Youtube view counts sure do tell a different story. 67k for the Nations Cup livestream and 39k for the Manuf cup livestream in English. Is that enough? I'm not sure.
That isn’t the case for circuit based motor racing. It’s a 1:1 recreation of the real thing.
I watched more coverage of this than any other motorsports category this year
Honestly, going into it, I thought it would be boring and was just checking to see it for a few minutes but then an hour pass and I realize I was still watching it and found it entertaining.Same here. My tactile familiarity with the race track appears to be the biggest factor in determining my level of interest and the shortened race format makes my attention matter more than a longer endurance race.
It just isn't though, on anything other than a superficial level at least. The skill set, risk, effort, cost, and sensory experience simply doesn't compare between racing in GT and racing in a real-life, or watching people do it either.
eSports make most sense to me when they offer a challenge that can't be replicated in the real world - whilst they try and replicate, they will pretty much always be worse than the real thing. They should innovate, not imitate.
Visits to GTP from Monaco increased over 3,000% while everyone with the event was there.@Jordan did GTP register any interesting traffic during those days? I'm curious
Visits to GTP from Monaco increased over 3,000% while everyone with the event was there.
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Visits to GTP from Monaco increased over 3,000% while everyone with the event was there.
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Visits to GTP from Monaco increased over 3,000% while everyone with the event was there.
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It just isn't though, on anything other than a superficial level at least. The skill set, risk, effort, cost, and sensory experience simply doesn't compare between racing in GT and racing in a real-life, or watching people do it either.
eSports make most sense to me when they offer a challenge that can't be replicated in the real world - whilst they try and replicate, they will pretty much always be worse than the real thing. They should innovate, not imitate.
Maybe it is the replays used, or the lighting?
Was this because of people searching to find out who the delinquents running around the bar making "vroooom" noises were?
Visits to GTP from Monaco increased over 3,000% while everyone with the event was there.
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People need to stop worrying about the numbers. Whatever the viewership count is; the point is the viewership numbers are promising for a year 1 event in a relatively nascent sport. IMHO, I think all in all it was a very positive first year for the GT FIA series. It only goes up from here.
Speaking of Forza racing championship. I've tried to watch some of the Forza stuff in the past, but something about it just didn't click. To me, Forza doesn't quite have the photo realism of Gran Turismo. Don't get me wrong, Forza is beautiful for sure, but it looks a tiny bit more artificial or something. Maybe it is the replays used, or the lighting? Not sure, but it doesn't seem to translate as well to television IMHO. The other problem I had was everyone was using a gamepad. Ugh. I mean, there is nothing wrong with that of course, but when GT and F1 series are using very nice cockpit/wheel set ups.....yeah, not a great look. I would like to see Turn 10 up their game in this area because there is a lot of potential with Forza and Microsoft backing their events. I'm greedy.....I want to watch all of these eSports events and see them all continue to grow.
It just isn't though, on anything other than a superficial level at least. The skill set, risk, effort, cost, and sensory experience simply doesn't compare between racing in GT and racing in a real-life, or watching people do it either.
eSports make most sense to me when they offer a challenge that can't be replicated in the real world - whilst they try and replicate, they will pretty much always be worse than the real thing. They should innovate, not imitate.