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I’ve posted it before and will keep posting it. Have The Human Comedy missions pay out every time. It’d be an immediate increase in the amount of “new” content. I’d be willing to try different cars and strategies if I knew I’d earn some credits for doing so, whereas right now with each golded nothing is paid out. Baffling decision to limit content to one and done.
 


GT7 had the 18th-highest PlayStation sales in the US in 2023 (by dollars, not by copies sold). Not a bad second-year performance IMO, especially since we know the US is a relatively weaker market for racing games.
 
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GT7 had the 18th-highest PlayStation sales in the US in 2023 (by dollars, not by copies sold). Not a bad second-year performance IMO, especially since we know the US is a relatively weaker market for racing games.
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VR boost I assume.
 
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GT7 had the 18th-highest PlayStation sales in the US in 2023 (by dollars, not by copies sold). Not a bad second-year performance IMO, especially since we know the US is a relatively weaker market for racing games.
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No Spider-Man 2 in the Top 20? Strange...
 
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I believe that the GT movie and VR greatly influenced end-of-year sales.
 
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GlamFM
October. It’s actually in P2.
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Ah, I see it now. That screenshot for some reason cuts off the first 2.
 
JTB10000
They could just dedicate some time to adding rain and 24hr cycles to more tracks (like they should have in the first place) and that would be just as valuable as and less time and resource consuming than a completely new track. Also, better and more equally distributed usage of each track throughout the game.
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This is a bit off-topic, but one weather effect that would be awesome for PD to add is thick, low-visibility coastal fog. Laguna Seca, GV Hwy 1, and Dragon Trail could all benefit from it.
 
VinylRichie
The most important difference is, at least for me, the quality of the content.
I’ll I didn’t play FM8, but what I saw and read about it, is that there’s still cars in the game which have very old and therefore inaccurate car models. And seeing comparisons in videos, even the new car models are miles behind the ones from GT7, the details (for example the lights, the interiors,…), the paint and the overall presence of the cars (i don’t know how to articulate it in a better way), you just feel that PD puts in the extra amount of work to reach this level that is almost divine imo. Sure GT7 car models still have flaws like low poly parts, for example round shapes, but that’s a technical limitation that I think can easily be solved with better hardware, nothing that needs them to create a totally new car model.
As much there is to criticize about GT7, as much as it lacks content in some departments, it doesn’t lack soul.
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Yeah, the thing is that PD and T10 have a different approach. T10 puts more effort on the engine bay details, which you'll never see during a race, only in menus. At the end of the day GT cars look realistic, while FM cars look fake, like toys...always.
I'm no expert but I think it's about textures, lighting and reflections, so in GT metal=metal, leather=leather, glass=glass and so on. In FM everything looks plastic. I was hoping to see a change in FM with the new gen console. Nope. So even in this department, all I can see is laziness.
 
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Porras
What day will we know the content of next week's update?
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Officially, we don't know that there is one.

However if, as we've been expecting since December 22nd, one arrives next week, it's likely to be the usual timing:

Saturday 20/Sunday 21 - Silhouettes
Wednesday 24 - PS Blog/GT.com post confirming most contents
Thursday 25 - Update & GT.com article with all contents
 
Famine
Officially, we don't know that there is one.

However if, as we've been expecting since December 22nd, one arrives next week, it's likely to be the usual timing:

Saturday 20/Sunday 21 - Silhouettes
Wednesday 24 - PS Blog/GT.com post confirming most contents
Thursday 25 - Update & GT.com article with all contents
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Yeah, the pattern is pretty much always the same
 
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RACECAR
Rather interesting that you say this while ignoring some very glaring issues that Turn 10 only recently finally admitted to, which include:

  • Incredibly painful progression (Possibly even slower grind then GT considering the whole upgrade system is per individual car)
  • Less then ideal AI (which is interesting considering it was advertised as something using "Machine Learning")
  • Insufficient Penalty system (Because you know what players really ask for from another big name simcade? More instances of you being rammed off the track and the perpetrator not being sufficently punished enough)

Let's not sit here and pretend for a minute that Forza has been miles better just because they released more content more often for your taste (Some of which is literally content from the last game that for some reason wasn't in from Day 1).
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I don't have a problem with any of these things. The progression is fine, the AI is fine and the penalty system has worked perfectly for me. Also, people ignore the reasoning for the car leveling system which was to gradually "build" up your car in the "Builder's Cup". But oh no, they want to upgrade their car instantly.
AlexWilmot
you do realise these are tracks that were in FM7 right?

and that these tracks are not from GT Sport

Licensing, you should google it

it's rather pathetic that you've fallen for T10's drip feed content thinking its a success to of added 3 tracks from the previous title in 4 months.

Edit: just to add it took 4 months from launch for GT7 to have a new track added, it's 4 months into FM2023 and they're only adding in tracks from FM7, work out the math on that one for me...
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I know that the "new" tracks are from Forza 7 but I didn't play that so I'm not too bothered. Fact is, a game that gets a regular stream of content is better than one which does not and that's why I've ditched GT7.
 
ScottPuss20
I know that the "new" tracks are from Forza 7 but I didn't play that so I'm not too bothered. Fact is, a game that gets a regular stream of content is better than one which does not and that's why I've ditched GT7.
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So for you it would be better if Kaz release GT7 with 20 tracks and then add rest of the 17 tracks every month?
 
ScottPuss20
I don't have a problem with any of these things. The progression is fine, the AI is fine and the penalty system has worked perfectly for me. Also, people ignore the reasoning for the car leveling system which was to gradually "build" up your car in the "Builder's Cup". But oh no, they want to upgrade their car instantly.
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Because that's literally what previous games from both respective franchises allowed you to do (Hell, even GT7 STILL allows you to do it as long as you have the credits). At no point has anyone asked for a system that takes so painfully long to get to a point just to where someone could finally change an Exhaust (and funny enough, people has already found an exploit just to basically make the grind far more bearable). Having watched gameplay, its easily the most tedious bit of grinding I've seen and I say this as someone who has experienced some serious grind fests. Maybe you don't seem as bothered but as countless gameplay videos and screenshots appear to show, that's not the case for so many.

As for "ignoring the reasoning", many have said that on paper it sounded good but its the execution that has rubbed so many the wrong way (a familiar tone that is echoed with GT7 in General). Its not the idea that's the problem, its the end result repeatedly shown that is the issue.
 
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ScottPuss20
I don't have a problem with any of these things. The progression is fine, the AI is fine and the penalty system has worked perfectly for me. Also, people ignore the reasoning for the car leveling system which was to gradually "build" up your car in the "Builder's Cup". But oh no, they want to upgrade their car instantly.

I know that the "new" tracks are from Forza 7 but I didn't play that so I'm not too bothered. Fact is, a game that gets a regular stream of content is better than one which does not and that's why I've ditched GT7.
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How could you talk about a „regular stream of content“ when it just released in October?
And an important point is also that content isn’t all for free, cars that are free this month are the ones that were already in FM7, the other really new ones you have to pay for in the car pass. And it could be that these free cars also aren’t even totally new „build from the ground up“ car models, as some cars already have been spotted to be old inaccurate ones from previous titles.
 
More evidence towards a Thursday 25th Jan update
www.gran-turismo.com

'Gran Turismo World Series' Nations Cup 2023/24 Exhibition Series - Season 2: Round 4 Notice - GT World Series - Gran Turismo 7 - gran-turismo.com

Race details for the previously unannounced Round 4 of the current 'Gran Turismo World Series' Nations Cup 2023/24 Exhibition Series - Season 2 will be released...
www.gran-turismo.com www.gran-turismo.com
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Hasnain282
More evidence towards a Thursday 25th Jan update
www.gran-turismo.com

'Gran Turismo World Series' Nations Cup 2023/24 Exhibition Series - Season 2: Round 4 Notice - GT World Series - Gran Turismo 7 - gran-turismo.com

Race details for the previously unannounced Round 4 of the current 'Gran Turismo World Series' Nations Cup 2023/24 Exhibition Series - Season 2 will be released...
www.gran-turismo.com www.gran-turismo.com
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Which also points to potentially some interesting content (new track?)
 
PaMu1337
Which also points to potentially some interesting content (new track?)
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Don't forget they did this in November, only for the unannounced race to be a Gr.3 at Daytona affair.
 
IIRC when the Citroen DS arrived, they made a similar notice before it did. And the race in question was for the Citroen DS!
 
We pretty much already know that the update was to come next thursday 25th, i am pretty sure we get silhouttes tomorrow or sunday 5-7 cars including gensesis vgt, i think its fair to expect that with almost a 3 months gap
 
GTJG44
I’m expecting 4 cars max.
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I think thats the least we get i might be wrong but its almost 3 months since last update witch is longest gap so far, so its not crazy to expect like 5 cars, if i turns out to be just the standard 3-4 cars its pretty safe bet that gt8 might already release late 2025 or early 2026 as ps5 exclusive, pd might relise the mistake by having gt7 on ps4
 
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PuffelPizza
IIRC when the Citroen DS arrived, they made a similar notice before it did. And the race in question was for the Citroen DS!
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That race was supposed to be at Grand Valley too (which came together, iirc?) - only for it to be moved to Maggiore due to the pit bug.
 
Ande3200
I think thats the least we get i might be wrong but its almost 3 months since last update witch is longest gap so far, so its not crazy to expect like 5 cars, if i turns out to be just the standard 3-4 cars its pretty safe bet that gt8 might already release late 2025 or early 2026 as ps5 exclusive, pd might relise the mistake by having gt7 on ps4
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We don't know what to expect in the upcoming weeks and months. We had Christmas and new years holidays, there aren’t any big updates in these times.
Furthermore I don’t really think that the ps4 version has any real impact on the release of new content. Sophy, 4P Splitscreen are already ps5 only features. Car models probably have a slight lower polygon count but that’s nothing major for the development of the game.
 
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