Gran Turismo, where they get all that money?

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For some time already I'm curious:

FIA championships;
On WEC races most of the cars have the GT banner on the windshield;
Europe, America, Asia reginal championships; Final championship (hotels, tickets, trips, food...);
Free content updates (this is expensive!);
Car Brands - Is it Free? (I actually think the brands should pay to have its car there as the exposition is enormous)

And much more!

Where does this guys get all that money? Cant be only from selling bluray and digital copies... or can?
 
Also each GT edition are usually many years apart. Usually just 2 per generation.

Maybe the marketing budget? The money other companies would spend plastering ads in every form of media Polyphony Digital takes and put towards those things you mention cause we know PD don't have that much of a marketing/Community out reach.

Marketing budgets for some games are upwards of $20M. If I remember correctly.
 
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bedi1982
Where does this guys get all that money?
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Sony.

Broadly, Sony gives PD $50,000,000 to make a game, PD makes the game, Sony publishes it* and gets all the income. Then Sony gives PD money to make the next game.

GT doesn't just sell games. It sells a load of consoles too (and TVs, but that's a different Sony department) - $50,000,000 is 143,000 PS4/GT Sport bundles.

*Which means Sony pays for all the advertising**, distribution, legal fees, etc.
**Although not quite; there's some crossover between what Sony pays for and what PD pays for
 
From us:lol:

Maybe the FiA helped them out with the Chamiponship + Tag Heuer and Puma mon
Famine
Sony.

Broadly, Sony gives PD $50,000,000 to make a game, PD makes the game, Sony publishes it* and gets all the income. Then Sony gives PD money to make the next game.

GT doesn't just sell games. It sells a load of consoles too (and TVs, but that's a different Sony department) - $50,000,000 is 143,000 PS4/GT Sport bundles.

*Which means Sony pays for all the advertising**, distribution, legal fees, etc.
**Although not quite; there's some crossover between what Sony pays for and what PD pays for
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Did they maybe got something from FiA,Tag Heuer and Puma?(for GTS)
 
All this money spent and I’m still unclear what the world champion gets after all their sacrifices. So far it seems to be free trips and a t-shirt. How about at least a lifetime subscription to PS Plus? Or 1/2 off the next GT game?
 
cjr3559
All this money spent and I’m still unclear what the world champion gets after all their sacrifices. So far it seems to be free trips and a t-shirt. How about at least a lifetime subscription to PS Plus? Or 1/2 off the next GT game?
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I thought they got an FIA motorsports license?
 
cjr3559
All this money spent and I’m still unclear what the world champion gets after all their sacrifices. So far it seems to be free trips and a t-shirt. How about at least a lifetime subscription to PS Plus? Or 1/2 off the next GT game?
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And a trophy. Also the "t-shirt" is more a polo shirt, jacket, shoes and gloves.

Let's not mention the publicity they get. The Manufacturer winners and podium sitters are doing some PR with their manufacturers, it seems.
ARTAsean
I thought they got an FIA motorsports license?
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Why? This has literally never been on the cards.
 
Famine
And a trophy. Also the "t-shirt" is more a polo shirt, jacket, shoes and gloves.

Let's not mention the publicity they get. The Manufacturer winners and podium sitters are doing some PR with their manufacturers, it seems.

Why? This has literally never been on the cards.
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There was a lot of talk about an FIA Gran Turismo Digital License before the game launch. I guess I was confused about what that actually was. And apparently it's something that never materialized. But there's quite a few articles on it.
 
ARTAsean
There was a lot of talk about an FIA Gran Turismo Digital License before the game launch. I guess I was confused about what that actually was. And apparently it's something that never materialized. But there's quite a few articles on it.
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The FIA Digital Licence is simply a project that would allow any GT Sport player to get an entry level racing licence, by treating their knowledge of motorsports etiquette (flags, lights, marshals, racing line) as the same thing as passing a theory test and following an instructor's commands on a race track - which is how you get one now.

It's a project that's still going on right now - we covered it in Madrid - because it's basically a colossal amount of red tape requiring the FIA's member organisations to agree to it. There'd surely need to be a qualifying threshold too, as I wouldn't give most GT Sport players a fishing licence.

However, it's not directly related to the FIA-Certified GT Sport Online Championship.
 
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GT is too important for Sony,that franchise helped the Playstation be what it is nowadays.Shawn Layden considers GT the best there is in the console market for simracers,of course he's gonna say that because it's his franchise but Gran Turismo IS important for Sony(where the money comes from).
Just look at the recent live event,which had Shawn Layden(Chairman of Sony Entertainment) and Shuhei Yoshida(President of Sony Entertainment)

Famine
I wouldn't give most GT Sport players a fishing licence.
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If the track barriers were destructible you bet many players would end up at rivers and catch some fish hahahahaha.

i would be one of them
 
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Do you understand how much money PD makes:

From PS3 they have sold 35+ million games.
Low SCE avg $10 = $350 million
Exp SCE avg $20 = $700 million
High SCE avg = $1.05 billion

This is not even including advertising money PD makes.
GT games only take $50-80 million to make. SCE is no doubt going to invest in PD without any second thought.

Heck, SCE would invest regardless. PSN alone makes $4 billion in revenue in 3 months.
 
Yep, as said above, GT sells Playstations (and now it also sells PS+ subscriptions). The PS4 is the 2nd console I buy exclusively for Gran Turismo. (Well, I bought Skyrim on PS3 at the time because I only had a low spec laptop at the time, now all my other games are on PC). A lot of my fellow racers in my community also bought the PS4 for GTS, most wouldn't have bought one otherwise. Some of them bought some other games on PS4 though, since they already had it, and there's a lot of PS4 exclusives in the list (Detroit, RDR2...) so to an extent, Gran Turismo can help other games to sell on PS4.

Also, PoDi has good relationships with most manufacturers and other automotive forces, so I don't think they spend that much in licensing, if anything at all (which may explain some cars and rtacks being absent if they refuse to actually pay anything at all).
 
Famine
The FIA Digital Licence is simply a project that would allow any GT Sport player to get an entry level racing licence, by treating their knowledge of motorsports etiquette (flags, lights, marshals, racing line) as the same thing as passing a theory test and following an instructor's commands on a race track - which is how you get one now.

It's a project that's still going on right now - we covered it in Madrid - because it's basically a colossal amount of red tape requiring the FIA's member organisations to agree to it. There'd surely need to be a qualifying threshold too, as I wouldn't give most GT Sport players a fishing licence.

However, it's not directly related to the FIA-Certified GT Sport Online Championship.
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Our boy famine with the burn of the year!

I had no idea that this is the intent behind the FIA license for GT. Honestly in with you on that one. Sport mode is definite proof of that.
 
Famine
There'd surely need to be a qualifying threshold too, as I wouldn't give most GT Sport players a fishing licence.
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I wouldn't want a fishing licence anyway, as I don't like fishing:lol:
 
Yamauchi buys money with Gran Turismo games, wich he exchange for more games to get more money for games to buy more money all for the games for Sony, Money for Kaz. Its easy.
 
They make lot of Money. Kaz has 5 cars I think. porsche 911, ford gt, gtr vspec, sl55 amg, s2000. Obviously this is over a period of nearly 20yrs and may be due to his contact he knows where to get cheap used cars in japan or something lol. But he has a great job IMHO. He travels the world, goes to car show, meets vettel, hamilton, loeb, jeff gordon, goes to rbr f1 headquarters, mercedes, nissan obviously etc.

In fact I would say rather than putting money on the FIA championship etc. They should hire more employees. I do not think money is the problem.
 
It could that they are paying PD, and not the other way around; using the Gran Turismo name to catch the eye of younger (potential) fans and as an "in" with the broader (racing game) gaming community at large, which is a vast and lucrative audience.
 
Well, for one thing, PD/Sony don't use the enormous revenue from the sales of GT Sport (and the consoles it may help sell) to set the high bar in terms of content and features of all the major racing games...

I guess that with all the money they save not having wasted their time scanning many new tracks or not recycling old scans, and not scanning 2018 era racecars and streetcars but recycling old content, not having full weather and time of day etc., they can afford to sponsor some real motorsports to give the kids the illusion they give a damn about modern racing!
 
They get ****loads of money from Sony. Also i think they make lucrative deals with brands/company's like Tag Heuer, Nissan, Thrustmaster etc.
 
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They gave us the least content to start with... They damn well OWE us all this new content seeing as, unlike GT5Prologue, they sold us this game at full price with Prologue level content.
 
Reviving and old thread:

Does anyone know if PD gets paid for any of the advertisements, manufacturers, and other companies featured in game?

nowadays in the gaming industry developers spit out paid dlc and microtranctions for extra income from the same game for a few years at least. I know PD stance on those subjects, but I wonder if the reason they can stay away from those is because other sources of income, like companies paying to be included in the game.
 
HERE4BEER3
Reviving and old thread:

Does anyone know if PD gets paid for any of the advertisements, manufacturers, and other companies featured in game?

nowadays in the gaming industry developers spit out paid dlc and microtranctions for extra income from the same game for a few years at least. I know PD stance on those subjects, but I wonder if the reason they can stay away from those is because other sources of income, like companies paying to be included in the game.
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Well they also have the backing of Sony,one marketing deal i know they have is with Puma
 

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