I love Gran Turismo but my frustration is this. So many times I log into gtplanet and what do I see in the headlines? Another Forza and Dirt update with cars and tracks. How can they pull it off all the time and Polyphony Digital so slow? Gran Turismo still the best in my opinion.
Eh? Forza hasn't had a new track added in years, unless you count the Fortune Island expansion in FH4. It does get monthly car additions too — usually less than GT on a per-month basis. But on the other hand, one could make the argument that, in games that launched with 700 models versus 170, one doesn't need to increase the numbers at zero cost.
DiRT has relied heavily on past content for its post-launch support. It's updated content, and Codemasters is a much smaller team than PD, but still, that goes a long way to explaining how rapid-fire the approach has been so far. It's also why some folks are unhappy with the method.
I don't really see how GT is slow, though. It has additions on almost exactly a monthly basis.
Sort of. FH4 and FM7 both have six/seven cars coming this month, for free.
Also, Gran Turismo has something substantive; an FIA partnership and world touring Esports league.
When the only thing your game has going for it is sheer car & track lists, that becomes your main priority. Seems like a fair enough trade-off to me.
Other games have esports series that trot the globe too. They might put less of a spotlight on them, but it's a feature that appeals to a tiny subset of the player base, so I don't see how focusing on content is necessarily a bad thing.
That being said, it's weird to say they're two separate priorities, when GT's main updates each month have been simply cars/tracks.
