Question for Jordan

[arora]

I'm curious as to the amount of interest in gt6, can you tell me the peak amount of viewers in the gt5 section after it's release was announced compared to the recent gt6 announcement in it's section?

Thank you.

 

[Eks]

Well, I don't know about GT5 but I was on GTP just hours after the event and the highest number of viewers in the GT6 section that I remember was ~1187.

 

[lbsf1]

If I can remember correctly didn't some of the GT5 announcements in June/July 2010 nearly crash the site.

Ah here is a thread on it.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=116956

I looked one some internet stats websites but they only go back about 6 months, so I can't be more help on actual numbers.

 

[TB]

From one of the threads in the GT6 section:

I'm also really sorry the site went down. I added new servers planning for a 5x increase in traffic (which was what I saw when GT5 was revealed), but this was a 20x increase in traffic unlike anything I have ever seen before. I'll try to be better prepared for E3.

 

[arora]

It's unfortunate I didn't get the answer I wanted, only for me I guess.

 

[Samus]

It's unfortunate I didn't get the answer I wanted, only for me I guess.

Jordan said it was approx 4x as much, not sure why you need specific numbers?

 

[arora]

20x I think is what the quote says.

 

[TB]

He meant four times more than GT5.

 

[arora]

I can be a huge jerk, I know this artytime:

Odd to me I didn't get an answer, but yes TB you are correct I guess 👍

 

[Small_Fryz]

The GT5 string was 4x the GT4 string which was already a pretty long string. GT6 was then 20x larger than the GT4 string which made it 5x longer than GT5 but Jordan had only allowed the string to exceed to 4x the GT4 traffic?

So basically the string is twice as long as its halves and 3 times its thirds 👍

 

[arora]

I think there is less interest in gt6 then how we did before.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Jordan said it was approx 4x as much, not sure why you need specific numbers?

20x I think is what the quote says.

He meant four times more than GT5.

No, I belive he meant 20x the GT5 numbers.
GT5 was only 5x Increase on GT4 which is what he predicted but it turned out to be 20.

What those numbers are however... well... Maybe that bigboards site could figure it out.... Here are the current stats but I dont think its possible to compare further back in time to when GT5 came out... Stand out was the 12000 posts vs the usual 4000 a day..

Best I can do Erik

 

[arora]

Fair enough Dion.

 

[Samus]

No it's pretty clear. He saw a 5x increase above normal levels on general server load during GT5 and prepared for that again, this time however it was 20x normal. I think that's pretty clear.

 

[W3H5]

The GT5 string was 4x the GT4 string which was already a pretty long string. GT6 was then 20x larger than the GT4 string which made it 5x longer than GT5 but Jordan had only allowed the string to exceed to 4x the GT4 traffic?

So basically the string is twice as long as its halves and 3 times its thirds 👍

So that's how long a piece of string is!

Thanks, Dion, I don't think I've spent so long trying to figure out what I'm reading in years.

 

[arora]

The sales will tell the tale.

I was interested in what gtp had to say regardless but whatever. You know we like to speak of games and do our thing way beyond what the market may dictate.

 

[Small_Fryz]

No it's pretty clear. He saw a 5x increase above normal levels on general server load during GT5 and prepared for that again, this time however it was 20x normal. I think that's pretty clear.

Thats exactly what I said... it was 20x normal... not 4, which is what you said.

 

[Samus]

Thats exactly what I said... it was 20x normal... not 4, which is what you said.

I meant 4x more than GT5. GT5 - 5x normal. GT6 - 20x normal = 4x GT5 numbers. Maybe that wasn't clear but I only said it like that because OP was looking for numbers compared to GT5, not to normal.

 

[Small_Fryz]

But post GT5 normal doesnt equal pre GT5 normal?

Eitherway without the original values its all just silly arguments anyway

 

[Samus]

But post GT5 normal doesnt equal pre GT5 normal?

Eitherway without the original values its all just silly arguments anyway

Ha, true.

 

[Akmuq]

Highest number of visitors I saw on the site pre-GT5 was about 6,500. Between the delay and February it would have been at 5,000 pretty constant.

 

[Jordan]

I've been in a serious time crunch while travelling since the GT6 event, and didn't have time to collect these statistics for you. Sorry.

The "users online" metric reported in the forums is not an accurate way to judge traffic to the site.

When GT5 was formally announced at E3 2010, GTPlanet received 64,384 visits in one day. On May 15, 2013, GTPlanet received 166,825 visits, although this number would have been much higher had the site not been knocked offline.

The 4x vs. 20x number I referred to earlier was in reference to the number of simultaneous page requests, the real metric which I have to worry about in terms of the server infrastructure. Because I was the only one doing the live blog, when I announced that, it spread incredibly fast via social media. Page loads per second increased exponentially until the application server collapsed.

 

[arora]

Cool, thanks for the explanation and your work as well 👍