Will GT6 have Porsche in it?

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R34EVO9
Why no racing game will have Porsches . Ea you are not nice at all. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-25-ea-blocks-forza-4-getting-porsche

But ea just got Ferrari license back so they might share the Porsche license
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Yeah I like reading this every few years as a reminder of how capitalism works. It's not a surprise to me. I'm sure PD has a few exclusive licenses of their own but, what's the point? Your only hurting the fans, thanks a lot EA. It's NOT in the game.
 
jtqmopar
How about this, instead of speculating try posting on this page with requests for Porsche to be in GT6:
https://www.facebook.com/porsche

If all (most) of GTP spams there page, eventually they will understand that we want their cars in this game!
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R34EVO9
No its Facebook just post that we want Porsche im pretty sure that will get thru to them . Imagine if your comment gets 1 million likes? They will notice it nothing might not happen right away but trying won't kill us
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This has to be the greatest display of optimism since the last 5 to 7 threads asking if a GT game will have Porsche. I will attempt to do what others users have done here, but to a larger degree only because they are tired of having to answer this question for new people like yourselves and the OP every six months.

Porsche the car manufacture of such lovable vehicles as the 911S, Turbo, GT2 and GT3 along with the new 918 have what is called a license agreement that they'd give to groups like T10, EA and PD to use the likeness and naming of their cars and or advertisement in games that use cars like all other car makers. Thus if one doesn't have such an agreement, well then they can't use the cars and or likeness of them in their games legally. So the next thing is well...why not buy it or use another company say RUF, we do have RUF but for some reason (that I don't remember right now) PD didn't use newer RUF models that we saw in other games of the same time frame as GT5. Furthermore, buying a license through Porsche wont happen, and the reason is the gaming mega company(monster) named EA.

EA has an exclusive privilege to Porsche models and before that Pagani till the latter ran out and EA didn't renew it. So in essence EA is a gatekeeper to those who can pass and use such cars in their games, but if you were to make a deal with EA that's different. The problem is when you make a deal with EA you have to pay their price to use such cars and are in a sub-contract with them and not directly Porsche. Thus EA does have some hand in the game, and most groups don't want to have to make deals with a game company instead of the car maker. I think the main issue why PD doesn't do it is because EA may inflate the cost (they've done worse in the past) or worse at any time stop the sub license agreement as they did with Forza for a time.

So go ahead and send all you want to Facebook, but a practice that has been going on for years and years between two groups that have worked with each other since NFS Porsche Unleashed and further actually, isn't going to stop.
 
the only way that would remotely work, is if you got those 1mil "Likes" from every Porsche club(members and supporters) in their respective countries, gtplaneteers, etc. and dropped a petition on Ferdinand Piech's and Martin Winterkorn's desk. then maybe, just maybe someone above EA and Porsche's head may adjust their bifocals and scratch their chin. it's the only way I see something changing in regards to the license thing. Porsche owners would have to do it. I don't see it ever happening but, it would be cool if they did.
 
What still baffles me is that whoever decided this at Porsche just gave away the rights issue exclusively to EA for more than a decade. (or extended the agreement over the years)

To me that sounds like they simply didn't want to deal with this new video game-thing that teenagers apparently do and outsourced the whole issue to EA not to be bothered by this ever again. Well, little did they know how big the gaming industry would become and how many of the kids growing up have now become fans of, say, a Nissan GT-R instead of a 911. And some of them at one point or another actually will have the money to buy such a car. Only, they won't.

Just bad marketing, from my point of view.
 
snowgt
What still baffles me is that whoever decided this at Porsche just gave away the rights issue exclusively to EA for more than a decade. (or extended the agreement over the years)

To me that sounds like they simply didn't want to deal with this new video game-thing that teenagers apparently do and outsourced the whole issue to EA not to be bothered by this ever again. Well, little did they know how big the gaming industry would become and how many of the kids growing up have now become fans of, say, a Nissan GT-R instead of a 911. And some of them at one point or another actually will have the money to buy such a car. Only, they won't.

Just bad marketing, from my point of view.

Downhill Dino
That's exactly what they did. It's been acknowledged that Porsche does not care for video games.
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Exactly, Porsche can't be bothered by trivial things and play by whatever rules they want. They don't have a strict line of how many cars are produced over a year and find it a bit funny other supercar groups do. Remember Porsche seem to have an over confidence (some would call ego) and that usually translates into the people that drive the car, not always though. So they couldn't care less, they are willing to throw money away (selling exclusively to EA) and not see the profit margin cause they just don't care. They are that sure of making money in their cars and loyal customer base that they have a big head about the rest of their marketing. In the end it is our loss and EA's gain.
 
Miss the bit where EA have a game in competition with either GT or Forza.

Oh that's right they don't. They tried with Shift. The first one sold well, that gave then some encouragement. The second game flopped so they cancelled the franchise.

In other words there is no reason whatsoever not to sit down with PD/Sony and talk money.

Does that mean it will happen? No. It means it can happen.
 
Exactly, slap enough cash on the table or come to some sort of 'you help us, we'll help you' agreement and it can happen. I certainly don't think it'll happen for GT6 but it may in the future.
 
Samus
Exactly, slap enough cash on the table or come to some sort of 'you help us, we'll help you' agreement and it can happen. I certainly don't think it'll happen for GT6 but it may in the future.
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I know this is not founded on actual facts, but I don't think PD pays much, if anything for car licenses. From what Yamauchi said in interviews, it seemed that their position is more like "we'll give you a platform of 10 million people playing the game and enjoying test-driving your cars for free, and all we ask in return is to give us access to the car models you want included in the game and the permission to use those cars in future editions of Gran Turismo".

If you have any business-sense at all, that should be enough of an argument to want your cars included in the game. You basically get free advertising - it's a no brainer.


I'm sure that some car companies even pay Sony/PD for featuring their cars a bit more. Don't tell me the whole C7 Corvette-release was not sponsored by Chevrolet...

Also seems like EA only makes one-off deals (i.e. for one game) for cash. I don't think PD would ever pay for the permission to use Porsche in GT6, not knowing, if they will be able to use them in a GT7-game.
 
snowgt
I know this is not founded on actual facts, but I don't think PD pays much, if anything for car licenses. From what Yamauchi said in interviews, it seemed that their position is more like "we'll give you a platform of 10 million people playing the game and enjoying test-driving your cars for free, and all we ask in return is to give us access to the car models you want included in the game and the permission to use those cars in future editions of Gran Turismo".

If you have any business-sense at all, that should be enough of an argument to want your cars included in the game. You basically get free advertising - it's a no brainer.


I'm sure that some car companies even pay Sony/PD for featuring their cars a bit more. Don't tell me the whole C7 Corvette-release was not sponsored by Chevrolet...

Also seems like EA only makes one-off deals (i.e. for one game) for cash. I don't think PD would ever pay for the permission to use Porsche in GT6, not knowing, if they will be able to use them in a GT7-game.
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This is all very true, PD have probably never stumped up a large amount for any car, rather going without but you never know in the future. Plus there is the whole thing of EA trying to shake their 'worst company in the US' tag, probably wishful thinking but one part of that in the future may be handing the Porsche license back or sub-licensing it more liberally.
 
snowgt
I know this is not founded on actual facts, but I don't think PD pays much, if anything for car licenses. From what Yamauchi said in interviews, it seemed that their position is more like "we'll give you a platform of 10 million people playing the game and enjoying test-driving your cars for free, and all we ask in return is to give us access to the car models you want included in the game and the permission to use those cars in future editions of Gran Turismo".

If you have any business-sense at all, that should be enough of an argument to want your cars included in the game. You basically get free advertising - it's a no brainer.


I'm sure that some car companies even pay Sony/PD for featuring their cars a bit more. Don't tell me the whole C7 Corvette-release was not sponsored by Chevrolet...

Also seems like EA only makes one-off deals (i.e. for one game) for cash. I don't think PD would ever pay for the permission to use Porsche in GT6, not knowing, if they will be able to use them in a GT7-game.
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100% agree

before PD announced that the LCC rocket would be on the game I didn't even knew that car existed.
 
Its sad that we live in a country that's "democratic" for the people but no one does anything for the people . Only for their egos and there pockets. We cant even approach ea even.if we wanted too as the.customers
 
Ferrari458Italia
yes it will
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snowgt
I know this is not founded on actual facts, but I don't think PD pays much, if anything for car licenses. From what Yamauchi said in interviews, it seemed that their position is more like "we'll give you a platform of 10 million people playing the game and enjoying test-driving your cars for free, and all we ask in return is to give us access to the car models you want included in the game and the permission to use those cars in future editions of Gran Turismo".

If you have any business-sense at all, that should be enough of an argument to want your cars included in the game. You basically get free advertising - it's a no brainer.


I'm sure that some car companies even pay Sony/PD for featuring their cars a bit more. Don't tell me the whole C7 Corvette-release was not sponsored by Chevrolet...

Also seems like EA only makes one-off deals (i.e. for one game) for cash. I don't think PD would ever pay for the permission to use Porsche in GT6, not knowing, if they will be able to use them in a GT7-game.
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We already know that car groups ask these games for advertisement, SRT Viper and Forza easily come to mind. The Forza sponsorship even goes to the ALMS/LMS cars used.


Ferrari458Italia
yes it will
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Do you have evidence that it will, if not you might want to find some
Samus
This is all very true, PD have probably never stumped up a large amount for any car, rather going without but you never know in the future. Plus there is the whole thing of EA trying to shake their 'worst company in the US' tag, probably wishful thinking but one part of that in the future may be handing the Porsche license back or sub-licensing it more liberally.
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EA have already said they don't care about the naming, they even spun the news with their own propaganda to brush it aside. As long as there are average gamers willing to be yearly iterations of games EA will do just fine. And having their hand in the cookie jar of small dev companies doesn't hurt either.
 
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Does not really matter to me, if Porsche does not want to be in the game then so be it.
When i get some money in and looking for a sports car, i'll be looking at Audi, BMW M*, AMG, Ferrari and maybe a GTR, Guess what no Porsche in my list. But then again i may never end up with that kind of money. :D
 
Since the information that has been release says GT6 will feature again all cars from GT5 and that the game will only have about 200-300 new cars... and given the fact that PD will probably use those slots on japanese cars... and of course, the fact that they apparently don't know about a company called Gemballa or that RUF is still making new models...

No... no Porsche for GT6...
 
Given that most of these cars have not been revealed together with the knowledge that Japanese cars form a progressively lower percentage of the overall car count with each game - together with the knowledge that there are two more major content release points still to come before the game commits to Gold would indicate the following statement is in fact true.

Yes Porsche are in GT6 is just as viable as No Porsche are not in GT6
 
MoLiEG
Since the information that has been release says GT6 will feature again all cars from GT5 and that the game will only have about 200-300 new cars... and given the fact that PD will probably use those slots on japanese cars... and of course, the fact that they apparently don't know about a company called Gemballa or that RUF is still making new models...

No... no Porsche for GT6...
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That's a tad negative.
 
MoLiEG
and given the fact that PD will probably use those slots on japanese cars... and of course, the fact that they apparently don't know about a company called Gemballa or that RUF is still making new models...
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One of those is a Tuner and one of those is a approved Manufacterer. Guess which one It is and there's your reason they aren't in any GT game.



Also, you can stop with the Japanese car BS because as pointed out by Tired Tyres, they only making a far lower percentage of the game.
 

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