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[RetroGamingUK]

Strange decision to wait for the hype to die before releasing it on PS5.

Didn't harm FH5 on PS5 did it.

 

[Senua]

If they want to sell an amount of copies that keeps the studio afloat they should probably release on PS5 asap.

FH5 did very well before it came to PS5, it's a popular series

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Why do you keep talking about sales when I haven't mentioned sales once? Or just stuck in the mindset of it wouldn't succeed without gamepass?

A 4 year old game has now done 3 million+ just this year on PS5 alone to be the number 1 title sold on PlayStation so far this year. If this doesn't show it's a great game I don't know what does.

I wish they would release FH5 day and date, truely believe it would hit 10 million on PS5.

"You haven't mentioned sales", yet when ellis commented comparing sales,

Warrior? Hardly. Grow up. Just stating a fact. That single game is literally a few million off the entire Horizon/Motorsport sales combined. That not "Tales from your arse", at all. Look it up.

Entire Forza is around 21 million. GT7 is 15-16.

This was your response.

Yet Horizon makes 4 times the revenue somehow?

One title has close to 50 million players, and makes 5 times more money than the next 5 racing games alone and that includes GT. Stop trying to downplay Horizons success.

You bought in players when it was inconvenient to compare sales. Also, still waiting for the proof for the "4 times the revenue" and "makes 5 times more money than the next 5 racing games including gt". A proof besides an employee's linkedin post.

First find the proof than do your console warring.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

FH5 did very well before it came to PS5, it's a popular series

Despite a 4 year delay the PS5 version of FH5 did very well.

Delaying the PS5 version of FH6 by a few months won't harm sales one bit.

 

[Radical_3d]

FH5 did very well before it came to PS5, it's a popular series

Everything with "Horizon" in the name is surprisingly popular nowadays.

 

[xrnzaaas]

It should be fine (long term) unless there's going to be pressure from the higher-ups to deliver very strong day1 numbers. There may be some worries considering the recent Game Pass changes (and possible lost subs) and how Xbox as a console became much weaker over the years and it's not going to be in such a strong position as when FH5 launched.

With that said I'm still a bit butthurt about the delay. Are they hoping that people will sub to Game Pass just to play this game? And then buy it anyway for PS5? From my perspective if I'm going to play it on Xbox (a purchased copy or using Game Pass), I'm not going to double dip later.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

It should be fine (long term) unless there's going to be pressure from the higher-ups to deliver very strong day1 numbers. There may be some worries considering the recent Game Pass changes (and possible lost subs) and how Xbox as a console became much weaker over the years and it's not going to be in such a strong position as when FH5 launched.

With that said I'm still a bit butthurt about the delay. Are they hoping that people will sub to Game Pass just to play this game? And then buy it anyway for PS5? From my perspective if I'm going to play it on Xbox (a purchased copy or using Game Pass), I'm not going to double dip later.

I wouldn't be surprised if the bulk of players comes from game sales on Steam and PlayStation.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

What are the chances of this featuring lots of Tokyo city centre areas compared to "open world" outskirts?

Had zero interest in the series' prior locations, but I really want to return Asakusa as per MSR on Dreamcast

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Long term Forza fans and fat Americans, prepare to experience real car culture

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[kevboard]

Long term Forza fans and fat Americans, prepare to experience real car culture

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funny how the R32 was considered boring looking back then. nowadays people love its design... but I guess mostly the the wider V-Spec models or heavily modified ones are the ones people really like.

 

[SoloCamo]

Not for a huge number of PC gamers, only ones with great hardware.

Since when was the horizon series hard to run?

 

[Unknown?]

Since when was the horizon series hard to run?

It's not, it just won't be the best unless you have hardware that will give noticeable differences which won't unless it's really good.

 

[Crayon]

funny how the R32 was considering boring looking back then. nowadays people love its design... but I guess mostly the the wider V-Spec models or heavily modified ones are the ones people really like.

The first BMW M3's are similar in a lot of ways. They're all 'evolution' models. The first two M3's had striking changes to the body styling, and were easily distinguishable from the normal model from across a parking lot. The third M3 looked more grown up, and nobody really gives a shit now. Pretty hype car at the time, but it was never going to be a visual icon like the first two.

The R32 and 33, they were more like the third M3. Most the stuff that's visibly different is discretely functional. But on the R34 it's got some flair and the car jumps out as something really different than the base model.

*Big factory bolt-on wings don't count because you can stick one of those on anything.

 

[cash_longfellow]

So $20 extra for a week of "early access" on Xbox before the PlayStation release? Got it