>>8135 (OP)>Despite being so big, GT doesn't have this perception as being a huge franchise for playstation.it certainly
used to have that reputation
GT 1 and 2 and 3 were p massive in shipping playstations. they really pushed the gfx for the system in really impressive ways for the time, and thats something they kept up through the various gens. so it kinda became sonys unofficial tech demo game. a GT would come out at or around the new PSs release
and if you happened to be a really big sperg about racing sims, you ended up with some pretty serious bang for your buck
i remember taking turns with my neighbor grinding up licenses in GT2. dude loved that game. i memeber we always would try to cheese the crazystupid long marathon races by alternating between the autopilot mode and us taking lik 1hr shifts lol. the autopilot always lost the lead so we couldnt just let it run on its own and expect to win
i havent played any of them since GT4, but i think GTs biggest problem was that at first it existed more or less alone in the genre. as time went on it became slightly less relevant, as there were more racing sims available, and also more non-tism-oriented racing games. so an already niche genre, racing games, got split into a bunch of different franchises
its not this monolith like it was