Porsche Doesn’t Care About Video Game People

Anyone remember Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed? It was the NFS franchise's shining moment, and it was a HUGE valentine/encyclopedia for Porsche fans. (no other racing game ever focused on a single car make before- from the 356 to the 911 GT3) I was still playing it six years after its 2000 release, and it's up there with GPL and NR2003 as my fav racing games of all time.

NFS is a joke now. Porsche may not care about us, but I still blame EA for burning this once awesome gaming franchise into the ground.
 
Saturn_V said:
Anyone remember Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed? It was the NFS franchise's shining moment, and it was a HUGE valentine/encyclopedia for Porsche fans. (no other racing game ever focused on a single car make before- from the 356 to the 911 GT3) I was still playing it six years after its 2000 release, and it's up there with GPL and NR2003 as my fav racing games of all time.

NFS is a joke now. Porsche may not care about us, but I still blame EA for burning this once awesome gaming franchise into the ground.
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NFS:pU FTW.
 
GT-R curb weight is 3800 pounds. Some people just have a fundamental reserve about driving a sports car that weighs nearly 2 tons, no matter how good it is. My 2006 sports car literally weighs half that. Of course its alot more spartan, but some people (especially the British) believe that sports cars should be spartan.

So what I'm saying is that cars are a very personal decision. There are many shapes (though is Porsche land there is only 1 shape :) ) and configurations and its for a reason.
 
westrock, I disagree. Porsche's models have SOME variation. I mean some of the models fit 2 people, other models can fit 2.2 people, and others can fit 4-5 comfortably.
 
Reverse for me. I appreciate the car in game more after test driving the real thing. Got a chance to test drive a Porsche Cayman in the rain with a racing instructor awhile back. No racing lessons, however given the freedom to push the car on back-roads. Handled solidly, gripped like hell even in the rain. Shifts are quick and crisp using paddle shifters. Balanced car, but very pricey!
 
xIronCrossx said:
Lol porsche is gay but that nissan gtr is cool? That nissan looks like another crappy asian sports car. You'll turn more heads with a porsche since its actually cool looking.
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So... you rather buy a sports car because its cool looking rather then you know... for its performance? I hate to say it, but usually the cooler looking the car is, the less cool the driver is (something I borrowed from the Top Gear Cool Wall where the 911 is considered uncool). The GT-R isn't bad looking, it definitely has some heft into it showing how much technology is packed into it. But don't get me wrong though, I rather have a 911 GT3 over a GT-R anyday because its a bit more hardcore even if it sets slower times at the 'ring. But if its the regular Carrera vs. the GT-R (which is more comparable because of the pricing), I'd pick the GT-R.

Anyways, I somewhat understand Porsche's stance on the whole video gaming thing. The marque sits on a position where every hard working middle class person can afford one, which is a decent chunk of the sports car population. Ferrari on the other hand, you gotta be very fortunate to get one. But I have to owe it to video games for helping people realize cars like the WRX which caused Subaru to bring them over and now are doing better because of it. But its also too bad the era of 90's Japanese sports car are over.
 
Nissan GT-R (especially the new model) > any Porsche AND at a "less expensive" price, at a better mileage, with better handling, and if you're like Clarkson, doesn't look like a car that's being driven by someone who is a male chicken and has a small male chicken.
 
xIronCrossx said:
If you buy a GT2 RS I don't think they will keep you waiting http://www.porsche.com/microsite/911gt2rs/usa.aspx
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http://www.topspeed.com/cars/porsche/2011-porsche-911-gt2-rs-ar89839.html

so its more of a "if you bought" as opposed to buy. Sold out in hours.


gaspah said:
I first fell in love with driving a cop car in the first GTA. Following this dream only lead me to misery. and prison.
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well, misery and prison or misery... steal one and go to prison, or become a cop :)
 
entropy13 said:
Nissan GT-R (especially the new model) > any Porsche AND at a "less expensive" price, at a better mileage, with better handling, and if you're like Clarkson, doesn't look like a car that's being driven by someone who is a male chicken and has a small male chicken.
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Lol.
 
what the hell does porsche care? what's the percentage of gamers that could actually buy a porsche? if you CAN buy a porsche, you know they're great sports cars. That's really the only fact that matters. not if they get beat in a digital realm by some other car.
 
PoopsMacClaude said:
Too bad? More like good riddance.
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Not a fan of the RX-7, MR2 Turbo, Supra, NSX, Miata, etc? Man, those cars were great compared to the heavier, economy minded cars we have today, and you still see them on the road now too. It was hard to find another car that handled as good for the money as those cars during 1993, well except for the NSX (C4 ZR-1 was a pretty awesome car too).

Ok, I'm am quite partial to the FD RX-7 and I already own a MKII MR2.
 
I don't care about porsche. But for those who are fans then this sucks for them.
 
AeonF1 said:
So... you rather buy a sports car because its cool looking rather then you know... for its performance? I hate to say it, but usually the cooler looking the car is, the less cool the driver is (something I borrowed from the Top Gear Cool Wall where the 911 is considered uncool). The GT-R isn't bad looking, it definitely has some heft into it showing how much technology is packed into it. But don't get me wrong though, I rather have a 911 GT3 over a GT-R anyday because its a bit more hardcore even if it sets slower times at the 'ring. But if its the regular Carrera vs. the GT-R (which is more comparable because of the pricing), I'd pick the GT-R.

Anyways, I somewhat understand Porsche's stance on the whole video gaming thing. The marque sits on a position where every hard working middle class person can afford one, which is a decent chunk of the sports car population. Ferrari on the other hand, you gotta be very fortunate to get one. But I have to owe it to video games for helping people realize cars like the WRX which caused Subaru to bring them over and now are doing better because of it. But its also too bad the era of 90's Japanese sports car are over.
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Why would I want performance over looks when the speed limit is 65mph?
 
snaggletooth said:
Make sure it has white leather.

Be sure your folks are OK with you parking it in their garage.
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What are you implying? I can very well buy what I want, and why would I park it in my parents garage instead of my own?

I'd take the GTR over Porsche, I've never been a fan of those cars.
 
Disposed said:
There was actually a ferrari racing game the year before.
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Didn't find the Ferrari game, but I did find a Ford Racing that was released the previous year- so I stand corrected.

Empire Interactive, jeez that game company brings back memories of rage. Crappiest game software I ever tried to run on a computer.
 
wow what a poorly written article. Several paragraphs were copy-pasted a couple times....
 
Procyon12 said:
and FYI, Porsche Unleashed is far and away the best racing game EA ever made, and many people, Porsche fans and not, agree.
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This.

Makes me want to play all the way through it yet again.

I spent WAAAAYYY too much time trying to build a collectiion of all the cars available in the game as welll as fully upgrading them.

I would be happy if they jusy released new tracks and cars for that game. No super real reason to completely remake it.. except maybe to update the graphics a bit.
 
I don't seem to ever hear Jeremy on Top Gear complaining about the G-Forces a Porsche put him through.
 
J3RK said:
I'm on my seventh Porsche, and I have to say that video games played absolutely no part in my decision-making.
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Generally speaking if you have the amount of expendable income to be able to afford 7 Porsches (not at the same time, I get that, but they're still "expensive" cars all things considered), then you'd likely not be swayed by a videogame when it comes to anything. People can and do, for the most part, make their own decisions about what they buy based on their income level, but what's being said here is 100% completely realistic.

But why spend upwards of $100,000 on a Porsche (I know there are several models under that price point, but on a performance/$ ratio in comparison to other vehicles this is where I'm keeping it) or even aspire to own one when you can have that performance on a much more "affordable" scale. The minds of adolescents playing these games can be influenced much more easily than say someone in their late 20's or 30's who's got a stable career and a decent and dependable income.

The only problem is that more and more people are into gaming these days, and we're not born in our 20's and 30's with stable careers and incomes that allow us to buy 7 Porsches.

Porsche not caring about the future generation of adults who's likely to have been playing these games and know the real world pricing and performance of these cars is about as equally ignorant as saying "we don't care if anyone ever buys our cars, we're still better than anyone else."

Don't turn down advertising for your products, especially in markets where you have the ability to influence your prospective (and future) customers.
 
mETRo said:
But why spend upwards of $100,000 on a Porsche (I know there are several models under that price point, but on a performance/$ ratio in comparison to other vehicles this is where I'm keeping it) or even aspire to own one when you can have that performance on a much more "affordable" scale. The minds of adolescents playing these games can be influenced much more easily than say someone in their late 20's or 30's who's got a stable career and a decent and dependable income.
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You dont buy a porsche because you plan on driving 150 MPH everywhere you go. You buy it for looks. Unless they changed it last i checked the highways are not racetracks.

Its not my cup of tea, if i could afford a car that expensive i would step up to a DB9.
 
Last time I read and looked up Porsche, they had a longer racing history than the GT-R ever had...thought Porsche sucks to some people. Don't say the GT-R is new, because it' not. It's just the latest version of the Skyline that was never made in the US.
 
From reading on the internet you would never guess that Nissan had only sold a grand total of ~4900 GT-Rs in the united states since the vehicle was released.
 
Porche always seemed like the douchebag car you get when you have a bit of money. It's not a car for car enthusists, but rather a car for middle age men who want to impress young women.

Anyway having fewer options is never good, but just play Forza 3 if you want to drive Porche. I still don't understand what FM4 has going for it besides Top Gear stuff and Kinect, none of which sounds like the actual game has improved.
 
Porsche isn't for car enthusiasts? They've always been more pure "car" and less electronic stability control and other electronics.
 
Porsche is not for car enthusiasts ..... my 944 begs to differ.
 
dagas said:
Porche always seemed like the douchebag car you get when you have a bit of money. It's not a car for car enthusists, but rather a car for middle age men who want to impress young women.
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The ultimate enthusiast car company that places the tachometer in the center, and has spent decades pursuing power brakes with the feel and feedback of manual brakes, power steering with the finesse of manual steering at speed, higher and higher rpm for gear holding through corners, hydraulic clutches that push back like a manual clutch...does not make enthusiast cars?

The items that form the overall balance and driver experience in a porsche have consistently been the benchmark by which all other sports cars were judged in magazine tests for a long, long time now.
 
wankelguy13b said:
Last time I read and looked up Porsche, they had a longer racing history than the GT-R ever had...thought Porsche sucks to some people. Don't say the GT-R is new, because it' not. It's just the latest version of the Skyline that was never made in the US.
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The r-34 was pretty awesome.
 
xIronCrossx said:
Lol porsche is gay but that nissan gtr is cool? That nissan looks like another crappy asian sports car. You'll turn more heads with a porsche since its actually cool looking.
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Seriously.... Most Porsche looked like a streched out vw bug.. Yup thats reaaaaaal cool looking. On the other hand you have a car that looks like it wants to rip your tits off standing still. Let alone add a few basic things intake, exhuaust, ecu and bam you have a car that is just down right scary to take corners in since it stays planted on all fours at over a G.
 
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