Here's Why Toyota Is Taking Their Production Cars Out Of Video Games #Blogpost
This whole thing started with Forza Motorsport 7, and now Need For Speed Payback. At first I thought it was Toyota fighting back at people for calling their cars boring, but that’s not the case. Because it’s been announced that more than one game won’t have Toyotas, we have learned that this is Toyota’s fault, not the game developers. Get ready for the ridiculous reason.
In 2009 a Toyota Executive said “Realistic Video Games Make Cars Unnecessary”. I don’t understand what he means by this because a car in a game and a car in Real life are two completely different thing that actually have nothing to do with each other. That same executive said “Home game machines are no good. Playing something that realistic makes the need for cars disappear.” F**KING REALLY!!! It’s not like as if I’m going to turn my PlayStation on to go to the shops, It just doesn’t work like that.
If video games hurt sales of cars in real life then manufacturers such as Nissan would be screwed, because a lot of their advertising is done in games and game related things like GT academy. I think what is actually effecting Toyota’s sales is the bad reliability that Toyota have had to deal with in the past 15 years or so. Toyota haven’t been hit that hard by that either, because they produce more and more cars every year all over the world. I can’t find any information on who said these thing, but I believe it was Akio Toyoda (President of Toyota).
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“Realistic video games make cars unnecessary” But NFS Payback isn’t realistic…
Then again that article is 8 years old and it could be an entirely different reason all together. Besides, nearly every racing game has a Toyota production car of some sort from the year the article was made (2009) to 2016. And that includes GT5 & 6 and every Horizon game even if Horizon 3 was the start of disspearing toyota models like the 2000GT and MR2.
*start of disappearing/ommision of Toyota models in Forza (only)
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I think that if gamers like a car in a game than its more likely that they will buy that car/brand in real life.
So Toyota makes a bige mistake by not letting their cars go into games
Just because they’re not in NFS and Forza doesn’t mean they’ve completely stopped licensing road cars. Project CARS 2 has the GT86 in it, and I’d be surprised if GT Sport has none.
That makes me wanna deface toyota site
Desperate times call for desperate actions. We must come up with a competition to bring back Toyota!
I think what whoever said that means by it is that video games are so realistic that you can have a fun driving experience without having to do it for real, making cars such as the GT86 and the MX-5 obsolete. In this case, this would be Toyota’s way of fighting against that and keeping the spirit of real life motoring enjoyment alive. We all know Toyota have nothing against driving pleasure, they’re the same company who announced they would put artificial gear ratios in some of their electric cars just so the manual fans could still enjoy changing gear. The way I see it, Toyota are the good guys here. They’re fighting for us, not against us.
I’m planing to buy a maxda 6 since it was really amazing in a game that I played , & I want ro have that car in real life not only playing with it but driving it in actual
This happens only with Non-Japanese game developers.