Rumor: Sony Ditching F1 License

Go buy a copy of rFactor. BMW Sauber have a car custom made for it and the F1 2007/8 mods kick some major ass. And if you only have a gamepad you can turn on all the driver aids and it makes it arcadish.

lol @ the picture.

Well you can't blame the FIA, I've heard Nazi hookers don't come cheap ;)

Formula One Administration owns the commercial rights to F1. They pay the FIA a fee for these rights, but FOA negotiates and profits from deals like this. FOA is part of the Formula One Group, which is owned by various investors and Bernie Ecclestone.

Frankly Sony being the exclusive owner of the license this far was a major fuck-up for everyone not owning a Playstation product. I really like all types of Formula 1 games from those arcades to the true simulations (mostly mods of decent games), but I was not willing to buy a console to enjoy an official game.

Now this times might be over, but looking at the cause for the drop, seem like we wont see any official F1 games anytime soon which is quite dumb. FIA was always way to greedy, especially around the F1 brand, just one look at the official F1 store at formula1.com reveals that they are idiots with the prices they demand for gimick products.

Well one can always hope that the PC will get a decen't official F1 game someday in the future, maybe made by SimBin, that would be nice.

When I bought my PS3 - it was namely for Rock Band, but being a big F1 fan I got the 2007 game.

It's really not that great, the shadows and f'n lense flares are irritating as hell. High-speed physics seem to be lacking with the sim level high.

I hope a good studio gets to do the next one.

F1 probably asked far too much simply to get out of a 1 platform deal. Why would you want your multi billion pound franchise tied to a underperforming (market wise) platform? It would have been fine for them if the PS3 had done a PS2, but that isnt terribly likely and so it makes much more sense to jump ship and try to go multi platform, or at least to a platform with a larger install base.

Give it to Turn 10!

exclusive license in general are bad for the industry. look what EA has done with exclusive ownership of almost every major sports franchise :(

I woud love a good F1 game on the 360... after leaving Europe... I really miss the sport. (That and Rally)

fucking finally. maybe someone can now make a decent F1 game. But I guess EA will snap it up and we will get some washed up shit

needs more officially licensed Geoff Crammond action amirite?!!

Well I hope it gets relaesed on different platforms. The Sony published F1 games werent bad for arcade type racers but failed miserably as a sims. A full F1 game based on the ISI (rFactor) engine would be damn awesome.