Talk:Formula One (video game series)

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Hi GL3N here, as there was alot of information I have put them together so it is easier at Formula_One_Games, if thats better, with links to seperate games. What do you think ?

Merged! Thanks. --Mateusc 03:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] article name

I've created the article on Domark's ancient game, and there two things going on my mind: first, shouldn't we move this to Formula One (Sony) and turn this article into a dab page for all games related to F1 (even Formula Dé), and second, shouldn't the article have some information about the first game in the series? I have it around here, but I was never able to emulate it perfectly. wS;✉ 07:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't think so because Sony game is exclusevely official FIA licensed product. --Rick Browser 23:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I do not think that that's a good enough reason to have Formula One (game) focus only on Sony's game. First, the exclusivity contract has only been in effect since 2003. There have been many officially licensed F1 video games made by companies other than Sony, and some of them have been simply called "Formula One" or something similar (see below). Second, Sony's exclusive license only applies to video games, and the term "game" may apply to other types of games (see Formula Dé). Anyway, there have been quite a few changes to some of the articles...
  • Formula One (game) is now a disambiguation page, as there are multiple games that are named "Formula One", "Formula 1", "F1 <insert year>", etc. The Domark game is listed there. Feel free to add Formula Dé and other appropriate games there.
  • Sony's series (the subject of this talk page) is now at Formula One (video game series). I believe that the title separates it from similar games well enough, as it is the only series of F1 games that is being produced currently. However, there may be some confusion between Sony's series and the EA Sports F1 Series of games; perhaps a disambiguation link is in order at the top of this article.
  • The first game in Sony's series now has its own article at Formula 1 (PS1).
--Majin Izlude 15:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PAL and NTSC releases

I am removing the following sentence: The game was originally only released in Europe in the PAL format, but in recent years full NTSC compatibility has been added. According to the GameFAQs database, each of the first four games of the series had either an NTSC U/C (North America) or NTSC J (Japan) release. Majin Izlude 15:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sony/Playstation??

This is kind of weird, but this thing says that it's made by Sony and only for the Playstations but I have Formula One 2000 for Game Boy Color, and on the game (old, dont even know where I got it so only have the game) it doesn't mention anything about Sony... --Yarnalgo 01:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

On the game (the one I have) it actually has a Take-Two Interactive logo on it... also I found these: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] .... but when I looked for other games in the series on none-Sony consoles I couldn't find any......plus this page hasn't been edited for like 2 months so if no one responds in a couple days I'm gonnna put it down that it is on Game Boy Color too. --Yarnalgo 02:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I'm marking it down for GBC. --Yarnalgo 19:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I've proposed merging F1 World Championship 2 into Formula One (video game series). F1 World Championship 2 only has two English non-wiki g-hits, neither of which are about that game, so it seems to fail WP:Notability.--Kathy A. 16:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Something of interest to note: The GameFAQs list of N64 titles starting with "F" has no games called F1 World Championship or F1 World Championship 2 -- but there are entries for F-1 World Grand Prix and F-1 World Grand Prix II, which were developed by Paradigm Entertainment.
It is likely that F1 World Championship 2 is really the same game as F1 World Grand Prix II, and as such, it should be merged into that article and taken off the list here (as it's clearly not a part of the Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool line of F1 games, the subject of this article). The same goes for F1 World Championship and F-1 World Grand Prix (though no merging is needed there). As for the other N64 game, F1 Pole Position: It was developed by Human Entertainment, a Japanese company, whereas the games of this article were made in the UK.
All of the N64 games should be removed from this article. Majin Izlude talk 17:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:F1 05 official.jpg

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[edit] Article split

Article become very long and splited per Wikipedia:Summary style and WP:CVG --Ciao 90 14:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future of series

Does anyone know if the f1 video game series will come to Xbox 360 and have sony signed a new contract to make the games.

It seems that nobody is developing an F1 game at the moment. Sony's exclusive contract was for four seasons (2003-2006). They've been mysteriously silent about a 2007 season game (F1 was a no-show at the Leipzig conference), and nothing has been mentioned of them (or any other company) getting a new licensing deal from the FOA/FOM. To top it off, fifty employees at Sony Studio Liverpool were laid off a few months ago. It's not looking good for F1 gamers. (I see that someone already edited the article to refer to the series in the past tense.) Majin Izlude talk 16:27, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
F1 games sells poor in USA and Japan and this is because nobody in gaming industry is interested in develop a game that will obvious lose money invested. Geoff Crammond stated in EGM July 2007 he is not interested in develop Grand Prix 5 soon maybe in future who knows? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ciao 90 (talk • contribs) 12:23, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
From what I've heard, the only reason there wasn't a 2007 game was because they were too busy making F1 CE. Clearly Studio Liverpool havn't given the Series priority, but I Dought there will be no 2008 Game - LinczoneTalk/Watch 13:23, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Codemasters exclusive F1 rights

One thing to say about that, so glad that EA didn't get it, they would've wrecked it, Codemasters will make brilliant graphics, let's hope everything else will be just as good.--80.4.6.146 (talk) 12:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)