Gran Turismo 1-4 has outsold the entire Halo series!!!!

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FlyingLotus on 14 August 2010

Mummelmann said:

Ah, I see, because the PS3 is the PSOne and PS2, right?

Shush..... don't tell them that. They still think we're in the PS2 era.

SOLIDSNAKE08 said:

its been confirmed today that GT5 has a weather system, track editor and go karts! seriously i think this is going to be the best selling in the series even beating GT3 sales of 14 million plus!

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FlyingLotus on 14 August 2010

Antabus said:

Funtime said:

Wii Sports has outsold the entire Gran Turismo franchise with 65.4 million sold.

/Thread

So what has wii sports to do with this thread?

What does halo have to do with a racing sim?

SOLIDSNAKE08 said:

its been confirmed today that GT5 has a weather system, track editor and go karts! seriously i think this is going to be the best selling in the series even beating GT3 sales of 14 million plus!

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Antabus on 14 August 2010

FlyingLotus said:

Antabus said:

Funtime said:

Wii Sports has outsold the entire Gran Turismo franchise with 65.4 million sold.

/Thread

So what has wii sports to do with this thread?

What does halo have to do with a racing sim?

What? This thread is about those 2 games. Not about wii sports or is it?

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ymeaga1n on 14 August 2010

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Grimes said:

geddesmond2 said:

Yeah that was a stupid thing of me to say. I didn't mean it was bundled with every single 360 available. I meant a Halo 3 bundle was available from the games release until over a year later just like the one available for GT3 when that released.

Not true either. Even the green special edition Halo 3 console didn't bundle Halo 3. The game bundles came well after the game launch. Because if there was a bundle at the time, I would have bought it.

The green Halo consol didn't come with the game but there was a halo 3 bundle because I know people who bought it. Also yeah I was wrong about GT5P not being bundled. I couldn't remember seeing any of them and a quick search of the internet showed up nothing.

You're wrong, there was no Halo 3 bundle at release. Why the hell would they bundle it with a regular console and not the green one? You're friends that bought bundled halo 3 units are not real.

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iHuGi on 14 August 2010

Antabus said:

Yes. Unless sony bundles GT5 with every ps3.

THIS... unless this GT5 has no CHANCE.

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d21lewis on 14 August 2010

FlyingLotus said:

Antabus said:

Funtime said:

Wii Sports has outsold the entire Gran Turismo franchise with 65.4 million sold.

/Thread

So what has wii sports to do with this thread?

What does halo have to do with a racing sim?

What's love got to do (got to do) with it?

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kain_kusanagi on 14 August 2010

Zedex said:

Gran Turismo - 10.85million Halo: 6.43million

Gran Turismo 2- 9.37million Halo 2: 8.43million

Gran Turismo 3:A- Spec - 14.89million Halo 3: 11.10million

Gran Turismo 4 - 10.55million Halo3: ODST: 5.51million

Halo Wars: 1.90million

Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack: 0.68million

Total: 45.66million Total: 34.05million

Now, taking that into consideration do you think Halo Reach will outsell Gran Turismo 5?

Yes, Halo Reach will outsell GT5 and I'll tell you why. The GT series was been successfull, that is a given. It's a great series. But as for sales lets look at it like this:

Compare individual sales. I'll use your numbers.

GT 1 and 2 came a generation before the original Xbox, so I'm going to throw them out for the purpose comparing sales from now looking back. What was the last proper game in each series? Halo 3 and GT4. Add on packs, retail demos, spin offs, and retail expansion packs don't matter. All we need to look at is the main entry of the series looking back from now.

Halo 3 outsold GT4 with far less Xbox 360s on the market than PS2s. Before that would have been GT3 and Halo 2. GT3 outsold Halo 2. So while the GT series has seen diminishing sales Halo has been increasing.

If you look at the trends the main games in each series you will see that GT peaked at GT3 and dropped significatly with the release of GT4. Halo has increased in sales with each proper release. Remember, we are only looking at proper sequals. The reason for this could be anything from heavy competition in the high quality racing sim genre to a shift in gamer taste from racing games to first persion shooters. It doesn't matter why this is, just that it is. GT is not as widely popular as it once was.

In my opinion GT5 will sell between 8 and 10 million world wide lifetime. Halo Reach will sell between 9 and 11 million world wide lifetime. I base this on the success of the last full main games in each series.

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S.T.A.G.E. on 14 August 2010

Yeah...but GT has lost its luster. Reach will outsell it.

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Zedex said:

Gran Turismo - 10.85million Halo: 6.43million

Gran Turismo 2- 9.37million Halo 2: 8.43million

Gran Turismo 3:A- Spec - 14.89million Halo 3: 11.10million

Gran Turismo 4 - 10.55million Halo3: ODST: 5.51million

Halo Wars: 1.90million

Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack: 0.68million

Total: 45.66million Total: 34.05million

Now, taking that into consideration do you think Halo Reach will outsell Gran Turismo 5?

XD I can't stop laughing!!! Hold on lemme try and catch my breath...Ok, so, GT was the king on a system that outsold all other systems during it's time by a huge margin, Halo barely even existed, and some games in the GT series were heavily bundled. And then add in the change in demographics...do you honestly think for one second you can wave this around and not get laughed at???

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