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Forums - Sales Discussion - Halo 4 sells more in 7 weeks than GT:5 sold in its first year

Max King of the Wild said:
JayWood2010 said:
bananaking21 said:
kowenicki said:
Carl2291 said:
 

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It is clear that Gran Turismo is being shipped in high amounts and it has yet to sell through it's last shipment which is why we haven't seen another shipment.  If they were rare to find this would be a different story but you can go anywhere and buy GT5 which means it hasn't sold through it's shipment of 9.19m.  



I don't think you know how shipping works.

Bananaking and carl pretty much said everything else i would add to this thread except - GT has always had legs and is a franchise known for its legs.

Off topic - people said 360 fans were severly unrepresented here... one read through in this thread and I can say thats just not true. I don't know why people still continue thinking that

All the 360 fans on this site is almost all accounted for in this thread. And still they are out numbered by Sony fans in this thread without the big names jumping in yet.



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Well people that think it can't outsell GT5 are irational its already at 7 million units and could easily be over 8 million in a couple more weeks its the prime candidate for next years holiday bundle which will add over 2 million units of sales and by the time it will make it into the bundle it will already be around the 9 million units mark. 



bananaking21 said:

for people pointing out the GT5 was bundled

 

 

enjoy and celebrate the sales, but just dont be hypocrites and downplay GT5 sales because it was bundled after 3 years


That was a limited edition console I would be surprised if that even accounted for 100k of Halo 4 sales. 



Gt5 is over 10 million already

Halo 4 won't outsell it



Normando said:
JayWood2010 said:
Normando said:
So? It's an FPS...It's not even the best selling FPS on the 360 to come out this year...

You really want to see something impressive? Look at every racing game other than the GT series that's ever come out. GT5 sold nearly 10 million copies (PD has it at about 9.7 right now) in a genre that doesn't sell.

When the sales of the Halo series make up more than half of the lifetime sales for the entire genre let me know.


Oh I must've forgot how well Forza has sold this generation.  Only around 15m copies.  Man that is horrible. 

14.2 actually. Which as you may know is less than the 15.68 GT has sold this gen. Odd considering that Forza had 4 games this gen next to GTs 3.

Now don't get me wrong, I really like the Forza games. But the impact that Halo has on the FPS genre isn't anything like the impact GT has on racing games. It's kind of an Apples & Oranges comparo don't you think?

Way to get off topic and start talking about Forza. It's well known that Forza isn't going to sell as much as a Gran Turismo game. 



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HeavenlyWarrior said:
Gt5 is over 10 million already

Halo 4 won't outsell it


yeah, no it's not lol  Subtract around 1.5 million and their you go.  If you want to use shipped subtract 800k.  We don't know Halo 4's shipped numbers but it is likely around 8-9m it's self.




       

Ckmlb1 said:
Yes, Halo is a better selling franchise, especially in the US. On the other hand, it might be a franchise in decline.

Did old numbered Halo games get price cuts this soon into being released? Will Halo 4 sales reach Halo 3's? (on a much smaller user base when released). The Call of Duty series is the Halo killer that Killzone never was. It's easily replaced Halo as the biggest and most played first person shooter series on Xbox.


How is their a Halo killer when the games still sales extremely well? Price cut and temporary holiday disscount are two different things. Right now as far as I can tell most retailers have put halo 4 back at $60 and on another note most retailers did similar temporary price drops on pretty much every game that came out this year, so don't try to spin and make it seem like Halo was the only game that got discounted during the holidays. 



Normando said:
JayWood2010 said:
Normando said:
So? It's an FPS...It's not even the best selling FPS on the 360 to come out this year...

You really want to see something impressive? Look at every racing game other than the GT series that's ever come out. GT5 sold nearly 10 million copies (PD has it at about 9.7 right now) in a genre that doesn't sell.

When the sales of the Halo series make up more than half of the lifetime sales for the entire genre let me know.


Oh I must've forgot how well Forza has sold this generation.  Only around 15m copies.  Man that is horrible. 

14.2 actually. Which as you may know is less than the 15.68 GT has sold this gen. Odd considering that Forza had 4 games this gen next to GTs 3.

Now don't get me wrong, I really like the Forza games. But the impact that Halo has on the FPS genre isn't anything like the impact GT has on racing games. It's kind of an Apples & Oranges comparo don't you think?


Didn't even see this comment.  Just pointing out that other racers do in fact sell well.  Not saying it is more successful.  Need for Speed has dropped off a bit bt their is plenty of racers that do have success still is my point.




       

What a pointless thread. While Halo games always sell great for awhile eventually they come to a stop unlike the GT series which sells and sells. It's also a really big deal that the 360 has so few exclusives so it's no surprise that Halo and Gears sell so much because it's slim pickings. While on PS3 there is an absurd amount of exclusives. If the PS3 only had a few exclusives released in the past few years like xbox I would bet you money that GT5 would be far ahead of Halo 4, that's not the situation though.

Either way, both games have sold amazingly well and both well reach 10M and maybe more. Despite the 360 having so few exclusives which maximize sells at the same time where there is so many FPS games and Halo has to compete with the top dog in Call of Duty, it's remarkable that Halo 4 has cemented it's position as the 3rd biggest shooter franchise behind COD and Battlefield. On the other side of the fence, while GT5 has MANY exclusives to compete with on PS3, it has virtually no other racing series that even comes close to challenging it.

That's being unbiased. Try it sometime.



Why is everybody saying halo is front loaded and not a long legged title? Sure halo has great openings, but it has legs as well. Halo games dont stop selling people!