How well will Gran Turismo 5 do?

[Oyvoyvoyv]

Mummelmann said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

Oh, yeah. This might be relevant.

 

For the time GT3 sold most of its sales, Ps2 had these userbases in the different areas.

 

Others: 3.1M  to 16.7M

Americas: 3.4M to 21.5M

Japan: 5.6M to 13.4M

 

GT3 sold this in that period:

Others: ~ 5M

Americas: ~ 6.5M

Japan: ~ 1.9M

 

So, with this, I would say this.

 

GT5:

Others: 5-7M

Americas: 4-6M

Japan: ~ 1M

 

So I see it as a definate 10M seller.

 

 

 

I agree with this, GT 3 stayed in many top 20 bestseller lists for 3-4 or even 5 years in some places and is the very definition of legs in my book. I don't know why people suddenly expect this series to have half or one third of the sales from previous installments, makes little sense despite the relatively low (current) install base.

Before I wrote the post in this thread, I was one of those people. I originally wrote it as "Why I don't see GT5 making 10M". Then I looked at the data, and realized I was wrong, and had to change the entire post.