damndl0ser said:
GTAIV is a much bigger franchise IMO than GT5. I am not saying that GT5 will suck or do horrible, I am just stating that there is almost no way it will sell as high as some of you think. Go into your local game store and look around for a second. Do you see any GT5 posters or ads? The excitement for it isn't there, buth I guess there is a lot of time left for it to build. Lets just say that you are correct and there are 27 million consoles out for sony when this is released. In order for it sell 9 Million units it would have to have an attach rate of 1:3 and there is no way this will happen. Even if the PS3 takes off and sells 36 million units it would still be 1:4. It would have to do Halo3 numbers and this is never going to happen. IMO they should have never let this property take so long to get to market, people have lost a lot of interest for it and I think that is very sad. I love the GT series. |
I'm saying 8 million, giving roughly the same attach rate as GTA4. Grand Theft Auto is a bigger series than Gran Turismo, but both are huge. However, GTA4 was a multiplat, and the same game could sell 8 million as an exclusive and 4 million on a single console when multiplat.
GTA4 is currently at ~11 million units sold. PS3+Xbox 360 at the moment is ~40 million, which gives us that 1:4 ratio. And sales for it have dried up a lot. I remember GTA4 on PS3 was at around 4.5 million in july.
EDIT: Okay, no they haven't. Holy hell, GTA IV has legs!