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RPG on 02 December 2008
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selnor said:
RPG said:
Dallinor said:
selnor said:

I think Forza will have a bigger impact in NA then EU. It's a bigger seller there.

GT5 won't have any problems against Forza, it's a much bigger franchise. In fact GT5:P outsold Forza 2 in EU, and Forza has been out for over a year longer.

As for hardware sales, Forza 3 will need to be very impressive to pull car fanatics away from GT.

Alan Wake is a new IP and as such we can't judge it's sales. For all we know it could recieve terrible reviews and be a total flop. (I doubt it though, it looks great.)

The unannounced titles could contain a few bombshells, but as things stand at the moment it looks like MS have just had one their strongest (if not the strongest) software showings for a holiday season, and they will be hard pressed to match it in the coming years.

Sadly yes, those titles could indeed slip into 2010.

Forza 3 was heavily bundled in NA for a very long period of time so it's not big as GT anywhere. GT is such as monster of a franchise it will shine no matter what competition it has, the fact that Forza 3 is what MS have to combat GT5 is saying a lot.

I'm not really sure what you mean by your post. I bought my PS2 bundled officially with GT3. GT3 was bundled for ages here. So your arguement is? My point also is that GT 5 will not sell like it's predecessors. Why? The userbase is waferthin, and the software sales for exclusives are poor. GT5 is 12 months away. EU is loving the 360 at the moment so much so that with no releases for 360 and R2 debut in EU saw the 360 this week nearly outsell PS3 2:1. If you think that looks to change anytime soon, well I dont think so.

Everyone needs to remember to that we are likely to see a Slimline 360 next year, which again would cut the price and increase the demand. Also anyone who thinks that a gap of nearly 10 mill wont effect devs choice for making 360 exclusive are high. They could do it exclusive get the game out 1 year earlier and move onto the next project. So in effect will have more profit due to less dev time and more games over a period of 360's life.

 

 

Oh no, your one of those install base = sales people, there is no hope for you sadly. :( Market saturation buddy......market saturation.