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Dianko on 14 January 2009
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Munkeh111 said:
Hyruken said:

The fact that it has sold so many units on just one console is amazing. Other games have had to add up their totals across many platforms to just get close to it. Personally i can't stand the game nor the series but i respect the numbers that it posts. The only thing that will beat it will be Halo 4 in my view. And i would like some of what the people are toking on who say GT5 will beat it.. If GT4 sold 9m with 120m consoles to sell to what makes you rhink it will sell 10m (as it has to sell that to beat Halo 3) on a console that has just 20m to sell to? Loco.

Because GT 3 sold 15m, and it launched on the PS2 with an install base of 12m (according to a previous post). GT games seem to be something that are much more succesful on their first release of a generation, as GT 2 is the lowest selling game, from VGC figures, at 9.37m, and GT 4 is also low, at about 10m from polyphony digital shipment figures. Conversly 1 and 3 sold 11m and 15m, so we are expecting great things from GT 5

I think the only other competition is GTA next and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2:

1 Halo 3 Microsoft 567,053 N/A 8.95m 17th Nov 08
2 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Activision 80,928 N/A 6.93m 03rd Nov 08
3 Grand Theft Auto IV Rockstar Games 81,255 N/A 6.69m 08th Oct 08

These are the top selling Xbox games atm, and while there is a tiny chance of GTA IV beating Halo 3 through increased sales thanks to DLC (tiny, tiny, tiny .... tiny chance)

There is a definite possibility that the next IW game could breach that 9m, and a very very very real chance of the next GTA, assuming it comes out in 2010 of selling 10m... we shall see

 

GT3 really isn't the best example to use to support your argument, since it was bundled pretty heavily at one point.