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papflesje on 16 February 2009
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damndl0ser said:
papflesje said:
@ damnd: Do you actually think that this game can stab in GT's armour? That would be like KZ2 trying to outsell or outshine Halo 3 or Halo 4 at launch :-/

 

Yes I do, but probably not the way you invision it.  M$ will more than likely bundle this with another game and sell it for the holidays.  Will it actually compete with GT5 on its own?  Probably not.  But I do believe it will siphon off people who are on the fence and that is exactly what M$ is wanting it to do.  Give a low cost driving sim alternative that is less than half the price of what you would need to pay for a PS3 and GT5.  People who already own a PS3 will not be swayed either way, even if Forza 3 is the next coming. 

 

True, that has been MS' strategy for some time now (as I've stated in the first post I made here), but I can't see it working too well with this game, especially against the might of GT.  GT is a household name, and I do believe that it will come close to destroying pretty much every game with wheels that comes close to it.

The way you say it (bundle it with another game) is however a good move this time, as the game (or bundle) on its own wouldn't (probably) stand a chance.

Funny though that some claim that the games won't have an impact on each other (while that's exactly the reason that MS would put this game before, or close to GT's release).

And on another note:

The first person to mention GT5 was actually a DS / Wii owning person (if you check his profile), not "some sony fanboy".

I was then the next one to mention it, questioning whether MS' usual strategy would work against a well-known name as polyphony and GT.  If that was wrong, then I'd like to know why, especially since GoW also immediately gets used in KZ2 and R2 threads, but that's apparently okay.

It's easy to then go and point at "sony fanboys coming in and trying to derail the thread by mentioning GT5" when I absolutely had no intention of doing so, and it was merely a post trying to discuss whether it would be a good strategy for MS to do so (and Damndloser's idea would indeed create some balance against GT5).

But hey, fine.

Shout "SONY FANBOY" some more, then act like you're all better since you are not reporting the sony fanboys and that you're acting like the bigger man.