Sometimes price just comes last and quality first, people want the bigger franchise and are willing to pay the extra money for it. I don't know about where you live mrstickball but it always come down to money with your comments, not everyone is poverty stricken and have to go for the cheaper option.
MS can do Halo-esque marketing for Forza 3 but a simple advert for GT5 saying "only for PS3" will move more systems then Forza could ever dream of. Also this is THE crown jewl for the Sony first party, by the time the game releases (christmas at best) at least here in the EU a price drop will accompany the game as well as advertising. So much can be done with the game such as a price drop to accompany the game, bundles or both!
Sony can even have their retarded monkeys ala the marketing department make the GT5 commercials and even they cannot fuck it up. Popularity wise Forza has not and I would think will not ever reach GT heights. GT5 is one of the games where people would be silly to say it would not do at least a million first week, same cannot be said for Forza.
It's like saying Killzone 2 would have outsold Halo 3 with huge advertising, was never going to happen.
