| Rpruett said: This isn't even a question. People mentioning user bases? You're off base. If we're talking popularity? The Gran Turismo franchise is clearly more popular. The best selling Gran Turismo game has sold easily more than the best selling Halo game. As a matter of fact, all Gran Turismo's have sold well. Why? It's MORE popular than Halo. It's just that simple. Halo is not the end all be all. Especially on a world wide scale. Japanese could careless about Halo. Europe as whole doesn't care that much either. Gran Turismo is Halo (In America) huge in Europe and Japan. |
GT3: A Spec---PS2 had 9.1m sold when Japanese version came out, when American version came out PS2 had 11.9m sold
-The game came out 4/28/01 and stopped selling 12/28/04 because GT4 came out. So thats about 3.75 years.
-The end install base for the PS2 when GT3 stopped selling was 76m
-So in 3.75 years GT3 sold 14.87m with a start install base of 9.1m and end install base of 76m.
Halo 3:---360 had 11.6m sold when Halo 3 was released worldwide
-The game came out 9/25/07 and is still selling so we'll take todays date 4/14/09. so thats about 1.6 years.
-the current install base for the 360 is 29.7
-so in 1.6 years Halo 3 sold 9.43m with a start install base of 11.6 and end install base of 29.7
So Halo 3 has 2.15 YEARS to catch up to GT3, AND it when the 2.15 years is up it will STILL most likely be on a much smaller install base.
All this data was taken right here from vgchartz so take this as you will.
And i'm also not saying that Halo 3 will definatly catch up to GT3 but without bundles there's a pretty good chance, with some decent bundling consider it destroyed.
