Who actually believes that GT series IS more popular than Halo series.

[Onyxmeth]

The said:
@Oxxy good analysis but it has nothing to do with popularity. Let's take another popular game from a very different genre (one that was not the same during this decade, FIGHTING is what I'm talking about) :

Street Fighter. Can anyone deny the popularity of SF? Surely we could argue Soul Calibur franchise SOLD a lot more during the 2000 decade.

The last Street Fighter game (previous to SF4 of course) was released last decade, in 1999 and it was its third version : Street Fighter III : Third Strike. After that no more SF, for more than 9 years (arcade) and close to 10 years (consoles).

A LOT of rain has fallen in 10 years. Industry has grown, the market has changed, new genres and gameplay have emerged. Fighters were not the same, even if the Tekkens and the Soul Caliburs were still in regular production.

However, the popularity of SF can't be denied. Even if Soul Calibur had gone to sell even lots more of what SF2 did in its heyday (just an hipothesis) due to marketing expansion and the undiable growth of the industry in the 2000s, nobody could deny SF2's popularity. SF is the father of fighting games.

Gran Turismo is the father of racing games. And I'm not trying to equal the popularity of these games, but nobody can deny GT is for racing what SF is for fighting, even if on a smaller scale.

And NOTE: I'm talking about SF here, a franchise that was forgotten for a whole decade, a genre that used to be on consoles what FPS are today. Obviously SF4 wouldn't go to sell close to the likes of Halo, not even now when the "Arcade fever" is long gone everywhere but in Japan. So please, if you see SF4 sales just barely around 2 million after 2 months of sales, don't come to me preaching SF2 is a bad example or it's not as "popular" as "game x"....I wanted to do this extreme comparison to show you what popularity can do even if you're forgotten for 10 years.

GT has not been forgotten, never, and it still rides along the highways of these times. It's popularity has not diminished, and it will live up to it with its next release.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at with this Soul Calibur vs. Street Fighter comparison. No Soul Calibur has ever outsold Street Fighter 2 and the only reason SC may have been more popular is simply because Capcom was spending the majority of the 2000's diluting and ignoring Street Fighter instead of giving a shit. Not to mention you totally forgot about Smash Bros. who's popularity shits on both of them.

I don't think it has a lot to do with this Halo vs. GT thing also because you are talking about same genre games, while Halo/GT are of polar opposite genres. I figured this thread was being used to see which would outsell which, since garnering popularity for two games in seperate genres isn't easy. I figured only sales could provide an answer, or in this case, sales potential, since GT5 isn't out yet. Obviously though, I'm talking about something totally different than others in this thread, so I figure I'll exit at this point, since I don't have much interest in this other version of a popularity contest based off old trends and old brand values.