| BladeOfGod said: Gran Turismo: 50 million copies sold Halo : about 25 million copies sold So GT is 2 times stronger than Halo But Mario kills them both |
I won't be including GT5, prologue and HD or GT PSP in the following because it makes my life more difficult and GT5 and GT PSP aren't out yet.
First, the Gran Turismo series is 4 years older then the Halo series.
Second, there has been 9 different versions of Gran Turismo released for sale and there have only been 4 Halo games.
Third, Sony had 100 million Ps1's and 140 million ps2's in homes. Microsoft has 25 million Xbox's and currently 31million Xbox 360's. As you can see GT has a huge advantage as there were many more Playstation's then Xbox's in homes across the world, which gave Sony a potential 184 million more customers to purchase a GT game.
Now onto some figures.
Halo 1 has sold 6.43 million copies with a total of 25 million Xbox's owners
Halo 2 has sold 8.46 million copies with a total of 25 million Xbox's owners
Halo 3 has sold 10 million copies with a total of 31million Xbox 360s owners (Still selling now)
Halo Wars has sold 1.5 million copies with a total of 31 million XBox 360s. owners (Still selling now)
Halo 3 is currently sitting on 9.85 million at VG Chartz but VG is nearly a month out of date. I'm just going to round it up to 10million which it has most probably broke already considering it has been selling on average 30,000 copies a week for the past 4 months or so.
Gran Turismo 1 sold 10.85 million with a total of 100 million Ps1's owners
Gran Turismo 2 sold 9.37 million with a total of 100 million Ps1's owners
Gran Turismo 3 sold 14.87 million with a total of 140 million Ps2's owners
Gran Turismo 4 sold 9.65 million with a total of 140 million Ps2's owners
Now if there were 100 million Xbox's and 140 million Xbox 360's and the Halo series sold at the same attach ratio as it is now with all those extra potential customers Halo 1 could of sold 25,720,000 copies, Halo 2 could of sold 33,840,000 copies, Halo 3 could of sold a whopping, 45,000,000 copies (and is still selling) and Halo Wars could of sold 6,750,000 copies (also selling but slowly) if the Halo series had the same platform install base as GT was blessed with.
The Halo's series sales are only limited by the relatively low Xbox and Xbox 360 install base in comparison to the Playstation 1 and 2.
Halo: Reach will outsell GT5 if Microsoft get the word out that its a real successor to Halo 3 and not a stand alone expansion pack like ODST or a spin off title like Halo Wars. Halo: Reach should outsell Halo 3.
Halo is bigger then Gran Turismo.. Grand Theft Auto is bigger then Gran Turismo.
