Why do people say Gran Turismo isnt big in NA??????

[Onyxmeth]

Serious_frusting said:

Onyxmeth said:

leo-j said:
How so? GT 5 prologue outsold GT4 prologue in North america

No shit it did. GT 4 Prologue didn't sell anything in America since it wasn't released in America. You didn't notice that GT4 Prologue's NA sales say 0.00, it has no release date and no box art for that region?

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=3425&region=All

Here's an excerpt from GT4's Wiki page also:

Gran Turismo 4 Prologue' (グランツーリスモ4プロローグ, guran tsūrisumo 4 purorōgu) is a racing video game of the Gran Turismo series for Sony Playstation 2 which is published by Polyphony Digital. It was released on December 4, 2003 in Japan and Southeast Asia, January 15, 2004 in Korea, and May 26, 2004 in Europe.^[1] For undisclosed reasons, the game was not released in the North American market.

 

The funny thing with you is though is that you say GT3 got such huge sales in NA because of bundles would that be correct?

If thats the case then lets take like i dont know 3.5 Million sales away from it.

Then that Puts the series over it's whole life time in America stagnant. Far from the SERVERE decline you are portraying.

That's not correct. That was Montana Hatchet that said GT3 was heavily bundled, not me. Is it really too hard to quickly look over the thread and check if I said that and not merely assume it?

If you go with that though, then you're correct in there not being a sharp decline in NA sales, but you've then effectively given up your argument that GT was ever as big as Halo 3 in NA. In either case, you're definitely wrong about something.

So which is it? Was GT3 big in NA because of popularity, or because of massive bundling?