Pineapple on 12 August 2009
| shanbcn said: People say that GT3 sold 7 million in NA because of bundles. Well i just got NPD top 10 for year 2001 and 2002, yes Gran Turismo 3 was in top 10 2 consecutives years. 2001 Top 10 Video Game Titles, Sorted by Units ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RANK PLATFORM / TITLE PUBLISHER RELEASE DATE ARP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 PS2 Grand Theft Auto 3 Rockstar Games OCT '01 $50.33 (Take 2 Interactive) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 PS2 Madden NFL 2002 Electronic Arts AUG '01 $49.62 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 GBC Pokemon Crystal Nintendo of America JUL '01 $29.24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 PS2 Metal Gear Solid 2 Konami of America NOV '01 $48.57 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 GBA Super Mario Advance Nintendo of America JUN '01 $29.85 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 PS2 Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec Sony JULY '01 $49.70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 PS2 Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 Activision OCT '01 $47.82 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 PSX Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 Activision SEPT '00 $28.83 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 GBC Pokemon Silver Nintendo of America OCT '00 $29.17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 PSX Driver 2 Infogrames NOV '00 $29.52 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: NPDFunworld TRSTS Video Games
As you can see GT3 was huge in NA and NPD doesn't count bundles. |
Fair enough. Let's see how much that is though.
By VGChartz numbers, Madden 01 sold 1.1M. Less than that in its opening year, so 900K-1 million. It is reasonable to believe that GT3 thus sold a fair bit less than this, in the 750-900K range (for 2001)
By VGChartz numbers, Madden 02 sold 2.3M. Let's assume 2M of that were in 2002, which makes GT3 slightly lower than that, at a 1.5-2M.
All in all, that's likely to be less than 3M for the two years. I wouldn't say that your data proves a lot (unless I made any errors). 2-3M could still come from bundles.
