ZenfoldorVGI said:
Earlier, you implied that people who didn't believe it would pass 10 million were being ludcrious. I say, and stick with me on this, GT5 could pass 10m if it's bundled, in a few years. I doubt it will match the sales pace of Halo 3 without a bundle. Do you think it could? It seems to me like a lot of people want this game to be the "biggest game of the generation" or "biggest exclusive" but it's simply not. 360 and Wii have both had bigger games, and have similar huge games lined up for the future. I don't know if Reach will have similar sales to Halo 3, but it'll be interesting to compare GT5 to Halo 3 and Kart. GT5 needs to go out this year, and Sony knows it. That, plus a price cut, will help them gain a lot of ground, and they were nearing the point of no return for this generation. How will MS respond? We shall see. :) |
Even without bundles (and it's almost a given that the game will eventually be bundled), I thing GT5 has a fair chance of passing 10 million. Halo 3 sold almost 4 million copies in its first week. I don't think GT5's opening week is going to be as powerful, its sales will be more evenly laid out. Look at GT4's Others (GT's best region) chart. You'll see that the first few weeks, the graph has a fairly large slope, but after about week 15, the graph turns almost into a straight line, which shows that the weekly sales were pretty much constant. Now, GT3's sales are only tracked on a weekly basis in Japan, which is a shame, because I think that would've given us a better approximation to GT5 (both games were released their respective system's first GT and first real racing sim). Plus, with the demo alone selling 4 million... I think you get my point.
