8-13 First Day Sales & Some More Famitsu Predictions

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FilaBrasileiro said:

ioi said:

Kaz > Me? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

I played the game at E3, I'm a long-time GT fan, and I'm telling you that it was basically GT4. I would definitely label the game as more of a spinoff than a mainline GT title. That's just my opinion having played the game and followed the game industry for the last 10 years. I'm not spinning anything - I spoke to the lead designer on the game and played it. The dev team is pretty small for the title relative to GT5.

As for sales, I expect the game to do 300-400k on the main initial release and maybe another 200k with budget releases and I don't think there is a single region in which the title will outsell GT5 - I struggle to see what logic you are using to suggest this really (aside from larger PSP userbase but as I've said that is offset hugely by the fact that GT is more of a home console title).

As for Monster Hunter, the title has a good shot at 1.5m in Japan which is exactly where most people pegged it - I don't think anybody who follows the industry in detail expected it to do any better than that so I'm not sure what your point here is either. MH3 has performed exactly as expected.

Just basically Kaz's words about his game and automotives in general hold a lot more weight than almost anybody else's words on the matter, so if Kaz says that his game is a mainline Gran Turismo, I'm sorry but I don't think a lot of people would take your word over the man himself, hence Kaz > you.

I expect GT5 to outsell GTP PSP worldwide but not in Japan, the userbase is just too big to make up for the fact that a racing sim is indeed better played in a console.

As for MH3, it performed as expected according to certain people but not others, some Nintendo fanboys were expecting 3 million for the title. I doubt it'll get to 1.5 million, I expected 1.8 million based on Wii's huge userbase and the fact that MH3 has gained a lot of popularity over the past few years, I think 1 million is still superb, but I don't expect much more than that, we'll see the numbers for the next 2-4 weeks and then we'll have a good idea where it'll end up.

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