| goddog said: if GT5 were multiplat you might have a point, but unless something has changed, gt, and froza will continue to co-exist. and as for new console owners it will shift this way and that, but i doubt there is going to be a radical earth shaking change just this winter.
honestly unless your game is terrible it will sell well when cod is is out too. you only move away from pinnacle releases if your game is full of fail, or the market is going to be so sacherated say 4 or 5 fpss in a matter of two to three weeks that it will hurt sales. also on a personal note i did not like COD4 or WAW ... i play them with friends when they are over but i prefer the rainbow series of games... and the style of game ghost recon was before it became advanced warfighter/ghost recon 2.
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I believe you have it right. Aside from the fact that 360 owners in the EU aren't going to say, "man, GT5 is just so much better than Forza, so I'm just not going to buy Forza for my 360", there is also the often downplayed fact that demand for a "full" GT5 has been watered down by pre-release versions of the game. Many people buy racing games simply to satisfy their curiosity regarding what the game will be like as opposed to those who are hard-core racing sim fans. I'm one of the former... I bought GT4 on the PS2 because the graphics looked really good at a friend's house. I played it a grand total of about 6 hours, then I was done with it. Had I been able to get a pre-release version, I would never have purchased the full version, not because it would not have been really good, but because my thirst for experiencing the cool graphics had been satisfied.
So I'm not convinced that the demand for a full version of GT5 will be nearly as high as it would have been if there was only one version.
