Analyst predicts 127m PS3 sales

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crumas2 said:

Hus said:

And i have seen nothing buy mega failures from most of you on here, why give any of you the benefit of the doubt ?

Many of you here backed selnor in his delusional crusade of Forza over GT.  Hell not a single one of you gave the Slim any chance of doing what it actually ended up doing.  Even these days many deny Gran Turismos sales capability, even though its pay for demo did 4.5 million.

 

I won't comment on Forza vs GT, but the reason some of us doubt the sales potential of GT is because the "demo" (prologue) is a completely functional version of the game.  I'm certain the "final" version will have more tracks, more features, etc., but for someone who wants to experience GT on the PS3, they can do it with the prologue and never bother buying the final version.  Even Sony didn't call it a demo... they called it a prologue, i.e. - an initial version of the game.

Now, this doesn't mean I won't be surprised if GT final comes out and 71% of all PS3 owners buy the thing... but I don't anticipate that happening.

I have never doubted GT5 sales potential. What I doubt is GT5 potential to move signifigant amounts of hardware that will change the dynamics of the console war.  If people are so fanatical to purchase a PS3 just for GT series then those same fanatical people already picked up a PS3 for Prologue.  You thrown in the people that are so fanatical about the PS3 they purchased it early on. Finally throw in the fact that out of the 40 million PS3s that will have already sold when GT5 arrives many who had to have GT5 were pushed over the edge to get thier PS3s for something else.  That doesnt leave a huge amount of people that want a consoles and GT5 only.