What happened to the Americas' support of the Gran Turismo series???

[fighter]

Hus said:

fighter said:
The main reason is that racing games are not your typical online game (the north-american console market is ahead of others online-wise).

The second main reason would be that having a western console with two great complementary racing franchises, one arcadey (PGR) and the other a true sim (forza), obviously gave north americans alternatives.

Should be mentionned also that Polyphony Digital having had development issues with the fifth installment (GT5hd then Prologue then wait... wait... 2010?) has given the fans a lot of time to look elsewhere and GT5 should perform even worse than expected because of that.

- GT4 had no online, was supposed to have it.  The NA market was egerly awaiting it then it was cut and many many people said F that. 

- Need for Speed was a 6 million seller, it did not hurt GT sales. 

- WTF what dev issues. 

Dude demo - 4.5 million.  Its not hard to figure that GT is as strong as ever.

Had GT4 had online it would have sold better in NA

Every additional racing game reduces other racing games' sales - as they are substitute products of one another

If you haven't noticed PD have regularly been unable to publish GT5 since 2006

GT5 prologue sold less than a million in the US and it came out when the PS3 portfolio was basically empty

Dude, metarankings and sales are indicating a decadent franchise in NA :

Gran Turismo	94.71%	96%
Gran Turismo 2	92.52%	93%
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec	94.30%	95%
Gran Turismo 4	89.43%	89%
Gran Turismo (PSP)	74.45%	75%

Gran Turismo Series Software Title List

Japan

Title	Units (K)*	Release
Gran Turismo	2,550	1997/12/23
Gran Turismo 2	1,710	1999/12/11
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	1,890	2001/04/28
Gran Turismo Concept 2001 TOKYO	430	2002/01/01
Gran Turismo 4 “Prologue”	790	2003/12/04
Gran Turismo 4	1,270	2004/12/28
Gran Turismo 5 “Prologue”	740	2007/12/13
Gran Turismo PSP	320	2009/10/01
Total	9,700

North America

Title	Units (K)*	Release
Gran Turismo	3,990	1998/05/12
Gran Turismo 2	3,960	1999/12/23
Gran Turismo 3	7,140	2001/07/10
Gran Turismo 4 “Prologue”	-	Unreleased
Gran Turismo 4	3,040	2005/02/22
Gran Turismo 5 “Prologue”	1,050	2008/04/15
Gran Turismo PSP	620	2009/10/01
Total	19,800

Europe

Title	Units (K)*	Release
Gran Turismo	4,300	1998/05/08
Gran Turismo 2	3,680	2000/01/28
Gran Turismo 3	5,850	2001/07/20
Gran Turismo Concept 2002 TOKYO-GENEVA	1,000	2002/07/17
Gran Turismo 4 “Prologue”	410	2004/05/26
Gran Turismo 4	6,500	2005/03/09
Gran Turismo 5 “Prologue”	2,750	2008/03/28
Gran Turismo PSP	820	2009/10/01
Total	25,310

Asia

Title	Units (K)*	Release
Gran Turismo	10	1997/12/23
Gran Turismo 2	20	1999/12/11
Gran Turismo 3	10	2001/04/28
Gran Turismo Concept 2001 TOKYO	10	2002/01/01
Gran Turismo Concept 2002 TOKYO-GENEVA	120	2002/07/25
Gran Turismo 4 “Prologue”	160	2003/12/04
Gran Turismo 4	170	2004/12/28
Gran Turismo 5 “Prologue”	100	2008/02/15
Gran Turismo PSP	40	2009/10/01
Total	640

Worldwide

Title	Units (K)*
Gran Turismo	10,850
Gran Turismo 2	9,370
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	14,890
Gran Turismo Concept Series	1,560
Gran Turismo 4 “Prologue”	1,350
Gran Turismo 4	10,980
Gran Turismo 5 “Prologue”	4,650
Gran Turismo PSP	1,800
Total	55,450