What reviewers/developers/enthusiasts like is not what sells games.

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LordTheNightKnight said:

Lurker said:

The userbases weren't that big when GTA IV came out. The next one will be even bigger.

Userbase does not increase sales.

If it did, Gears 2 would have sold 2-3x Gears 1, not 1x.

But that did remind me to add it to the fallacies on the A/B/C list.

Plus IV hasn't sold 17 million, Seece. And please don't tell me you're including the expansion packs.

Userbase may not increase sales but it can easily limit them and the 17 million GTAIV sales come from Take-2 reporting 17 million copies shipped and 5 million copies of Red Dead Redemption have been shipped.