Microsoft: "It's ganna be a tough holiday for Sony"

[darthdevidem01]

RAZurrection said:

darthdevidem01 said:

Right:

1.  In terms of a hardware boost Halo Reach won't give much because a mainline Halo game has already released. But with Gran Turismo 5, its the first main Gran Turismo of the generation, there are tons of racing fans in Europe waiting for this game to pick a PS3 up.

That just means todays gamers are more familiar with the Halo brand, thus they will be more inclined to buy it and a new console also. GT is old and too long a gap between released. People just stopped caring. 

darthdevidem01 said:

2. We are discussing the impact of GT5, so why should I care whats the best selling this generation? I showed you how powerful the Gran Turismo franchise is.

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Because GT5 will be released this generation. This is the market it's performance is based on, not 6 years ago.

You mean, how powerful the GT franchise "was" right?  What about GT Prologue and GTPSP? You didn't mention. This generations iterations aren't nearly as popular, not even half at best to worst.

Also, now we are not soley discussing the "impact" of GT5, this is about Microsoft expecting it to be tough for Sony, which given that CoD and Halo are the biggest brands in gaming today (Wii megahits excluded) most likely will fare better then the nostalgia of PS2's glory days 6 years ago.

Saying that GT5 will do more for systems because it's the "first" (3rd) iterant this gen is like saying god of war 3 would sell more systems than Modern Warfare 2 because, hey people already played CoD2, CoD 3, CoD4 and CoD:WAW...but gow3 has PS2 fans just waiting to jump in.

lol I'm not even gonna bother with this. If GT is so "weak" now I wonder why GT5:Prologue a demo that even big GT fans like myeslef didn't buy has sold more than its closest competitor int he Racing Simulation genre and more than any other gran Turismo prologue (granted GT4:prologue wasn't released worldwide).