| darthdevidem01 said: 3.75 Million is BIG at retail for a demo. |
I wouldn't know, the only other game of this type with any current context would be ODST, which is on 5.25M in about 9 months at $20 more.
| darthdevidem01 said: Besides GT4 Prologue has sold 1.36 Million and the final game sold over 10 Million. |
OK, but that's not a refelection of the Playstation 3's software is it?
| darthdevidem01 said: So GT hasn't done those numbers at retail since the PS2 days because it hasn't had a mainline game released since the Ps2 days, is it that hard to figure this out? |
No that much is obvious, it is also obvious that the PS2 days are also long, long dead.
| darthdevidem01 said: MGS4 sold a bit less than the top selling MGS games, but it sold more than the lowest selling one so its done great sales for itself God of War 3 is trending above GOw 1 & 2 in sales They shouldn't even be in this discussion, both those games are doing as well as other games in their franchise. |
Ok those games may be doing as "well" as their predecessors, but they have not sold as well as Battlefield: Bad Company , CoD4, WAW, MW2, L4D2 ...bear in mind, all of those are the more popular followups to games already released this generation. According to you, these sequels should be getting progressively less popular because people already had a taste of these franchises. Instead they actually became more popular with each interation.
| darthdevidem01 said: Gran Turismo 5 will do the same and a potential 10 Million seller WILL sell lots of systems. |
TBH at this stage, while i'm not ruling out GT5 could be as popular as one of it's predecessors, that does not rule out the possibility that sequels to franchises that are just as popular (especially, recently)will still do better.
God of war 3 (and FFXIII) did very little to sell Playstation 3's in March despite 3 years worth of PS2 people wanting to hop on the current gen bandwagon for these "next gen debuts", but the sequel to Modern Warfare did sell hardware and it was even more popular. So if anything, with current evidence, we should be more inclined to believe that poplular franchises sell systems and popular franchises get ever more popular.
| darthdevidem01 said: Reply to my bet challenge int he other GT5 vs Halo Reach thread. |
Can't you just reiterate it here?
