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BMaker11 on 21 June 2010
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yo_john117 said:
BMaker11 said:

I think someone should get banned if they say GT5 won't sell as much as its predecessors because the PS2 doesn't have the same install base.

Explain MGS4 vs MGS3? MGS3 on a 100M userbase vs. what? 10M? 12M PS3 when MGS4 came out?

What possible spin can you put on that to cater to your argument that since the userbase isn't as high, there's no way that GT5 can perform as predicted? 

It's such a weak statement that it just *catch this* doesn't contribute to the thread. Which is apparently ban worthy

#sneers

I mean, dude wanted to bring in attach rates and what not to prove his side. Well look at it like this. GT 2001 Tokyo Concept and GT4: Prologue both sold like 1.5M. GT5P sold 3.75, according to VGC, and that doesn't even include digital downloads. No GT game has sold under 9M, and this could very well be the most anticipated one so far (judging by Concept --> GT3, GT4P --> GT4). And you all want to say that Reach is just gonna be some juggernaut and GT5 is nothing? 

You all better hope that Reach gets the same marketing treatment that Halo 3 got. I mean, cause think about it. People play Halo for the multiplayer. ODSTs multiplayer was just as good as Halo 3s yet it sold so much less, and I'd chuck that up to marketing. So here's hoping to some Reach Mountain Dew

Wanting people to get banned for saying that is just purely stupid.

And ODST's multiplayer WAS Halo 3's multiplayer....THE EXACT SAME THING.

I realize I was wrong with the multiplayer. I just played online with a friend one time on Firefight mode and found it very fun and thought there was more to it than that.

But the thing about banning for saying something like that.....that was a shot at the mods, because I got banned for saying "not reserved" in a thread, and because it "didn't contribute to the thread" I was banned, hence the *catch this*.

Yet this notion of "PS3 isn't as popular as PS2, so GT5 won't outsell Halo" is just as much of a non-contribution, because #1, the highest selling GT was released when the PS2 had LESS units sold than what the PS3 has now, so that completely destroys this argument. Along with a first GT of the gen always selling extremely high, and better than the sequel. It's just a bogus statement that does nothing but incite page long responses proving it wrong completely, yet it's been repeated SO many times in this thread. It doesn't further discussion if every 6 -7 posts, someone says "GT5 won't do what we're predicting because PS3 hasn't sold 130M consoles, but PS2 has", when the argument in terms of sales for the series has proven the opposite side of the argument. Not furthering discussion -> not contributing to thread -> ban if the mods want to stay consistent in their reasons for banning people.

But at the end of the day, that part of the post was just a joke ;)