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enrageorange on 11 August 2010
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Jaffar Sholva said:
snfr said:
enrageorange said:

why are people saying japan is a bigger market for GT. I highly doubt the developers and publisher care about which region has higher proportional sales. 1mil in Japan is not better then 2mil in America. People are greatly overestimating EMEAA sales. The only way GT5 has a shot at 10mil is selling a good 3-4mil in America, which is very possible to happen in the long run. But saying Japan is more important then America is just funny.

GT4 only sold 2.81 units in America, but it reached 10 million WW. I only mention this here because I wanted to show that people shouldn't underestimate EMEAA sales.

Finally! That's what I mean. The underestimation of EMEAA sometimes leads to ignoring this market or thinking that America = world. Sometimes you should check former sales of a franchise. GT3 sold 14 million. At its release there were lesser PS2 consoles sold than PS3 are now. And as snfr said, GT4 managed to sell 10 million without huge sales in America. So EMEAA is HUGE regarding Gran Turismo. You'll see.

Grand Turismo 4 sold what it did with an install base bigger then PS3 will likely ever reach. Grand Turismo 3 reached 14mil because of 7million sales from America... You need to check former sales of the franchise. Like I said without 3-4mil sales from America it won't reach 10mil. EMEAA is going to be greatly overestimated. GTA has been a bigger franchise there and even being multiplatform it sold far worse in EMEAA then San Andreas.