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lostintheodyssey on 24 August 2010
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Dallinor said:
SecondWar said:

Yes. Just look at the pre-orders

Halo Reach (5 weeks): 1,071,366

Gran Turismo 5 (12 weeks): 143,898

Bit of a gap there, even if Reach launches 7 weeks before GT5. And then look where Reach was at at 12 weeks to launch

Halo Reach (12 weeks): 384,059

Thats nearly double what GT5 has at the same time prior to launch. Then compare GT5's precursor to Halo 3's expansion pack

GT5 Pronolgue: 3.83 million

Halo 3 ODST: 5.53 million

Personally I dont think the argument for GT5 is too convincing. id say its reasonable to assume GT5 will have better sales in the long-run compared to Reach, but then look at Halo 3. It had a massive launch which tailed-off fast, but managed to keep selling fairly well and eventually broke the 11 million mark, which looked like a long shot even after launch.

You are looking at pre-orders in NA. Halo 3 sold 8 million copies in NA, with only 3 million for the rest of the world. Nearly 3 quarters of it's sales come from NA alone.

GT5 prologue sold just over 1m in NA. So roughly a quarter of it's sales coming from that region.( Not including DL sales.)

 

 

Well NA is a big part of both series.  If you look at the NA sales for Gran Turismo according to Vg chartz it makes up about 36% of the series total sales.  Europe makes up about 46% and Japan makes up about 18%.  With each main GT title NA sales are always over twice as much as Japan. 

That means that those NA pre-order numbers are very important since over a third of GT sales come from the region.  Everyone knows that Halo Reach is going to get it's usual massive numbers in NA because the fps is king there all you have to do is look at the pre order charts each month or the bestselling titles each year. 

The big question is can GT get the numbers it needs in the Americas to keep pace with Halo judging by the pre order numbers it's not looking too good we will have to wait and see how it sells after launch.  But right now it looks like PS3 owners are going to overlook it and buy COD Blackops and MOH first.