| Hyruken said: I will take that bet BHR Gran Turismo 5 will NOT sell 3m copies first week. Europe 1. and more importantly UK is Gran Turismo's biggest selling region. Things have changed a lot since ps2 generation. 2. At the time of GT4 releasing there were 7.5m PS2's in UK and it was a game on a console that had no real competition. This time around for GT5 there are just 3m PS3's in UK, a drop of over 50%. Plus there are two other competitors which have both outsold it. In fact even 360 is nearly at sales of 2 to 1 over PS3 there. That will have a huge effect on sales this time around. Plus Pro-logue was never a full price game. It started at £25 here, nearly half the price of a full titled game. Then in a matter of weeks it was at the £15 mark and below, which it is at today. Plus the game was bundled with most PS3's here for a period, it came with mine. I think they even ran a LBP GT5:p bundle for ages if i remember right. If you look at UK pre-order sites charts your see it mirrors this chart pretty much. If you look at those charts GT5 seems to be around the 8-10 mark. With even other racing games ahead of it i.e F1 2010. 3.This generation is full of games that sold less then their previous game in the last gen i.e GTA4. I expect GT5 will be another one of those games. |
1. Care to give link ? As far as I know racing is just as popular for example in Spain, italy and Germany. Of course as even PS3 has sold most in UK in europe GT5 will probaby sell most there but you can't dismiss other countries by saying that racing isn't popular outside of uk. If it sells less in uk than previous entries it could sell more in continental europe.
2. Don't remember GT3 ? PS2's Install base at the time it was released was lower than PS3's install base is today.
3. There are also some examples where reduced install base size hasn't affected much to the overall sales. MGS4 and RE5 for example.
I really don't see any reasons why GT5 couldn't match the sales of its predeccors. Maybe delays have affected little to its brand name but even that is pretty much just speculation at this point. I guess we will see after it's released.
