Cross-generation series sales breakthroughs.

[Michael-5]

Yakuzaice said:

Michael-5 said:

Yakuzaice said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Michael-5 said:

Forza Motorsport

Forza Motorsport 1 sold 1.07 million, Forza Motorsport 2 sold 4.02 million, and Forza Motorsport 3 is looking to do about the same.

You're missing the point. Only Forza really fits.

Even there it was mostly due to bundles otherwise it would have been more of a gradual increase rather than quadrupling sales.

Anyways, how are we counting games that change significantly.  Fallout 3 for example.  Not sure what the first 2 sold, but I doubt it was 6 million.  Madden and Fifa/WE had a pretty big increase from the PS1 generation to PS2.  But there are so many of those games it wasn't an immediate jump.

Forza Motorsport 2 was bundled a year after it was released. By that point the game had sold about 3.5 million copies. the bundle only helped on the last 500k. It was bundled twice though (once with Viva Pinyata, once with Halo 3: ODST).

Forza 2 was bundled with Marvel Ultimate Alliance starting in October 2007.  The game had been out less than five months, and sold less than a million before the bundle kicked in.

Oh yea I forgot about that one. Regardless, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance/ Forza Motorsport 2 bundle was released November 25th 2007, and by this point Forza had sold 1.809 million units, and due to the holiday boost it sold 224k the week before this bundle was introduced. After the bundle was introduced, the game sold 214k, so you see it really didn't affect sales of Forza 2 that much. Also it was limited time, and only on Elite models of the 360, which at the time accounted for 10% of 360 sales.

So :P