Gran Turismo 5 will fail to sell...

[atma998]

Carl2291 said:

atma998 said:

I simply added some other games to your awful list of only 3 and a half games that lead you to the conclusion that a ''new iteration of a franchise outsells the last in the previous gen''.

If you want to take example of games that are more closer to GT5 in terms of behavior, why didnt you take any Need for Speed games in your theory instead of MGS, DMC or FF?

Now userbase is not everything for sure but it helps a lot to sell games. Just take a quick look at PS2 vs. PS3, XB vs. XB360 and GC vs. Wii games to see what I'm talking about. However, it's not because your userbase is 2 times bigger than it will sells 2 times more games, but something for sure it won't sell less than before and the other way around...

Something worth noting again.

MGS4 and god of War 3 wouldn't sell as well as the PS2 games because of the userbase. Yet both games have proven this wrong.

I think this is also something darth was trying to point out.

Also worth noting. The NFS games were milked to the point that they sold like ass on both PS3 and 360... Combined. Underground/Underground 2 were both new, fresh ideas riding on the back of films like Fast and Furious pushing the car modding scene.

Ok now Need for Speed games were too milked lol. Do you know how many games of the franchise was released on PS2? Seven. How many games were released on PS3? Four. And for your information not just Underground sold well on PS2, Most Wanted, ProStreet and Hot Pursuit also sold very well.

Your Fast and Furious argument is also silly. If you absolutely want to draw a conclusion from NFS sales you could say that the racing genre is declining instead of trying to find poor excuses on how bad NFS games on PS3 perform in comparison to NFS games on PS2. After all, some genres gain in popularity (like shooters right now) while some other genres are declining, that's just the way it is and the golden age of GT may be a thing from the past imo.