GT5 - Success of Failure? A list of pros/cons

[Michael-5]

Frieza said:

Itll sell, but not half as much as what people here think. Remember this site is full of Sony fans and they tend to hype up things a bit too much, i remember when people were predicting 5 million copies for God of War 3 and look what happened.

Theres really no interest out there for Gran Turismo 5, according to Google trends more people are searching for even Street Fighter than Gran Turismo,  Halo and Call of Duty have several fold the amount of searchs GT has, nobody has any interest in it, the games about a month away and even Tekken is getting more searchs. Assassins Creed is getting double the google hits as GT.

And PS fans think Gran Turismo 5 is gonna sell 10 million copies? when something like MW2 which people are actually do care for hasnt even sold 9 million? i actually find that laughable how deluded people are here.

I can understand that because Microsoft has something like Halo thats sales embarrass that of Killzone, Uncharted, God of War etc PS fans are latching onto Gran Turismo as their last hope. Itll sell but in the end everyone will be gutted.

MW2 still has another complete year to sell 1.4 million units in order to cross 10 million. It's currently selling about 30-40k weekly, and that will likely drop a bit due to Black Ops, but even then it will likely (just) make 10 million.

Also many of the past GT games sold as well as the biggest games on the console. GT1 was the best selling game on the PS1 (besting FFVII), and GT2 was the third best. GT3 was the second best selling game on the PS2, and GT4 was the fifth. So even if GT5 doesn't top Modern Warfare 2, it should top the 7 million by GTA IV.

10 million is a push, there are many cons on the list the support sub-10 million sales, but it's not impossible. Thats the reason why this list is created.

I'll add your point to the cons.