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SpartenOmega117 on 10 November 2010
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Michael-5 said:
Frieza said:

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.


Its true previous GT games have sold a ton but interest has decreased alot since GT3, GT4's US sales dropped to 2.8 million from 7.1 million. GT for PSP had poor US sales. They seem to prefer driving games like Need For Speed now.

Theres definitley no guarentee itll pass GTAIV either, the games been forgotten a little because of the mixed opinions on it but lets not forget that it was the most anticipated game of all time at the time, everybody was talking about it like how COD is now.

Meanwhile hardly anybody is talking about GT5, its not had half the hype of Uncharted 2 or God of War 3.

As for its sales in US if it is incredibly lucky it can sell about 2 million copies, its not gonna sell that much more than that, Call of Duty 4 was the start of a craze and that sold 2.7 million in US, GT5 a franchise that had a drastic drop with GT4 and something nobody is really talking about isnt gonna surpass that.

For Japan around a million, GT4 only sold 1.26 million with a bigger userbase. Only one game has sold above 850,000 and thats Final Fantasy which was always bigger than GT.

And EMEAA is where itll have its most success but i dont see that passing Fifa 10s 3 million either.

If its very lucky it can maybe get 6-7 million. Im expecting around 4.5-5.5 million copies. But 10 million wont happen even if it sold aswell as GTA4 in US, aswell as FF13 in Japan and aswell as MW2 in EMEAA it still wouldnt reach it.

 

GT games never had strong support from the Americas. Only GT3 sold extensively and that was largely due to console bundles and it being a "showcase" title. GT1 and GT2 still sold about 4 million in the states, and a GT4 sales may have been cut off by the 360 (which is really popular in Americas).

GT PSP is another debate entirely. It was poorly received, and a handheld interation. I'm not quite sure why it did so poorly, I like the game.

NFS also peaked sales on the PS2, on current gen console NFS sales have dropped, largely due to a silly attempt to make NFS a track racing game, to reduce street racing among teens.

As for your total sales, you realise GT5P sold 4.95 million worldwide, 1.21 million in Americas, 740k in Japan, and 3.02 million in Europe? VGChartz doesn' account for about 1 million worldwide sales due to digital distributions, so use Polyphony data:

http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html

If GT5P sold only 100k units shy of FFXIII, don't you think it's possible that GT5 be the best selling PS3 game in Japan at least?

Also GT5P already outsold FIFA in EMEAA, you don't see GT5 at least matching that, if not surpassing it?

Your logic makes sence, but your giving sales values almost identical to GT5P. GT4 outsold GT4P by60% in Japan, so if the rest of the world holds that ratio for GT5 over GT5P we should see sales of at about 8 million. My guess is 8.5 million, and I can't see this game doing any worse then 7 million, but that's my opinion.

Anyway I want to keep sales figures out of this because EVERYONE has a different opinion on sales. I just want to get pros/cons.

also GT5 has at least 3 years to sell until GT6 comes out. If sony does not bundle GT5 in the states this holiday they will surely do it next holiday. Imagine a GT5 PS3 bundle for $199.