Gran Turismo 5 will fail to sell...

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Frieza said:

CGI-Quality said:

Frieza said:

The Unicorn thats saying its a fact that this site is full of PS fanboys and will always overhype PS related things (like GOW3 selling 5 million), he also says that according to google more people are actually searching for Street Fighter than Gran Turismo.

He also tell me the worst selling GT game was GT2 selling 9.37 million copies, 600,000k copies more than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 a game that had 10x the hype that GT5 has, and GT5's sales wont come anywhere close to it.

Have you actually taken a look at God of War III's sales? People aren't so far fetched in their prediction of 5 million.

Yes i have its sold 3 million copies, itll struggle to get to 4 million and it will never reach 5 million. This week it sold only 5,000 copies more than MGS4 which came out mid 2008. People here were increeibly confident that this game would outsell MGS4 to be PS3s biggest selling exclusive.

I thought that was ludicrous, so just like now i told people it had no chance and what happened, everybody reacted the exact same way as they are now, saying how im stupid, im trolling, you'll see in a few months but nope again i was right.  

Don't know who thought that GOW3 would outsell MGS4 but that doesn't matter in this argument since GOW3 doesn't need to outsell MGS4 to reach 5 million considering that MGS4 will sell comfortably over that. GOW3 is still selling for $50. It has yet to get a greatest hits or GOTY edition re-release and traditionally GOW games sell quite well once they go greatest hits. And we're likely undertracking by about 100k-150k between Canadian, Latin American, and Asian sales. And you forgot to factor in the 73k GOW trilogy sales. It should hit 4 million without a whole lot of trouble and while 5 million isn't guaranteed I'd give it very very good odds.

OT, based on the massive first shipment to France I'd say that GT5 has a pretty good shot at having the best opening for a GT game in EMEAA and I can still see it becoming the second best selling GT game at 11 million or maybe more.