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

[Frieza]

CGI-Quality said:

Frieza said:

See this is exactly what i mean with the Playstation fanboys, see how defensive you all get so suddenly? if this was a Xbox game and i was saying it could do 8 million sales it would be a completely different story, thered all be whining about how it was impossible then.

GT5P came out early in 2008, there were hardly any big name franchise games for the PS3, even Motorstorm sold 3.5 million because there was nothing any good to buy for years thats why the sequel tanked. Everybodies hooked up on Call of Duty now its the biggest craze in gaming since Pokemon.

As i said nobody is talking about GT5, if Street Fighter is getting more web hits than Gran Turismo then it shows what little interest there is, and the games a few weeks away, something like that would never happen with Halo, GTA or COD yet this games supposed to outsell em all eh?

Like i said before when it comes to software sales Xbox trumps the PS3, Halo has more than doubled PS3s biggest exclusive MGS4 and GT5 is kinda the last chance for Sony fans to have a game on equal footing with Xboxs best. And theres obviously good reason why because it has sold very well in the past, however it wull certainly not outsell any of the previous 4 GTA games, it wont pass MW2s PS3 sales, it wont pass GTA4s sales. It will come out it will sell several million becoming the best selling PS3 exclusive and it will be considered a disappointment.

Then ill come back and ill say i told you so. I did it when people said Killzone 2 was gonna sell 3-4  million in a few months, i did it when people said Resistance 2 was gonna sell 2 million by Xmas, i did it when people said God of War 3 was gonna sell 5 million and become the best selling PS3 exclusive.

Every time i voice my opinion on something like this i try to be realistice, every time PS fanboys hate the truth and say "you mad" "Xbox fanboy" "you dont know what youre talking about" etc yet every single time ive been right and PS fanboys exaggerate their games.

For the bolded: Call of Duty didn't stop Uncharted, didn't stop HR, didn't stop God of War III, and won't stop Gran Turismo 5 either. I understand the notion for some that the FPS genre has taken over everything, but in reality, it hasn't.

Anyway, just because a few select titles performed less than expected doesn't mean anything. What about Alan Wake's numbers? How many people predicted it would move 3 million or so? How many of those same people were wrong? How many people claimed HEAVY RAIN would flop? It didn't flop, or come close to it.

Some said GOWIII would be lucky to see 3 million in it's life. How come I don't hear you talking about them, when God of War III has already cleared 3 million, before the year is even over? It's not far fetched at all to believe that God of War III will hit 5 million, especially when it did 3 in just 8 months.

For every prediction you may have been right about, there's plenty where the doubters were wrong (Uncharted 2, God of War III, HR, LittleBIGPlanet). So, blind Sony fans and you have one thing in common, they only see one side. Try to look at it from different angles.

Alot of people predicted alot for Alan Wake, i on  the other hand said it wouldnt sell 2 million (it hasnt even sold half of that), however thats different because its a Xbox game, say what you want but this site is obviously filled with PS3 fans.

When the Xbox is adjusted up you get "Cool nice adjustment"

PS3 adjusts up "OMFG LOOK AT THOSE SALES THIS IS AMAZING"

Xbox adjusted down, "YES NOW THERES ONLY A "XXX" GAP BETWEEN THE XBOX AND PS3"

PS3 adjusted down, "WTF THIS SITE SUCKS"

There was some who said GOW3 was gonna fail however the majority were thinking it was gonna sell 5 million copies passing MGS4, and so they are closer to being wrong. It was never gonna sell 5 millionj copies, i told them all that and i got the same whiny replies im getting now, but i was right. When Killzone 2 was coming out i played the demo and i came here and said it wasnt gonna sell close to the 4 million people were predicting.

I remember one guy saying that i was a troll that Killzone 2 had 1 million preorders in Others alone, 1st week sales 354,000.

I dont really make predictions like others and say itll sell "XXX" copies, i usually see what people predict then say it has no chance at selling that amount (GOW3, Killzone 2, Resistance 2, GT5 etc) and so far every single time without fail ive been right.

And this time im saying GT5 will definitley

NOT sell 10 million copies

WILL be the worst selling GT game.

NOT pass Modern Warfare 2

And most likely wont pass GTA4.