Gran Turismo 5 will fail to sell...

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Frieza said:

postofficebuddy said:

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.

It just baffles me why people would make such unrealistic predictions, this always seems to happen with PS3 exclusives, they disappoint more than not yet people still do it.

11 million copies really? how? if you take the best selling PS3 game in each region and combine them it comes to 10.36 million. GT will never pass the sales of MW2 in US nor will it pass the sales of FF13 in Japan, and its not gonna sell more than double what MW2 sold in EMEAA.

GTA4 was at the time the most anticipated game of all time, a sequel to a game that sold 20 million, its a mainstream franchise, it was the king of video games, the first for Next Gen, it was everywhere, it had midnight opening, it made opening records. It sold 6.85 million copies even though people werent impressed.

Modern Warfare 2 was the same, the series became the biggest video game craze since Pokemon, it was the new king of video games for all the hype GTA4 had it was nothing compared to MW2 its currently sold 8.79 million copies.

Then you have GT5, it is the most anticipated game of all time, no, is it the most anticipated game for 2010, no, it is the most anticipated game for November, no, December? possibly. It is a sequel to one of the most well liked and popular games of all time, no infact alot were disappointed by GT4, is it all over the internet? not really no im hardly hearing anything about it even though its a few weeks away. Tekken the second biggest fighting game series thats last game disappointed from last October is getting more searchs of google than Gran Turismo.

And yet this game is not only gonna outsell Modern Warfare 2 but its gonna sell 11 million? and you dont think thats not laughable at all?

Where did I say it would sell more than MW2? At this point 10 million for MW2 is almost a mathematical certainty and 11 million should be pretty easy with re-releases. MW1 was still selling extremely well when MW2 came out and still continues to pull respectable numbers to this day (5k plus). And MW2 isn't bundled (on PS3) as GT5 obviously will be.