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Jay520 said:
Capulous said:

I don't think GT5 will do that much more for the PS3 as compared to what Reach did for the 360. it's going to be impossible to judge what it's effect really is since it is releasing during one of the best sales weeks of the year. Most of those sales will be due more to the holiday season than it will be GT5.


It's going to move consoles like Halo 3 (not Reach) did.

Indeed, some people are underestimating the selling power of the GT franchise. We don't have a lot of reliable data from past GT release, the only one we do have is GT4's launch. Did it give a boost? GT4 boosted PS2's sales about 15%... up from christmas week! While other systems fell as much as 60% from the week before, GT4 actually managed to boosted PS2's sales higher and thereby giving it the best week of the year in Japan(215k in japan alone). Also consider that GT4 was the second full GT game for the system, while GT5 will be the first on PS3, and with PS2's install base already at 15m compared to PS3's current 5m in Japan. Also, Japan isn't even GT's biggest market.

I think it's safe to say GT5 will sell system's