Is Gran Turismo 5 in trouble?

[pitzy272]

--OkeyDokey-- said:

pitzy272 said:

Knowing GT's impressive sales history, I'm confused by the really low Americas sales less than 2 weeks before release. I've never tracked a GT game prior to release, and I do understand they have incredible legs, but nonetheless the current pre-order sales seem a little worrisome. Anyone have any thoughts? Has the GT series lost a lot of its fanbase in the Americas?

Preorders stalled because there was no release date. As soon as Sony announced one Amazon preorders increased 1300% and it has been outselling Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Donkey Kong Country Returns ever since. It's launching Black Friday week too, so that'll help. The American commercials start airing tomorrow.

In short, it'll do fine.

Well that must have been almost entirely countries outside the U.S., bc Nov 13th preorder numbers for the America's were 9,974. That's the main reason why I made the thread...bc It's 2 weeks from launch, only at 260,000 preorders in the Americas, and then has had extremely low new preorders (in the Americas) even after its release date announcement.