GT5 sells 1.8m in two days WW

[Doobie_wop]

RAZurrection said:

Doobie_wop said:

They must of made a mistake, Gears 2 didn't even reach 2 million world wide on it's first week according to http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/16548/gears-of-war-2/.

Strange. Microsoft said it eclipsed 2 million copies in its opening weekend. Not including Japan. VGC undertracking again?

Doobie_wop said:

 

GT5 looks like it's going to hit 2.4 to 2.5 million copies on it's first week world wide. Even the Prologues weekly sales has been outselling Gears of War 2's weekly sales by around 3 thousand units every week, showing that the GT franchise has better legs than the Gears franchise.

Wow. 3000 per week as in every week? That'd take a year just to catch up to the launch deficit.

Doobie_wop said:

GT5 is matching the expectations of most of the people on the site, just because you raised your expectations to ridiculous levels, it doesn't mean everyone else was that silly.

Ridiculous levels? It's not really rediculous to expect at least the same level of sales of a 2nd tier franchise to 25 million users vs. honestly, the biggest exclusive the PS3 has got to 42 million users.

I don't see how everyone else wasn't being silly when 40% of VGC users polled believed GT5 would sell over 14 million.

VGChartz probably under tracked it, you used this site as a source, so I thought I probably should as well.

3000 a week is still a pretty decent amount. It shows that when it comes to legs, the GT series will usually be the winner. It's also an overpriced glorified demo outselling a full critically acclaimed game, which to me is disturbing, mainly because I think that people are stupid for paying $20 to $40 (Gamestop) for  70 cars and 6 tracks.

GT4 opened to worldwide sales of 2.5 million on a much larger userbase and went to double the sales of Gears of War 2. GT5's opening looks like it's going to improve over it's predecessor.

CGI-Quality already explained what's wrong with the thread you posted.