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Mordred11 said:
NYANKS said:
Mordred11 said:
Seece said:
leatherhat said:
Seece said:

What do you mean everytime? Saying "all games push HW" ... you only have to say it once to mean it .. unless you don't mean it anymore.


As entertaining as this back and forth is, could you answer my question on why GT5 can't hit a million second week when GT4 did it and GT5 has the holiday at its back?

Sure.

Different buying trends, different console, different users, past trends THIS gen (not last gen), fact it had 4 days this week rather than the 2 it would normaly have had. We'll just see aye.

More like :

The reviews are lower.

The competition is higher.

The long wait did some damage.

But your points are good too though.

GT4 has an 89 meta.  GT5 has 85 with scores still coming in.  Hardly a gap, not to mention that people largely don't give a crap about reviews.  The long wait only did damage for critics, a.k.a. the irrelevant people.  The only decent point is the competition, and the Wii seems to be handling it;s competition pretty well.

I think, once again, we should wait and see instead of making impulsive claims and past trends.

You think the long wait did damage to the critics only?Many people that were waiting for GT5 to release,stopped waiting for the release and went to other racing franchises...or just stopped playing racing games,simple as that.

People say that on the internet, sure.  They're frustrated.  When the game releases, anyone who really cared for the game will either get or get interested again.  Long releases happen frequently.  The new Half Life is gonna sell 2 copies because they're taking so long right? No, it'll sell just like the others. 

Some may have gotten Xboxes and switched to Forza? Fine.  I personally don't think it'll be that much of an impact, leading me back to my wildly inventive "wait and see" approach.  No one know what's going to happen, and to profess otherwise is silly.