GT5 first week numbers. How do you think it did?

[damndl0ser]

CGI-Quality said:

damndl0ser said:

I was guessing 1.75m to 2.0 mill for first week so it did pretty much what I was expecting.  As I have said all along, this gen of gaming is all about the FPS (shooters in general) games.    And racing, platforming and a lot of other types of games simply don't sell like they used to or even should, this is why I estimated GT's sales to be 6-7 million lifetime and a lot of people laughed at me.  I still think GT5 will do those numbers if its bundled heavily, but if it isn't it may only do 5million.

 

I guess we will get a really good idea of what it will do in a week or 2.  We will have an idea of the games legs, but I am not holding out a lot of hope for it doing any more than 7 million.  And a lot of people who had those idiotic estimates of 10-20million will be eating wheel barrels full of crow which is unfortunate because I like GT5 and have owned all but a couple of the GTp games.

ioi predicted 10 million as well, and I think we'll agree that his statements are hardly "idiotic".

Besides, 5 million is what Prologue did, and it didn't start off like GT5. GT5 will easily clear 5mill, and 10 million isn't out of the question. Looking back @ GT4, GT5's numbers account for less days, and it only sold 500,000 less than it. That isn't really a strong sign of franchise decline. The only shooters this gen with large numbers are CoD, Gears, & Halo. One of those (Halo) was already big to begin with (previous gen).

I never understand why people think so many shooters sell so big. It's really not many.

The idiotic estimates I was refurring to were the ones closer to 15-20mil.  

In general shooters have sold better than most other types of games.  Just because every shooter doesn't do 5 million doesn't mean they aren't selling like hotcakes.  If you take away some a lot of games on the Wii, it would be hard to point out many games other than shooters that have done 5 million.  And if you put up average shooters vs. average driving games, or platformers the shooters useually win.