Gran Turismo 5 will fail to sell...

[Michael-5]

4k1x3r said:

Michael-5 said:

4k1x3r said:

He knows he's in denial and wrong yet he comes back and bite again, comparing PGR4 and GT5... I'm leaving this world forever... (or if you could, so I can stay a bit more xP)

Don't mock me, reviews speak for themselves. Just because this forum is largely populated with fans loyally bound to Sony, it doesn't increase their market share or public image. It's like taking a biased sample of a target audience, asking the importance of video games almost exclusively to gamers, but not the general public.

How many people mocked the Wii when it first came out here? Same idea.

GT5 sales back up reviews, it's just not doing well as prior installments, and I don't think it's because of user base.

Wai.. what? O_O
Reviews of reviewers that played the game 20hours when 50 are need AT LEAST... I don't care for those reviews. Just play the Madrid track in GT5, then come back here and dare to say it's ugly. It's beautiful.

As for the sales, I'll answer you when this week is completely up, but doing worse than its prior installments.. x), let's wait 10 weeks okay? =)

And for the biased argument, coming from you...

It's no different then the city course tracks in PGR4, and at least in PGR4 all the backgrounds are rendered using the 360 engine, not pre-rendered like GT5. I doubt any mainstream GT5 review was done on only 20 hours, you can't even unlock the good cars within that small time-frame.

Sales will drop for GT5 after the holidays, and even with the holiday boost, GT5 is selling worse then GT4 which released in February. 10 weeks is much more proper though, I've suggested that from the start to make an accurate comparision, but we all know GT5 will have a weaker start (especially outside EMEAA) then GT4.

As for the biased argument, I think I am a lot less biased then most people here. I know games like Fable 3 will likely not break 5 million like more hardcore fans believe, and Halo Reach will only sell about as well as Halo 3, maybe worse if a Halo 1 remake is released next fall and cuts sales. Besides, I've mentioned before, if I have a bias, it's Nintendo, and I never said you in particular were biased. I just said this forum is much more strongly Sony loyal then a general census. It's seen in the Most wanted Editions, when PS3 multi-console games get up to 10x as many votes as identical 360 titles.