EMEAA 25th December Up!

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Fufinu said:

Tigerlure said:

MightyGrogg said:

Fufinu said:

Also it's now official - GT5 has outsold Forza Motorsport 3.

It always does. There was never a question about that. lol!! That's like saying the Wii ouotsold the XBox 360 and PS3 worldwide every holiday since it launched. lol!! It' common knowledge really. Just like Forza 3 has outscored all the GT games this generation.

Yup. Too bad scores don't equal cash.

Good week for all consoles, as to be expected. GT5 is still going great.

What I find interesting and unexpected is that GT5 seems to have given a boost to Forza. I might be wrong however all the talk on race games seems to have increased interest in the genre overall.

Sorry, Forza 3 has been made a bundle favourite again - that's what's driving that boost.  It's a good game - I just got it second hand myself - but you're going to be in the same boat as the Killzone 2 fans if you start trying to defend its sales next to GT5.

Forza and Killzone have the dubious honour of being very good titles directly pitched against by far the bigger brand on another console to try and compete.  On the evidence it'll be a long time before Sony sees an FPS exclusive anything like Halo and likewise (because to be honest a ton of Forza sales have always been bundles, way more than GT percentage wise) it seems unlikely Microsoft is going to see a driving/racing exclsuive come anywhere near GT.

GT5 has already matched Forza and that's with minimal launch bundling vs frankly a big percentage of bundled Forza sales over a much longer time on market.

The big market for more sim orientated racers is EMEEA and the PS3 has much more dominance there particularly with that demographic.  The sales boost for Forza isn't for Forza, it's for the 360 itself for the holidays - Forza is just getting a handy halo effect due to bundling, but not one that truly indicates any resurgence in demand due to GT5 IMHO.