Looks like GT5's sales performance is making a lot of haters silent..

[jarrod]

pizzahut451 said:

jarrod said:

Mordred11 said:

LOL @ people still comparing MK with GT5,the two games have nothing to do with eachother.

It's like comparing Avatar and Inception.

They're in the same genre (though not subgenre), that's the point for comparison.  

I think there's a bit of revisionism going on though, Mario Kart tends to get retroactively positioned as the heavy weight juggernaut but that's not at all the case.  Before this generation, no Mario Kart had sold over 10m, while every GT had.  This gen we have two Mario Karts over 20m, and two GTs that likely won't hit 10m... it's really been a massive seachange this gen, and more reflective of the overall consumer shift towards Nintendo and away from PlayStation.

Except that they are not same at all. Gran Turismo is a realistic driving simulator and Mario Kart is an arcade cartoon racer. Just because you drive cars in both games doesnt mean its a asame genre. Its like calling Mass Effect and Bioshock same genre

I'd consider Mass Effect and System Shock to be the same overarching genre.  Bioshock though isn't an RPG.

And yes, racing games are a genre.