Michael-5 said:
Wait what? For a second I thought that ratio was the total ratio of MW2 for 360 vs. PS3 in Americas. The answer for the jump is simple. PS3 MW2 has a lot more hacking. I don't own MW2, but I played it on my friends 360 np, but on my other friends PS3, someone jumped through a wall and killed me, and another time a guy fell from the sky and killed me... I noticed that as soon as I started hearing about this hacking issue, and significant hacking on MW2 for PS3, MW2 PS3 sales crashed. Infinity Ward even adressed the issue, but only for PS3 (which tells us the hacking is limited to PS3) Maybe the hacking isn't that bad, but the timing is perfect. I think MW2 sales on PS3 dropped due to hacking. I have no proof, but I don't think this is a coincidence. For GT5 I was only implying that December shipment was meant to last. I did not know PD made quarterly shipments (or maybe they just announce shipped units quarterly, that makes more sence). If PD shipped 9 million units total, that doesn't mean the game will sell 9 million units anytime soon, if ever. Also GT5 sold 5.5 million or so, so doesn't it make sence they shipped that much? Took longer then most expected, but it still did it. They shipped 8 million Kinects for January 2011, and only at the end of January did sales surpass 8 million. What are you trying to say? Shipped values are nothing good to go by, not all games sell what they ship. Kinect sold shipped units within a month, GT5 took 3 months. My only point was that on a weekly basis GT5 is selling about half as well as GT4, and because it's selling a lot worse, it's less likely to reach the same sales level. At this rate, if GT5 holds sales at 55% of GT4's sales (which it didn't even do last week), the game will only sell 8.5-9 million lifetime. Hey wow, right in my prediction range, educated guesses based on math work. |
It's such a pain to explain you things because you won't change your mind, GT5 is undertracked, and even if it's undertracked, just check this.
| Weeks | GT4 | GT5 | Difference | Temp GT4 | TEMP GT5 | Cumulative |
| 12 | 77 354 | 43 770 | -33 584 | 5 384 027 | 5 434 647 | 165 160 |
| 13 | 67 939 | 48 931 | -19 008 | 5 451 966 | 5 483 578 | 146 152 |
| Total 10W: | 5 451 966 | 5 598 118 | 146 152 |
Even if it's undertracked, it still sells quite well, and not 90kvs50k. :) Shipped and sold in the long run are the same, dunno when you'll finally understand that. Also please, don't compare KA and GT5 anymore, it's kind of a disrespect and whatever you want. Without mentioning that you compare something bundled with a hardware to a mere game, where units sitting on shelves are on different levels. If they had to ship another 800k in a bit more than 5weeks it means a lot of things, but only for people who're open minded.
But time will tell you that you should have closed your mouth about this game. And you know where you can put your educated guess based on math... because I didn't know that 49k was 55% of 68k... It's undertracked, quote me on that. But as I said, time will tell you how wrong you are. I'm stoping here.
