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[Michael-5]

4k1x3r said:

Michael-5 said:

4k1x3r said:

He won't change it because if he does all he said till now will become... well you se...

And not to mention that on PD website,

Gran Turismo 4

11,190

And don't even expect 580k on shelves for a game that came out in 2005. Ioi just don't know where to update the data (yet it's easy, a bit in NA, a lot in EMEAA)

Yet again you're saying that GT5 is selling worse than GT4 after it's 6th week, but just wait till we see what ioi does with the data, because at the end of the year, we had GT5 at less than 5m, compared to 6.37 shipped, for me that's impossible because it's common sense, next quarter if they announce the game at 7m by the end of March, and we had it at 5.7m (because that's what gonna happen if the data doesn't change) then: retailers are buying copies of the game but the game doesn't sell, you see that's impossible. But as CGI said stick with your prediction.

That type of arguement is all subjective. Anygame could be undertracked on VGC, PD is just one company which displays it's shipped figures.

Realistically, the game is being overshipped because GT is a popular franchise in EMEAA. Some countries in EMEAA are only recently getting copies of GT4 shipped to them, and since retailers are literlly seperated by country boarders, you just can't trade inventory from a store tat sells in high volume to one that doesn't.

Also on PD, before last December, the shipped value for GT4 was 10.85. 250k on store shelves for a 5 year old game, on a console which is still selling? Yes very possible. Gears of War sold about 100k last year and it's 4 years old.

The game is being overshipped, yea yea.. and funny you're not answering to what I said about GT5.

GT4 was at 10.570k on Feb 2009, and then 10.850 by December of the same year, and 11.190 as we speak, so as I said 580k on shelves is impossible and the game likely crossed 11m if a full year was needed for it to get from 10.85 to 11.19, and I don't know where your 250k come from but... (I hope it's not from 11.19-10.85 because that's 340k)

10.85-10.60 = 250k. Anyway, according to VGC, now there are 580k new copies of GT4 on store shelves and considering that in many countires in Africa, or elsewhere in EMEAA the game is still fairly new, thats completly logical. Even in Americas, Europe and Japan new copies are still being sold, along with PS2's, it's not that old of a game.

It's also consistant, VGC sales are going up just as fast as shippments with PD. You can't expect a game to sell all of it's shipped units within a few months, it can take up to a year to match those sales, something GT5 is showing very clearly (3 month delay for 5.5 million, probably more for 6.4 million).

So claims about GT5 being undertracked are completly subjective. I trust VGC data more then wishful fans. It could just as easily be overtracked.

However, is 9 million so bad? I don't understand why 9 million bothers you. It's almost double any other PS3 exclusive, and right up in Call of Duty numbers.