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yo_john117 on 11 April 2011
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puffy said:
CGI-Quality said:
puffy said:
CGI-Quality said:
Carl2291 said:

What I find really, really strange is GT5's recent drop off.

Very strange.

It's either losing interest faster than previous GTs, is undertracked, or a little bit of both. Definitely seems strange though.


It has more competition this generation, Shift 2 just launched for example.

I can't see Shift 2 doing much GT though. There's defintiely more competition, but I don't think Need For Speed is truly it.


Sure but it's certainly a possible reason for the recent drop off it has had as mentioned by Carl

But its been dropping off every week for a while now way before Shift 2 was unleashed (get the lame pun :P)

I think GT5's low weeks as of late could be a any one of the following (or a combination of them)

1. It took so long to come out that more people then usual picked it up right away (especially since it was released during the Christmas season) leading to less sales then was expected later on.

2. It may be undertracked especially in EMEAA where sales are harder to track (which is by far GT5's best region)

3. The racing genre isn't quite as popular as it once was.

4. Here's where I agree somewhat with you....GT5 has more competition then it once had...but really the only sim game I would consider competition for GT5 is Forza. All the others like Shift are such small players that they wouldn't impact GT5's sales really at all.