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S.T.A.G.E. on 18 April 2011
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psrock said:
Seece said:
psrock said:
CGI-Quality said:
selnor said:

The poor sales of GT5 compared to previous GT games says alot.

People need to get a perspective on all this. This gen is far from straight forward numbers wise.

Interesting that you say this -

GT4 20th week: 21,530 - (EMEAA total): 3,058,666

GT5 20th week: 10,618 - (EMEAA total): 3,823,463

Being just 10k behind GT4 weekly (while being nearly 800k ahead in all of EMEAA) doesn't sound like "selling poor" compared to previous GT titles (and since we don't the sell rate of GTs 1-3, GT4 is all we have to go on). In Japan, yes GT5 is behind pretty heavily, but it is up in EMEAA to not only make up the difference, but be ahead WW by quite a margin in the same time frame. It's also right there with GT4 in the Americas for week 20 and is ahead of GT4 in total Americas sales in the same time frame (GT4 after 20 weeks: 1,643,321/GT5 after 20 weeks: 1,692,078). Lets not make this sound like something it isn't.

I agree with you on one thing though, people do need to get a perspective on things.

That was the whole argument, only Sony, MS ands Nintendo can tell us actual numbers by the amount they ship. Guess work on what we think numbers are rarely accurate on telling the actual userbase. I agree, it's  obvious Move does not have 8 million just like 360 doesnt have 50 million or PS3 49 million. The only numbers these comapnies care about is the amount they sell.

Not at all.

HW is only one portion of the pie, they care about how many people they can sell SW too. Especially other devs.

Thankfully, 3rd party devs arnt stupid, and they realise that when pitching a new move game, it's not to 8 million possible consumers, it's 4/5, which could make all the difference.

Sony hasn't put out a killer app for Move yet thus the reason software is suffering. The best Move game is bundled with it.

Wait until E3. They've always got new reveals for the PSP and peripherals then. Can't wait to see what that new exclusive is going to be that PS3 got for the year.