WW up April 9th 2011

[Michael-5]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Michael-5 said:

All opinion, we can't really tell if the FM3 bundle hurt or helped GT5's sales. There are reasons for both.

Also the Forza Motorsport 3 bundle only composed of 1 million 360's (Forza 3's sale jumped 1.3 million from before te bundle to its end, and at least 300k should have been due to the Ultimate Edition FM3 and the 4 month period of sales). So no matter what this didn't affect GT5 sales that much. I'm sure most people who bought this bundle were planing on getting a 360 anyway.

However I'll agree with you on your second theory. By bundling FM3 during GT5's launch, it probably helped give Forza a name for itself.

PD and Nissan actually have a very long relationship with each other, so no matter what you're going to see a lot of Nissans in the game because Nissan uses the game to promote their vehicles, and both PD and Nissa are Japanese. PD won't sell out to non-Japanese dealers.

As for improvements, what do you mean adding tracks more suited for Japanese and American tastes? GT5 has basically all the tracks older GT's have had, and they all sold fine in Americas and Japan. IMO Trail Mountain is the best fictional track ever made, and Tsuba (that tiny one) is the most famous Japanese race track.

However I agree with you about including damage from the start, and upgrading more cars from Standard to Prenium. Damage should be adjustable like in Forza, and 200 prenium cars is just nowhere nearly enough. I only race in car view so that last on really bugs me, but at least some of my favorite cars have in car view, and rear in car view too.

I hope FM4 gets rear in car view...

Just like for Premium and Standard cars, I suspect Americans and the Japanese want some more stuff this time, be it that they expect more from a successive chapter of the series, be it that this expectation came from the hype and long waiting for the game, while judging from sales the variety of tracks and cars and playing modes is good enough in EMEAA, but obviously any addition won't hurt here either. BTW, I suspect that adding some recent powerful diesel cars (Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, etc) could furtherly improve the already excellent success in EMEAA.

About car view, me too, I really can't drive a car in external view, except in the most arcade and easy games, that I don't like very much.

GT sales in Japan have been shrinking in Japan with each installment, people are switching from console games to handheld games. I don't thin quality had anything to do with Japanese sales, just a dying home console genre.

As for Americas sales, there are about 1/2 as many PS3's as there are PS2's in Americas (and it will likely end up somewhere in the ballpark at the end of PS3's life). I think with that major difference, install base factors in. Again I don't think it was quality.

However having more prenium cars could only help. To me, and many others, that was the biggest flaw of the game.