Why Halo 4 may be the savior of First Party Titles for MS..

[sales2099]

ethomaz said:

sales2099 said:

You seem to put a lot of faith into GT5. What makes you compare that to Gears 3???? And its unlikely it will pass Halo 3 or Reach (which has over a million in digital sales).............nevermind what Halo has sold as a franchise this entire gen. You poke fun at Forza bundles when Sony has done bundles a lot longer then MS. Look at the Uncharted 3 bundle they are doing. Guess Sony has no faith in Uncharted since you think MS has no faith in Forza to sell on their own merits eh? But total Forza sales this gen > GT5, especially with Forza 4 bundles and Forza Horizon. Gang up effect? Not my problem, blame PD for only making 1 game per gen.

I'm grateful that PD made only a GT game this generation... I don't need anything like FIFA or F1.

And the GT franchise sold 16.38m this entrie gen... how much Forza sold???

Edit - I checked... Forza franchise sold 11.43m this gen... I think you can remove the sales data from GT PSP because just the GT5 + GT5P sold more than Forza this gen... ops I forgot to count the GT HD Concept... sorry.

And Froza Horizon will not change that .

Not saying it should be yearly....but should be 2-3 year dev cycles since its Sonys biggest franchise. To want to wait more time makes no sense to me. Your logic would make sense if the game had polish.......oh wait. Noticed that PD has a nice track record of selling the same game to people in pieces. HD concept....prologue.....and finally the real game.

But by years end, Forza franchise will have sold more. GT5 + GT5 Prologue (which counting that in itself is still debateable), comes to 11.97 million. Forza is at 11. 43 currently. Forza 4 retail bundle + sales of Horizon will put Forza over the edge with GT.

Also keep in mind GT is Sonys #1 franchise.....Forza is MSs 3rd string exclusive. Imagine what next gen will bring  :)