| Squilliam said: That prediction will only hold so long as another GT game isn't released. Anyway: GT1/2 PS1 Sold 20M copies over 104M units. GT3/4 PS2 Sold 26M copies over 154M units. GT5 PS3 sold 8M copies over 67M units. The performance of the game seems right on target given the fact that there has been only one GT release this generation. If there isn't another GT game released this generation then the sales of the overall franchise will be substantially down over the previous generations so either it will meet the expectation of franchise sales or it will meet the expectation for individual title release but almost certainly not both. |
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with those numbers. The lowered franchise generation sales don't accurately represent much of anything of relevance. It's directly correlated with the frequency of installments which diminshes the importance of the size or selling-power of the franchise. Those figures don't paint an accurate picture for how the public views Gran Turismo; it shows how many installments Polphony Digital has been able to produce.
Moreover, I don't think anyone expects (or has expected for many years now) generation sales to be near PS2/Ps1 levels with the knowledge that there would only be one mainline Gran Turismo game. I guess you could go back to the 2006-2008 era where people may have believed that there would be more than one main installment. You could make the point that the expectations of those people will not be fullfilled. That point would be completely true, but it would be of very little value, because most people discarded those expectations many years ago. You are disproving an expectation that no one holds today and that hasn't been held in quite a long time.
