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Jaywood2010 on 07 December 2012
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ethomaz said:

JayWood2010 said:

Yeah they pissed off a lot of people this generation.  They took way too long to make GT5 sold a glorifed demo for $40 and both GT5 and GT5P fell short of expectations.  Because of this gen they hurt the brand name of Gran Turismo so this might be a good strategy now but long term success no.  I predict gran turismo's user base to shrink next gen slightly because of this.  Not by a lot but by a mil or 2. So for you to call this a good business plan, I dont see it that way.  You should always plan for now and long term.  Same thing applies to the fable series.  They have hurt it's brand name this gen.

That's a little weird because depending on your point of view the opposite happened.

US: The GT brand name and sales are fine... just in line with the previous titles in PS2 age (GT4... not GT3 because it was for a somegime bundled with every PS3 sold in US).

JP:  It's down... the unique region this gen to show GT brand name and sales declined compared with last gen.

EU:  That's surprise me... it's way ahead any GT game alreasy launch... the GT brand name and sales grow up like no other region (maybe Asia)... it's the fastest selling GT even and it is already near to became the best selling GT ever in Europe with just three years in the market.

Asia: Like Europe that's surprise me... alredy is the best selling GT ever in Asia in less than one year... now the sales is reaching 1 million in this regions (the previous best selling GT sold ~300k)... it amazing how the Asian are supporting this game... that's even make PD and Sony announced a new exclusive edition for this region (based on Spec II, XL and Academy), the GT5 2013 Edtion is to be released in Asia in January.

About the brand name... neves the GT Academy was so popular with live program discussing the finalist by region... everything growed up.

So in terms of sales this game have a change to became the second best selling GT ever and that without Sony give it bundles for Holidays season... this year the games bundles were Uncharted and inFAMOUS... again the GT sales come from normal bundles (just some 500GB model in Europe have this bunble) and normal copies sales.

Except for Japan GT growed up in brand name and sales... not the  opposite.


I ignored most of what you said.  I'm talking about quality not on how much it has sold, not with GT5 and Prologue.  It's like Fable, it has progressively got worst but it sells more than the previous installment.  I think that will change next generation.  People were let down with Fable so they may pass on the next installment, same thing applies with gran turismo.  It is no longer the best racer and it was not up to expectations.  It has improved over time but many of the early adopters will not see that.