Global Hardware + Software Up (Ending Dec. 1) After Black Friday sales

[iWarMachine]

sales2099 said:

iWarMachine said:

sales2099 said:

ryuzaki57 said:

Blood_Tears said:
Nice PS3 sales this week and another thread derailed by Forza/GT trash talk..

Well, the Forza team did pick the fight. 3 vs 1 by th way...

I said the charts will have Forza outsell GT5 in 2012 sales. Just merely stating a fact thats about to happen. The reaction to it really got it started.

Actually 2 vs 1 (2 + 3), but that was beside the point. In 2012, F4 is gonna beat it, Forza as a IP even more so when you factor in Horizon.

considering that F4 and F:H were actually given away the whole year to compete against a game that released 3 years ago... it's not something to be happy about, there's no chance you can actually compare the sales of both games, it's like comparing sales of halo and killzone.

2 years ago...with a ton of upgrades and subsequent re-releases and bargain bin pricing. Horizon was only on sale on black friday and F4 was only mass bundled this holiday. Check yourself.

It is something to be happy about since GT is considered God in its genre. A game that sells millions each year after its release year. So any victory, however unfair, is a testament to breaking down those barriers and illusions of grandeur.

- GT5 / GT5 SPECII / GT5 Academy Edition

- the MSRP price it's $39.99 according to GT5 Homepage

- the MSRP price for forza 4 it's $39.99

- Forza 4 had 3 bundles in two years (launch, racing pack and the recent one heavily bundled throughout a holiday season)

- GT5 had 2 bundles in three years (launch and in march 2012 in celebration of the specII release)

 

GT5 

 

Global Annual Summary (Units)

Year	Yearly	Change	Total
2010	5,264,164	N/A	5,264,164
2011	1,785,728	-66.1%	7,049,892
2012	1,188,573	-33.4%	8,238,465

 

Forza 4

Global Annual Summary (Units)

Year	Yearly	Change	Total
2011	1,854,407	N/A	1,854,407
2012	1,046,866	-43.5%	2,901,273

 

if you align the launches of both games, we know who wins. And if we compare the 1st year of Forza against the 2nd year of GT5, forza beats it for less than 100k. 

 

there's no victory or success in forza 4 sales when compared against GT5.