enrageorange said:
People are really overestimating pokemon sales. There hasn't been a pokemon that sold over 20mil lifetime since gold/silver. GTA V sold over 20mil in 2 weeks. Another comparison is just the 360 version of MW3 is ahead of pokemon black/white. GTA V on both systems will outsell the 360 version of MW3 and it won't be surprising if just this year both versions of GTAV sell more than pokemon x/y will lifetime. So yes it will be beaten in sales by a huge margin. Considering each game is sold for 50% than each pokemon game, video game revenue for GTA V will be at least 3 times as high as pokemon x and y. I don't think pokemon merchandise sold this year will make twice as much as the actual pokemon video game so GTA should easily make a lot more.
Anyway I think GTA will bank the most. CoD has a small chance, if nextgen consoles are far more popular than I anticipate since it is going to be the big game for both the new next gen consoles and sell well for current gen consoles. But it's sales are going to depend to heavily on the success of nextgen consoles. |
Pokemon also has loads of merchandise and has a large share of the sale of each game like others have stated. MW3 was also a peak of CoD in terms of sales and CoD costs a lot while pokemon is much more inexpensive to make. And Pokemon X and Y have sold more than a 3rd of Pokemon B/W's sales already so it could easily make more then the previous pokemon titles. Even without merchandising, I still think that Pokemon makes more profit than CoD.
