I don't see Gran Turismo 6 as a flop, and neither do I see Super Mario 3D World as a flop. The sales of GT6 is rather a testimony of the state in which the PS3 is in. With 80 million potential hardware users, GT6 has quite low sales for being a GT-game. With that in mind it's tempting to wonder if the game hadn't been much better off as a launch title for PS4? I do believe such a move could have injected some horse power in GT6's sales.
Looking at Super Mario 3D World in comparison, it has sold around 1,3 million copies to a WiiU userbase of aprox 5 million. One in four WiiU users play Super Mario 3D World. That's a remarkable tie ratio, that would equal more than 20 million copies for PS3.
With such a comparison it's easy to fall into the bash pit and claim GT6 is more of a flop than Super Mario 3D World. However, the only true measurement of a flop is to look at sales estimates from the publishers, and compare those estimates with the real deal. If 1,5 million is on track with Sonys projections, it's hardly a flop. And if it's above their projections it can actually be called a success even with such "low" sales as 1,5 million.
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