CGI-Quality said:
Eh, I wouldn't call it downplaying. The franchise is on a sales decline. Relatively speaking, it's not terrible, but its better sales days could potentially stay behind it. The flip-side to this, however, is people shouldn't compare Horizon to Motosport, as historically, the latter appealed to a larger audience and debuts with larger numbers. |
The series has been in decline for the past few years but the thing is that Horizon has outsold the other Forza games in the past 3. The past few games have done between 400-600k in 1 month while FH3 had done at least 600k in 2 and a half weeks. That's really impressive for a Forza game. Also the downplay also comes from someone comparing Forza to a game that comes from a much popular genre. I'm referring to primetime comparing Forza to NMS.
Yeah the motorsports game has done better the horizon games but by comparing the new horizon game to the motorsport games and seeing the sales being close or more in favor of horizon says something. For an example with 3 week of tracking FM3 sold 770k while with 2 and a half weeks FH3 has sold over 600k, and the series has been in decline for many years. Its impressive to see the latest game doing so well compared the peak of the series and by saying otherwise would be downplaying.
