| CosmicSex said: So to put a logical spin on the difference in sales, its all about the PS4 really. We all get that. GT Sport will help us establish real world interest in the series. I expect 10 million in sales over 5 years. |
Maybe, maybe not, the racing genre has declined alot in the last few years, pretty much every racing series from last generation (Forza, Need for Speed, F1, MotoGP, Nascar, Dirt) is doing worse now and the new series (DriveClub, Project Cars, The Crew) have not been able to offset those declines.
According to the game database on this site, racing games have sold just under 140 million on PS3+360 while they have sold about 20 million on PS4+XBO.
Obviously its not a 100% fair comparison due to last generation sales essentially being done while PS4/XBO both have a good amount of life left in them but i just cant see the racing genre coming anywhere close to selling another 120 million over the next 5 or so years when they have only sold 20 million in close to 3 years.
So even though GT6 was affected by PS4 launch, there is still a very strong chance that it would have done much worse than GT5 regardless. Overall i would be very surprised if GT Sport or GT7 bring the series back to selling 10+ million.
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