Why can't MGS, FF, GT sell as much on PS3 as they did on PS2??

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Menago KF said:
For me it's about data that we have. Somehow most of the games thus far have under preformed on the ps3 this gen. MGS4 is the FIRST game to actually have this good sales while also severely raising HW sales(Even GTA4 didn't manage this). If you look at GT4 it sold a lot less than GT3 and the same happened with FF12 compared to FF10. No wonder that some don't believe that the series will sell better than a couple of years ago.

And remember, we have yet to find out just much the games WILL end up selling. All will become clear in a few years time ;).

That's becaue FFXII and GT4 didn't recieve what I like to call the "next gen bump" that FFX and GT3 recieved, and that FFXIII, MGS4, and GT5 should recieve.

Franchises generally sell less and less with each iteration per gen (Halo and GTA being the notable exceptions), with the first next generation iteration of each series recieving a considerable bump in sales.  GT2 sold less than GT, yet GT3 outsold GT2 by almost 6 million.  Similarly, FFIX sold less than FFVIII, which also sold less than FFVII.  FFX outsold both FFVIII and FFIX (the latter by over 2.5 million).