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jason1637 on 12 April 2022
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PotentHerbs said:
jason1637 said:

Forza is probably more popular than Gran Turismo at this point, games like Halo Elder Scrolls, Fallout can stand their own when compared to Marvel IPs and Final Fantasy.

The God of War series has sold over 32m and the Gears of War has sold 27m and that doesn't include Gears Judgement, Gears Collection, and Gears 4/5 sales so suggesting that these games don't generate the same amount of hype is wrong.

I do agree that MS wont drown out Sony in releases, they both have a lot of great games coming up.

I doubt Forza has surpassed Gran Turismo in popularity. Number of players are not the same as actual sales. Otherwise, I could conflate the popularity of Uncharted 4 (37M players) and the Destiny franchise (187M total players) beyond their actual pull. Also, the God of War franchise has sold over 50M units not 32M units, but more importantly the IP is a lot more popular today then it was during the PS2/PS3 era. 

The thing with Forza Horizon 5 is that it wasn’t bundled so all the players and sales were people who actually purchased the game or purchased a subscription to play the game so it’s not the same like Uncharted 4 which was bundled with the PS4 for years. Popularity does I need to include number of players and active players it’s an important metric. Subscription services like gamepass helps a lot and with the numbers Horizon 5 put up I think it’s helped Forza become more popular than GT

my mistake with the God of War numbers they were from what appears to be an outdated wiki but the settlement remains there are plenty of MS games that are as big IP wise as their Sony counterparts.