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Forums - Sales Discussion - Forza overtakes Gran Turismo to become the highest selling HD-console exclusive racing franchise of the gen!

man-bear-pig on 21 November 2012
JayWood2010 said:
Not even going to read the comments because I know they will be complaining. This should be looked at in different perspectives.

Rule number 1- We do not talk about bundles
Rule number 2- We do not talk about bundles.

Bet you guys already broke both of those rules. Both GT and Forza gets bundled.

2nd thing is people will complain that Forza has 4 titles against GT 2, The thing about this is it doesn't matter all that much when they have been out close to the same time frame. If GT6 came out 2 years after GT5 then GT5 sells would not be as good as what they are because GT5 sells well over a long period of time instead of all at once. The same thing could happen with forza if they didnt bring a new one out every 2 years.

3rd GT5 is undertracked so the OP is wrong anyways. It has already been announced that it has shipped 9 million copies of GT5. Of course vgchartz shows sold but you cant take sold numbers accurately. All you can know 100% for sure is that it has shipped 9 million.

The forza and GT comparison I will agree that Forza has become the more quality racer and it has great features like the auction house but we shouldnt compare the two with so many things that we can not prove because everybody will have there own perspective on this.


Finally some logic! I applaud you, good sir



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

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Turkish on 21 November 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Turkish said:
man-bear-pig said:
Turkish said:
man-bear-pig said:
Turkish said:
Where is GT PSP?


"HD-console"


So? GT5 is undertracked. GT5+Prologue nearly shipped 15m on their own.


Shipped =/= sold.

You have got to be kidding me. Do you actually believe there are close to 2 million unsold copies of GT5/P lying on store shelves?


Obviously not, but your total ALSO INCLUDES DIGITAL SALES. Forzas digital sales are unknown, so vgchartz is the only source we have


GT5 is available for download? Did you put it on PSN or did I miss it? My numbers are shipments. How the hell you can ship digital copies? You don't make any sense.



justinian on 21 November 2012
Laurel Aitken said:
kowenicki said:
Laurel Aitken said:

Ohhhh!!!!!! This thread is so sweet :P It's like a naive 6 years-old created it.

But if thinking that lets you sleep at night, YES! Wooooh Forza for tha win!!!!!!11111 GT zukz! :)
Now you can go and be happy!


posts like this should be bannable. 


Well, asking for a ban in a thread is a bannable offence. So there you go.

The fact is, the OP is being really naive, what's wrong with saying that? Only a sensitive soul like yourself would find that ban-worthy.

It's all very childish in my opinion.  It's like kindergarden. "Please sir, lock this thread", "I am going to report you", "Sir, ban this person".

It's ridiculous. Adults shouldn't act like that. Over the stupidest things.

Obviously i don't know anyone's age but I thought this site was for people over 18.



man-bear-pig on 21 November 2012
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
thats without taking into consideration that both GT games are under tracked by a million each


Source?


non other than the developers them selfs. need a better source than that?

http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html


They include digital sales too though (presumably), so it's irrelevant because we don't know how many digital copies Forza has sold

so until any offical numbers, from what we know GT this gen has outsold Forza.


Lol, no. Vgchartz is the only source we have, so that's the sales we'll use (as it doesn't include digital sales for EITHER game)


for GT, since we have offical sales we should go with them. you know because their offical and stuff


No, because then we can't make comparisons (as there are no official Forza #'s) 

Vgchartz is best because it doesn't discriminate between digital & retail



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

Carl on 21 November 2012

Great to see the definitive racing franchise topping the pretender.



                            

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Gilgamesh on 21 November 2012
NobleTeam360 said:
shanbcn said:

Actuall GT5 sales are closer to 15 million and Forza is overtracked anyway. The must bundled game ever, what happen when MS doesnt bundle Forza? Even new Forza Horizon is selling less the bundled Forza 4.

Isn't GT5 bundled?

620K is bundled for GT5 according to PD and Forza 3 has been bundled over 1 million times according to VG Chartz. It was heavily bundled around when GT5 released, went from selling almost nothing to 200K + for a couple weeks lol



DiscussionTime on 21 November 2012
Turkish said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
thats without taking into consideration that both GT games are under tracked by a million each


Source?


http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html

 

No way there are 2 million copies lying on shelves.

I noticed that the link says GT5 shipped 9 million. Vgchartz puts the game at 8.14. So its very reasonable to say that there is less then a million on store shelves



bananaking21 on 21 November 2012
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
man-bear-pig said:
bananaking21 said:
thats without taking into consideration that both GT games are under tracked by a million each


Source?


non other than the developers them selfs. need a better source than that?

http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html


They include digital sales too though (presumably), so it's irrelevant because we don't know how many digital copies Forza has sold

so until any offical numbers, from what we know GT this gen has outsold Forza.


Lol, no. Vgchartz is the only source we have, so that's the sales we'll use (as it doesn't include digital sales for EITHER game)


for GT, since we have offical sales we should go with them. you know because their offical and stuff


No, because then we can't make comparisons (as there are no official Forza #'s) 

Vgchartz is best because it doesn't discriminate between digital & retail

yes vgchartz its the best because it massively undertracks games



Laurel Aitken on 21 November 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Laurel Aitken said:

Ohhhh!!!!!! This thread is so sweet :P It's like a naive 6 years-old created it.

But if thinking that lets you sleep at night, YES! Wooooh Forza for tha win!!!!!!11111 GT zukz! :)
Now you can go and be happy!


All I'm doing is stating facts...no need to get personal

Yeah, "stating facts". 

Like a user said before:

Forza average: 3.06 m
GT average: 6.12 m

So, that's also a fact. But you created the thread not because you found an awesome fact. You created it because you thought it was going to be controversial and PS3 fans were gonna be pissed off.

I don't get personal, but the OP is a very naive post. It's like those controversial news sites that make controversial articels just for the hits.



Horrorfest on 21 November 2012

what a load of delusional garbage.