That usually does not happens, the public is always looking into the next game and anything that is not purchased close to launch people wait till the price is severily reduced. Christmas season could help a little as there are not many PS4 exclusives to check or purchase, but don't get your hopes too high.

Not made a thread in ages, but with all the shenanigans around DriveClub, I thought this might be something interesting to discuss. 

As we all are aware, Driveclub launch hasn't gone as planned and with 2 weeks passing and there still not being any sign of a ps+ version,  what is the likelihood of large number of gamers holding back from making a retail or psn purchase. 

Myself and a few friends couldn't be bothered waiting and just took the plunge with the £35 ps+ edition. Although non of us regret it as it is an amazing racer, it has annoyed us not being able to play against each other and not getting our club points for all the races. 

Retail for release week seems to be just over 170k for US and UK, but this doesn't include the online purchases. 

Although retail sales may not reach large numbers, I think the game will sell well through ps+ due to its discounted price. We will probably hear sales figures from Sony once the problems have been sorted and sales reach a milestone. I think the game could sell a million by end of December if they sort the problems out by the end of October, what are your thoughts? 

The digital version only costs $50/30 pounds/40 euros, which is much cheaper than a new retail game, so digital sales should be good, perhaps even better than retail sales.

Does DC really have a Project Gotham (have you played it?) feel to it?...Though I love cars in real life, sim racers bore me to tears, I could use some old school arcade racer

No way.

It will probably do about 200k first week. Lifetime will probably reach 1m.

Even Motorstorm Apocalypse, which launched with 20k, sold ~ 500k.

I have played all the PGR games, and I'm more addicted to DC now than I ever was to PGR, which was great as well. It's the tracks that make DC so great, very well constructed and a joy to drive over and over. WIth 25 unique ones there's plenty of variety. PGR had very good city tracks, yet driving on DCs narrow winding mountain tracks adds a whole new layer of excitement.

The handling is much closer to PGR than a sim. DC does do all the individual tire, suspension, weight calculations giving it a realistic feel, yet it also turns up the grip and acceleration to give it the excitement of an arcade racer. It has a excellent difficulty curve, strarting of easy with the hot hatch cars, yet mastering the Venom GT hyper car takes all your concentration. And hitting the wrong bump at 370 km/h is not recommended, although spectacular :)

You have to brake before corners indicated by color coded flags along the tracks. You can also handbrake, power drift though corners which takes quite a bit of skill. (It's no ridge racer) Drift events are part of the campaign.