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Had GT4 had online it would have sold better in NA

Every additional racing game reduces other racing games' sales - as they are substitute products of one another

If you haven't noticed PD have regularly been unable to publish GT5 since 2006

GT5 prologue sold less than a million in the US and it came out when the PS3 portfolio was basically empty

Dude, metarankings and sales are indicating a decadent franchise in NA :

Gran Turismo Series Software Title List

Japan

North America

Europe

Asia

Worldwide

cannot seem to edit so i'll add here the link to the sales chart :

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

^^You broke the thread.

Americans hate all things quality. The better something is in America the more people despise it. If a car is really nice we hate it, because it is to snobby. If someone is really good in school we make them outcasts. If someone works hard at their job, other employees treat them like crap, and try to set them up to fail. Gran Turismo is made to a level of quality that most Americans can never dream of achieving. Instead of loving it for all of its perfection, they just wish it would go away, so they would not look so bad anymore.

That is utterly foolish to say. Americans love quality, which is why they buy outside of the country so much. You should be blaming American corporations for putting out such low quality goods and subjecting their goods to Americans and making us feel bad if we dont buy half assed goods. Now at least they are starting to pick up the pace with value after the economy hit a recession. You have a false understanding of what Americans think and how we live. GT5 may be a quality racing game, but it is a redundant yet beautiful race car game.

It should do around 3 - 4 Million in the US.

@S.T.A.G.E.

Mabye things are better were you live, but here in Washington thats all I see. People build crap quality goods, and provide disgraceful services. Some complain about it, but most just let it slide, and say oh its just this or that. That is what I see from my fellow Americans every day.

Sorry that this is a little off topic, but it from my point of view this is a very logical awnswer.

its also because GT3 launched more closed to a new system and people had nothing else to play kind of scenario

U always HREF grand turismo but now add me to the GT club