Examples of racing series that don't sell as much as they used to?

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Jay520 on 28 July 2010

The only one I can think of is Need for Speed.

NFS Underground 2: 9.8m (2004)
NFS Most Wanted: 9.61m (2005)
NFS Underground : 9.3m (2003)
NFS Pro Street: 7.83m (2007)
NFS Carbon: 5.81m (2006)
NFS Undercover: 5.16m (2008)
NFS Shift: 3.74m (2009)

Probably would have sold more if they weren't released every year. Anyone have any more examples of racing series that don't sale as much as they used to. I ask this because many people have stated that racing games don't sell as much as they used to. Games like Mario Kart and Forza continue to sell just as much as earlier iterations. I really want to see if racing games are as popular as they used to.

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iWarMachine on 28 July 2010

Forza! (Troll)

nah, i don't know. i think that's the only one (NFS), and Gran Turismo too.

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cmeese47 on 28 July 2010

Forzas numbers are inflated because of it being bundled but I certainly see a decline in the market just look at the slow sales for blur, split second and mod nation racers.

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Jay520 on 28 July 2010

iWarMachine said:

Forza! (Troll)

nah, i don't know. i think that's the only one (NFS), and Gran Turismo too.

The latest Gran Turismo sold around 10 million which is the range for most GT games, except GT3.

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Jay520 on 28 July 2010

cmeese47 said:

Forzas numbers are inflated because of it being bundled but I certainly see a decline in the market just look at the slow sales for blur, split second and mod nation racers.

You could say that the 3 of them ate at each others' sales. And you have to consider Red Dead overshadowing mostly everything for that month.

EDIT: Which Forza are you talking about?

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Dark_Feanor on 28 July 2010

1

Forza Motorsport 2 (X360)
Microsoft

2.52

0.04

1.45

4.01

2

Forza Motorsport 3 (X360)
Microsoft

1.36

0.06

1.44

2.86

I belive the some will happen with GT5-Prologe/GT5. Forza was the first racing game riting the 360, without any big francise to concur.

PS: We can expect something similar to Halo3/Reach.

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Barozi on 28 July 2010

Dark_Feanor said:

1

Forza Motorsport 2 (X360)
Microsoft

2.52

0.04

1.45

4.01

2

Forza Motorsport 3 (X360)
Microsoft

1.36

0.06

1.44

2.86

I belive the some will happen with GT5-Prologe/GT5. Forza was the first racing game riting the 360, without any big francise to concur.

PS: We can expect something similar to Halo3/Reach.

Without the bundles, Forza 3 already outsold Forza 2.

Also our NFS sales data is waaay off (Probably also due to missing PC data) We have 60 million sales for the NFS franchise in our database, but infact the series sold over 100 million copies (shipped back then, probably sold by now).

NFS Most Wanted is the best selling NFS title with 16 million

http://news.softpedia.com/news/100-million-Need-for-Speed-Games-Have-Been-Sold-to-This-Day-125015.shtml

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haxxiy on 28 July 2010

Yeah, NFS is the only one I can think of. Much like GTA, it didn't manage to carry all of it's momentum from the PS2 gen into this one. Racing has been polarized by the first party titles this gen (MK, Forza, GT)