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Dazzle on 29 September 2010

maybe cause people are giving up on it. My brother has a ps3 and he's been waiting for GT5 for ages and has been annoyed cause of all the delays and i think he's had enough now. I won't be surprised if it gets deleted again..



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zgamer5 on 29 September 2010
dobby985 said:

@zgamer5

I don't see why this is the FPS generation. Shooters have been popular since the 90s with Doom, Wolfenstein, Marathon, Duke 3D, Half-Life.

Last gen had a lot of GTA clones which I'm not sorry to see the back of.


its mainly fps generation beacuse its the most popular genra. im ok with that, but 3/4 of the fps games who came out this gen are terrible.



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

irtz on 29 September 2010
SpartenOmega117 said:

I think one of the main reasons why GT5 preorders have not taken off is because of the lack of a console bundle for NA. I remeber a read something not too long ago that 33% of the people who want to buy GT5 don't have a ps3. Of course sony not massively advertising the game here in the U.S. might also be a reason but im sure as soon as sony announces a PS3 bundle preorder sales might jump a little.

 

Ohh sorry for the mistake in the title :(


agreed



AnveL on 29 September 2010

loyal fans won't need advertising

most US gamers sticking with 360 this gen is the reason why

sony is not gonna make it in US market anymore



kjj4t9rdad on 29 September 2010

Where I live, there is no reason to pre-order.  There are plenty of stores to buy games, so finding games in stock is never a problem.  Because of this, I only pre-order games when I get some sort of incentive like extra DLC, or posters or access to beta ect...  I will be buying this game day 1 for sure, I just won't pre-order unless one of my local stores gives me a reason to do so.



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Nsanity on 29 September 2010
CGI-Quality said:
Nsanity said:

Welcome to first person shooter era my friend.

Yeah, tell that to Mario Kart Wii.

"FPS era" has nothing to do with anything when regarding a series like Gran Turismo.

 

I don't see Gran Turismo on that list do you?



Kratos_36 on 29 September 2010

Why is everyone talking about delay's ? It has never had any other date than 2 november here in NA/EU. In Japan is has been delayed , but there haven't been any official delay's. Only thing is that some people said 'It's coming this october' and then it doesn't come. So the media created all the delay's. GT5 has had only 1 delay , in Japan. All those so called release dates are all speculations. They have never said any specific date for EU/NA except 2/3 november.



Mad55 on 29 September 2010
CGI-Quality said:
Mad55 said:
CGI-Quality said:
Mad55 said:
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Mad55 said:

it hasnt taken off like some expected because its not as big as it used to be and the wait probably lost fans. Though im sure itll do great but i belive itll be the lowest selling console GT. lawl!!!!

Yeah, I remember when MGS4 was going to be the lowest selling Metal Gear Solid title, or when God of War III would crawl to 2.5 mill but not much more.

Well i never said it wouldnt be huge im just saying it wont sell like the others. also theres like a three year difference between god of war 2 and god of war 3  I believe while  GT4 came out in 2005 and Gt5 is releasing in 2010 which is a 5 year difference.  Though i guess since theres a 4 year difference between metak gear 3 and 4 i cant really use that excuse accurately lol im just saying.

But what makes that apparent?

Based on how other games have sold on the ps3 and how the preorders are looking I guess.

What other games? Big PS2 franchises have sold on par or better on PS3. Few exceptions - Ratchet for instance. But God of War, Metal Gear Solid, and GT5:P have all proven that the PS3 can still push big PlayStation franchises, and the Prologue is the highest selling PS3 exclusive at this point, with MGS4 right behind it.

The pre-orders haven't told me much of anything other than this will be a game with legs, as GT always is.

Wait im saying that no game on the ps3 has had sales as close to the gran turismos on ps2 even gta 4 on ps3 couldnt manage half of what san andreas did on ps2 i belive. Im not saying it wont sell huge amounts im saying it wont sell like the others and the legs probably wont be as awesome as previous gran turismos. I mean i highly doubt it beats mw2s sales. And how have the pre-orders told you that the game will have legs? i mean iim sure it will but the preorders tell you that?

GTA IV couldn't manage on PS3 what San Andreas managed on PS2 for a number of reasons, but the largest and most relevant being that is was multiplatform. Not only that, but multiplatform from day 1, also a distinct difference from past GTA titles where the PlayStation enjoyed a year of exclusivity, and GTA IV would have sold numerous PS3s had it been exclusive. Therefore, Gran Tursimo 5 and GTA IV have little to nothing in common.

Also, Modern Warfare 2 is a rare case. Games on neither the PS3 nor 360 sell like that, unless of course, it's Halo or Gran Turismo, outside of Call of Duty.

With the Prologue sitting at 5 million right now (mind you, it was in the top 50 just this past week - it's been on the market for 2 years), I doubt GT5 will sell anything less than 9-10 mill, which is what GT sells. The pre-order numbers in one region tell me nothing of GT5's life, except that it will likely sell 500-750K in the States week 1 and leg it's way to 2 million.

unless of course, it's Halo or Gran Turismo hmmm well gran turismo will have to prove that statement for this generation. also vgchartz has prologue at 3.8 million i think where is the extra 1.2 million coming from not saying your wrong I just dont see the sales. okay you expect gt5 to leg its way to 2 million in america and lets say it sale a million in japan you expect europe to make up for the rest of those sale and reach 9-10 million total? sounds ridiculous dude.

Also GTA and Gran turismo have plenty in common there both games that wont/havent reach sale of their previous main iterations and being multiplatform isnt an excuse I said half the sales of san andreas which evens the playing field lol.



Hus on 29 September 2010

Cause preordering is crap.

Why wait till 7 pm for the fools to call me that the game is in when i can call them at 10am and go pick it up. 

Thats and there is no benefit to doing it, maybe if they gave out stuff sure but they dont. 



Hus on 29 September 2010
Mad55 said:
CGI-Quality said:

GTA IV couldn't manage on PS3 what San Andreas managed on PS2 for a number of reasons, but the largest and most relevant being that is was multiplatform. Not only that, but multiplatform from day 1, also a distinct difference from past GTA titles where the PlayStation enjoyed a year of exclusivity, and GTA IV would have sold numerous PS3s had it been exclusive. Therefore, Gran Tursimo 5 and GTA IV have little to nothing in common.

Also, Modern Warfare 2 is a rare case. Games on neither the PS3 nor 360 sell like that, unless of course, it's Halo or Gran Turismo, outside of Call of Duty.

With the Prologue sitting at 5 million right now (mind you, it was in the top 50 just this past week - it's been on the market for 2 years), I doubt GT5 will sell anything less than 9-10 mill, which is what GT sells. The pre-order numbers in one region tell me nothing of GT5's life, except that it will likely sell 500-750K in the States week 1 and leg it's way to 2 million.

unless of course, it's Halo or Gran Turismo hmmm well gran turismo will have to prove that statement for this generation. also vgchartz has prologue at 3.8 million i think where is the extra 1.2 million coming from not saying your wrong I just dont see the sales. okay you expect gt5 to leg its way to 2 million in america and lets say it sale a million in japan you expect europe to make up for the rest of those sale and reach 9-10 million total? sounds ridiculous dude.

Also GTA and Gran turismo have plenty in common there both games that wont/havent reach sale of their previous main iterations and being multiplatform isnt an excuse I said half the sales of san andreas which evens the playing field lol.

 

GT5 will end up doing 4/5 million in the US over its life rather easily.  Europe well GT sales actually grew from GT3 to GT4 (5.86m - 6.49m) even with online being cut the Euros still ate up GT in record numebrs. 

NOV 2 release durrrr whast that big holiday that comes after Nov.

GT5 will pass 10 million, i bet my nuts over it.