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Gran Turismo 5 will fail to sell...

Best Selling Gran Turismo 939 37.95%
 
2nd Best Selling Gran Turismo 494 19.97%
 
3rd Best Selling Gran Turismo 389 15.72%
 
4th Best Selling Gran Turismo 116 4.69%
 
The Worst Selling Gran Turismo 536 21.67%
 
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FinalEvangelion on 01 November 2010
evolution_1ne said:
XanderZane said:

It'll sell, but it's not going to sell as well as some people are claiming. 10 million is sales is out of the question. As i said before, when GT4 sold 14 million, the PS2 has over 100 million PS2 in gamers homes. 14 million wasn't even 1/5 of the PS2 user base. If we went by the PS2 sales and GT5 sold as much as GT4, it would sell about 6-7 million over the lifetime. I'm still thinking it'll sell 3-4 million during the holidays and then 5-6 million lifetime. Halo Reach is going to sell close to 8-9 million lifetime. Halo games tend to have legs and do very well during the holidays.



The good old userbase argument.  How well did that work in God of War III?  I forgot.



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jarrod on 01 November 2010
FinalEvangelion said:

The good old userbase argument.  How well did that work in God of War III?  I forgot.

How'd it work out for Mingol?  Or Ratchet & Clank?  Or any Sony game whose audience stretches beyond the narrow-yet-vocal hardcore?  



FinalEvangelion on 01 November 2010
jarrod said:
FinalEvangelion said:

The good old userbase argument.  How well did that work in God of War III?  I forgot.

How'd it work out for Mingol?  Or Ratchet & Clank?  Or any Sony game whose audience stretches beyond the narrow-yet-vocal hardcore?  


And how do we know that GT5 is going to be the same?  The thing is, everyone said GOW3 was impossible to sell as much as the previous ones (many of the same people in this thread).  Plus, GT5's userbase will be bigger than when other GTs released.  And that userbase doesn't look like it's going to stop increasing anytime soon.  I know many people wish that, but it is what it is.



"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."  --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials 

 

Conservatives:  Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.

 

chazy13 on 01 November 2010

it'll defiantly sell atleast 7 mil but i dont think it has much chance of getting to 10 million seeing as no ps3 game has reached that and i dont think GT5 will be the one to do it



End of 2012 prediction:

xbox 360 : 73-75 million  playstation 3 : 72-74 million  wii : 104-105 million 

Most hyped for :

Bioshock: infinte, The Last Of Us, Alan Wake's American Nightmare and Agent

jarrod on 01 November 2010
FinalEvangelion said:
jarrod said:
FinalEvangelion said:

The good old userbase argument.  How well did that work in God of War III?  I forgot.

How'd it work out for Mingol?  Or Ratchet & Clank?  Or any Sony game whose audience stretches beyond the narrow-yet-vocal hardcore?  


And how do we know that GT5 is going to be the same?  The thing is, everyone said GOW3 was impossible to sell as much as the previous ones (many of the same people in this thread).  Plus, GT5's userbase will be bigger than when other GTs released.  And that userbase doesn't look like it's going to stop increasing anytime soon.  I know many people wish that, but it is what it is.

I don't think it's so much size of the userbase as it is makeup.  GT is a game with mainstream pull, but PS3 isn't really a platform with a mainstream base.   It's focus and audience is narrower, which is why games like R&C or Mingol haven't done as well on it; they really need that "mainstream" that we saw on PS1 and PS2.  These franchises also haven't done nearly as well on PSP either, while GOW actually has done pretty well there too.

On the other hand, I expect GT5 probably getting bundled to hell and back, which will probably help pad out the numbers and get them more comparable with previous gen GTs.  Sort of like what happened with Prologue in Japan.



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Hus on 04 November 2010

lol userbase mainstream bundles

What nutty ness will peeps come up to hide their foolishness behind.

 

 

 



mundus6 on 04 November 2010

It wont beat GT4, but it will be the best sold PS3 game by the end of this generation except for maybe MW2.



marc on 04 November 2010

Without a big bundled deal it will not get anywhere near 8m. Another thing most people dont consider is Forza stole some market share permanently due to differences in gameplay. In the ps2 days there really was no competition given the ps2's dominance. This gen is very different. I also know a lot of people who didnt like prologue so I am not sure if that release helped or hurt them.



Pyramid12 on 04 November 2010
marc said:

Without a big bundled deal it will not get anywhere near 8m. Another thing most people dont consider is Forza stole some market share permanently due to differences in gameplay. In the ps2 days there really was no competition given the ps2's dominance. This gen is very different. I also know a lot of people who didnt like prologue so I am not sure if that release helped or hurt them.


LOL!!!!! keep saying that so when GT5 does 10m I will be rubbing it in your faces 24/7.

Forza can't even outsell GT5p seriously.



Alby_da_Wolf on 05 November 2010

To reach GT5's highest goals it's essential that Sony doesn't waste either next BF or Xmas. GT5 must be launched before BF, otherwise we can publicly declare Sony the most masochist console manufacturer currently active (the most ever is Sega, obviously ).



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