GT5 first week numbers. How do you think it did?

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iLLmaticV3 on 03 December 2010

A bit lower than expected, but good. I was thinking probably around 2.5 mil, but, not bad at all.

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Immortal on 03 December 2010

It's kinda hillarious that every time there's a poll on this site involving anything Sony, the most positive answer always gets more votes. Tells you something about it's usebase, :P.

Anyway, whilst it did amazing just for a game, it did low/average compared to the expectations.

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RafaelOrix on 03 December 2010

Great sales, imo. Hopefully we will see good legs for it.

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Great IMHO. Racers overall seem to have struggled this gen - the marketplace has been split across multiple consoles like never before, and genres such as FPS are outselling everything in sight.

Therefore, over 2M at launch vs around 2.5M for GT4, after wacky delays, way too much hype and a few mixed (well, lower then expeced at 7) reviews were bound to make a dent in it. Plus in US Kinect is still in its first flush and Wii was getting it's seasonal boost.

So I think 2m is pretty damn good - certainly more than most racers on multiple consoles.

Now though, it's all about the legs. If those are weaker then I'd feel it underperformed a bit - if they look good then I think the overall LTD will be favourable.

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damndl0ser on 03 December 2010

CGI-Quality said:

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I was guessing 1.75m to 2.0 mill for first week so it did pretty much what I was expecting. As I have said all along, this gen of gaming is all about the FPS (shooters in general) games. And racing, platforming and a lot of other types of games simply don't sell like they used to or even should, this is why I estimated GT's sales to be 6-7 million lifetime and a lot of people laughed at me. I still think GT5 will do those numbers if its bundled heavily, but if it isn't it may only do 5million.

I guess we will get a really good idea of what it will do in a week or 2. We will have an idea of the games legs, but I am not holding out a lot of hope for it doing any more than 7 million. And a lot of people who had those idiotic estimates of 10-20million will be eating wheel barrels full of crow which is unfortunate because I like GT5 and have owned all but a couple of the GTp games.

ioi predicted 10 million as well, and I think we'll agree that his statements are hardly "idiotic".

Besides, 5 million is what Prologue did, and it didn't start off like GT5. GT5 will easily clear 5mill, and 10 million isn't out of the question. Looking back @ GT4, GT5's numbers account for less days, and it only sold 500,000 less than it. That isn't really a strong sign of franchise decline. The only shooters this gen with large numbers are CoD, Gears, & Halo. One of those (Halo) was already big to begin with (previous gen).

I never understand why people think so many shooters sell so big. It's really not many.

The idiotic estimates I was refurring to were the ones closer to 15-20mil.

In general shooters have sold better than most other types of games. Just because every shooter doesn't do 5 million doesn't mean they aren't selling like hotcakes. If you take away some a lot of games on the Wii, it would be hard to point out many games other than shooters that have done 5 million. And if you put up average shooters vs. average driving games, or platformers the shooters useually win.

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Vetteman94 on 03 December 2010

I think it sold great, closer to my original predictions, which were lower than my revised predictions. I also think it is slightly undertracked in EMEAA. But time will tell on that. I still think it may have a shot at 4-4.5M by the end of the year, then on a nice walk to 10M. With the talks of this possibly being the only GT game on the PS3, there is no doubt in my mind it will hit 10M if that ends up true.

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ethomaz on 03 December 2010

Amazing...

But undertracked in EMEAA.

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Maynard_Tool on 03 December 2010

If this are final numbers....below expectations.

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DemOps on 03 December 2010

I had a feeling people would end up disappointed, Gran Turismo is a really big game but people were making it out to be Halo, GTA or COD big and it isnt.