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Alby_da_Wolf on 01 August 2013

GT5 shipments are approaching the first GT ones: http://www.polyphony.co.jp/english/list.html
Once reached the 3rd place in the series, it would make sense to make the last effort to reach the 2nd, as it's not very far away, less than 900k, not impossible for a game that sold more than 2.4M last year and has already sold 690k this year.
1st place is the only target really unlikely to be reached, unless with heavy bundling.



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Angelv577 on 01 August 2013

I'm willing to bet that forza LTD sales (including mass bundling) had equal the gran tursmo 5 sales before starting mass bundling.



riderz13371 on 01 August 2013
sales2099 said:
pezus said:
DeadBigfoot21 said:
GT 5 also comes with a ps3 bundle

Just saying

So has pretty much every Forza game, yet GT easily (and I mean very easily) outsells them. It also sold around 2.5m first week, a feat that I would love to see a spin on.

Pretty sure the Forza bundles are done...but I still see GT5 PS3 bundles today in a few major retailers. Seems they are contuing to be "stealth bundled".

I still see Forza bundles at Best Buy and Future Shop (Canada)



NobleTeam360 on 01 August 2013

I sure wish more people would play it though. Give me more of a reason to play it.



kyu23 on 01 August 2013

Forza is way better thanks to Live and great veriety of car brands, especially people like me fans of European or American brands



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Mmmfishtacos on 01 August 2013
kyu23 said:
Forza is way better thanks to Live and great veriety of car brands, especially people like me fans of European or American brands


Sure it is... sure 



Mmmfishtacos on 01 August 2013

Id be willing to bet more people play gt5 in a month that people buy a forza game over its life time.



Jay520 on 01 August 2013
pezus said:

How sure? 

What does stealth bundled mean? Does it mean that it's an optional bundle out of a few or many others? Why don't the other games not sell 11m?


A stealth bundle is a dirty tactic used by Sony when a game cannot sell enough units to make respectable profits. Sony knows this is the case about GT5, so they try to sneak in a low-key bundle to trick themselves into believing it actually sold more (hence the term "stealth"). Sony doesn't care how GT5 sells, they only care that it sells a lot, even if some are given away for free. Whenever Sony has a meeting, everyone pretends GT5 sold those copies all by itself, knowingly ignoring the fact that it didn't, all so they can be happy. This is the purpose of a stealth bundle.



4k1x3r on 01 August 2013
Jay520 said:
pezus said:

How sure? 

What does stealth bundled mean? Does it mean that it's an optional bundle out of a few or many others? Why don't the other games not sell 11m?


A stealth bundle is a dirty tactic used by Sony when a game cannot sell enough units to make respectable profits. Sony knows this is the case about GT5, so they try to sneak in a low-key bundle to trick themselves into believing it actually sold more (hence the term "stealth"). Sony doesn't care how GT5 sells, they only care that it sells a lot, even if some are given away for free. Whenever Sony has a meeting, everyone pretends GT5 sold those copies all by itself, knowingly ignoring the fact that it didn't, all so they can be happy. This is the purpose of a stealth bundle.

I lost a lot of brain cells reading this. If you see a PS3+GT5 bundle and you're interested, you fucking buy the bundle, if you're not interested, there's a LOTTT of bundles available. Sony knows people want GT5, that's why they bundle it so it sells faster, it sells by himself, just the way you do it is different. How hard is it to understand?



riderz13371 on 01 August 2013
4k1x3r said:
Jay520 said:
pezus said:

How sure? 

What does stealth bundled mean? Does it mean that it's an optional bundle out of a few or many others? Why don't the other games not sell 11m?


A stealth bundle is a dirty tactic used by Sony when a game cannot sell enough units to make respectable profits. Sony knows this is the case about GT5, so they try to sneak in a low-key bundle to trick themselves into believing it actually sold more (hence the term "stealth"). Sony doesn't care how GT5 sells, they only care that it sells a lot, even if some are given away for free. Whenever Sony has a meeting, everyone pretends GT5 sold those copies all by itself, knowingly ignoring the fact that it didn't, all so they can be happy. This is the purpose of a stealth bundle.

I lost a lot of brain cells reading this. If you see a PS3+GT5 bundle and you're interested, you fucking buy the bundle, if you're not interested, there's a LOTTT of bundles available. Sony knows people want GT5, that's why they bundle it so it sells faster, it sells by himself, just the way you do it is different. How hard is it to understand?

Lol I think he's just joking.