| CGI-Quality said: It's performed quite well, a good deal ahead of many predictions overall. Of course people will say the holiday played an essential role, which is partially the case. Yes, the holiday push kept the awareness flowing, and post-release marketing surely hit the spot. But on the flipside, holidays or not, an undesired product is an undesired product. If the game wasn't a hot item (something many want), it would not sell much. In fact, seems like the game has gone through quite the moving of the goalposts lately: - Some said the few lower-than-80 reviews would hurt it. - Some said it's much lower userbase would hurt it. - Some said the market is too interested in the FPS, thus that would hurt it. - Some now even put it next to Modern Warfare 2 and/or Black Ops to judge it's sales potential. One thing can't be denied, it did perform much lower than many predictions in Japan, the result was disappointing. But really, GT is still huge, and not much could change that. If it wasn't hailed as the best racing sim on consoles (what it truly set out to do), then I could understand the doubt. But with it being (according to many - including the same reviews people thought would seal the deal in a negative way) the complete opposite, I think it will continue to sell strong. It's looking at ending 2010 just a tad shy of 5 million (4.8-4.9mill is my guess). A franchise that sells 5 million in a month won't just suddenly die off and sell just 6 or 7 million in it's entire life. The game is looking at at least 8-9mill lifetime, but I continue to support the original prediction of 10 million. |
Look at bolded. I said the same exact thing and people accused my of trolling. you said it and it's completely fine. wow thx! :) (Im not picking on you CGI im just using you as an example)
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