I've done the math on this. For GT5 to sell just 10 million units it needs to sell 79% as well as GT4 for the reamining weeks. Recently the attach rate has dropped slightly below 80%, but it's still too early to tell where it's going to stablize. I think GT5 sales will likely stabilize around 60% of GT4's remaining weekly sales, so to me an 8.5-9.4 million ranges seems likely. 8 million is a bit low, Forza 3 sold 1.8 million units since last year at this point, but 1 million were due from bundling. Still GT5 should be able to do at least double Forza 3's weekly sales, so 8 million should be a bare minimum, if and only if all things went sour for PD.

Actually, GT5 is performing on par with GT4 in the Americas (it only has to reach 2.8mill there to catch GT4 and it's already at 1.61mill (at a similar rate to GT4). It's only real blunder is Japan (which EMEAA will make up for and then some). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

you are seeming to ignore this HUGE tidbit of info, gt4 launched in march...gt5 launched on black friday week!!!!! that is crazy that you wanna give gt5 the same credit- if it launched in march like gt4 it wouldnt even of sold half

again i quoted your post because it was the one that i wanted to quote, it was the one that was ignoring the facts- and are u kidding me, speculation ! you saying that a game that launches in march is going to sell the same as one that launches at the absolute height of the holiday season....and wait till the first holiday weeks for gt4 and the same week for gt5 and you will see a major difference

Lol....why'd you quote a different poster with my response? O.o

Regardless, you're speaking out of sheer speculation (and because GT5 didn't launch outside of a holiday period, it will always be speculation).

Bottom line,  GT5 is performing like GT4 in the States. I can only imagine that the holiday helped to front-load the sales, but not add any incredible, extra amount (and the numbers don't reflect such an assumption).

in japan gt5 died like 10 th week look at it, it will never reach 700k in japan its done

How many PS2 were in sold at this time period? How many PS3 are sold in same time period. Was there a recession and economical problems at that time period when GT4 was out? How many more do they need to sell in EMEA & JAPA?GT5 is at 6 million. It has to sell another 4.5 million copies to catch GT4. Unless Sony does a couple more bundles during the holidays, I do see them reaching that goal. They should hit 8 million maybe, but by June total sales will be below 10K a week worldwide.

LOL 2 360 fanatics downplaying GT5 even after selling 6m in 3 months? SHOCK AND AW!