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Slimebeast on 05 November 2012

But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.



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Aj_habfan on 05 November 2012

Very impressive.

The undertracking comes from Europe mostly, we already saw that from Nintendo's released numbers.



Turkish on 05 November 2012

I bought 2 copies, GT5 and AE. Still cant drive that Redbell X2010 LOL



ethomaz on 05 November 2012
Slimebeast said:
But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.

GT5:P alone paid GT5... now it is just a print money machine for Sony and it is out just 1 year and 11 months.



Slimebeast on 05 November 2012
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.

Huh, it hasn't even been out for years. It sold something like 6-7m in 2010 only (shipments)...at full price. Most of it has been at full price. Then factor in GT5P, which is basically free money in addition to the money GT5 brought in.

2010 shipments were 6.4 mill and the rest are at budget prices. So if the lifetime total ends at 11 million like some people here say, a big part of that is from small revenue copies.



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Slimebeast on 05 November 2012
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.

Huh, it hasn't even been out for years. It sold something like 6-7m in 2010 only (shipments)...at full price. Most of it has been at full price. Then factor in GT5P, which is basically free money in addition to the money GT5 brought in.

2010 shipments were 6.4 mill and the rest are at budget prices. So if the lifetime total ends at 11 million like some people here say, a big part of that is from small revenue copies.

Source? When did it drop in price?

Also, the same could be said for most games that reach 10m (except Nintendo games...)

My impression is that they overshipped because the game could be found in the bargain bins here in Sweden after just a few months.



Max King of the Wild on 05 November 2012
Slimebeast said:
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.

Huh, it hasn't even been out for years. It sold something like 6-7m in 2010 only (shipments)...at full price. Most of it has been at full price. Then factor in GT5P, which is basically free money in addition to the money GT5 brought in.

2010 shipments were 6.4 mill and the rest are at budget prices. So if the lifetime total ends at 11 million like some people here say, a big part of that is from small revenue copies.

Source? When did it drop in price?

Also, the same could be said for most games that reach 10m (except Nintendo games...)

My impression is that they overshipped because the game could be found in the bargain bins here in Sweden after just a few months.


Maybe your stores just wanted to give the consumer a super awesome deal... because as you can see PD has been shipping a consistant supply since launch



Slimebeast on 05 November 2012
Max King of the Wild said:
Slimebeast said:
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
pezus said:
Slimebeast said:
But GT5 has been a $20 budget title for years. Impressive numbers in total but not as much revenue as you would think.

Huh, it hasn't even been out for years. It sold something like 6-7m in 2010 only (shipments)...at full price. Most of it has been at full price. Then factor in GT5P, which is basically free money in addition to the money GT5 brought in.

2010 shipments were 6.4 mill and the rest are at budget prices. So if the lifetime total ends at 11 million like some people here say, a big part of that is from small revenue copies.

Source? When did it drop in price?

Also, the same could be said for most games that reach 10m (except Nintendo games...)

My impression is that they overshipped because the game could be found in the bargain bins here in Sweden after just a few months.


Maybe your stores just wanted to give the consumer a super awesome deal... because as you can see PD has been shipping a consistant supply since launch

I dunno. It's constantly been very cheap since Spring 2011.

Nothing wrong with that though. Most "ever-green" games follow a similar pattern (ACII, GT4, Red Dead, Oblivion, Resi 5), selling for years and years regularly getting renewed shipments at a budget price.



ethomaz on 05 November 2012

Epicness Fact #1: Gran Turismo franchise reach 68.08 million units WW
Epicness Fact #2: Gran Turismo 5 sold twice the best selling GT in Asia
Epicness Fact #3: Gran Turismo 5 is the fastest selling GT ever in Europe

More Epicness facts soon.



ethomaz on 06 November 2012

And this gif continues funny.