It really comes down to the fact that most games will sell more on the PS4 because there are more out there. If Forza was on PS4 and DriveClub was on Xbox One, Forza would have sold more. It doesn't matter if there were more racing games on PS4 or not. A 2:1 base advantage is an extremely oppressive challenge to overcome.

Forza would of completely dominated on the PS4 because of the positive brand reconition.

PS4 was lacking a noteworthy racer. If GT6 launched on PS4 then they would have been more satisfied with that genre. Its semantics really.

Nice, you just found a good example of a game being over rated on metacritic. NFS Rivals is bad, I'd rather take Driveclub.

That word of mouth.

Being the creator of this thread I will answer this:

Yes, mathematically, it was very difficult for Forza to win.  But, its interesting to see what people think.  To gauge the trends of opinions and anticipation in a given title.  Comparisons for games in the same genre are always interesting.   Please review the thread:  there were a multitude of valid reasons why Forza could have sold more.  Advertizing, reviews, free editions, open world versus track.  After the release, when DriveClub suffered launch setbacks, people proclaimed that it was utterly unreasonable to think DriveClub could win, and asserted that people who voted for DriveClub in the poll were being unreasonable. 

I still think those opinions are valid, but obviously, they were just opinions.  Sure you could say that folks should have known, but that didn't stop (and wont stop) subjective reasoning. 

I'm glad there are still plenty people that enjoy a good track racer. I was worried for a moment that we would lose a genre after the 'not open world is behind the times' complaints in reviews.

Good sales despite average reviews, a completely non functional online mode, and a free version carrot keeping many waiting. The online was finally working better tonight, I managed a string of online races without any disconnects. Kinda sad that's a 'high' point in 2014. Still no (club) challenges.

Maybe they split the user base to ease the server code? I was ranked over 1200 a day ago, was dropping hard during the weekend after getting to 288. I log back in today and I'm rank 220. Can't trust the leader boards I guess.

I saw that complaint about the game not being open world (or rather not being Forza) as a mark against it in a lot of reviews.  I didn't understand that.  It is a track racer.  Using the type of game it is as a reason to bash it was a bit weird to me.   Forza 5 did not recieve that treatment.

Forza Horizon 2 is heavily overtracked in North America and probably slightly overtracked in europ

I wonder what digital sales are like? Did anyone here take advantage of the psn+ discount?

First of you compare equally sales of an exclusive on two different platforms that one has sold x2 than the other one.

And then you have a commenter saying that either console has released anything significant on either platform when it comes to racing. Is the hidden meaning of this thread to say random crap that make no sense? :)