I wonder why the dev always has to change the names of their racing games every gen....First they were Tosca racing on PS one;..last gen they were DTMC (or something like that) and now it is Grid.....

Mario Kart sold more in the US than Others.

GT:P sold about 1/3 as many units in the US than in Others.

On the PS3, Grid sold about 1/3 as many units in the US as in others.

Grid, however, is not a sim, it's an arcade racer.

This fact, however, apparently missed a lot of consumers.

What can we deduce from these numbers?

You tell me.

Actually, look at the numbers for Mario Strikers Charged. Usually, Soccer/Futbol titles don't do nearly as well in the Americas as PAL, and with Japan, it's interchangable (although Japan defiitely has the lead). Mario games pretty much break boundaries of genre and sell well despite region because hey, it's Mario.

With that having been said, GRID's sales aren't too low. It's having decent enough legs. The problem being that it looks like the most boring, cliche racing game imaginable. But I've never played a racing game besides Mario Kart, Gran Turismo, or F-Zero, or Crash Bandicoot Racing so I wouldn't know.

It's a shame, Grid is a wonderful game.

I think GRID is a very good racer.

Not all racer need to be hardcore sim to be fun. I like all type of racer sim, arcade, semi-sim, semi-arcade and I find them all enjoyable. This is not discussion about sim VS arcade but more if the race car genre is on the way out just like fighting game once was a showcase for new consoles.

I remember when consoles used to launch with good racers, just last generation.

Mario Kart is doing well but it's kinda in its own category, just like all Nintendo first party games.

well only a few racers sell in america

It might not be selling up to the expectations of some because the demo sucked. it is an arcade racer that forces you to brake in the corners instead of just letting up on the gas (like Burnout for example) but the brakes don't hardly slow you down so you go into the dirt a lot unless you brake earlier than you would even in a sim. And there was plenty of advertisement in the US, but people see that, download the demo, go "wtf" and ignore it.

edit: and for gt5 prologue, people can be dumb, but they aren't so dumb as to jump all over something with prologue in the name, just the hardest of the hardcore would be interested in buying it.

Well, if it isn't called Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidge racer, it won't do good. Just ask Kaz

Don't forget about PC sales. While the PC may "dead" according to some people, Grid has a decent amount of buzz going in the PC community. The Toca series (of which Grid is a sequel) was generally more PC based than console based, so I think it makes sense to consider the PC as an important platform for this game. Unfortunately no one really tracks digital distribution sales, so we'll probably never see real numbers unless Codemasters announces something.