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@Mrstickball

Didn't Microsoft release some statement a while ago that over 6 million people had connected their XBox 360 online? How come they don't have around 6 million gamercards then? Or are these only the Gold subscribers?

About Forza, even double sales in Europe would give them an equal amount to the Americas since the userbase is twice as big there. And 380k times 2 is still below 800k, which is lower than your 885-995k range.



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Plus Japan (25k+), would equal a bit more.

Microsoft endorses MyGamerCard, but doesn't actually give MGC the information on the cards. I am unsure how MGC has so many users outside of user-submitted tags (maybe they farm data from various leaderboards? that could explain it, as only gold or close to gold would be there).

Remember, MGC is real-time, whereas we have an entire week's lag on reporting info. Therefore, as of Saturday, I believe it'll hit it in 1 and week + 1 day or so (by next Sunday's entire posting).

This *should* give FM2 around 50k sales in the US, plus (most likely) a similar or even higher amount in Europe (the sales drops have been far better in the UK)

So, as of when I calculated the numbers:

US (380k) + 30k (6/7th of NAs next cume for Forza, approx.) = 420k
Europe should be no less than 50%, therefore another 420k
+ Japan's 25k (again, 6/7th of whatever this week's sales are, probably 1k)

That'd put it at, even a low number (since I do believe FM2 has probably outsold it's US counterpart) would equal, at minimum, 865k, which by using the 4.0*MGC Cards is within 20k, or 2.5% of my estimates. And again, if Europe was even 10% ahead, that'd be within my multiplier's range.



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Just a small comment to anyone else reading this. Forza 2 is an absolutely amazing game. If you like racing sims, it stands head and shoulders above everything else. Period. The more I play, it the better it seems to get. Those who have complained about graphics need to have their eyes examined. It is a beautiful game and stands alone as a AAAAA+ title. There is absolutely no doubt the game will reach 1M+ sold worldwide.



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koffieboon said:
Actually, if you're right then ioi's numbers are off quite a bit. It hasn't even done 400k in the Americas which is by far its biggest userbase. Maybe the game is relatively more popular in Europe, but 885-995k WW sales seems very optimistic at the moment.

If you play Forza 2 online, you'll soon realize that the game is crazy-popular in Europe and Britain in particular.

Half of the people on my friends list who play Forza are Brits.




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