yo wat are you talking about people were expected sales in the 100k range, and its already in the 200k range near 300k for the month again japan only..(at least thats what I hear)And gran turismo hehehe, lets see wat other people say about that then I will comment on what I expect.

GT will sell well, it's popular not only in Japan, but in the west too. If I had a PS3 I would be the first person on the line to buy it.

I think this question is stupid. People around here are the ones who create the hype, fanboys and such. One week and you are already judging the success or failure of a game in Japan? Please. Selling at an attach rate of 20% is nothing to snub your nose at, we will see if it continues to sell, see if it helps a bit. HSG has had little to NO hype. I dont live in Japan, but the gist of your post seems to be in general as franchises....I have yet to read an editorial on HSG, see anything on my PSN or read an extensive preview, see a commercial etc. Youre confusing "hype" with a little bubble of reality here at VGChartz forums.

HSG did very well in Japan thus far regardless of what normal folks or citizens here predicted It was a familiar franchise and successful but not groundbreaking, selling nearly 200,000 copies to an install base hovering at 1 million is pretty good.....especially when you look at the install base of the PS2 and the sales of the HSG sequals it appears to be doing rather well in terms of sales.

Personally, I don't see GT5 selling as well as GT3 or GT4 because the PS3 will not have the userbase (or be able to build the userbase at its price) to support a game that sells more than about 6 Million units ...

It will still sell amazingly well

The game is coming out in the holiday season, but I guess your right the ps3 will have an install base around 5million by then and grow to 7 or 8million through out the holidays, maybe 3-5million units sold but not selling as well as GT4.

GT is best-selling first party franchise Sony has, and GT 3 and 4 were the 3rd and 4th top selling of last gen.

HSG however isn't even in the same league, as far as sales, as GT.

Anyone who owns a PS3 by then is going to buy GT5, it is going to have a very high attach ratio. Well I suppose it can crack 500K first week if the PS3 has an install base of 3 million by then.

Soriku, I'm proud of you. You've gone from being an outright troll to a nice, slightly more intelligent and discreet troll.

I don't know if Gran Turismo will sell as well in NA or Japan as the other games in the series, but I see it selling extremely well in PAL, and pushing lots of units.

GT is more focused on europe and america than Japan. It will better than HGS in Japan but it's certainly no final fantasy. Gonna be a huge game in Europe, and a very big game in NA too.

GT will sell a ton of copies anyway you look at it. And I don't know how you can call HGS an underseller. It had quite a respectable first week.