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A couple of things:

1. It's not a full priced game. It is sold at a bargin price, and has amazing graphics to show off the PS3.

2. It's been hyped by PS3 fans alot, and the company tagline is that it's a "full game," not a demo.

3. The PS3 didn't necessarily have a lot of good games when it was released. Again, it was very hyped.

4. It has been bundled which could have added as much as 25 percent of its sales.

5. It is Sony's most successful franchise, and one of the most successful franchises in gaming.

6. Racing games are repetitive. You just race the whole time. You race, build your car, race again. Where am I going with this? Well, when I think of buying a demo, a racing game is the only demo I would ever consider. If it has one track and one car, it is still very representative of a whole game, just sans other backgrounds, like tracks and car models. Basically, it IS GT5, just with less wallpapers to roll your car over. Anyone with a pair of gaming sticks realizes this, and thus believe the demo will give satisfaction where demos for story or narrative based games would not.

So yes, those are the reasons. :P



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

i see alot of fails on this thread



321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

 

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

ZenfoldorVGI said:
321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

 

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.

 

 Like maynard comparing wii sports to gt5:p to somehow prove something about bundles... but me and MM took care of that already.



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ZenfoldorVGI said:
321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

 

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.

 

so you know i was reffering to you huh LOL

hype behind gt5p made it sell like this ???oh boy..i love that excuse

i really can't remember fans or Sony labeling the game as the full game

 

 

 

u got number 5 correct



321tttrini4everz said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

 

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.

 

so you know i was reffering to you huh LOL

hype behind gt5p made it sell like this ???oh boy..i love that excuse

i really can't remember fans or Sony labeling the game as the full game

u got number 5 correct

 

 Labeling at as a full game? no, but when someone would "lolz sony fanboys are stupid they will pay for demos" people would say "dude its not full price and it has as much content as other full games"



321tttrini4everz said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

 

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.

 

so you know i was reffering to you huh LOL

I had my suspictions. You'll find that I know a lot of things you wouldn't expect.

hype behind gt5p made it sell like this ???oh boy..i love that excuse

Yes, hype and "word of mouth" help games sell. News at 11.

i really can't remember fans or Sony labeling the game as the full game

What you can remember is neither here, nor there. GT5P did have a demo, in Japan, if I recall.

You see, 321ttrif459dkkfs, when GT5P was first released, the common Sony playbook entry was, "Hype the game as a major release, so it will seem as if Sony has a good game released on its console." Now, after the game has been out for a while and Sony actually had some real games release on its console, the Sony playbook has changed to reflect that. The tagline now indicates that, "Look how well it sold, and it's just a demo."

Again, it's changed from, "This is a great new release from Sony" to "It's just a demo" simply because those arguments are better for appearences of the console and the game, at the time they are touted.

u got number 5 correct

I have them all correct. Those aren't my "guesses." Those are the reasons that GT5P has sold as well as it has. None of them were meant to insult the game, but I'm not gonna coddle Sony fans and their illusions either. IMHO.

Factors obviously exist outside of "the franchise is huge" that have led to the sales(or lackthereof) of this game, be they good or bad. The same holds true with all games.

Perhaps I would have been better served to explain why this game has sold only 2.5 million copies. That answer is much more simple: It's just a demo. Now, if I would have said that when the game was first released, I would have been flamed, by you, and your friends. Do you think that isn't true?

I've bolded your comments, and replied in red text.

 

Comments about GT5 from Sony fans that I googled, first 3 results:

1. its interesting that people throw the word demo back and forth and dont even know how many features comes with this ACTUALL game. - VGChartz Wall

2. no, its not a demo! wrong phrase to use. it is a 'prologue' to GT5, the same as GT4 had. only a handful of tracks (5) and cars- think i read 40? (compared to the full game) but it will have online multiplayer (16 players) but not all of the other features(career mode etc).

3. GT5P is not a demo

its an incompleat version of a game currently in development which is being released to the public. beta

 



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

Max King of the Wild said:
321tttrini4everz said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
321tttrini4everz said:
i see alot of fails on this thread

Why don't you call a few of them out, see if you can stand up in an argument with those people instead of trolling.

so you know i was reffering to you huh LOL

hype behind gt5p made it sell like this ???oh boy..i love that excuse

i really can't remember fans or Sony labeling the game as the full game

u got number 5 correct

 Labeling at as a full game? no, but when someone would "lolz sony fanboys are stupid they will pay for demos" people would say "dude its not full price and it has as much content as other full games"

Labeling it might have been too far, but it certainly was implied constantly at the games launch, and anyone would have been flamed to hell had they called it "Just a demo."

I've listed a few examples of the statements that were made around the games released, in my previous post.

Anyway, that is only one of the many reasons I've listed. People who argue against me have a tendancy to focus in on the one subject where they sense weakness, and attempt to ignore, marginalize, and draw attention away from my many other excellent points.

I didn't expect a good debate with 321ttrini4evazxPLX, but I won't allow him to cut corners either.

 



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

dude you gave the reason in your opening. Because its the best franchise on earth. Its Gran Turismo.