I'm guessing you're American right?

GT is hot in Europe (also check Forza sales in Europe which have been quite good).

hwen was the racing genre popular.never that's the thing.

There was only a bit of growth for racing games when NFS underground came up started the free roam thing but that was mosdtly for casual gamers or those that buy everything thats popular out there.

you can't compare GT to those casual games.GT is more for the hardcore gamers and is a sim.A casual gamer won't like a raing sim anyways

"the only hope i have for gt5 is actually forza. that game is selling really good, so maybe people still wanna race. or maybe those

F3 players are old gt players?"

so u are saying because Forza is selling well,GT should sell well too.A BIG LOL on that

America gets screwed over when it comes to racing stuff.  A lot of people seem to think nothing can do anything when Nascar's dominating the scene (kind of like people complaining about Ninty 1st party games).  It's a struggle to find a broadcast of anything outside of F1 (only available on Speed Channel).  Top Gear is shown everywhere but the US.  I could go on.  But my point is, it works like a vicious cycle.  Because very little is shown in terms of non Nascar racing (Speed Channel, which is half dominated by Nascar, and HD Theater are the only two channels to view any sort of racing), there's less interest in these types of games. 

Agreed.

Actually it's the people who have grown up with GT and PS brand that would want to play this game. GT has a big following so it's no doubt that it's going to do at least 5 mil but to say it's just going to stop there be nonsense only because this game is THE biggest reason to own a PS if you are a fan of racing games. GT is also all about legs so expect to see about 7-8 mil LT but I can see it doing less than that for sure.

I was worried a little but after I played the Demo I am confident it will be a success. I think 10-11 Mio LTD is possible. Gt has extremly great legs. I dont think it will sell a lot more then 2 Mio in the first week. Maybe 2.5 but it will be at 10 Mio after 3 years. The GT Demo physics showed me again why GT is the only Racer I really like.

It will be big again it probably wont reach GT3 Numbers but it should pass GT4. Gran Turismo is like FF the first part on a console has always the highest sales.

I really think that it can double or tripple the prologue sales. Last time i was 10-15 times higher. This time I think because it released first it has a little advantage. But 2.5-3 times more is possible without a doubt.

Are you kidding me. This game is going to be stellar.

Easily 2 mil first week and probably 8 mil + LT

PS3 has been waiting 3 years for its ONE BIG CROSS APPEAL GAME.

Its only 4 months away baby.

racing genre is not popular anymore?!!

Look at GT5P, Forza and NFS Shift sales

i say:

-2.5 Mill 1st Week ///// 1.0 Mill US (Because NASCAR, this will be heavily advertised) / 1.2 Mill (GT is huge in EU we know about that) / 300k+ JP (PD = JP = BIG)

-LTD will surpass the 8M+ easily.

-Great Legs (first 10 weeks = 100k+ then 30+ per week) in EU and US.

-GT5 will be bundled with a 250gb PS3 in EU.

-GT5 will be bundled with a 120gb PS3 in US.

3.36 = 4 nowadays?