https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-requests-updates.362085/page-2#post-12090802
GT5 shipped 5 weeks later in the year.
GFK provide sales numbers for all UK entertainment, from movies, to music to videogames. They cover all the major retailers.
In the US it's the 8th best selling game of the year, and the 2nd highest selling exclusive, behind Zelda on Switch. We have to remember PS4 is sold in over 100 markets and each have different preferences. While some may only contribute a fraction of sales, when you start adding up dozens of markets, you end up with some pretty big numbers.
Sales wise in terms of relevancy in the UK? It has. Aside from a few #1 debuts most of the games in your list didn't leave a scratch (as they wouldn't, most of those are niche)
This year will be a toss up between GT Sport and Horizon worldwide. Crash has been very big too, in fact it's ahead of Horizon in the UK.
I don't believe that at all, I think it's pretty silly to say no one took those people serious. People were genuinely feeling GTS was going to struggle in sales. People still do. It's still possible that it doesn't reach 6 million. I would consider that (under 5 million) a 'flop' in terms of GT titles. I would think PD and Sony consider that it's a good seller as it did over 2 million, but for GT's (which were both talking about) that shouldn't cut it. But my opinion was based off of what GT6 is at and if that's now the norm for a racing game, even of GT's standing.
At the same time, that leaves around 30-40% believing it will sell less. Selling at GT6 levels is what I myself predicted and have said multiple times. I don't consider that bad. In terms of GT games it's low but if it sells that amount is it deemed a success by PD and Sony? That's what I think is to be the biggest factor. But the racing genre hasn't been doing as good as it was in the mid 2000's, so they surely have to realize that. I think that's at least one reason why they went in the SPORT direction.
I don't know what "quote mining" is. I quoted your words and replied to them. I bolded the issue I had with your post and that specific point. I don't know if you're getting offended or something but you took issue with what I said about the sales and how people genuinely think the game will do (poorly). Maybe the internet sites I visit is a small sampling of the larger purchasing group, but this point is GTP isn't the only site that has members or fans commenting that they feel like this GT is going to sell a lot less. I don't think they are trolling. I know a lot do troll the subject to get a rise out of people but my reply is as genuine as others' concerns about the sales of this game. Apologies if you feel like I'm dragging it on because I think the game will be about equal to GT6 sales wise, so I'm not trying to troll or whatever.
I'm talking about 2 million by the end of the year. Should have clarified that because someone else mentioned it. I think the holiday season is obviously the best time to get sales. It'll be about 3 months that GTS has been out. If they can do that in the Xmas season they should be happy because the sales will definitely die down after the years over. But GT has been pretty good with staying power so it should equal that holiday sales amount the rest of it's shelf life I would feel.
Quote mining is when you quote someone and change what they have said to allow you to then present a strawman argument.
So what you're getting at is me saying "it's silly to say no one took those people serious" when you actually didn't literally mean "no one" by saying "pretty much no one"
. I didn't think it was that big of a deal that I had to reply verbatim. You know, as in it was a general statement. I took yours to mean you felt most people didn't take them serious. I wasn't changing your statement because I was speaking generally as well. There's no reason to get hung up on silly little things like that. I wasn't trying to say you meant it exactly as I typed and literally meant NO ONE instead of a jokingly stated "pretty much". I'm not an english major, man! And where I'm from is an entirely different area than where you are from. Things like language may be the same but how we type it or how we mean it can come across wrong. Like I said in my last post, I wasn't trying to upset you or misuse your words. So apologies for that. I didn't double post on purpose, I had two windows open so accidentally submitted one. I edited the two replies into one but I couldn't delete the second post, that's why I said dupe. Unless you can show me how to do that.
You didn't think you had to reply with the same words and their meaning as used in the post you replied toSo what you're getting at is me saying "it's silly to say no one took those people serious" when you actually didn't literally mean "no one" by saying "pretty much no one"
