Need for Speed, 100 Million+
I believe you quickly answered that question without thinking it through sir. I asked which
game , not series, has sold around 6-7 million copies on any of those systems. If I should have clarified better, I apologize.
Clearly, you are missing the economics of this.
No my friend, I am not. I just understand that GT5 made a substantial profit. I don't remember where I saw it, but someone here broke down how much profit the game has made. I do not have the time to dig it up, but it was done.
GT5 was 5 years/$60,000,000. Wouldn't surprise me if GT6 was $100,000,000 in development costs alone
Yes, GT5 cost that much, but at 9 million copies sold at lets say an average of $50.00 that is $450,000,000. You can even lower the price to $40.00 if you like and you are still looking at one quarter of a trillion dollars.
Please, by all means, do the math of what the profit is versus cost...
Tying up $100Mill for 5 years better provide a guaranteed return. With continuously declining sales volume, the GT series is only one version away from being history if sales don't live up to expecations.
A tad bit of sensationalism on your part wouldn't you say? Truth is, not many single games outside of Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto can boast about over 9,000,000 in sales. Is the sky falling for other developers who can only manage 50% of those sales? What about 25%? Gasp!!
Surely you must understand that.
There will always be loyal fans that will purchase future titles, but I would not say its a vast majority.
Your speculation versus my speculation here, and since neither of us have anything to fall back on other then GT5's 9 million copies sold (considering this feat was accomplished in two years), I stand by my original statement.
The vast majority of those who purchased the Gran Turismo series since day one have remained faithful to the series.
GTPlanet is just an outlet, an unofficial extension created for the sole purpose of discussing the topic of GT. I fail to see how this website relates to sales numbers?
It is simple really. People such as yourself are unhappy with certain things in or missing from GT5. Yet, people still come here to talk about it. For further convincing, look at your activity in this thread. You don't like it, yet you keep coming back and discussing the 2.10 changes. If GT5 was a fisherman, there would be plenty of us with hooks in our mouths.
In fact, I have a few scars from GTPlanet hooks myself lately.
Don't forget that online play was a huge factor in people purchasing GT5, and that the number of players online have decreased dramatically recently.
Expected for a game that is two years old as this is nothing new in a generation that features yearly releases of franchises. Man, there is so many great games to enjoy out there!
Anyway, GT3&4 did pretty good for themselves considering they didn't have GT Academy and free DLC (in the form of cheaper extended editions) as an incentive to go out and buy.
Indeed they did, and they also didn't have to face the competition of great games out there as alternatives to Gran Turismo. I am pretty excited about Project Cars, personally.
Would you bet your life on it?
Not harldy. Believe you me, if my life was at risk over a video game, I have some serious issues in my corner of the world. LOL
Just because GT5 sold 9 mill... Seriously dude?
Maybe because the PS3 was (like @seanneedscar said), was to expensive at the time...
