I agree, there is absolutely zero reason to believe Gran Turismo 5 will be comparable to previous outings in sales.
Gran Turismo, while an awesome franchise has been abandoned by casual gamers in favor of lighter racing fare. It's not even the pinnacle of simulation any more with far more open and extensible PC solutions out there for the truly hardcore.
This puts Gran Turismo back down to earth in terms of its importance to the console race. Unless Polyphony will offer something workable to casual gamers, and bring them back to Gran Turismo, I see this title doing more of the 5-7 million range this time around.
Case in point: Gran Turismo Proglogue, should have sold better if Gran Turismo was as important as the value of this stock implies.
A similar microcosm of this effect: The SSX series. not an issue of too many too fast, but still managed to go from staple, to irrelevance simply by being stale.
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I agree, there is absolutely zero reason to believe Gran Turismo 5 will be comparable to previous outings in sales.
Gran Turismo, while an awesome franchise has been abandoned by casual gamers in favor of lighter racing fare. It's not even the pinnacle of simulation any more with far more open and extensible PC solutions out there for the truly hardcore.
This puts Gran Turismo back down to earth in terms of its importance to the console race. Unless Polyphony will offer something workable to casual gamers, and bring them back to Gran Turismo, I see this title doing more of the 5-7 million range this time around.
Case in point: Gran Turismo Proglogue, should have sold better if Gran Turismo was as important as the value of this stock implies.
A similar microcosm of this effect: The SSX series. not an issue of too many too fast, but still managed to go from staple, to irrelevance simply by being stale.
/huge Gran Turismo fan