I definitely agree that this is now a strong buy now that Sony has worked things out with Immersion. The biggest thing holding people back from PS3 as a racing platform and GT5 was the lack of force feedback.
With the force feedback issue seemingly resolved with Immersion, I think the only bearish factor in GT5 is now gone. If Sony can get force feedback to work soon along with fix the other complaints like DVD upscaling, I think PS3 sales will pick up and GT5 will be another blockbuster.
I think there is an overemphasis here on a single game being a system seller. While an exclusive game certainly can have on impact on which console people buy, I think that in general there is a bit more complexity to consumers' decision making than that.
As for GT, I think it is clearly a very strong IP and is likely undervalued. However, I have serious questions about the PS3's ability to grab market share. Until I have a better feel for that I'm going to take the wait and see approach.
Gran Turismo 5 is going to be big, just like all the games in this series. The last game sold in the 8 million mark and over the lifetime of the PS3 I wouldn't be surprised to see this hit the 3 or 4 million mark.
Consider this, the Gran Turismo 4 Prologue and Gran Turismo Concept games, which you'd be hard pressed to call full games, both sold over a million copies. This series outsells Halo and at current time, this stock may be a little bit undervalued, though only time will tell.
I consider GT a system seller. I know many people who are buying PS3/have bought PS1/PS2's only for GT. Some even only bought the GT games and no others. Anyways, GT is a great series, I certainly enjoy it and so do millions. It is always AAA quality. The #'s don't lie.
GT1: 10.85 mil GT2: 9.37 mil GT3: 14.84 mil GT4: 8.02 mil
excellent points Arbiter. I'm not saying it wont sell well, i'm just saying that it wont sell that many ps3's. Especially not 6 million. This whole argument got blown out of proportion.
This is coming from the comment
"The previous installment of the series sold more than 10 millions. There is no way the first PS3 GT will sell less than that."
I simply said that its not going to sell that many. thats all I meant. Do you not Agree?
About the Gears of war stuff, yes its a good game, yes it sold well. But couldn't it also be because the competition didn't have a competitor for it? And the public had to buy something for the holidays?
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