GT5: Prologue sells 50k first day; NIGHTS bombs with 7k

ddldave - 712 days 23 hours ago

Gran Turismo 5 has better physics, graphics, and gameplay.

Gran Turismo is made by Japanese company. Forza is made by American company. Japanese people know their cars and they make better cars than Americans.

Gran Turismo sold over 10.5 million copies world wide.
Gran Turismo 2 sold over 9.37 million copies world wide.
Gran Turismo 3 sold over 14.87 million copies world wide.

In just 1 week after it's release, Gran Turismo 4 sold over 1 million copies alone in Japan.

Forza sold 1 million copies world wide.
Forza 2 has not reached 1 million copies sold world wide yet.

Gran Turismo has always been the better franchise and will remain the better franchise. Its realism and gameplay is just too superior to be compared to Forza, Need For Speed, or Project Gotham Racing.

Forza is made by American company, Gran Turismo is made by Japanese Company. Therefore Gran Turismo is JDM like Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. You can stick to Forza just like Ford, Chevy, and Pontiac. But no thanks, I'd rather stick to JDM.

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sonarus - 712 days 22 hours ago

actually forza 2 has sold about 1.7mill worldwide stil pitiful when compared to GT sales though. GT really should sell about 200k 1st week anything else is a dissapointment

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actas123 - 712 days 20 hours ago

So u saying that you can buy a downloadable version of the game instead of buying it from the store. Since when? man, thats actually a great idea. But, if its on the internet why can't we just log in and buy the game online now?

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barom - 712 days 15 hours ago

u can log in and buy the game. you need however a japanese account and I don't know how credit cards would work.

People at the neogaf forums has already bought it.

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perseus - 713 days ago

It's actually cheaper to get the game in stores, even if the MSRP is higher. The cheapest I've seen it so far is 4280 yen, but I'm sure there're cheaper versions.

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perseus - 713 days ago

Many people who have a Wii, have it FOR the party games, I think.

I haven't been interested in anything else that has been offered for the Wii yet. And since I'm a slave to eye candy, I'll always buy a beautiful PS3 game before I buy a good-looking Wii game (I'll probably change when Civilization comes out though).

(I have to admit that I only have 2 PS3 games and 5 Wii games. I'm not exactly what you'd call a hard-core gamer anymore.)

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MK_Red - 712 days 23 hours ago

Good point about most of Wii Audience but still, with those huge sales of Wii hardware, one would expect more sales for real games like NiGHTS and NMHs IMHO.

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bOOmStiCK - 712 days 22 hours ago

I think a lot of those Wii owners have no clue what good or bad games are. We'll most likely gonna see that games wich got a popular brand name or movie adaptations are gonna sell immensely while as you said those real classics like Zack And Wiki will disappear forever. Resulting in an even more horrendous game line up with just cheap ripoffs. It's sad really. Because I had high hopes for Wii. Escpecially when you see how many consoles are being sold, yet the truly great games are only the ones that Nintendo (and Capcom) has to offer.

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ItsDubC - 712 days 22 hours ago

Unfortunately, great titles aren't always best-sellers. Okami for PS2 technically "bombed" in my opinion.

EDIT @MK below:

Bubbles man. So very true unfortunately. I myself am gonna try to pick up Zack and Wiki today at Circuit City since it's on sale this week. Hopefully they have some copies left.

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sonarus - 712 days 22 hours ago

thats why 3rd parties fear the wiii. their games simply dnt sell. Nintendo could care less who buys their consoles in about a yr or 2 nintendo will go bck to their strategy of only 1st party games cus no other game sells on wii

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MK_Red - 712 days 21 hours ago

ItsDubC, Good point on great games and Okami. I really REALLY hope that the Wii remake sells.
Now that I think about it (and thanks to your example), it's not just about Wii's audience that shined from great games such as NiGHTS and GT5, Heck, PS2 was the most hardcore console of it's time and yet games like Okami, Psychonauts and Indigo Prophecy bombed on it (The last two being multi).

EDIT: @ ItsDubC
Thanks and hope you find and enjoy Zack & Wiki :)

It's a sad proof that people just care for the hype and not the artsy hype but OMG, that's big game with 10000s TV ads and site commercials.

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Kholinar - 712 days 20 hours ago

Meh, Nights and the others may still do alright.

You do have to take other sales into account. There are only so many dollars out there, so if they spent $80 or whatever on WiiFit last week, it may take a bit for the cash reserves to build up for the next game...

I also wonder what Nights' promotion is like over there. Seems like, at least here, that a lot of the good third party Wii games are not being promoted well. I don't know if it's a function of wanting to combine cheaper wii development with cheaper promotion, but everyone seems to be seriously botching things...

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gaffyh - 712 days 14 hours ago

I totally agree with you, the Japanese have a strange taste. WiiFit is not a game, Nights is also aimed at younger children (which is what you expect of the Wii install base). Would like to see how it does in US/EU

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krackchap - 712 days 23 hours ago

litsen up douche head, last gen odyssey sold 40k first day and less than 60 in the whole week,GT5p sold 50k first day and not counting the PSN downloads.so the first day sales are already over LO.

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Anego Montoya FTMFW - 712 days 23 hours ago

they`ll buy GT5, just like you will one day.

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Anego Montoya FTMFW - 712 days 23 hours ago

if you want compare Lost Oddessy to anything compare it to FF13 when it comes out.

it`ll be about the same time (launch wise) that Lost Oddessy comes out.

ps.

(my advice)

i wouldn`t talk to much sh!t about the ps3 in these next coming months, cause like e3 it`ll make you look REALLY dumb. (ex. MGS4)

remember.

@honeal

Yes, i know what i said.

the ps3 was out a year after the 360, remember?

so YES, LO will be coming out around the same time (in the ps3s life span) as FF13.

so YES, compare those 2.

LO did well for a 360 game, but FF13 is going to sell like HALO3.

and NO LO doesn`t look like a Ps2 game, but it also won`t look like FF.

FF13 is the NEW FF7 (in a way) you, know.

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TUFFnNYC - 712 days 22 hours ago

Your like a roach that never goes away. GT5p is basically a demo thats expensive. It aint the real game. Comparing a demo to a real game like Lost Oddesey makes you look like a retard. And the demo sold 50 thousand while LO (an actual finished game) sold 60 thousand. Stop trolling.

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Honeal2g - 712 days 22 hours ago

wats this i here about ff13 and a release date? did u say around the same time as LO? did u mean next year december in japan ...or feb in america... either way how the hell do u know? honestly that is the only game that is forcing me to pick up a ps3 too good to resist although i thought ff12 was trash but still other than taht X-2,FFVIII, the rest of the series rocked. But yea i highly doubt that game is coming out next year to begin with ..especially when square anounced that they are having difficulties with the white engine..soo 09 is probably when its comin who knows? as for lost odyysey that game in no way shape or form looks like a ps2 game unless ofcourse ur compare the gameplay graphics to like FF-X cutscenes in which case i agree but thats a good thing.

and 40 or 60k for a 360 game in japan is amazing considering its poor user base. only a fanboy would disagree. and why would u compare it to ff13? seriously thats like the 20th installment of the game they are well established ff13 could be the worste in the franchise and still outsell the competition just cause of its name! hopefully its on par with FF7 ...wishfull thinkin (i kno) lol

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Cyrus365 - 712 days 17 hours ago

Mart,

I believe Lost Odyssey sold 60 K in 1 week, not 1 day. And Appearently according to VG chartz GT Prologue sold 50 K in 1 day.

So it's likely that when the week is done, GT Prologue will atleast sell 75K or more.

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Filanime03 - 712 days 13 hours ago

LMAO of u are stupid. Ur comparing lost odysey to GTA Prologue. Are u forgetting that prologue is just a demo of the real GTA and Lost odyseyy is a game that is done. By the way in Japan most gamers like RPG much more than they like racing games. What i meant is that Lost oddysey bomb bcoz it supposed to sold more than 60k. Lost oddysey is expected to be the system seller in Japan but it didn't manage to do so. Mart wait till GT Prologue is release here in the US and Europe were there is a lot of car enthusiast in comparison with Japan. GT series in japan has an average sale of 1 to 2 million but in NA and Europe its sales is 5 times as large. Oh ya prologue is a downloadable content also. U wouldn't know that bcoz ur too poor to own a ps3.

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spandexxking - 712 days 11 hours ago

^^^GTA prologue? wtf is that:P

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Lord_Mike - 712 days 7 hours ago

It's a Demo, get over it already. 50k people shelling money for a demo...you have to be amazed. I'm sure many people are holding back for the full game.

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killer_trap - 712 days 23 hours ago

i always like a hard copy of my games that's why I'll get the blue ray version. but when will it available in Europe?

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Dark_Overlord - 712 days 23 hours ago

Hate digital downloads, will always take a hard copy

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Fanboi - 712 days 22 hours ago

Why the hell would I want to buy the hardcopy? Its a pain in the ass to have to get up and take whatever game I'm playing out then insert a new disk. Maybe this is the reason why I only play CoD 4 and Warhawk. Even when I want to play Assasin Creed its too much trouble to switch disk.

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lsr - 712 days 20 hours ago

Here in brazil is a lot cheaper buy any game by the PSN, no taxes, with all the taxes I would pay twice the price

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navig8or - 712 days 23 hours ago

Kids...I'm 29...I've been playing games for as long as I can remember...Don't just assume every one will have the same opinion as you even if we are grown up!!!

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rofldings - 712 days 23 hours ago

Or people know prologue is not the full game and are waiting for GT5 to come out.

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navig8or - 712 days 23 hours ago

It's been less than a week, I can assure you that GT5 prologue will sell. You know this too, It might not be a system seller, but it will move some systems.

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navig8or - 712 days 22 hours ago

There has been so much importance put on GT5 that it has to be a hit, if not, Sony and Polyphony suffers. It won't dissapoint.

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ItsDubC - 712 days 22 hours ago

and realize that the "greatest ____ of all time" is totally subjective. Not everyone measures greatness by the same criteria.

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Anego Montoya FTMFW - 712 days 22 hours ago

Yes, Maddens.

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