It's funny that, by stating an obvious reality, I pass for the anti-GT user while I own every entry in the franchise and I never bought any other racing-sim, lol
> says the racing sim genre is declining
> denies, GTS, a racing sim, could be affected from it
I never stated nor implied what you're writing. That is, I never wrote GT wasn't impacted by the decline in popularity of the genre. I wrote a different thing---that is, GT was a trend-setter. A huge franchise. A franchise that created the trend and should not be impacted much by the decline of other franchises. Why has the genre become less popular? It might be because of a shift in consumer preferences. This is hard to change as a developer. Or it might be due to bad management decisions. For example, over-saturation.
Or we can look at actual sales posted in these threads lol
Like I said, other games wish they could sell nearly as much as GTS even at lower prices.
Other games are not GT, though. If GTAVI sells 15m copies LTD, developers will not say "Other games wish to sell nearly as much!". They will say "How could we have lost 45m+ units entry over entry?".
A game can still be successful at lower prices. GTS is not the only game whose retail price has reached such numbers, yet its one of the few who can reach such sales. Acting like the price drop means automatic bomba is just embarrassing when its revenue is high as well.
In the real world, when a game can be found for 40% of its RSP a few weeks after launch (especially under holidays) means only one thing: OVERSHIPMENT. That is, Sony and retailers thought it would have sold much more, and much faster. This didn't happen. It didn't bomb but it did underperform at least according to sellers' expectations. If you ever worked in retailing or know a little bit how retailing works this is a mere, established, fact. Just check on Camelcamelcamel GT Sports prices after launch.
Sfortunato.
I need to quote a couple of your posts just to show the contrast. While you insist GTS is a flop. When it comes to Forza a game that hasn't sold 100K yet in the UK and has never sold well enough to register on ANY EU chart. Your excuses are...
Again let me be clear here. Forza 7, according to the pal charts has not sold 100K at retail here in the UK or the rest of the EU since it has NEVER registered on a chart outside of the US and UK. But GT flopped?
Between Japan, UK, Germany, and Spain GT has sold over 700K in it's launch month. Forza hasn't moved 100K in Europe yet. Surely you must see how weird this Gran Turismo Sport narrative is getting.
According to you, Forza 7 sold poorly for a litany of reasons. While GT is just a bad game.
I think you're mixing up "excuses" with "explanations". I don't care about Forza (never owned an Xbox in my life, lol). I've just explained why Forza dropped in sales. And then I explained why, in my opinion, GT dropped in sales (bad management decisions). Point is, GT was a 11m+ seller. Forza never reached those numbers.
