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Old March 11th 05, 12:51 AM
Dave
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In article >, "Steve Smith" > wrote:

[online gaming]
>The market is there. Sony/Polyphony has sold 38 million copies of Gran
>Turismo. At $50 a pop, that's $1,900,000,000 at retail. Compare that to
>Star Wars, Spider-Man, Shrek, Titanic, Gone With the Wind, whatever...and
>divide by the development cost. Now tell me Sony isn't interested in
>attracting 10% of that universe to online gaming. Or that Logitech wouldn't
>like to sell 10% of them $100 wheels.


I'm not arguing with you. I too think they should have included
on-line, though I happen to be an avid racer who hasn't bought
into online. And even with it being the solution to the pathetic
AI of GT4, I most probably still wouldn't. Still, I would think
it would be a lucrative market.

Just a note, even with 38M sales, I'd suspect that a good third to
half of them are at best-seller prices, so perhaps an average sale
price of $35-40 ea? Still nothing to sneeze at. This is big
business.

Is it true that GT is Polyphony's only product? And are they
indeed 100% part of Sony?
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