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Gran Turismo 5 has shipped 5.5 million worldwide in 12 days
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BattleMonkey
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It's the holidays, games will sell.
BobTheFork
Member
For november right? didn't the game come out the 24th?shagg_187 said:
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Bethesda would be proud.Road said:
seattle6418
Member
I still think it will end selling 10 or 11 million once it´s all said and done. All GT major releases ended up selling that. GT3 only has a bigger number because of the bundle, if you take that out it was probably somewhere from 10 to 12. It´s a slow burner, it will keep selling. (wasn´t GT4 that had 8 million sold after it´s first year? Now it´s on 10.86).
But one thing is clear: GT games continue to be sucessfull because they reached out to other markets and kept expanding in Europe.
Not even the biggest GT fan (me) could deny that the franchise is significantly smaller in the US and in Japan. It will be a struggle to get to 2 million in the US and 1 million in Japan, something that other releases of the series done it easilly.
Forza, iRacing, Rfactor, delays and the fact that it took 4 years into the PS3 life for us to get GT5 sure hurt the game a bit. It´s just impossible to say those weren´t factors.
But one thing is clear: GT games continue to be sucessfull because they reached out to other markets and kept expanding in Europe.
Not even the biggest GT fan (me) could deny that the franchise is significantly smaller in the US and in Japan. It will be a struggle to get to 2 million in the US and 1 million in Japan, something that other releases of the series done it easilly.
Forza, iRacing, Rfactor, delays and the fact that it took 4 years into the PS3 life for us to get GT5 sure hurt the game a bit. It´s just impossible to say those weren´t factors.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I thought GT3 sold a lot because everyone wanted it. It was the racing game to have. GT4 was an upgrade, but it wasn't the must have that GT3 was.
Bundles are probably a big part of it, but GT3 was just one of those games.
Bundles are probably a big part of it, but GT3 was just one of those games.
Prime crotch
Banned
ugh you people, if they shipped almost 3 and a half mil units to Europe alone it's because there is a high demand for it. There's no doom and stop hiding under the "shipped /= sold" banner, you can't move that many units if it ain't selling.
fastford58
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Excellent...picking up in bargain bin in 3...2...1...
Haunted
Member
Makes me mad when some people just blindly cheer every shipment number as if it were sold to consumers. Makes it so much harder to put things into context in other threads. 
That said, I have no doubt that Sony will easily sell through that initial 5.5 million shipment and some additional ones when all is said and done. Mainline GT titles are huge in Europe and will have pretty good legs.
This is the relevant number people should be cheering about as of this moment.Road said:
That said, I have no doubt that Sony will easily sell through that initial 5.5 million shipment and some additional ones when all is said and done. Mainline GT titles are huge in Europe and will have pretty good legs.
Road said:
Here is the problem with above numbers - only 6 countries included.
EU market is much bigger than above. I know 100% accurate that initial shipment for Croatia (and we're even not in EU, we have 4 million citizens and our GDP is nowhere to be compared with any above) have sold more than 7000 as for today. And today came the 2nd shipment, with Collector's edition (finally, two weeks late) and for supply of big shopping centres.
Also notice this is the list for all countries inside PAL region (not EU only):
http://uk.playstation.com/country-selector/
34 countries. Including bahamots like Russia, India, Turkey and Poland, togehther with very sales-wise important countries such as Netherlands, Sweden, Switzarland and various Arab states.
Proclaming that ~977k is real total-sales for PAL with only 6 countries on the list - and ignoring rest of 28 countries - is just plain wrong.
PAL real-sales numbers are much higher than ~977k.
Absolute Bastard
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40k sales means about 0,8% of Finlands population already bought GT5. The wealthy western Europe has population of about 400m, so if they all bought GT5s at same rate as Finland there would be about 3 million sold by now.
Metalmurphy
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Haunted said:
That number doesn't even have 50% of the countries where this game is being sold...
Metalmurphy
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Haunted said:
Therefor it was all that was sold to consumers?
WAY over 2 million.mujun said:
Here's what those numbers don't contain:
The full 12 days of the annoucement
All the EU countries
The rest of the PAL countries (PAL = Bigger then just Europe)
Asia
demosthenes
Member
So how much does Sony make per game sold?
$50 * 5.5million is 275 million. So Sony isn't hurting financially from this at all, right?
$50 * 5.5million is 275 million. So Sony isn't hurting financially from this at all, right?
BattleMonkey
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Haunted said:
Still is lot of blank spaces on the overall data. And really it applies to all sales age as so many territories get left out, and not just in Europe.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
How much does it cost a retailer to buy one of these games typically? I'd think $50 would be a bit much, but then again I have no clue.demosthenes said:
Metalmurphy
Member
Haunted said:
Well, we know for a fact it's bigger then 1.87 million, unless all other regions sold 0 copies of the game...
Common sense tells us it's WAY bigger then that.
Haunted
Member
Polyphony will definitely pay for themselves and then some.demosthenes said:
Here, I'll tell you the most exact statement I can with the numbers available: Gran Turismo 5 has sold inbetween 1.85 million and 5.51 million units.Metalmurphy said:
People like cheering for numbers, I'm telling them they should cheer for the known sold numbers instead of the known shipment numbers. I said the same in the Castlevania, Fallout and Dead Rising shipment threads
and got angry PMs about it
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
So deserved. After coming back to this game morning after morning like it's meth it's my GOTY.
demosthenes
Member
BobsRevenge said:
It's very high. That's one of the reasons why Gamestop tries to get you to buy used copies, they have a huge margin on them. I know they don't make a lot on new games.
Metalmurphy
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Haunted said:
Can't argue with that
Lagspike_exe
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demosthenes said:
Prologue alone paid the dev budget.
Chaplain
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BobsRevenge said:
This question is answered here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-111-pach-attack/64278
Patrick Bateman
Member
I wonder if GT5 could sell more than Black Ops on all consoles and PC.
Metalmurphy
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Patrick Bateman said:
flyinpiranha
Member
nib95 said:
If you're selling a racing simulator.
I'm glad to see it doing well. I just hope they start patching in the stuff that matters like shadow fixes and HUD display options as fast as possible.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I can't tell if you're being sincere or trying to advertise to me. :lolGame Analyst said:
Patrick Bateman
Member
Metalmurphy said:
Well, it sold 18 million as of now. GT3 sold something around 15 million. With around 42 million sold units that could be realistic.
poppabk
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We know that retailers often have specific contracts in place for unsold stock though, so shipped to retailers doesn't mean that they get full price and the retailer has to eat the entire difference when they reduce 500 copies to $20. Thats why shipped numbers are a lousy way of gauging performance even for the companies bottom line.demosthenes said:
AranhaHunter
Banned
duckroll said:
I actually prefer shipped numbers because it's an exact number and not a mathematical estimation with room for error like we get from the trackers. Of course both are good, but I prefer shipped as 90% of the time shipped numbers will eventually equal numbers sold to consumers anyways.
demosthenes
Member
poppabk said:
I have no doubt that the stock of 5.5 million will sell out.
well, to be fair, some people believe PR if they say sold instead of shipped, even if it is impossible to know what happens WW at every retail store. So we should use the same rules no matter who is giving us the numbers.Haunted said:Makes me mad when some people just blindly cheer every shipment number as if it were sold to consumers. Makes it so much harder to put things into context in other threads.
Hopefully time will put everyone in its place.