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Gran Turismo series hits 55m sales News

PlayStation 3 PlayStation 2 Retro News by Oli Welsh

9 February, 2010

GameSpot has figures from Sony's latest financial reporting showing that the Gran Turismo series has cumulatively sold over 55 million copies.

It was pushed over the milestone by the recent Gran Turismo for PSP, which has sold 1.8 million copies since its release in October last year. That's a healthy performance, but small fry by the racing series' standards.

Even cut-down PS3 release Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has sold an amazing 4.65 million copies, with the main instalments in the series reliably pulling in some 10 million sales apiece since its inception in 1997. It sold best on the PS2, however, with Gran Turismo 4 the second-biggest seller at 10.98 million and 2001's Gran Turismo 3 A-spec far out in the lead with 14.89 million copies sold.

55 million sales is not quite enough to propel GT into the top ten game franchises of all time - yet. Chances are that the much-delayed Gran Turismo 5 for PS3 will achieve that, displacing Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series in the process. That's if it ever comes out.

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SYS64738
09/02/10 @ 09:22
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GT PSP is ace, bearing in mind the platform it was programmed for. Can't say I'm missing the career mode at all. GT4 is the pinnacle of the series so far IMO, even though it wasn't the biggest step forward (at least from a tech perspective that would be GT3 in my book - I was drooling over this when it came out, happily ignoring the rubbish AI).

GT5 so far is leaving me cold from what I've seen on a mate's PS3. Looks like a HD version of 4 at the mo.
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jonsaan
09/02/10 @ 09:31
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GTPSP is indeed a fantastic game.
cianchristopher
09/02/10 @ 10:12
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Wow, that's some number. It's a titanic franchise alright, no doubt about that!

I wonder how SCE feel about the delays that have hit GT5. Would they, in hindsight, wish that GT5 in full had been released back in 2007/08 - in order to give the PS3 a huge boost over the Xbox 360...

I think that if the game had come out back then, the PS3 would be probably be about 10 million units ahead of the 360 right now.

But, of course, would the game have been any good had it come out years ago?
Murton
09/02/10 @ 10:43
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A balanced post from cian? Are you ill? :P

In response though, I don't think SCE are that bothered. Coming into this gen a year late they've always said that the console business is a marathon and not a sprint. GT5 has great form at selling in the millions and shifting a load of hardware too, that's not to say that they're happy with the delays but they'll certainly be looking at the bigger picture rather than getting caught up on the delays in development.

PS - Care to make that trollbait a little more obvious there Oli?
Mkwone
09/02/10 @ 10:44
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Tbf thought GT5P was bundled in just about every console for a year or so.

It is a classic series and pretty impressive figures.
TheBoyChris
09/02/10 @ 13:18
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Is this sell through?
darren1976
09/02/10 @ 14:38
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I loved GT 1 and GT2 was awesome for the time (didnt the arcade disc smell of rubber of something? Sure I remember some gimmick like that). GT3 was last one I played, will get the new one but I hope the handling is better than the Timetrial demo!
ignatiusjreilly
09/02/10 @ 14:39
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@Murton

Without trying to be too patronising towards him, cian is a changed man and now makes some great comments. He's even pretty funny.
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@reilly: it wasn't my intention to patronise or even discredit him, merely a tongue in cheek remark on his posting history, especially regarding GT5.
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Heh, I know, I was actually talking about me being patronising. I'm sure he doesn't need a pat on the back from me.

However I appreciate people who make thoughtful, well-written comments and I never thought my mental segmenter would put cianchristopher in that category.
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09/02/10 @ 17:12
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a-spec did some really weird thing with the ps3, it turned it into a next gen console.. Even if we didn't really know those existed back then:P
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09/02/10 @ 18:54
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wikipedia? really??
Emmit_Assassin
09/02/10 @ 19:03
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Funny how this news has come out just as everyone is starting to forget about the *ahem* imminent release of GT5.
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@darren1976

It was engine oil :)

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