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Sony has revealed that the Gran Turismo series has shipped over 50 million units on multiple PlayStation formats, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
The original title for the PlayStation was released just over 10 years ago, with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue making its debut on the PlayStation 3 at the end of March.
"Initially, Gran Turismo was an 'alternative' racing game, kind of an outsider in the genre," commented Kazunori Yamauchi, producer of Gran Turismo. "And we made it thinking that it would be okay as long as it reached out to the select few who would agree with us."
"I would really like to thank all the fans who have supported the Gran Turismo series over the years, for all their passion and love of the game. We'd like to continue making every effort to create cutting edge, high quality games, so that we don't disappoint anyone's expectations," he added.
GT5 Prologue received generally high scores, including one from us, and was released simultaneously at retail on Blu-ray and via PSN, albeit after some minor PSN hiccups.
Major releases in the long-running series were Gran Turismo (PSone, May 1998), Gran Turismo 2 (PSone, January 2000), Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2, July 2001) and Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, March 2005), and Polyphony Digital has also released several smaller spin-offs in "Concept" and "Prologue" categories, and the free downloadable Gran Turismo HD Concept on PSN, which was the first PS3 release to bear the GT name.
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But its a bloody demo!!!!!
Kudos to Polyphony for charging Ł25 for a (admittedly fairly beefy) demo of a game that won't be released for a while yet, but its still a bloody rip off if you ask me. Methinks a lot of those purchasers (myself included, curses) just bought the thing to see how pretty the graphics were.... and because its about the only realistic racer out on the PS3 so far. Its no Forza 2, tho. [/fanboybait]
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Sir_TimAlot
12/05/08 @ 08:08
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I have only ever parted with my hard earned cash for GT2, still hasn't been surpassed IMO
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No surprise there as it's been Sony's top racer franchise for 10 years!
I've always been very vocal about my hatred of the fleecing of consumers with the Prologue demos, I got the latest demo but part of the GTp bundle otherwise I would not have bought it. Having said that, I'm quite looking forward to playing with the full game now. I left the GT world at number 3 so it was nice to go back to the series. As usual with GT it's not the most exciting racer and very clinical (and still a little soulless) but still a very enjoyable racer! |
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farticusmaximus
12/05/08 @ 12:26
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"Doesn't GT5:Prologue only have 1 less track than forza 2?"
It does have 100% more tearing and framedrops than Forza though.. |
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