GT5 Prologue pre-orders nearly at 1m

By Ellie Gibson Published 17 March, 2008

Total series sales top 48 million.

With more than a week to go until it's released, the number of PAL pre-orders for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has almost topped 1 million.

The news first emerged via GeekPulp, which got the info from Dave Hine and Paul Gunn of SCE New Zealand.

UPDATE: We've since spoken to a Sony UK representative who's revealed they're not quite there just yet. "I've been checking this information internally and can confirm that we currently have orders for almost 1 million units of GT5 Prologue across SCEE territories," the rep said.

If GT5 Prologue does hit the mark it will be the first time a PS3 title has racked up 1 million sales, and thereby achieved Platinum status, before it's even released.

It has also been announced that more than 48 million games in the Gran Turismo series have now been sold - "almost 50 million", in fact, if you read the latest press release.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be released via PlayStation Network on Thursday 27th March, and will be in shops the following day. Read our review for the full rundown.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Steroyd #1 4 years ago

    Wait that wouldn't include downloads! O_O

  • myiagros #2 4 years ago

    impressive, be supprising if it's not no. 1 week after next then.

  • ruttyboy #3 4 years ago

    What a load of bollocks. CoD4 did less than a twentieth of that in actual sales in its first week. I seriously doubt Europe and Aus/NZ are going to take up the extra 900,000 or so preorders...
    Edited by 1 at 17/03/08 @ 12:11

  • JediMasterMalik #4 4 years ago

    @ruttyboy - Have you seen past figures for GT games? It's a very popular franchise.

  • ruttyboy #5 4 years ago

    Yes I have and if I remember rightly, GT4 on a PAL installed base of about 7 or 8 million didn't even get a million pre-orders.

    I think what he means is that they are planning to ship that many to stores, rather than the customer preorder meaning that they've happily allowed to be misconstrued.

  • jonsaan #6 4 years ago

    No surprise. It's fabulous.

  • thefishmonger #7 4 years ago

    sell-in, rather than sell-through? Retail pre-orders?

  • Dizzy #8 4 years ago

    Obviously this is retail orders..

  • kungphu #9 4 years ago

    guess im one in a million

  • levis #10 4 years ago

    Me also.

  • myiagros #11 4 years ago

    im 1 in a million no. 3

  • ruttyboy #12 4 years ago

    Only 999,997 to go! ;-)

    Thinking about it even the claim to have gone Platinum is bollocks as I think the classification is given out by ELSPA meaning they shouldn't even include the figures from Australasia.

    Also pretty sloppy journalism from EG to take this at face value, from another website no less...

  • LOLLERS #13 4 years ago

    1 Million Suckers

  • Stuz359 #14 4 years ago

    Rememer though, PS3 owners are starved of high quality exclusive games, whereas the ps2 had a lot more. This is the first major exclusive released this year so there will be a lot of anticipation for it, therefore a lot more pre-orders for it. Couple the fact that you can pick it up for less than £20 and the fact that there is a lack of top racing games on the PS3 then I am sure this will sell loads

  • ruttyboy #15 4 years ago

    OK, this is the last I'm going to say on this, there is catagorically *not* 1 million preorders by PS3 owners in the PAL regions. If there were, then Sony have not built nearly enough stock to satisfy that demand, never mind the non-preorder sales. This story is due to a combination of sly PR people, sloppy internet journalism compounded by even more sloppy internet journalism.

    But as you probably don't believe me we'll have to wait for Chart Track* to prove me right.


    * Yes I'm aware Chart Track is for the UK, but knowing the relative size of the PAL markets you can extrapolate quite easily.


    EDIT - Quickly in response to stopit as he posted while I was writing the above. According to Chart Track GT3 sold 115K units in the UK in the 12 days to the end of the month after release (back then actual sales were only given monthly). That figure would include pretty much all preorders plus all the non-preorder sales, meaning this new one would have to be *at least* a factor of ten larger, which as I've said above would be impossible given they don't have the stock to sell.
    Edited by 3 at 17/03/08 @ 16:03

  • liverpoolfc #16 4 years ago

    not surprised

  • liverpoolfc #17 4 years ago

    not surprised