GT5 Prologue pre-orders nearly at 1m News

Wait that wouldn't include downloads! O_O

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

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...

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

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.

No surprise. It's fabulous.

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

Obviously this is retail orders..

guess im one in a million

Me also.

im 1 in a million no. 3

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...

1 Million Suckers

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

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.

not surprised

not surprised