Fist official report (by Sony and Polyphony) with record sales before release in Italy... see the translated (by google) news below:

"Missing a day at the official launch of Gran Turismo 5 , and Sony tells us today that 45,000 copies were already virtually sold in our market: the number comes in fact from the bookings made for the title Travel Polyphony. The company also announced the arrival of a first patch on day-one, which will release the mode of the vast online driving simulator: the size of 133MB, the update will need to enjoy the title also network."

And read de source here: http://www.everyeye.it/ps3/notizia/gran-turismo-5-record-di-prenotazioni-in-italia-e-prima-patch-per-giocare-online_86624

The game releases after midnight.

Can someone make a better tranlation from Italian to English please.

45K in ITALY alone....in 1 DAY....BEFORE official launch

Oh my this games gonna by gigantuous!

I'm slightly confused. Is this preorders or sales from retailers breaking the street date last week? Either way it's huge.

And so it begins!

Italy represents about 10% of EMEAA PS3 user base, so I don't know if this is really so amazing?

The report makes no sense.

What record has it broken? Surely a game has sold more then 45k in 1 day in Italy before? That seems really low considering the amount of consoles sold there.

But before that, you'd need to where you put your verbs.

ioi certainly said 2m in the latest US pre-order chart for WW first week sales, but we should get some better data in the next few days

Is it possible virtually sold refers to online-only companies such as Amazon?

Well are you sure thats what the report says?

I can speak italian so i will read it later