he enormously anticipated Gran Turismo 5 opened to some huge sales on PS3 this week. In just two days on the market in the Americas and EMEAA and one day in Japan, VGChartz estimates that over 1.8 million copies of the game were sold. Breaking this down by region, over 55% were sold in EMEAA with the remainder equally split between the Americas and Japan.

First week sales are expected to hit around 2.4 million units, which would put sales roughly on par with the last full console installment, Gran Turismo 4 and in the top five openings of all time on PS3 behind Black Ops, Modern Warfare 2, Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Theft Auto IV. In Europe, GT5 set overall sales records in many smaller countries but performance wasn't good enough in major markets like the UK (where Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and FIFA dominate) to set an overall sales record.

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It seems... okay-ish to me, hopefully it's legs will be great :)

it seems great too me... But I dont know anything about this. It's behind games that were likley expected to sell more besides FFXIII(Which most people would expect to sell less I think). But FF is front heavy. Gran turismo I remember people saying it wasn't... particularly if bundled XD

But but the game is disappointing! Didn't all those people get the memo!?

If week one is 2.4m then that's pretty good. Wasn't the expectations around 2.2m?

Holy f*cking sh&t! 

1M in Europe in two days with no TV advertising!!! Where is Ginyu now!!! 

The game will have terrible legs in every region that we get official numbers from on a constant basis (america, Japan). It will only have "great legs" where we never get oficial numbers and anybody can claim anything (europe) plus sony will be giving the game away for free through bundling.

Japan's second week numbers will be a good indication for this games "great" legs.

Holy shit...

Big Numbers indeed!!!

Am I the only one who's amazed by the numbers for 2 days or did I have low expections or is it somewhat just okayish?

We knew GT5 was going to sell well at launch, but those expecting Halo and Call of Duty numbers are going to be very disappointed.

A good start, but let's see how it holds out.

AMAZING SALES!

this game will be on track to sell 5 million by year end. 

great numbers