GT5 Update: 7.3 Million Shipped * as of Sep 2011

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thehusbo on 16 December 2011

Dam great sales for such a legendary franchise :) confident it's lifetime sales will top 10million.

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Mummelmann on 16 December 2011

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Mummelmann said:
Good number, especially considering the small installed base compared to the PS2. But it will never get 10 million, not even close. That is in no way an indication of poor performance though, it has sold roughly about the pace I imagined before launch and has done very well.
People who expected, and even guaranteed, 10 million lifetime saw themselves blind on Prologue sales and overestimated first week sales and sales potential in Japan.
Japan will never be the same as a home console market after this generation, they seem to have shifted their primary focus on handheld gaming for the foreseeable future.

GT5 is still tracking better than GT4 (11.38m).

It's in the way to top 10 million.

The Wii was tracking way better than the PS2, we all saw how that went. The past is often an indication but rarely a confirmation of the future. There's also the whole "shipped vs sold" issue at hand here.

The Americas and Japan sales are just not good enough, Europe alone cannot move 7 million units that it will probably take to reach 10 million. I say its still out of the question. Of course, only time will tell and I sure wouldn't mind 10 million, seeing as how the GT franchise is easily my favourite racing series and even in my top 5 of all time franchises!

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ethomaz on 16 December 2011

kowenicki said:
I admire your enthusiasm for GT5 Ethomaz.... I always have, said it before.

But admit it... you are disappointed by these numbers, you must be... you expected 1.6m, its 1.0m... thats a lot less.

Disappointed? No. That's just sad because I will loose a bet...

The 7.3m shipped is not bad... is better than most people here predicted.

For me it's on track to top 10 million... six months after I predicted.

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VXIII on 16 December 2011

Uh...
Can't we have a thread about GT5 sales without turning it into a personal attack against ethomaz and his predictions ?

these numbers are impressive , the game is on its way to pass 10M mark, should settle between 10,5 and 11M LT

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Mordred11 on 16 December 2011

Finally,they posted the numbers.Adjustments are in order .

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osamanobama on 16 December 2011

kowenicki said:

ethomaz said:

kowenicki said:
I admire your enthusiasm for GT5 Ethomaz.... I always have, said it before.

But admit it... you are disappointed by these numbers, you must be... you expected 1.6m, its 1.0m... thats a lot less.

Disappointed? No. That's just sad because I will loose a bet...

The 7.3m shipped is not bad... is better than most people here predicted.

For me it's on track to top 10 million... six months after I predicted.

6 months after, by March 2013??? lol.

I suggest you crunch some numbers...

GT4 September 2007 to Dec 2010 : sold 1.6m (3.5 years for 1.6m)

GT5 September 2011 to March 2013: needs 2.7m to get to 10m (1.5 years for 2.7m)

So it needs to sell double GT4 in half the time...

Good Luck.

the difference was PS3 was already released in 2007.

PS4 wont be out until end of 2013, at the earliest. 2014 is looking more and more probable

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Moren on 16 December 2011

Under-shipped?

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ethomaz on 16 December 2011

kowenicki said:

ethomaz said:

kowenicki said:
I admire your enthusiasm for GT5 Ethomaz.... I always have, said it before.

But admit it... you are disappointed by these numbers, you must be... you expected 1.6m, its 1.0m... thats a lot less.

Disappointed? No. That's just sad because I will loose a bet...

The 7.3m shipped is not bad... is better than most people here predicted.

For me it's on track to top 10 million... six months after I predicted.

6 months after, by March 2013??? lol.

I suggest you crunch some numbers...

GT4 September 2007 to Dec 2010 : sold 1.6m (3.5 years for 1.6m)

GT5 September 2011 to March 2013: needs 2.7m to get to 10m (1.5 years for 2.7m)

So it needs to sell double GT4 in half the time...

Good Luck.

GT4 numbers showed in VGC is not in line whit shipment updates... to help your maths.

GRAN TURISMO 4 SHIPPED DATA
September 2005	6,790k	6 months after launch
June 2006	7,630k	1 year and 3 months after launch
September 2006	8,060k	1 year and 6 months after launch
December 2006	8,790k	1 year and 9 months after launch
June 2007	9,210k	2 years and 3 months after launch
September 2007	9,520k	2 years and 6 months after launch
December 2007	9,920k	2 years and 9 months after launch
March 2008	10,060k	3 years after launch
June 2008	10,180k	3 years and 3 months after launch
December 2008	10,570k	3 years and 9 months after launch
December 2009	10,980k	4 years and 9 months after launch
December 2010	11,190k	5 years and 9 months after launch

Good luck.

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Munkeh111 on 16 December 2011

So GT 5 is doing rather well, and it could creep to 10m, just, which would be very impressive

I think it will keep going for some time, as I would be very surprised if they released GT 6 on PS3, the next GT is likely to be on Vita before 6 on PS4, and the lack of any sequel should help its sales

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NiKKoM on 16 December 2011

You know... they advertised GT5 more this Holiday then for example Uncharted 3.. I opened the newspaper today and there as an ad for the platinum version.. crazy