Following on from the Tweet detailing GT Academy‘s online participation, Kazunori Yamauchi has also Tweeted figures about GT5′s cumulative online racing to date – a truly staggering 36.4billion miles in the 577 days since launch!

Numbers of this magnitude are difficult to comprehend without context, so here’s some equivalents:

• GT5 players have driven the distance from the Earth to the Sun. And back. 200 times.
• Or the distance from the Sun to Neptune. And back. Thirteen times.
• In under 2 years GT5 players have driven three times further than Voyager 1 has managed in 35 years.
• We’d still take 1,367 years to drive GT5 to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri…

The average increase in distance is 63 million miles a day, with GT5′s online players covering the same distance in 2 days as the entire GT Academy 2012 competition has so far! This corresponds to 2.6 million mph or around 730 miles per second, enough to:

• Equal the record distance in the Nürburgring 24hr in 3.4 seconds
• Drive from San Francisco to New York in 3.5 seconds
• Drive from New York to London in 4.7 seconds
• Drive from London to Sydney in 14.4 seconds
• Drive around the Earth in the time it took you to read this article
• Drive to the Moon in 5 minutes 27 seconds

Even though the average online race in Gran Turismo 5 is only just over 12 miles in length, the community as a whole is certainly getting their money’s worth from the game with each playerdriving nearly 500 online miles.

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That is a lot of virtual miles. I have a strong preference to play racing game more like Burnout than GT. Wonder how many miles people clocked playing Burnout Paradise?

LAWL holy cow...a very interesting way to put the stats in an article. Well done

All that and yet it hasn't even sold 8 million copies.

I just cant understand how GT4 sold almost 200,000 units last year? That game is 6 years old. Will GT5 still be selling 200k 6 years from now?


GT PSP looks like it can reach 4-5 million in a couple of years.

Still a lot to go.
And don't forget GT5 sold millions with the Prologue Version too.They could even cover the 50+ Million they spent on developing the game just with the "Demo".
Other franchises sold what?2,2 Million?Pretty lame if you went from 4 Million to half of that with a new game.
Shows which Racing Franchise has a community that is truly into Racing simulators and where the people are who play those games.

I can say with certainty that far less than GT5... no racing game have so much players.

OP. SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR!!!

GT Academy 2012 Statistics!!!

• Over 1,000,000 unique PSN IDs playing
• Over 10,000,000 gold trophies attained
• More than 174,000,000 player retries
• 111,240,000 miles/178,980,000 km driven – enough to drive from the Earth to the Sun and almost a fifth of the distance back again!

That picture is way off. But great news!