| Reasonable said: I was about to point you in the direction of the numbers... but someone's beaten me to it. As you can see given its sales on VGCgartz (which are low in the sense they don't include the PSN sales of the game as these aren't tracked) GT5 will likely sell very well on the PS3. At worst it will produce a modest spike, more likely a fairly good one when it lauches (in other words yes, the evidence indicates it is a system seller for playstations)m particularly in Europe where GT is very popular.
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@ Reasonable and BKK2:
Well, the numbers do seem to tell the story to a large degree. It would be fascinating to chart out hardware spikes on the PS2 that correspond to GT releases. 
The original point I was trying to understand was when someone stated that with a release like GT5 the PS3 could easily catch up to the Wii, but that would imply 100% attach rate and sales in Japan far exeeding anything the prior GT series has accomplished before (the current GT game record in Japan being the original title, with 2.5 m units). Going from 2.4 m PS3s in Japan to 6.9 m with the release of GT5 would indeed be a feat.
