during its first 4 days
By on Nov. 30, 2010, 10:41 p.m.
One of the biggest names in gaming history and the most popular racing game ever made, has managed to sell over 2.4 million copies during its first 4 days. Considering that an unprecedented 1.5 million were copies pre-ordered in Europe alone.
This makes Granturismo 5 one of the biggest title generators in gaming history and the fastest selling racing game in this generation.
Over 100 retailers hosted Midnight events In Europe Mid East alone.
Gran Turismo 5 was released in over 40 countries.
To date, more than 55 million copies of the games in the GT franchise have been sold worldwide, making it the most successful Racing and Playstation game.
Here are the sale figures:
EMEAA: 1,841,500 copies (Europe Mid East Africa Asia)
Japan: 212,296 copies
Americas: 382,000 copies
As we all know GranTurismo games are very popular in Europe, so here we have the charts of the major seller countries in EU
Stay tuned as we will reveal the 1 month sale figures from Polyphony digital, we hope they will post it on their official site.
Source: http://www.granturismocup.com/news/article/49/
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Now before anyone jumps up and down saying this is massive or something, we need to check how creditable this is.
I posted this to check whether ioi or TheSource can validate or see if these numbers are true or not.
We don't even know where they got their numbers from...
