ok, people keep throwing around the "not a full week" argument, but pretty much every game gets the same length week. Nintendo is one of the few companies that launches some games on Sunday. If you compare NA sales to NA sales, and JP sales to JP sales, and EMEAA sales to EMEAA sales you should be able to determine if the week was "good" or not. It shouldn't take a magical 2-3 extra days that no other game gets either. Also, the way sales are defined GT5 has had its first week sales in. You can't justify missing 2 less important days as a reason for poor sales week 1, as most of week 1's sales happen in the first 2 days.
Anyways, I ranked GT5 week 1 sales as good. Just looking at GT4 with a direct scalling based on GT5 numbers (yes, I know, extremely crude and innacurate), it is on track for 9.5m sales, which is around 1m more than my original prediction (I know it was somewhere in the 8.x range). This launch means it has a shot at 10m which would be extremely good for a PS3 game this generation.
