GT5 become Finland's fastest double-platinum selling game ever

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CGI-Quality said:

Reasonable said:

XanderZane said:

ethomaz said:

More news about the GT5's sales on Finland. The game became Double Platinum (sold over 40k) after it first week.

To compare these numbers the World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm became Platinum after few days of sales and Halo: Reach after 2.5 months of sales.

The user base estimate for Finland is about 200k... so the GT5 ratio is over 20%.

AMAZING SALES!!! FANTASTIC RECORD!!! PARTY!!!

Source: http://www.figma.fi/Vanhat tiedotteet/tiedote07122010.htm

Thanks to @shanbcn

OFFTOPIC - GT5 is SOLD OUT at Amazon.co.uk

40K? That's it? lmao!! Halo Reach was Triple Platium it's first week in America alone. GT5 was double, but that was Worldwide. Don't ever compare Halo Reach sales with GT5 again. It's embarrassing. Of GT5 is sold out on amazon.co.uk, because that's all UK gamers care about is soccer and racing games. lol!! They've been waiting for this game for over 5 years. Now watch the sales drop like a rock over the next 2 weeks. 

Yeah, becuse GT titles and Halo titles share identical sales profiles, just like the Wii and the HD consoles... oh wait.  What's that big Wii bump so many people don't get?  Why is that racer selling with such long legs for such a long time?

I personally doubt GT5 will sell more than Reach, but it's going to end up close, and it could possibly pass it.  Given overall GT has seen more sales as a franchise than Halo I'd cool it with trying to imply Halo titles vs GT titles is ownage for Halo - you're just making yourself an easy target.

It's not even worth debating with him about GT5. He's behaved this way since the game launched. It's as if it crushed his hopes of failing and now he's trying to cover it up. Pretty sad when gamers act like that.

OT: We keep hearing of records this game is breaking. Makes me wonder what the 2nd weel will look like in EMEAA, and with several early indications, it's looking to have another good week.

All signs point towards an extremely good hold in EMEAA in week 2. We're probably undertracking week 1 by a couple hundred k and the UK is probably where it saw it's most dramatic drop. And even there the drop wasn't that bad, only 61% compared to the traditional 70%-80% that most games see. Particularly impressive when you consider the fact that week 1 totals were already slightly inflated since the game had 4 days to sell rather than the traditional 2. I wouldn't be surprised if week 2 in EMEAA is 600k plus.