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Fufinu on 07 November 2010
ethomaz said:

HUUUUUUUUUGE!

550k sent to France only.

  • 450k standard copies.
  • 100k Collector Editions.
  • 5k Signature Editions

http://www.01net.com/editorial/523302/gran-turismo-5-la-sortie-pour-noel-se-precise/

For comparison Activision sent 650k copies of Call of Duty : Black Ops for 360 and PS3 combined.

If I am not mistaken this says that the copies have been sent to France. Have they already started shipping?



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Alby_da_Wolf on 07 November 2010
Fufinu said:
ethomaz said:

HUUUUUUUUUGE!

550k sent to France only.

  • 450k standard copies.
  • 100k Collector Editions.
  • 5k Signature Editions

http://www.01net.com/editorial/523302/gran-turismo-5-la-sortie-pour-noel-se-precise/

For comparison Activision sent 650k copies of Call of Duty : Black Ops for 360 and PS3 combined.

If I am not mistaken this says that the copies have been sent to France. Have they already started shipping?

My French is very rusty, but I understood that those copies are the MINIMUM number of copies ("pas moins de", not less than) that will be made available for sale, but it doesn't specify where those copies currently are. It also says that the infos came from distributors, and that different French retailers predict the launch on different dates ranging from end November to mid December.



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ethomaz on 07 November 2010

http://www.nicagamerz.com/v6/news/477/gran-turismo-5-complete-box-art/



ethomaz on 07 November 2010

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flagstaad on 08 November 2010

So either December 7th or November 30th in USA. And it looks like December 2nd for Europe?, seems plausible.



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ethomaz on 08 November 2010

Official?

US (Planned): November 27th

Italy (Confirmed): November 30th

http://translate.google.it/translate?u=http://www.4news.it/ufficializzata-la-data-duscita-di-gran-turismo-5.php&sl=it&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8



Grimes on 08 November 2010

It would be pretty dumb to launch the day after black friday in the US.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

leo-j on 08 November 2010
Grimes said:

It would be pretty dumb to launch the day after black friday in the US.


they should release it on black friday, and have a huge poster like microsoft did with kinect in front of best buy, and all over large video game stores, and ship 7 million, so taht people look for GT5 as the first thing on their black friday list, would push a tremendous amount of consoles, to the point of selling out, if they bundle it with a blue PS3



 

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Grimes on 08 November 2010
leo-j said:
Grimes said:

It would be pretty dumb to launch the day after black friday in the US.


they should release it on black friday, and have a huge poster like microsoft did with kinect in front of best buy, and all over large video game stores, and ship 7 million, so taht people look for GT5 as the first thing on their black friday list, would push a tremendous amount of consoles, to the point of selling out, if they bundle it with a blue PS3


That would be terrible too. Anyone who pre-ordered would be doomed to waiting in line with all the other shoppers. Also, it would be impossible to have midnight launches at many stores because there is no way they are going to open at midnight on black friday.

Ideally, you would want to launch slightly before black friday like CoD does. That way you can satisfy the gamer need then move on to the holiday shoppers.



Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.

flagstaad on 08 November 2010
Grimes said:

It would be pretty dumb to launch the day after black friday in the US.

They don't care for the USA sales as much as the European ones. For they the USA boat already is gone, but they want to save the European market at all costs. I think we can see a American release for the 30th of November or 7th of December. And the same week for Europe, if not earlier.