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ethomaz on 25 November 2010

Gamers Line Up For Gran Turismo 5 in Japan

By Sakinah D Rasheed – November 25, 2010
Posted in: PS3News
 

Gran Turismo 5 went on sale today in Japan, a day after it’s North American & European debut. In Akihabara, Tokyo over 100 were waiting in line for one popular electronics store to open it’s doors.

To avoid conjestion lines at the store were divided between those who planned on purchasing the limited edition  GT5/Titanium  Blue PlayStation3 bundle and those buying the regular version of the game.

North American reviews of GT5 are already available but so far there have been no reviews for the game from Famitsu or Dengeki in Japan.

Yahoo Japan

http://thesilentchief.com/2010/11/25/gamers-line-up-for-gran-turismo-5-in-japan/



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oldschoolfool on 25 November 2010

good pics,never been to that part of the world.lol



VetteDude on 25 November 2010

Well the Japanese love their racing games. Good for Sony, looks like GT5 is a hit (I personally love it)



Ping_ii on 25 November 2010

can't wait for the numbers to be revealed!



darthdevidem01 on 25 November 2010

We'll get news of First Day sales in Japan tomorrow.



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dragonmagician on 25 November 2010

To be fair, there were pictures of people lining up for Kinect in Japan as well, so it doesn't really mean much.

That being said, there's no doubt GT5 will outsell Kinect in Japan. The question is, how many PS3s is it going to push?



badgenome on 25 November 2010

Looks about like the Kinect lines to me. GT5 to sell 15-20k confirmed?



4k1x3r on 25 November 2010
CGI-Quality said:
dragonmagician said:

To be fair, there were pictures of people lining up for Kinect in Japan as well, so it doesn't really mean much.

That being said, there's no doubt GT5 will outsell Kinect in Japan. The question is, how many PS3s is it going to push?

PS3 could be looking at a 80-90,000 week in Japan, so I'd say plenty (this is without EMEAA).

More like over 120k.



Notorius.A.i.G on 25 November 2010
4k1x3r said:
CGI-Quality said:
dragonmagician said:

To be fair, there were pictures of people lining up for Kinect in Japan as well, so it doesn't really mean much.

That being said, there's no doubt GT5 will outsell Kinect in Japan. The question is, how many PS3s is it going to push?

PS3 could be looking at a 80-90,000 week in Japan, so I'd say plenty (this is without EMEAA).

More like over 120k.


Maybe even 150k. Someone posted that their were 200k FFXIII and 200k GT : Portable bundles produced.



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4k1x3r on 25 November 2010
Notorius.A.i.G said:
4k1x3r said:
CGI-Quality said:
dragonmagician said:

To be fair, there were pictures of people lining up for Kinect in Japan as well, so it doesn't really mean much.

That being said, there's no doubt GT5 will outsell Kinect in Japan. The question is, how many PS3s is it going to push?

PS3 could be looking at a 80-90,000 week in Japan, so I'd say plenty (this is without EMEAA).

More like over 120k.


Maybe even 150k. Someone posted that their were 200k FFXIII and 200k GT : Portable bundles produced.

Yea but I guess that less were produced because GT is not as big as FF in Japan. So 100k bundles, 20/30K of normal sales, 30/40k of new PS3 owners that couldn't buy the bundle so they bought the PS3 (plus the game), yea 150/170k or something like that.

 

Ps. I don't think that 200k bundles were produced, more like 100k, I don't recall a boost as big as 200k in PSP sales when GTP came out.