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Cross-X said:
GT5 has sold over 2.4 million copies
during its first 4 days
By GRiMESKEE 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...

The number posted on VGChartz will be lower, because we don't track the Mideast, Africa and Asia well.

EDIT: If this is even credible, obviously.



Inb4"MarioKartisalsoaracinggame".

OT: Americas and Japan seems way too low, Black Friday and the fact that Japan usually moves more units of GT games relative to the population than Europe makes me suspicious. Perhaps my lofty, half-assed first week prediction ends up closer than the Vgchartz team's own 2 million estimate?



Is that 1.5M EMEAA preorders number true?



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Not impressed. Numbers are fake i believe



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Maynard_Tool said:

Not impressed. Numbers are fake i believe

Wait, you mean you wouldn't be impressed if the numbers WERE true?



EMEAA believable, definitely not America and Japan.



LOL!!! If VGC are not having a hard time tracking on countries like middle east GT5 will be GIGANTIC!



I believe the overall total, just think there region breakdown is wrong.  I was thinking 500K Japan, 600K NA and 1.3M EMEAA



Shave about 500k off EMEAA and add 250k to Japan and America and it sounds about right.