3 Years ago GRAN TURISMO 5 finally released after years of anticipation by the gaming community.

A sales prediction thread was made on VgChartz & now as we near GT6's launch we can actually see how we got on!

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=114292&page=1

First of all APOLOGIES for the terrible quality of the images...they weren't that bad in 2010, I don't think. I hope witnesses can attest to that :P (psst Boutros I can count on your, right?)

WEEK 1 PREDICTIONS:

Ultimately GT5 sold 2.39 Million week 1

As a community we "overtracked" it by a mere 170K...that is within a 10% margin of error.

So...WELL DONE VGCHARTZ...you win THIS

Special congratulations are in order to the following users (Top 3 predictions):

1. Gilgamesh, Flagstaad, OkeyDokey, {dude who's name I can't see due to the bad picture quality}  - 2.4 Million

2. HexenLord - 2.42 Million

3. Kopstudent (2.43 Million), zgamer5 {Now known as areason} (2.35 Million)

LTD PRedictions

So GT5 is now at 10..61 Million & undoubtedly it will keep on selling.

As a community we predicted 9.34 Million which whas already fallen short by over a million, so yeah GT5 pretty much drove right over our prediction!! So this is our prize!

So I'll make this easy and just list the users left in the running for closest to the final LTD (which we may not know for a year or more yet!)

17 posters are still in the running:

HexenLord - 10.7 Million

Ultraslick - 10.8 Million

VXIII - 11 Million

Carl2291 - 11.1 Million

snfr, irtz - 11.2 Million

Attoyou - 11.5 Million

chapset - 11.8 Million

BHR-3 - 11.9 Million

Jneul - 12 Million

PostOfficeBuddy - 12.1 Million

M.U.G.E.N, Soild_Snake4RD, AnthonyW86 - 12.2 Million

VetteDude - 12.4 Million

extremeloco - 12.6 Million

Vetteman94 - 12.8 Million

**Interesting tidbit** -- Only ONE of the best 1st week predictors is still in contending (HexenLord)...and unfortunately he'll be eliminated soon as there's no way GT5 aint getting past 10.7 Million!!

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Who do you think will win the LTD sales race?

You can vote in the poll!

And here is the thread to predict GT6 Sales:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=173564

lol at the 3 million life time prediction

Yeah I remember a thread where the main post was saying how it'll underperform & it was full of lower predictions!

Awesome find! Wish I had made a prediction :(

Related: is there a gt6 prediction thread?

Holy shit this thread made me remember my old vgchartz name zgamer5 lol

Dat first week prediction :) 

I confirm this 

I did pretty well! Darth asked me to give a victory speech so here it goes:

I dedicate this to Darth who's three year hiatus has left a hole in all our hearts *sheds single tear while holding back the rest*.

I also dedicate this award to the humble people working on the VGChartz numbers, without all of you we would've never had the opportunity to make these predictions and allow us victors to rub it in the losers' faces. Thank you all.

*awaits applause*

YEah here

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=173564&page=1#

awww *sheds not one but 1000 tears*

Well done!! I hope you can repeat your success for GT6 predicitons...it's a harder cookie to predict that's for sure!

Here is your trophy *gives bargain bin copy of GT1*

Honestly that would be an amazing trophy