There is this issue with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue numbers. Many people expected it to top 1 million units in the first week and are dissapointed now.

To clear up the situation: When talking about Pre-orders you have to keep in mind that there are user-preorders and shop-preorders.

User-preorders are the copies preordered by actual gamers who want to buy the game at the first day.

Retail-preorders are the copies preorderd by shops / retailers --> these copies do not always sell during the first days, it is just the number of units lying in stores.

In the case of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue those 1 million units are retail preorders, meaning there are 1 million copies available in stores. We have no information about user-preorders, though.

I hope this explains the issue a bit better.

Why would anyone be dissapointed with the sales of that game? Its a souped up demo sold at full price and it almost cleared 400K...

We know, but they would only buy in for a few weeks, and with 375k opening week, it will take over a month to get to 1m probably, so it seems a little under what was expected, especially with many shops going out of stock (amazon, play and several other reports)

Considering that the game only had 2 days sales i think that almost 400,000 sold is great! I mean thats the best opening of any PS3 game released so far isn't it?

 are you nuts? last time i checked the game is half the price of a regaulr game in the UK and $20 less in the US.  That is not full price.

not only that but 400.000 for nothing more than an advanced demo.

Seriously They should just have gone and invest time to finish the damn thing.

QFT on that one ssj12 :)

Keep in mind, this is just for the people who didn´t know.

Of course, most of our users do know about this fact and I´m quite sure GT5 Prologue sales will be stellar nonetheless.

I just wanted to point it out as some people where confused about it.

where in the blue hell did you see that this game is full price?

 You are forgetting something: The number of "1 Million preorders" came from a PR rep. PR means: Twist the reality without lying. Is there a hardware bundle of GT5:P? As far as I know off. Can shop preorder them? I personal would think so. Can we count that as "Preorder". Yes we can ;)

Thats why I was not impressed by that 1 Million in the first place (Yes this game is selling good, especially for a PS3 game, but that was expected!)

Wow, you really need some manners...

You may be right as I don't live in Europe but I looked up the price here. http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bp-49-en-70-2bns.html