No f-ing way. GT5 will probably be the most expensive game ever, costing even more money than GTA IV. They take what, a month for a single person to make one (!) car? Those are enormous sums of money we're talking about. And it's not even close to release.

Sure GT5 will make a big profit and Prologue did very well, but I think they need to sell 5 million plus to recover the costs (which will easily work and combined with Prologue should become Sony's biggest hit this gen).

First MGS4 and now GT5. So it will need to sell 5 million on top of GT5p to recover cost?

No, my guess would be 5 million total, excluding the bundled games. 

That is by far the dumbest comparision I've ever seen. Take that out of here.

@ Benga

So, GT 5 will make back it's profit in 1 week? Not bad.

Read the underlined and italicized bit.

I'm not saying they've paid off the entirety of GT5's current and future development costs.  I'm saying they've paid off all of GT5's development costs up until now.

Also, at the full $60 price point, I don't see why it would take 5 million sales of the final game to make a profit.  Since Sony is both the developer and publisher of the title, let's assume that they take about 2/3rds of the retail price of the game in revenue.  That would be about $40.  Even if the game cost a gargantuan $150 million (which it probably doesn't, not even close), they'd only have to sell 3.75 million copies at full price to break even.

if gt5 launches in fall 2009 bundled at £249 - £229

^all 360 fall 2008 boosts will be nullified and the total console sales lead will be severly cut, bung ff13 exclusivity in japan and ps3 will be right up there with 360.

no retail game sells system like gt

i think that anyone and almost everyone who has a ps3 probably has this game i think, well not everyone but a lot of people have this game including my buddies jonny and tengo who live, play and breath grantusimo. it will also be one of the very first game (well half a game) i will be getting once i get my ps3 this holiday.

Makingmusic - the game released at 40 dollars not 60. One reason why I bought it.... but still Sony get more money on downloads than discs... so do the math anyway you like.

@Max I believe MM is talking about the release of GT5, not prologue. When GT5 releases, they'll probably make about $40 of the $60 it's being sold for :P

And I agree with his statement in full ^^ GT5P is basically like a small cut of the bigger project anyway :P This game is going to be super profitable on all fronts xD

must be at like 3-4 million with psn sales but the main reason its sold so much is because its rrp is lower than any ps3 game