Gamers are keeping their fingers crossed that Gran Turismo 5 for PS3 actually makes it to retail this year. The franchise remains as popular as ever, and developer Polyphony Digital unveiled recently on its website that worldwide unit sales for the series have surpassed 55 million units (55.45, to be exact), as of December 2009.
Europe has been responsible for the bulk of those sales with over 25 million units. North America follows with 19.8 million, and Japan and the rest of Asia sold 9.7 million and 640,000, respectively.
Here are the global life-to-date sales for the series:
- Gran Turismo – 10,850,000
- Gran Turismo 2 – 9,370,000
- Gran Turismo 3 A-spec – 14,890,000
- Gran Turismo Concept Series – 1,560,000
- Gran Turismo 4: Prologue – 1,350,000
- Gran Turismo 4 – 10,980,000
- Gran Turismo 5: Prologue – 4,650,000
- Gran Turismo PSP – 1,800,000
It's interesting to see the new PSP game approaching 2 million units. It's not entirely clear if that's just the UMD version sold at retail, or if it's a cumulative number that includes digital sales on PSN as well. We'll ping Sony and let you know what we hear.
[Thanks to MCV for the tip]
2 Comments
June 11, 2010
I agree, This series has been a massive success and i expect version 5 to be the best yet. There is still massive hype and anticipation over this game. Many stores are now taking pre-orders.
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June 18, 2010
GT5 is going to be a very potent system-seller.
The xbox 360 only has a 5 million unit lead ahead of the PS3 now (yet it had a 12 month market head start. Common sense there would tell anyone how great the PS3 is performing now), and I predict GT5 is going to continue closing that gap Real Quick!