Gran Turismo franchise nears 68 million sales

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Sony's flagship PlayStation racing franchise Gran Turismo is approaching 68 million lifetime sales.

According to data revealed by series creator Polyphony Digital, 67,890,000 Gran Turismo games were sold between the original's PSone debut in 1997 and September 2012.
In comparison, Sony said in June that it had shipped over 21 million God of War games to retailers worldwide since the series debuted in 2005.

The original Gran Turismo has sold 10.85 million copies. 2001's Gran Turismo 3 A-spec, the first game in the series to be released for PS2, is the best-selling GT title, having shifted almost 15 million copies. 2010 PS3 release Gran Turismo 5 has cleared nine million sales. Here's a rundown by title:

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: 1,400,000
Gran Turismo 4: 11,600,000
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: 5,350,000
Gran Turismo PSP: 3,860,000
Gran Turismo 5: 9,010,000
Total: 67,890,000
Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed that Gran Turismo 6 was in development back in 2010, although he has left fans to speculate whether the game will arrive on PS3 or PlayStation 4.

This August Yamauchi suggested that the Gran Turismo 6 release date will remain a secret until Polyphony can be certain of its launch plans, telling press at the GT5 Asia Championship 2012: "If I carelessly say when it will be released, you'll end up with people saying things like 'it's been delayed again' so I will no longer say at this type of event.

Posted: Nov 06, 2012 11:08 am
Related Forum: PlayStation Forum

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/377004/gran-turismo-franchise-nears-68-million-sales/

Comments

cavemanowl123Posted: Thu. Nov 29, 2012

i love this game and my dad has played all of them

ik you guys are probably like dude we don't care but some people might like it

TeravainenPosted: Tue. Nov 13, 2012

Wow that's actually good for a series that you don't hear much about mainstream... I remember playing the originals

Money_BagzPosted: Sun. Nov 11, 2012

MoDOT I remember the "Xbox" one it was just as fun as the "Xbox 360" ones.

Yeah IKR!

OasisPosted: Wed. Nov 07, 2012

I remember lending my ps memory card to a friend only to get it back with all of my progress gone. That's why I can't play gt anymore.

AlbericiPosted: Tue. Nov 06, 2012

I remember the "Xbox" one it was just as fun as the "Xbox 360" ones.

sw4gPosted: Tue. Nov 06, 2012

That's just amazing. I remember the first time playing the original Gran Turismo. Haven't played one in a long time.

MortarPosted: Tue. Nov 06, 2012

That is pretty good, I used to enjoy Gran Turismo back on the PS2, was so much fun.

L33t-Ninja-MuchPosted: Tue. Nov 06, 2012

i remember playing this game along time ago it game with my ps1 and OMG i hated that i sucked at it so bad i used a codebreaker and made my horsepower up to max and blew it away lol back when cheating was for fun

ImNotPhlegmAnymoreOKPosted: Tue. Nov 06, 2012

Gran Turismo, Forza Horizon, Project Gotham, etc. What is the difference from all of these high definition racing games? They all look cool, but I don't want to buy 3 to 4 copies of $60 games that will basically be the same will little differences.