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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is first platinum preorder for PS3

Posted on March 14th, 2008 at 22:11 EDT

It's been over a year now since the PlayStation 3 launched and sadly enough, not one title thus far has reached 1,000,000 preorders.  With PlayStation 2 featuring more than a handful of titles reaching that plateau, it comes as a surprise to realize it hasn't happened yet this generation.  Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has finally changed that as Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed that the game has received over one million preorders thus far.

When you look at the success of Warhawk and how much it was downloaded in comparison to bought on BD format, its almost shocking to see GT5 Prologue do what it is doing.  Its developers feel it will receive an even larger welcome than Warhawk did as a downloadable game, which would invevitably push the total sales through the roof.

With the game scheduled for release in late March and then set for release in mid-April for North America, its only a matter of time until we get to see the first week sales figures.  As more information is released about this, we'll keep you up to date.

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posted 10:13pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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sweeet i cant wait for this game

posted 10:16pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... still undecided about how i'm going to buy this but i may buy the blu ray version just to have another disk to add to the collection

posted 10:30pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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This doesnt make sense though.. unless they're talking PS3 exclusives, cause CoD4

posted 10:47pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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Well, it's about time a PS3 game (PS3 exclusive) has hit 1 million pre-orders. I never pre-ordered a game before until last year, but I really don't think that the amount of pre-orders a game gets is going to determine it's overall success. I mean, what's the use of pre-ordering a game if you can just walk in the store and pick it up? The game may sell out in a store, but there will be plenty of GT5 Prologue copies in a store to go around.

I did pre-order GTA4 and I will pre-order MGS4 next month, but I'm not going to pre-order GT5 Prologue, I'm just going to buy it in the store the day it comes out. I know that I will also pre-order Killzone 2 and Resistance 2, but every other game this year, I will probably just pick up in the store.

However, it's good to see that a Playstation 3 game title has already gone platinium in sales before it was actually released. GT is one of the Original Playstation franchise titles that started it all for the Playstation and I'm sure that both GT5 Prologue and GT5 will have very good sales. I can't wait to play GT5 Prologue because I'm just dying to play a realistic racing game.

posted 10:53pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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one million huh?? i guess halo isnt the the only one...

posted 11:17pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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GT aint the billion dollar franchise for nothing.

 

im buying the Blu-ray version cant wait baby.

posted 11:33pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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Woah that's a lot more than I ever expected

posted 11:41pm EDT - March 14th, 2008
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I was gonna buy it on day one, after much internal debate, but I guess I'll pre-order it to add to the numbers of pre-orders.

posted 12:21am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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are they talking ps3 exclusives? that's the feeling i get.
posted 12:25am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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yeah man this wil be awesome whoohoo

posted 12:30am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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that's an insane number of pre orders. I havent even pre ordered it yet.

posted 1:24am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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Huge GT fan and will probably get the Eu version shipped, then buy the NA version, and also the PSN version!

Oh and the Blu-ray disc contains extra VIDEO behind the scenes footage the PSN version does not! stongly say buy the DISC...and it looks gud!

posted 1:59am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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Awesome. I'm not much of a fan of the series but I know how awesome it is for people who like the driving genre. It's great to see such a HUGE franchise on our machine.

posted 4:11am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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@djrussel

No.  COD4 was a quick word-of-mouth success.  There weren't a ton of preorders.  Anyway, I have my logitech wheel and I'm ready.  This is going to be so awesome.  But I can't believe that MGS4 doesn't have 1 million preorders...

posted 4:13am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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1 million sales hasn't happened to anything, yet, because the only returning exclusive franchise we've had from the ps2 era was R+C! And I'm sorry but insomniac makes too many ratchet games. I know they're establishing a mario-like image, but you can't make all the games the same. Insomniac: mario was successful because of how many different kinds of games he was featured in. All you guys are doing is remixing the same stuff.

 

nonetheless, it's great to see 2k8 live up to expectations :) I can only imagine the preorders from FF13!

posted 7:59am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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Is this "1 million preorders in Europe", seeing as its SCEE that confirmed it? If so that's unbelievable! Even if it is worldwide that's oretty awesome. Guaranteed 1 million sales in the first few days...Wow.

Polyphone must be proud.

posted 11:04am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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y'know i'd like to see them include the knight rider car complete with the front trailing light and all the dashboard, that would be great!! they should make  a cross between gta4+gt5+knight rider that game would be awsome!!!

posted 11:04am EDT - March 15th, 2008
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y'know i'd like to see them include the knight rider car complete with the front trailing light and all the dashboard, that would be great!! they should make  a cross between gta4+gt5+knight rider that game would be awsome!!!

posted 12:25pm EDT - March 15th, 2008
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@slim-jim, that is the worst idea ive ever heard

posted 3:38pm EDT - March 15th, 2008
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this just a glorified demo?

posted 11:31pm EDT - March 15th, 2008
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60 + cars, 6 tracks 16 player online, car customization... no my friend this is more like a small game than a glorified demo. And I'm glad that it's 40 usd, because at first I thought it was 60. Add me to that list of preoderers! see you in :( April O yeah @ Demobot its not like the burnout demo its GT5 Prologue. It's full enough for me. Fills the GT5 needs until GT5 is released
posted 12:35am EDT - March 16th, 2008
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Also once GT5 is release all the save data on the prologue gets transfered, so you start ahead of people who didnt have the prologue, u have better cars and your earned credits!

posted 5:13am EDT - March 16th, 2008
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To AclayPS3

I will give you a good reason to preorder I have paid £17.99  inlc vat & del(play.com) game will be delivered to me release day will be £24.99 in shops. Also to Demobot  71cars,6 tracks f/r full online & access to GTTV demo's have 1 maybe 2 levels limited or no online and limited features it has more features than a lot of games released on PS3 & 360 for half the price of a what you call a full game.

posted 5:50pm EDT - March 16th, 2008
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Over a million PRE ORDERS?

That's insane,but that is,however,Gran Turismo

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