Gran Turismo Series Tops 68 Million Copies Sold

Gran Turismo 5 Polyphony Digital December 18th, 2012 by Jordan

As the Gran Turismo series approaches its 15th anniversary on December 23, 2012, Polyphony Digital has quietly updated their sales statistics, revealing over 68 million copies of the games have been sold worldwide and correcting the previous, smaller sum first reported in early November.

Total sales for each title, including special editions (such as GT5 XL and GT5 Academy Edition) now stand at:

  • 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: 9,190,000

Thanks to Roberto for the tip!

GT5 Photomode image by ceiling_fan.

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  1. February 8th, 2013 at 8:23 am - #
    Ausrismo

    We need more Australian cars, and less of the really cheap standard cars that no one drives. Including Bathurst would be awesome and to have the cars that won there would be even better. Even adding normal Australian made cars would be brilliant.

  2. January 2nd, 2013 at 11:36 pm - #
    Conza

    If GT6 is a (soon after) launch title for the PS4, even then I think it’d be a miracle for it to beat 15 million copies, I think 10 mil would be satisfactory. If it comes out on PS3, well, maybe 3 :P. imo, prolouges and psp titles don’t really count, so I’d say genuinely, GT has sold 55.9 million (based on the stats above).

  3. December 19th, 2012 at 11:05 pm - #
    TokoTurismo

    GT5 FTW!!!! Sorry, I had to say it. ;) At work I imagine Porsche being added in GT6 for the very first time, man that’ll be so awesome, and perfect for GT6 as well. Love the GT series, and I have faith in Kaz and PD to make GT6 the best racing game ever. Hope they make rally one of the best in it, such as having the co driver with you on circuit/sprint tracks, that’ll rock! :)

    • December 20th, 2012 at 7:44 pm - #
      Tenacious D

      GT5 could be more awesome, but seriously, the game is nicely detailed in physics and performance. And it does have a ton of cars, and a reasonable number of tracks.

      I know people grouch about sounds and graphic shortcomings, but one, they act like no sound improvements have been made – hello. Two, the PS3 is really being pushed hard by the game engine. I suspect if the 3D aspect was an installable option, performance would improve. I can’t think of too much else that was wedgied in since Prologue to make the game look WORSE.

      For those lamenting how PD does nothing but cut corners, yeah, sure. And like Kaz doesn’t confess that he’s about the most self-conscious game creator out there, and takes all the criticism of his games personally. Which he does, guys, believe me, he’s aware of all the bratty bellyaching and honest crap-free criticism from fans around here. He’s determined to make GT6 something GT5 wasn’t. And I’m sure that GT6 is going to be complete, full featured, expansive, and have a pretty darn good selection of cars, though I expect a lot of tracks. I expect online to be much more like any other online racer. I’m looking for very few odd inclusions like those collectible car horns, and much cooler inclusions such as the Movie Maker, the ModNation Racers-like Course Builder, a real Race Mod system for about all the cars – and even a Tuner Mod, as well as some form of Livery Editor so we can tune and make our own race cars.

      GT5 has sold almost as much in two years as GT3 and 4 did in twice the time. No matter what anyone thinks, this game has rocked, and continues to. And will, until GT6 – and likely the PS4 – hits the market.

    • December 20th, 2012 at 9:09 pm - #
      TokoTurismo

      +1000. Very well said. :)

    • December 20th, 2012 at 10:42 pm - #
      biftizmo

      I agree…they have been very busy this year…and I.m sure most people are very happy with all the stuff we got 2 years down the line…my self if wee get another 5 years like the one we just had…that’s how long it’s gonna be a least until I bye another telly….I’ll be we’ll happy…gt5 best money spent so far….

    • December 20th, 2012 at 10:50 pm - #
      samuelesm

      Couldn’t have said it any better Tenacious D.

  4. December 19th, 2012 at 7:28 pm - #
    HKSBro92

    Impressive.

  5. December 19th, 2012 at 6:43 pm - #
    terceirafire

    Ohhh

  6. December 19th, 2012 at 1:34 pm - #
    marktyper

    HoHoHo. Think people. If this decrypted files are true its for sure it will he in the game. Question is when? Christmas is around the corner :) PD might surprise us but dont keep the hopes up! We can only wish

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:07 pm - #
      playnthru

      No, you have no proof of that.

      It is highly doubtful it will see GT5 daylight.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:54 pm - #
      TokoTurismo

      I imagine those content being in one of the updates someday, but I doubt it. Would be nice of PD to do that though. :)

  7. December 19th, 2012 at 10:43 am - #
    ChicoMaloXD

    My favorite is GT1.
    It is sad how GT5 has the same formula of a 15 year old game.

    • December 20th, 2012 at 10:33 pm - #
      HarVee

      A lot of games still use the formula that the first of their respective series used. It it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

  8. December 19th, 2012 at 10:21 am - #
    GTrf

    GTPLANET remove, moderate ForzaTroll post. This is insulting.

  9. December 19th, 2012 at 10:18 am - #
    Efiv12

    I wonder what sales figures the DLC have netted PD.

  10. December 19th, 2012 at 8:45 am - #
    JapanElite

    For a company that has made in the area of 3 billion in profit, I seriously except more from the franchise and GT5.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:43 pm - #
      mef

      3 billion in profit, and you know that fact from where?

  11. December 19th, 2012 at 8:30 am - #
    GTracer98

    9 million? I wonder why there are so few people doing the Time Trials. :(

    • December 19th, 2012 at 10:17 am - #
      swynder

      Most of them bought the game and only played it for some time after it came out, and others might not have a playstation network account, also, the game is two years old i doubt that there are still many people playing it, considering the amount of games that were released in the past two years.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 12:13 pm - #
      skazz

      Even only 9 months after Forza 4 was released, you’d see less entries in a Forza 4 rivals event over an entire month than you’d see in the first couple of days of a GT5 time trial, despite GT5 being a year older!

    • December 19th, 2012 at 1:09 pm - #
      MuoNiuLa

      You have to remember that you have to pay for Xbox Live though so that could explain why there’s less people.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:44 pm - #
      TokoTurismo

      I like the xbox 360 yes, but for me I feel more comfortable being on the PS3 better imo. U_U

  12. December 19th, 2012 at 2:48 am - #
    mykem

    Although the number is still short of previous GTs, it’s still quite amazing considering the game industry and gamer’s preference have shifted considerably since GT4 and GT3. In 2004 when GT4 was released (yes, it’s close to a decade), the competition even among racing games was few.

    Interesting statistics when you look at the sales numbers since the release in Nov 2010. Two years later (in 2012), it still sells 1.38 M copies. Forza 4, released in Oct 2011, sold 1.42 M copies in 2012. Large portion of GT5 obviously sold in the first 10 weeks (5.7 M copies) but the fact that it remained within striking distance of the more regarded Forza 4 in both 2011 and 2012, means that gamers are still buying GT5 in spite of reviews and general perception of the game.

    If you look at car enthusiast site like Autoblog, GT5 is completely ignored (any updates are never mentioned) while Forza has received numerous mentions (deservedly because Forza 4′s car list is quite amazing). I believe what has propelled GT5 in the last two years is GT Academy. If that’s indeed true, hats off to the guys at Polyphony (and Sony).

  13. December 19th, 2012 at 2:42 am - #
    Turkey :D

    Look at how the sales numbers are decreasing rapidly! Maybe it’s a sign that PD needs to change their release strategy and design philosophy. They need to keep people interested somehow.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 5:35 am - #
      maxpontiac

      You need to understand something…

      GT5 has ONLY been out two years and has sold just about as much as GT1 which has been out 15 years.

      Knowing and understanding that fact is key to realising that GT5 is going to continue to sell in the same manner GT4 has.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 8:27 am - #
      KFM

      GT5 has been out for two years. All of the other games have been out substantially longer, and therefore, have had a greater sales opportunity.

      However, let’s look at some sales figures for hot selling 2010 releases ( as up to date as possible )

      God of War 3 – ~5.2 million units ( PS3 Exclusive )
      Final Fantasy XIII – ~6.7 million units
      Gran Turismo 5 – ~9.2 million units ( PS3 Exclusive )
      Halo: Reach – ~9.3 million units
      Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – ~9.11 million units
      Red Dead Redemption – ~12.5 million units
      Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – ~15 million units
      Call of Duty: Black Ops – ~26.2 million units

      GT5′s pretty low on that chart, but since racing is a niche market, unlike more mainstream games like first person shooters, let’s see how it fared against its competition:

      Need for Speed: Shift – ~4.36 million units
      Need for Speed: Shift 2 – ~1 million units
      Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – ~4.6 million units
      Forza Motorsport 3 – ~5.23 million units ( Xbox 360 Exclusive )
      Forza Motorsport 4 – ~3.28 million

      GT5 alone has sold more units than both Forza games combined, and almost all three of those NFS games combined.

      It’s not just me talking, people are pretty interested in GT5.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 8:29 am - #
      KFM

      Sorry, FM4 is Xbox 360 exclusive as well, in case anyone was wondering.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 7:21 pm - #
      Turkey :D

      I understand what you’re all saying, but GT5 is at the end of its product life cycle with (luckily) a skeleton crew working on patches/updates. Yes, collectors and a few without PS3s will continue buy it and the re-release editions, but the demand that existed when the game first released is gone. There will be a point where copies of GT5 stop being printed and then we will see how many have been sold.

    • December 20th, 2012 at 11:05 pm - #
      samuelesm

      I think I can breathe now! I seem to see more and more true Gran Turismo fans like KFM!! I’m sick and tired of whiners.

  14. December 19th, 2012 at 2:12 am - #
    TomBrady

    Sucks that it hasn’t passed the other GT’s, well besides GT3. The racing genre is in a sad state. It used to be one of the mainstays of the industry but now it’s more of a niche genre. Sucks really because obviously GT5 is the best of the series even with the minor glitches and stupid choices made. It goes above and beyond any other GT in almost every conceivable way. Anybody who says anything different has let nostalgia and/or too high expectations get the better of them

    • December 19th, 2012 at 4:19 am - #
      KiroKai

      So anyone who doesn’t agree with your opinion is wrong.

      Ignorant fool.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 5:39 am - #
      maxpontiac

      Niche genre? Please TomBrady, that comment is so off-based it isn’t even funny.

      GT5 is the #1 selling PS3 exclusive and no other single racing title anywhere can even come close this gen.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 8:51 am - #
      MuoNiuLa

      TomBrady as usual thinks his opinion is always right.

  15. December 19th, 2012 at 1:15 am - #
    05XR8

    15th Anniversary has to be BIG! I’m sure PD will gift us some 2013 rides!

    • December 19th, 2012 at 10:20 am - #
      swynder

      Don´t expect anything for GT5, although it would be good if they released some previous Gran Turismo games for the playstation store, like GT1, GT2 or GT3.

  16. December 19th, 2012 at 12:28 am - #
    HarVee

    15 years & only five games? Geez, PD works too slowly.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 10:24 am - #
      swynder

      True, they released so little amount of games in 15 years, but unlike many other companies PD keeps suporting the game even after a long time after their release, and they take long time to make their games because they want to make every little detail perfect, and, also making about 400 cars per game takes a long time.

    • December 20th, 2012 at 11:06 pm - #
      samuelesm

      looks like someone likes hyped up game quantity over quality

  17. December 18th, 2012 at 11:49 pm - #
    Froudeybrand

    Gran Turismo 4: 11,600,000 says it all doesn’t it?

    • December 19th, 2012 at 1:58 am - #
      zzz_pt

      No. GT3 has more sales and it was worse than GT4 (the best overall).

    • December 19th, 2012 at 10:26 am - #
      swynder

      Was it zzz_pt? GT3 was a huge game for the time when it was released, and many people still consider it one of the best Gran Turismo´s ever.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:42 pm - #
      mef

      swynder, GT4 had a noticable graphics upgrade over GT3 if I remember right.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 11:43 pm - #
      cutemarilu

      mef, you are are absolutely right about GT4 having a noticable graphics upgrade (if I remember right it could run at high definition) yet what you have to realise is that GT3 had been made 4 years (ahem, 4) before GT4. GT3 was also an amazing and revolutionary game that rocked my world in the early 2000′s and in my opinion, a far funner game than GT4.

  18. December 18th, 2012 at 11:08 pm - #
    euros only

    The more money they get the lazier they become. Us buying their game only tells them that we like it for what it already is and we don’t need improvement, which is not the case as many will agree with me. This game did not live up to my expectations. I call it 4.5 not 5. They took short cuts in making it with all the recycled cars from the previous game and cars that did go premium did not get their standard counterparts deleted from the game. That leaves us buying the same cars over and over again constantly. Having the cars that we actually want to drive in a game makes it a whole lot more fun. Yes the graphics are great but it’s not always about visuals especially if you’re trying to make a real simulator. Give us cars that we want with the physics that go with them and sounds. This is the problem with consumers. They keep buying the products so the manufacturers see no need for improvement and so they sell the same product generation after generation.

    • December 18th, 2012 at 11:40 pm - #
      SCER

      I think that you’re correct about huge sales being seen as gratification for the producers, but I know nothing about the goings on inside Polyphony Digital so I wouldn’t be so quick to label them as lazy. I do feel that unless there’s a marked impact in sales as a result of a poor release then there’s little incentive for PD to make the huge advances that we want them to, but the truth is that you (probably) and me will buy the next Gran Turismo release regardless of reviews if it’s in any way different to Gran Turismo 5, so it could take a very long time before we see the sales impact that triggers big leaps forward for the series.

    • December 18th, 2012 at 11:42 pm - #
      TokoTurismo

      ^ Agreed. :)

    • December 19th, 2012 at 1:27 am - #
      grazbro

      I hear ya. If you still have Prologue, check it out again. It is much more polished than GT5. The in car view is more defined and smooth. I was hoping for that type of finish in the end with GT5. Still the fun factor is there, but it could have been better as above.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 8:16 am - #
      JeremiahTB

      We will see how sales are when GT6 is released. What if PD cuts a ton of corners again like they did with GT5? Because of the improvements made in Forza and NFS (Yes…NFS, personally I hate it, but a lot of gamers have low expectations), there might be a drop in sales for GT6. And if that happens, what will PD do? I’m not saying how it will be, just giving one possible future.

    • December 19th, 2012 at 6:49 pm - #
      TokoTurismo

      ^ I’ll be surprised if PD actually had worked out GT5′s problems and highly improved them in GT6, (thanks to the updates mind you), and get perfect sales again just like GT5 or even higher than it.

  19. December 18th, 2012 at 10:55 pm - #
    Cobra527

    Finally getting a wheel!!

    • December 19th, 2012 at 5:12 pm - #
      huhobanut

      Well done …. What one ?

  20. December 18th, 2012 at 10:52 pm - #
    maxpontiac

    9.19 million copies in two years mind you! GT5 will very soon pass the original grand daddy of them all in Gran Turismo 1, and that game has been out for 15 years!

    Lifetime total for GT5 will EASILY exceed 10 million copies and that is with serious competition too. It’s really no wonder GT6 doesn’t have a launch date with GT5′s continued success.

    Thanks again PDI, you really do deserve the sales!