GT Academy 2012 Exceeds 1 Million Players
GT Academy 2012 seems to have captured the interest of PS3 gamers as the number of unique players participating passed the magic 1,000,000 mark earlier this week.
In a series of Tweets on June 19th, Kazunori Yamauchi shared with us a number of statistics about the download’s impact. Current numbers include:
- Over 1,000,000 unique PSN IDs playing
- Over 10,000,000 gold trophies attained
- More than 174,000,000 player retries
- 111,240,000 miles/178,980,000 km driven – enough to drive from the Earth to the Sun and almost a fifth of the distance back again!
There are still four days to go until this first phase of GT Academy closes on June 25th and qualifying, registered players from eligible countries will be selected for their regional finals based on their Round 8-5 times – and for the rest of us to secure the gold trophies needed to get bonus gifts in Gran Turismo 5.
While there’s time left, keep checking our GT Academy 2012 forum for hints, tips, and discussions with other players – and we wish good luck to all GTPlanet members!
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June 22nd, 2012 at 7:16 pm - #YourSlaggyNan
How about now PD do a £1000 give away?
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June 22nd, 2012 at 3:52 am - #jacky49
Top 32? Thought it was top 16?
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:19 pm - #RentALife
Idc I want my damn cars
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June 22nd, 2012 at 1:00 am - #Quakebass
Well then wait for July 4th! The release date for the GTA prizes has been known for some time now…
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June 21st, 2012 at 9:04 am - #Dodgeviper9
I can’t even qualify for it even though I’m near the top 32. I’m too young!!!
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June 21st, 2012 at 9:00 am - #GLP
Does anyone know if any of the top 16 players as it stands have been to bootcamp before? Seems at least 5 of the top 16 were in the finals last year. obviously Jann M was one who else was in? maybe 17th would be enough if this is the case.
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June 21st, 2012 at 8:31 am - #zzz_pt
I’m in the top 0.12% xD
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June 21st, 2012 at 2:46 am - #SimonK
Impressive on the face of it but only 10% have made it through and set a time on 8-5.
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June 21st, 2012 at 1:37 am - #Praggia
Is this available to everyone to download and play?
I’m in South Africa and can’t find it on PSN-
June 21st, 2012 at 2:54 am - #HuskyGT
Yes. I’m in El Salvador (don’t try to look for it in a map, you won’t find it) and I got it. If you have a US PSN just type it in the search bar.
You will be able to play for te prize cars even if your country is not eligable. However, you won’t be able to compete for the GT Academy thing.
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June 22nd, 2012 at 1:02 am - #Quakebass
And you better hurry… You’ve only got a day or two left before it ends…
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June 21st, 2012 at 1:32 am - #TokoTurismo
A-MA-ZING!
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:12 am - #Quakebass
There’s a guy on the #22 position in the round 8-5 leader board with an American flag designation – by the name of:
“Let_Canada_In”.
THAT should grab PD’s attention…
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:15 am - #crcn11
I saw him and emailed him about it lol
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June 20th, 2012 at 10:54 pm - #Toyota2jz
Let’s not forget. We still waiting for DLC – Car packs.
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June 20th, 2012 at 10:57 pm - #Quakebass
We know. But this isn’t what this article is about, is it? It’d be easier to wait for it if we weren’t constantly reminded of it in LITERALLY every news story.
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:15 am - #crcn11
What does this have to do with the topic…?
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:17 am - #BMfan
Please don’t forget to mention that we are also waiting for GT6 and i’m sure some are also waiting for a PS4.
Good luck to those that make it too the next round,even if i was quick enough i doubt i would pass the physical.
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June 20th, 2012 at 10:48 pm - #Quakebass
Another fact; we’ve nearly traveled 10 light-minutes as of now – about 9.92 as of this writing.
Also, about 96.5 million nautical miles.
I’m such a nerd! XDAnd keep up the good work, France, you’re about ready to join the 1,000,000 club for gold medals!
Does anyone feel the need to know how many inches we’ve traveled…?
XD
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June 20th, 2012 at 10:53 pm - #grazbro
7048166400000″ Cool!
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June 20th, 2012 at 10:55 pm - #Quakebass
^CORRECT!
(More or less) XD
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June 21st, 2012 at 12:26 pm - #Progress823
Millimeters, please lol.
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June 22nd, 2012 at 1:14 am - #Quakebass
^ Do you want it in scientific notation, or standard notation?
Ok, I’ll do it in both!
As of now, we’re at about 181,950,000 KM
in MM:
Scientific Notation:
1.8195e + 14
Standard Notation:
181,950,000,000,000
I’m such a nerd… XD
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June 22nd, 2012 at 7:59 am - #Progress823
Lol I was not expecting an answer on that… Good job, though!
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June 20th, 2012 at 9:30 pm - #starwars22
.____.
whale
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June 20th, 2012 at 9:26 pm - #BWX
I’m finally a 1%’er.
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June 20th, 2012 at 8:08 pm - #TheKitten
Twin Motegi Was a Pain Finally Got the 370Z Under Control
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June 20th, 2012 at 7:54 pm - #*ibo* S3 Racer
Nice number.
Even expected more retries, only 1 retry after 1 km and a bit.
Congrats to all front rows fillers :tup:
Congrats to the 1%
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June 20th, 2012 at 7:34 pm - #topolino
what a BIG earth d a m n ….
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June 20th, 2012 at 7:26 pm - #Maddens Raiders
I’d be lying if I said I was surprised. I mean it’s G T. 0____________0
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June 20th, 2012 at 7:14 pm - #Dooblewasur
What prize for golding all?
GTPlanet on Google+
How do I join GT academy?