Sony has sold over 5 million games so far and a total of 500,000 PS3 users have now connected their PS3 to the Playstation Network Platform; 25% of the 2 million units shipped worldwide.
At the same time Sony confirmed that the Gran Turismo HD Concept demo has been downloaded 300,000 times in just twenty days in Japan alone.
YouTube’s ‘reznoire’ has shared two videos, showing Gran Turismo HD Concept and Yakuza: Dead Souls running on the PC thanks to the best PS3 emulator, RPCS3. While emulation is not perfect yet, these two titles can be described as a bit playable at this point.
Revealed late last month, the Gran Turismo clothing range is now available to purchase in the UK. The launch of the Gran Turismo Boutique marks the arrival of a sleek range of clothing inspired by the Real Driving Simulator, with a unique collecting of t-shirts, jumpers, jackets and more priced from £20 - £169.
As long as these jackets don't have pixelated smoke :)
The premium stuff is gonna look great though :)
Some nice stuff, but it seems a bit overpriced..
And there isn't much to show that there even from a GT clothing range other than a tiny logo at the bottom. Maybe I'll get the T-shirt for £20 though lol.
The jackets/coats look nice, but the t-shirts are a bit poor. Just plain t-shirts with GT logo sewn on.
Sony recently announced that Gran Turismo 5's release in Japan has been pushed back an additional month from it's March release.
The Goozex Report looks back at the Gran Turismo franchise, which revolutionized the gaming industry in 1998 with its amazingly fun and deep racing simulation.
But can the often-delayed grand daddy of racing games still hold its own more than a decade later, against a slew of highly-rated racing games that have put their own spin on the racing genre, like Forza Motorsport 3, GRiD, Project Gotham Racing 4, Burnout: Paradise, and Pure.
"But can the often-delayed grand daddy of racing games still hold its own more than a decade later, against a slew of highly-rated racing games that have put their own spin on the racing genre, like Forza Motorsport 3, GRiD, Project Gotham Racing 4, Burnout: Paradise, and Pure."
ANSWER:
GRAN TURISMO 5: PROLOGUE (overpriced demo of GT5) = 4mil+ sales
And GT5 has only been delayed once.
Judging by these comments, I don't think anyone is actually reading the article, which is very good.
Is GT still relavant? The 4+ Million people (including me) that bought the glorified GT5 demo, GT5P seems to think so. Hell, there probably isn't any other Racing Sim franchise on Consoles that can put up those kinds of numbers on a "Prologue" version of the full game.
"If GT5 is released in the coming months and doesn't offer a similar "accessiblilty" to a game like Forza Motorsport 3, will anybody outside of the hardcore simulation fans and Gran Turismo enthusiasts care?"
There really aren't that many people outside of hardcore sim fans and Gran Turismo enthusiasts that have bought GT games to begin with... I don't see why GT5 needs to be more "accessible" to any other audience because the franchise has been a 50+ million seller without it, and there's more than enough people that have consistently bought GT games over the years to ensure GT5 will be a major success.
GT is still VERY relavant, regardless of what any other competing Racing game does... the visual attention to detail and overall scale of every GT game, something that has yet to be matched by any other Racing Sim on consoles is just one of many things that make GT standout from above the rest.
Consider the source of this information.
nope
THEY SHIPPED them
They're laying in the shops, just like the PS3 units themselve
Every PS3 unit sells about 1.5 game attach rate. That's for sure.
So let's say the shipped 1 million PS3's in 2006 and about sold them maybe yet.
Thats 1.5 million games sold. 3.5 million games laying in the shops doing nothing. NICE
LOL!
That's stretching it, but I could believe in the 4's. Also, you cant just look at attach rate. I myself only got Resistance with my PS3 at launch, but I got 3 more later on.