Those Europeans must love their shiny cars — either that, or Sony’s advertising campaign has worked wonders, because according to CVG, nearly one million Euro gamers have pre-ordered Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. And there are still a full ten days to go until the game’s UK PSN launch next Thursday! This would make it the first PS3 game to “go platinum” in Europe before release.
Interestingly enough, the original story actually cited SCEE New Zealand marketing manager Dave Hine as saying that the one-million milestone had been attained. However, Sony confirmed the following to CVG soon afterwards: “...we currently have orders for almost 1 million units of GT5 Prologue across SCEE territories.” Isn’t it just like a Sony higher-up to do something like that?
For those of you considering buying the game off of the PlayStation Store, PS3 Center brings some good news and bad news. Here’s the good news: Polyphony Digital has managed to keep the download below 2 GB; it’ll weigh in at a still-hefty 1.9 GB. The bad news? In order to do that, they had to sacrifice all of the in-game cinematics. That includes the game’s opening intro video and post-event cutscenes, but fear not; they’ll be available for PSN purchasers to download from Gran Turismo TV.
Still, that seems like a minor annoyance to me, and since the Blu-ray Disc hard copy costs the same as the download, I’d just wait the extra day and pick it up in-store — if I were in Europe and wanted this game, that is. What about the rest of you European Dtoiders?
[via CVG and PS3 Center — thanks, Adam!]
Samit Sarkar is a founding Destructoid editor and go-to Sports guy. Samit was the son of the Duke of Knees, rescued from a burning village in the afghan desert by a golden condor. He is an ace Backgammon player and lost both legs in a whaling tour. He lives for free in a nursery in Scotland where he teaches monks how to capture butterflies without hurting them.
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6:33 PM on 03.17.2008
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When they finally do release the full GT5, how much are they going to charge for it, and will it repel thetans?
On topic again.
In this blog you posted "North American driving die-hards will be able to race in a number of different ways..." but what about the European version? Any info on that? I mean is this really North America Only?
Yeah..I'm getting it. Day one.
But at the moment, I'm doing neither. Glorified demo or not, it's still not the full game. And it's not so spectacular it needs to be bought several times.
Also to put the pre-orders a bit in perspective... I think that we'll generally always have a higher percentage of the gaming-community that is pre-ordering since we have less gamestores, I know for a fact that if I would want this game, I should've preordered allready a some weeks ago, they'll be sold out in my town for weeks to come...
D'eeeer GT traditionally has some of the best physics. And really, that's only if you choose to play around with bouncing cars. Admitedly, this happened a lot because of the races with the same exact damn cars - but if you didn't participate in those races, it barely ever happened.
But I don't like the fact of being taken out of a 30 lap race on lap 29, JUST because i happened to take one corner a tad too dangerously and slammed head-on into the boards.
... Yeah I don't care for damage. Bring on the TOP GEAR TRACK! <-- which is the reason why 1 million Europers have ordered it. And Top Gear on GTTV.
... ALSO, GT series have been some of the best minutely tunable cars. Feeling the effect of camber, suspension tuning, gear ratio tuning with the Dynos, controlling downforce, even ESP, stability and YAW control.
Sorry I'm a nut for the GT series. It's frickin' awesome and I'm probably biased =). And I'm getting BRD version on day one!
@Dahk: Thanks to the intertubes (and now reruns on BBC America), there are a lot of US buyers who are more than a little excited at the chance to try their hand at getting around Gambon without losing it. I may not be The Stig, but now I can live the dream on my PS3.