Gran Turismo Sport Tops an Estimated 3 Million Units Sold Worldwide at Retail - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 March 2018 / 13,215 Views
The racing game from publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital - Gran Turismo Sport - has reached a new sales milestone, according to our estimates. The game has surpassed three million units sold worldwide at retail. The figure can be viewed on the VGChartz Global Weekly Chart for the week ending December 30.
Gran Turismo Sport sold 98,559 units for the week ending to bring lifetime sales to 3,034,084 units. It took the game 11 weeks to reach the milestone.
Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in Europe with 1,918,425 units sold (63%), compared to 439,009 units sold in the US (14%) and 208,827 units sold in Japan (7%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 412,075 units in the UK, 312,705 units in Germany, and 255,258 units in France.
Gran Turismo Sport released for the PlayStation 4 in North America on October 17, in Europe on October 18 and in Japan on October 19.
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It's like people forget that digital sales are a thing, and that the digital attach rate for some PS4 exclusives like UC4 and HZD have been pretty high.
GT sport also had a massive 12 days of Christmas PSN discount. I wouldn't be surprised if it has at least 1.5 million digital sales. I bought it digital and I rarely buy digital games.
it's really easy to find out GT sports sales Polophony list and update their games sales on their website.
I apologise they have all the sales art from Gt sport for dsome reason.
Hopefully the constant updates will give this game strong. Doing pretty good so far though, considering all the criticism.
Strong legs*
But there are some crazy folks on the internet that think Forza outsells Gran Turismo.
This game deserves to do well. It may not have to abundance of content the other Gran Turismo games have but the time and effort put into the content it has shows. The quality is there and it would be nice if more people would notice.
I got mine digital and I think a lot did when there were the 50% discount sales. With an attach rate of 25% digital this game probably is around 4m units. Which is good for the racing genre but not on GT levels yet. It's still to be seen how it continues but hopefully it can reach even more this year. Support wise they're doing good!
Not bad, it's selling well enough.
This game could’ve been the killer racing game if the focus was not on multiplayer and really by now it would’ve sold atleast 5-6 million units, but turning it into an esport game is what made it lose its fans. GT is no longer the premiere racing game series it used to be
I think they learned their lesson, the single player content they're adding is being well received by players, so the next GT will probably have it on day one.
well deserved! and should sell even more because it is an awesome game
5M+ is on cards if they keep updating the game through out the year and release complete version with all updates
Pretty week performance to be honest. Hopefully PD and Sony got the message and will have all content available at launch next time.
Still pretty low compared to GT5 which was at 6M after 10 weeks. The Gran Turismo franchise is in a long but constant decline.
If it end up selling more than GT6, which is not far from happening, it will break the decline and Sony will probably be happy enough.
You have to take into account that digital wasn't nearly as big as it is now back when GT5 launched.
Also, you're forgetting something very important: attach rate
GT3, which is the best selling GT game to date, sold 14.98m on a userbase of 157m, while GT5 sold 10.75m on user base of 86m. It's clear that GT5 attach rate is considerably bigger, now imagine how much more GT5 would have sold if it userbase was as big as PS2s.
It makes no sense to expect bigger sales on a smaller userbase, so yes, attach rate needs to be taken into consideration. My point is that the series isn't on constant decline like atma998 said, GTS will end up outselling GT6 and GT5 would've very probably outsell GT3 if PS3's userbase was bigger. But of course this is just my opinion.
Excellent sales for a glorified prologue
People are thumbing you down because you’re clearly criticizing the game for the sake of criticizing. Maybe the racing sim genre is s little more inflated these days, but GT is still leading the pack in sales, despite the obvious media bias against it. Maybe it’s not doing as well as GT5, but it’s still doing well, especially compared to the likes of PC2 and Forza. Plus, we don’t actually know how well it is doing. VGC would lead us to believe that Horizon is around 6 million at best, yet it has far exceeded that. We won’t know for sure until we get official numbers, but for now it’s doing decently.
