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Gran Turismo 5 is off to a big start in Polyphony's home territory, and PlayStation 3 is seeing a sales surge as a result.
Media Create reports 430,707 units in first week sales for GT5, which was released to Japan on November 25. This is lower than the 635,000 first week sales of GT4, but the PS3 does have about 1/3 the userbase.
GT5 came out in a week full of new releases. Also debuting in Media Create's top 20 were Super Robot Taisen L, Mario Sports Mix, Spike's "high speed detective action" game Dangan-ronpa, and big headed baseball game Power Pro Kun Pocket 13.
Thanks to GT5's release, PlayStation 3 saw a big hardware surge, more than doubling in unit sales from the week prior. In Japan, GT5 was offered as part of a bundle with a blue colored PS3 unit.
PSP still grabbed the top of the charts, though. Although down slightly from the week prior, which saw the release of new colors, the system edged out the PS3 by 7,000 units. The gap should grow even bigger in next week's charts, which will reflect the release of Monster Hunter Freedom 3.
Here's the top 20 software chart covering 11/22 to 11/28. Life to date sales for older titles are in parentheses:
1. Gran Turismo 5 (Sony, PS3): 430,7072. Super Robot Taisen L (Namco Bandai, DS): 129,0543. Mario Sports Mix (Nintendo, Wii): 84,9834. Super Mario Collection Special Pack (Nintendo, Wii): 47,487 (613,415)5. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS): 43,227 (4,494,106)6. Call of Duty Black Ops Subtitled Ver. (Square Enix, PS3): 31,354 (160,275)7. Super Kaseki Horider (Nintendo, DS): 26,195 (69,024)8. Dangan-Ronpa (Spike, PSP): 25,5649. Power Pro Kun Pocket 13 (Konami, DS): 24,71710. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 24,525 (1,232,562)11. Tongari Boushi to Mahou no Omise (Konami, DS): 22,395 (87,521)12. Little Busters! Converted Edition (Prototype, PSP): 20,06613. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii): 17,325 (43,509)14. Tactics Ogre (Square Enix, PSP): 16,794 (230,296)15. Trinity Zill O'll Zero (Tecmo Koei, PS3): 16,55116. Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami, PS3): 16,371 (340,175)17. Winning Eleven 2011 (Konami, PSP): 15,832 (51,332)18. Kirby's Epic Yarn (Nintendo, Wii): 13,878 (213,495)19. Minna to Kimi no Piramekino! (Namco Bandai, DS): 13,19720. God Eater Burst (Namco Bandai, PSP): 12,983 (388,065)
Here's the hardware chart for the same period, with last week's sales in parentheses:
1. PSP: 75,689 (96,601)2. PS3: 68,840 (29,058)3. Wii: 41,267 (27,851)4. DSi LL: 28,370 (21,836)5. DSi: 26,548 (20,550)6. X360: 4,329 (7,083)7. PSP go: 1,675 (1,816)8. DS Lite: 1,539 (1,904)9. PS2: 1,332 (1,255)
After half a decade in development, Gran Turismo 5 finally rolls out to retail next week. But with only a matter of days until release, you're no doubt wondering where IGN's review is. The simple truth is: the game's not ready to be reviewed yet. We've sunk hours into the single-player already, test driving hundreds of cars around countless tracks and pushing each to the limit, but currently, the online component of GT5 – which is a huge part of the experience – isn't up and running just yet.
So there's good and bad news. The good is that when the review hits, it'll be as thorough and comprehensive a review you could hope for as we'll be dissecting every last detail of the game, making sure no stone is left unturned – which is only right considering how highly anticipated a game like Gran Turismo 5 is. The bad news is that you'll have to wait until next week for our verdict – at 12:01 PST / 8:01am GMT on Wednesday, November 24th to be precise.
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