Whilst the jury is still out on whether Gran Turismo 5 is a damn good game or a damp squib, the shipping numbers have come out and they are extremely impressive. Sony has shipped 5.5 million copies to stores worldwide amd whilst this doesnt equal out to over 5 million copies actually being in the hands of consumers, it does give a good indication of how well the title has been selling when demand for stock is so big.
In 12 days the worldwide numbers have hit 5.52 million, a solid head start to it’s previous full home console title, Gran Turismo 4 which sold 10.86 million copies in it’s 5 years since release.
Its not all good news for the series though as along with the sales for GT5, the sales were also announced for the PSP title that came out in October 2009. Sonys handheld console, the PSP, has sold 62 million since release but the Gran Turismo PSP title, that was praised to be a killer app for the device, has only sold 2.24 million copies, including downloads. Seeing how shoppers are also able to get Gran Turismo PSP for free with various PSP Go offers, that’s not an impressive amount of actual monetary sales for the title.
This raises an important question though: Is the PSP (or handheld gaming) dying when a title in a long running, high profile, series is unable to scrape more than 2.2 million sales?
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Retro gaming console emulator apps are now welcome on the Apple App Store and can even offer downloadable games.
Yep most probably
Definitely infact
It’s just since apple got official dualsense support a while ago, (ios 14.5, it was 2 years ago now) I thought it useful to post here
The beaten quite a few prolific companies the past like universal so it's not unwinable
RIP hardcore gaming. Welcome casual market.
GT series is intended to be played on a big screen not on a handheld device so I am actually surprised the game did so well on the PSP. I'm a fan of the series (hell I just bought GT5 a few days ago) but I find playing this game on a handheld a bit awkward compared to my tv.
I think the problem is that the PSP GT feels like an extention to a full game rather than a stand alone title and there's not enough cross over between GT5 and PSP to make it worthwhile rather than handheld gaming being on the decline.
A career mode would have been a start.
What bullshit article is this?
the psp just sold 300k in one region last week and the ds just outsold everything.......even consoles
wow another idiotic apple fanboy who doesnt realize that we all own a psp for the quality and content of the games.
And handheld gaming is on a meteoric rise.....this gen the ds and psp have sold mor eunits and have more sales than consoles and or any other handheld before it.
Nothing to see but another dellusional apple fanboy who actually thinks the game quality doesnt matter.
@below, they arent dominating anything because guess what its not a game system. By that logic the pc is dominating. The ds and psp have sold more than the consoles this gen, are consoles dying? no
The ds sold more than every other game system last week in every region and the psp sold 300k.......
Only to these screwed up people think that 65 million units sold and 130 million units sold is failing when theres basically no precident
@second point, the ds has outsold the wii by a pretty decent margin and the psp has outsold everythign other than the ds and wii. Iproducts arent game devices, they are multimedia devices that happen to play games like pc's
@kwyjibo you must be 12......phones arent dedicated handhelds so you cant even compare sales of phones and game devices. Its why they arent compared ever. You dont compare pc's and consoles. Not everyone games on phones and not everyone games on pc's
The psp go is literally irrelevant with the other psp models selling like gangbusters. And the psp 2 will be just as successful
I think it's because of what Gran Turismo is claiming to be. It is "The Real Driving Simulator." It isn't something you can get on a handheld device as well as it can be done on a home console. You don't have the pretty graphics, the realistic sounds, the wheel attachments, etc.
That's why handheld games should be games that are designed for well, handheld gameplay. Puzzle games, platformers, strategy, etc.
Although I loved Peace Walker, and the GOW games, no one will argue if they were to be on console, you would not have bought the PSP version. (Well maybe not "no one" but you know what I mean...)