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?
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
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
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...)