Sony has announced that their critically acclaimed Racing Simulation Franchise, Gran Turismo, has hit 50 million units sold across multiple Playstation Formats. The very first title was released ten years ago on the original Playstation, and from there on, it has become a household name and a pioneer of all racing games since. The latest one to the family, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, set all kinds of records when it was released in March for the Playstation 3.

"Initially, Gran Turismo was an ‘alternative’ racing game, kind of an outsider in the genre,” commented Kazunori Yamauchi, producer of Gran Turismo. “And we made it thinking that it would be okay as long as it reached out to ‘the select few who would agree with us’."

"I would really like to thank all the fans who have supported the Gran Turismo series over the years, for all their passion and love of the game. We’d like to continue making every effort to create cutting edge, high quality games, so that we don’t disappoint anyone’s expectations,”