Sony’s released a documentary about Polyphony’s famous boss and racing driver, Kazunori Yamauchi. Titled KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide, the hour-and-a-half docu explores the fifteen-year evolution of Gran Turismo, the GT Academy and more. Most importantly, you can watch it right here for free. Make a mug of tea and kick back.
Featuring four International Live Events and six rounds of online qualifiers.
The prelude for the anticipated 2024 Gran Turismo World Series will be getting underway later this month, with Polyphony Digital announcing the third season of the interim Exhibition Series.
The biggest surge in player numbers came after the release of Gran Turismo 7 Spec II in November, the game’s largest and most significant content update since it was released in March of 2022.
“When we released the Spec II update, the number of active users jumped up to double of what it was before that,” Yamauchi-san revealed. “I’ve heard in the video game industry that is quite rare.”
Spec II introduced seven new cars, an all-new snowy rally track, new single-player content, a new rotating set of “Weekly Challenges”, new license tests, four-player split screen, Photomode and Scapes enhancements, and the introduction of the all-new AI system, Gran Turismo Sophy 2.0, as a special mode in the game.
That's Xbox language right there....quick...let's make a dozen articles about how the game is super duper successful
It does seem rather odd choice of wording. Usually they tout specific numbers, or something to that effect.
I think the point he is making is that even though the game is old (likely sold very well) it's still making records for active users. I can see two reasons why; PSVR2 is now by far the best way to play the game as of this year, and Spec II just launched which brings a lot more stuff to do, expending peoples play time. I can see why he's interested in the reaction here. Deserved IMO.
They don't reveal sales directly, but the series sold over 90m in March of 2022. It was estimated that the game had sold 5.5 million at that time, but the series has historically had long legs. When Spec II launched it was pulled back into the top 20 for example.
Dont think you got my point.
If this was an xbox game it would receive so many articles about its success based purely on active user.
No insulting the game just pointing out the hypocrisy.
More than 5 million units. That was announced late last year or early this year (2023).
No surprise, ps5 selling and the game is most beautiful and approachable racing sim today.
I think people are probably enjoying Sophy, if they release their next game with it featuring as a core component they're on to a winner imo.
Offline racing against an AI that acts like an intelligent human is perfection for a lot of people.
Player counts are important for a game with LS elements. This much is known even Sony knows this. Of course it's important for a game like this.
Yea, it's especially nice when your player counts are high because you were able to sell millions of copies of your game.
Pretty good although it only scrapes the surface, should have been more in depth.
Wow! I will wait till my day off and watch this! I'm sure I know most of the info, but maybe there will be a jewel in it!
Reviewer and most people should see this before playing GT6
This is one of the thing that i really despite with reviewer. Most of them don't even play with a wheel. This game is a very good sim. Sure it lacks on some front ( sound and shadows ) but overall this is a very solid sim and it needs to be reviewed as a sim.
When i hear reviewer or people talking about it and say its boring ... well they simply don't get it.
The first time i drove in a Lemans car in this game without assist or hub display i was nervous and the trill is awesome. When i got Gold on that race and it gave me 1.3m in Credit i was ecstatic. This is what the trill of a good racesim can give you.
If you play with assist and a gamepad you'll hardly experience what this game can offer. You are better go play Most wanted and not use the break once since its what most people seem to be expecting out of a racing game.
All racers should be with the wheel even arcade ones imo, just ain't the same with a controller, had a wheel for racers for about 10 yrs and never looked bk.
I am not the richest person in the world so I bought about £20 worth of 2 by 2 wood cut them up into lenghs, nailed them together, went to a disabled centre and got a recoro seat from a disabled chap for free and got a second hand official logitech official GT wheel for £30. setup works great :)