Gran Turismo 7 was postponed until 2022.
The news comes from a GQ Interview, of all places, with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan. In the interview, Ryan listed a list of games that remained on target for launch despite the pandemic, which included Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Horizon Forbidden West, but notably it did not include the Real Driving Simulator. Which led the interviewer to ask about GT7.
At this point, a public relations representative from Sony jumped into the call promising a statement on GT7 – probably in the hope that we would actually ask about some of the many new announcements. You can read this statement below …
“GT7 it has been impacted by Covid-related production challenges and will therefore change from 2021 to 2022. With the pandemic underway, it is a dynamic and changing situation and some critical aspects of game production have declined in recent months. We will share more details about GT7release date, when available. “
I fully believed that we would play GT7 this year. We are approaching four years since Gran Turismo Sport’s launch, and GT7 it was mentioned as the 2021 launch several times in Sony’s marketing materials. At one point, it became clear that the game slipped into the second half of 2021, which was not terribly surprising as a successful launch of GT7’s caliber would probably be the best on vacation.
What is more, GT Sport already presents a great basis for GT7, and the only means of communication we saw that the next title so far showed similar gameplay to sports, just more beautiful thanks to the PlayStation 5’s advanced hardware. You would think this would bode well for development, as it means Polyphony Digital wouldn’t have to do a lot of heavy lifting to rebuild its game engine and so on. the new console, instead of focusing on adding content and embodying the player’s single campaign.
But COVID-19 got in the way, just as COVID-19 did and will continue to do. Of course, any GT The fan will remind you that Polyphony does not have an excellent history of remittance games on time, even beyond the challenges posed by a global pandemic, and then perhaps we should all have anticipated this. Either way, it won’t lessen the pain of GT7’s absence.
If there is a silver lining for GT7 slipping into the next year, I suppose those who were waiting for the game to pull the trigger on a PS5 (raises their hand) can now expect more. PS5s are still hard to find today, almost four months since the system was launched, so a little more breathing space isn’t the worst thing in the world.
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Unfortunately, GT7’s the disappearance now leaves racing game fans with nothing important to wait for in the next nine months. THE Forza Motorsport restart does not appear to be ready for launch this year, judging by the very limited images of the in-engine game that Microsoft showed in 2020. And while Codemasters probably has some projects in the works, we still don’t know what they are. E3 should give us more information on these fronts, but until then, things look bleak.