Gran Turismo 7 has been postponed to 2022.
The news comes from one GQ interview, especially, with Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment. In the interview, Ryan rattled off a list of games that remained on track for launch despite the pandemic, including Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Horizon Forbidden West, but notably did not include the Real Driving Simulator. Which led the interviewer to ask about GT7.
At this point, a Sony PR rep jumped into the call and promised a statement about GT7 – probably in the hope that we would really ask about some of the many new announcements. You can read that statement below …
“GT7 has been impacted by Covid-related manufacturing challenges and will therefore shift from 2021 to 2022. With the ongoing pandemic, it is a dynamic and changing situation and some critical aspects of game production have slowed down in recent months. We will share more details about it GT7the release date of if available. “
I fully believed we would play GT7 this year. We have been approaching for four years now Gran Turismo Sports release, and GT7 has been mentioned several times as the 2021 launch in Sony’s marketing materials. At some point it became clear that the game was heading into the second half of 2021, which wasn’t as surprising as a blockbuster release of GT7s caliber would probably be best around the holidays.
Besides, GT Sport already presents a great foundation for it GT7, and the only piece of media we saw that the upcoming title showed gameplay so far that looked something like this Sport, but more beautiful thanks to the PlayStation 5’s advanced hardware. You’d think that 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 for the new console, instead focusing on adding content and fleshing out the single-player campaign.
But COVID-19 got in the way, as COVID-19 has and will continue to do. Of course GT fan will remind you that Polyphony doesn’t have an excellent history of shipping games on time, even aside from the challenges of a global pandemic, and so maybe we should have seen all of this coming. Either way, it won’t dull the sting GT7s absence.
If it has a silver lining GT7 next year, I think those who were waiting for the game to pull the trigger on a PS5 (raise hand) can now afford to wait longer. PS5s are still hard to find today, even nearly four months since the system’s launch, so a little more breathing room isn’t the worst thing in the world.
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Unfortunately, GT7s Due to the disappearance, fans of racing games will have nothing important to look forward to for the next nine months. The Forza Motorsport restart doesn’t seem ready for release this year judging by the very limited game graphics in the engine that Microsoft showed in 2020. And while Codemasters probably has a number of projects in the works, we don’t know what they are yet. E3 should give us more information on those fronts, but until then things look bleak.