Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital is contemplating bringing the storied racing sequence to PC, its creator has revealed.
When requested by GT Planet if he would take into account a PC model of Gran Turismo 7, sequence creator and Polyphony head Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned, “Sure, I do assume so.”
However he cautioned that bringing a sequence recognized for its technical efficiency to an open platform like PC was not a simple. “Gran Turismo is a really finely tuned title,” Yamauchi mentioned. “There should not many platforms which may run the sport in 4K/60 natively, so a technique we make that potential is to slim down the platform. It’s not a very simple topic, however in fact, we’re trying into it and contemplating it.”
As GT Planet factors out, nevertheless, Gran Turismo 7 is already scalable to a point, because it runs on each PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
There may effectively be stress on Yamauchi from Sony to make it occur. No Gran Turismo sport has been playable on something apart from PlayStation {hardware} earlier than, however previously couple years, Sony Interactive Leisure has been bringing a string of its largest exclusives to PC with some success: Horizon, God of Warfare, Spider-Man, and Uncharted have all made the leap.
Gran Turismo 7 was met with some controversy on its launch, as gamers reacted to a miserly, slow-paced economic system that appeared to push them towards exorbitantly priced in-game purchases. Yamauchi finally relented and patched the sport to make it extra beneficiant, however the debate marred the discharge of what was in any other case a superb racing sport.
It took till final week — Nov. 24 — for Polyphony to patch Gran Turismo 7 with the much-requested capacity to reinforce your earnings by promoting vehicles, first promised in March. The 1.26 replace additionally included the thrilling real-world Street Atlanta circuit, by no means seen in a Gran Turismo sport earlier than.
If Gran Turismo 7 does come to PC, it’ll discover an enthusiastic racing sport neighborhood on the platform — and arrange a head-to-head conflict with Microsoft rival Forza Motorsport, which returns to Xbox in addition to PC in spring 2023 after a five-and-a-half-year hiatus.