Series creator of the car racing video game franchise “Gran Turismo” Kazunori Yamauchi previously said that the seventh installment of the series will feature more premium cars that shall represent modern day racing. He mentioned that those premium cars will represent the 2015 and 2016 era.
However, the so-called premium cars will not actually replace the standard racing cars that are currently in the franchise’s roster but will just add on to them.
In a recent interview, Yamauchi said that he doubts very much if they will throw away the standard cars. He said that the upcoming “Gran Turismo 7” will hang on to the archive, cites KpopStarz.
He added that some of the standard cars can actually be turned into premium cars as they become available, but he said that “Gran Turismo 7” is more focused on increasing the number of premium cars.
Release date
One Italian website recently caught up with the Japanese game creator of “Gran Turismo 7” and he was asked if the car racing video game will indeed come out in 2017.
Yamauchi said that he and the development team at Polyphony Digital do not want gamers and fans of the video game to wait that long.
While Yamauchi has not said an exact release date for “Gran Turismo 7” exclusively on the PlayStation 4, just like its predecessors, many are saying that based on the hint of the game creator, it is likely that the car racing video game would finally be rolled out sometime next year.
Meanwhile, IGN has detailed some of the things that racing gamers would want to see in the upcoming iteration of the “Gran Turismo” video game, which will be going up head-on with Microsoft’s “Forza Motorsport 6” to be released exclusively on the Xbox One.
The outlet said that “Gran Turismo 7” should consider incorporating into the roster of its premium cars rarer and one-of-a-kind vehicles that most people can only experience driving in video games no matter how wealthy they may be.
These vehicles include the Lamborghini Veneno, KITT from Knight Rider, some Ferrari, and Mercedes models that never made it to the drawing board. These vehicles would be perfect subjects for “Gran Turismo 7” to immortalize on the PlayStation 4, and certainly make the game a cut above the rest of the throngs of car racing video games now deluging the video game markets.
Time to live up to the hype
Polyphony Digital has dilly-dallied on the release date of the car racing video game “Gran Turismo 7.”
Two years ago, Polyphony said that it would be releasing the highly-anticipated seventh installment to its “Gran Turismo” video game franchise in 2015 but the year is about to draw to a close yet it is unlikely for the game to make it exclusively to the PlayStation 4.
Recent reports said that Polyphony is eyeing either a 2016 or 2017 release date for “Gran Turismo 7.” However, it was also mentioned by the developer in recent reports that it has updated the roster of the race cars in the video game to make it present day by including mostly 2015 and 2016 car models.
With that being said, releasing the game on 2017 would make the race cars on the roster a bit old and Polyphony has to make sure that “Gran Turismo 7” comes out in 2016 to keep its promise. Otherwise, it would just be going back to its own hype it made two years ago.
It is not just the fans who are already excited to get their hands on the upcoming car racing video game “Gran Turismo 7” when it is officially released in the near future, series creator Kazunori Yamauchi feels the same way too.
Unlike the gamers though, Yamauchi need not get hold of a copy of “Gran Turismo 7” when it is finally released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 as he has been very busy working on the development of the game for quite some time.