NPD Group, a market analysis agency, informs that the newest installment of the Gran Turismo franchise, Gran Turismo 7 has made more cash throughout its launch month than every other entry within the sequence.
Gran Turismo 7 is the newest sport within the well-known racing sequence that was launched on March 4, 2022, as a PlayStation unique title for each PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The sport was developed by Polyphony Digital and revealed by Sony Interactive Leisure.
Regardless of being the best-selling title of the Gran Turismo sequence, Gran Turismo 7 landed at No.2 on March’s software program chart in addition to No.2 on PlayStation platforms, being crushed in each situations by FromSoftwares newest title, Elden Ring.
In keeping with NPD, Gran Turismo 7 was the fourth best-selling title of the primary quarter of 2022 behind Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and the sequel to the Horizon franchise, Horizon Forbidden West.
Regardless of the sport’s robust business begin, its launch was lower than stellar, to say the least with the sport being Sony’s lowest-rated title on Metacritic in historical past.
A lot of the low rating Gran Turismo 7 critiques have been posted by customers after Polyphony launched a brand new patch for the sport on March 17. The patch applied some controversial adjustments to the sport akin to decreasing the payouts from races and making new automobiles just about unobtainable with out spending a ton of cash on microtransactions. The truth that the sport was additionally offline for greater than 24 hours upon the launch of this patch didn’t assist issues both.
All of this was met with an enormous backlash from the group which made Polyphony rethink and shortly launch a brand new replace through which they rebalanced the economic system within the sport.
The newest Gran Turismo 7 replace was launched on Monday. It launched three new automobiles, a model new monitor, and three new World Circuits in addition to quite a few high quality of life menu updates.
