Kazunori Yamauchi, the director of Gran Turismo 7, has not too long ago spoken a few PC port for the sport. Nonetheless, he has conceded that “it isn’t a straightforward topic”. The sport was launched for the PS4 and PS5 earlier in March this 12 months. When requested about whether or not the sport can be accessible in a PC model, he mentioned “Sure, I do assume so” earlier than speaking about the truth that the sport was made for the PlayStation and might be difficult to vary into completely different codecs.
Why is it troublesome to create a PC model of the Gran Turismo 7?
Over the previous couple of years, the time taken to create PC variations of PlayStation video games has shorten, with the previous being launched pretty shortly after the later. This, nonetheless, can’t be the case with the Gran Turismo 7.
‘Gran Turismo is a really finely tuned title,’ mentioned Yamauchi. ‘There usually are not many platforms which might run the sport in 4K/60p natively, so a method we make that attainable is to slim down the platform. It’s not a very simple topic, however in fact, we’re wanting into it and contemplating it.’
Whereas a high-end PC is prone to have all of the uncooked energy wanted to have the ability to run this recreation, Yamauchi was not referring to the identical when speaking in regards to the portability. The Gran Turismo 7 has been made particularly for the PlayStation {hardware}.
After all, Sony has not ever dedicated to bringing each single first get together recreation to the PC, however based mostly on present tendencies, this appears to be the case. Doing so permits the corporate to develop its viewers base and produce PC avid gamers into their universe.
Will PC variations be launched the identical day as console releases?
This is likely to be a while off. Nonetheless, we’d truly see one thing like this with the Final of Us multiplayer title. It’s believed that this recreation might be a free to play one.
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