Gran Turismo collection creator Kazunori Yamauchi has mentioned that he would contemplate porting the PlayStation-exclusive racing collection to PC. “Sure, I do suppose so,” Yamauchi mentioned when requested if the Gran Turismo collection may make the bounce to PC.
The remark was made in an interview with GTPlanet (opens in new tab) throughout the Gran Turismo World Finals.
Yamauchi went on to say that “Gran Turismo is a really finely tuned title,” and appeared to indicate that collection developer Polyphony Digital would solely need to do it if the port would run reliably in 4K decision and 60 frames per second. “It isn’t a very simple topic, however in fact, we’re trying into it and contemplating it,” he mentioned.
It will be a slight shock, however not an enormous one, if Gran Turismo got here to PC. The previous few years have been rife with main video games beforehand unique to Sony’s platforms being ported: God of Warfare, Horizon: Zero Daybreak, Spider-Man, and Uncharted 4, to call only a few marquee examples. The Gran Turismo collection does not command fairly the identical cachet that it did a couple of a long time in the past, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a significant participant on the planet of racing video games.
And the marketplace for racing video games is actually there on PC, if the success of final 12 months’s launch of competitor Forza Horizon 5 (opens in new tab) is any indication. It actually would make our high suggestion for the perfect PC racing wheel (opens in new tab) a bit much less awkward—as of publication it is the Gran Turismo branded Fanatec GT DD Professional.
The newest launch within the collection is Gran Turismo 7, which launched on PlayStation 4 and 5 in March of 2022. It featured a big single-player marketing campaign alongside the standard arcade mode, in addition to dynamic time and climate results whereas racing.
It is arduous to say precisely what units Gran Turismo aside from the remainder of the racing sim style, however like different franchises it actually has its adherents. For a lot of it is the wild number of vehicles on provide, together with each manufacturing fashions and obscure short-runs of which solely a handful exist. In some ways it is the way in which the collection sells itself: Gran Turismo is solely obsessive about the very concept of the car at each level in its historical past.
In different Gran Turismo-related information, Neil Blomkamp’s making a film based mostly on the Gran Turismo collection (opens in new tab) and occasions surrounding it that may supposedly launch in 2023.
