Gran Turismo 7 has been delayed until 2022.
The news comes from a GQ interview, of all places, with Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive. In the interview, Ryan made a list of games that remained on the horizon for launch despite the pandemic. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Horizon Forbidden West, but especially did not include the Real Driving Simulator. This prompted the interviewer to ask for GT7.
At this point, a PR representative from Sony made the call to promise a statement about GT7 – probably in the hope that we would actually ask about some new announcements. You can read the statement below …
GT7 has been affected by Covid-related production challenges and will therefore shift from 2021 to 2022. With the ongoing pandemic, it is a dynamic and changing situation, and some critical aspects of game production have been delayed in recent months. We share more details about GT7release date if available. ”
I fully believed we would play GT7 this year. We have since approached four years Gran Turismo Sport’s release, and GT7 has been mentioned as the launch of 2021 several times in Sony’s marketing materials. At some point, it became clear that the game was slipping into the latter half of 2021, which was not terribly surprising, GT7’s caliber would probably be best during the holidays.
Besides, GT Sport already provides a good foundation for GT7, en the only piece of media we have seen that the upcoming title to date shows the game looking similar to Sports, just nicer thanks to the PlayStation 5’s advanced hardware. You would think that would be good for development, because it means that Polyphony Digital does not have to do a lot of hard work to build its game engine, and so on for the new console, instead of focusing on the adding content and expanding the single track. player campaign.
But COVID-19 got in the way, as COVID-19 has and will do. Of course, any GT fan will remind you that Polyphony does not have an excellent history of shipping games on time, apart from the challenges posed by a global pandemic, and perhaps we should all see it coming. Either way, it will not dull the sting of not GT7’s absence.
If there is a silver border for GT7 If I move in next year, I suppose those who waited on the PS5 for the trigger (raise their hand) can now wait longer. PS5s are still hard to find today, even almost four months since the system was introduced, so a little more breathing space is not the worst thing in the world.
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Unfortunately, GT7’s disappearance now leaves fans of racing races without anything important to look forward to during the next nine months. The Forza Motorsport reload does not appear to be ready for release this year, judging by the very limited footage in engines that Microsoft displayed in 2020. And while Codemasters probably has a few projects in the works, we do not yet know what they are. E3 should give us more information on these fronts, but until then, things seem bleak.