Gran Turismo 7 has been postponed until 2022.
The news comes from a GQ interview, everywhere, with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan. In the interview, Ryan revealed a list of games that remained targeted for release despite the pandemic, which included Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Horizon Forbidden West, but especially did not include Real Driving Simulator. Which led the interviewer to ask about GT7.
At this point, a PR representative for Sony jumped on the bandwagon promising a statement about the GT7 – probably in the hopes that we’ll actually ask about some of the many new announcements. You can read the statement below …
“GT7 has been affected by the challenges of Covid production and will therefore change from 2021 to 2022. With the ongoing pandemic, it is a dynamic and changing situation, and some critical aspects of game production have been slowed down in the last few months. We will share more details GT7release date when available. ”
I fully believed we would play GT7 this year. We’ve been approaching four years since then Gran Turismo Sport’s release and GT7 has been mentioned as a launch in 2021 several times in Sony marketing materials. At one point, it became clear that the game entered the second half of 2021, which was not terribly surprising as a blockbuster release of GT7 the caliber would probably be best around the holidays.
Other than, GT Sport already presents an excellent basis for GT7, and the only media piece I’ve seen the title so far which showed similar gameplay Sports, just nicer thanks to the advanced hardware of the PlayStation 5. You’d think this would bode well for development, because it means that Polyphony Digital wouldn’t have to do a lot of hard work to rebuild its game engine anyway. further for the new console, focusing instead on adding content and making the single – player campaign.
But COVID-19 got in the way, as COVID-19 did and will continue. Of course, any GT the fan will remind you that Polyphony doesn’t have a history of on-time game delivery, even apart from the challenges of a global pandemic, and so we probably should have seen that. Either way, it won’t stifle the sting GT7 absence.
If there is a silver lining GT7 slipping into next year, I guess those who were waiting for the game to pull the trigger on a PS5 (raise your hand) can now afford to wait longer. PS5s are still hard to find today, even almost four months after the system’s launch, so still little breathing space isn’t the worst thing in the world.
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Unfortunately, GT7 the disappearance now leaves fans of racing games with nothing important to expect in the next nine months. Forza Motorsport restart it doesn’t seem ready for release this year, judging by the very limited footage of the motor game that Microsoft unveiled in 2020. And while Codemasters probably has a few projects underway, we don’t know what they are yet. E3 should give us more information on those fronts, but until then things look bleak.