Polyphony Digital has introduced that the Gran Turismo saga has already exceeded ninety million copies bought worldwide.
The favored Sony franchise, which simply in the present day celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the unique recreation’s launch in Japan, thus turns into the best-seller within the Japanese firm’s catalogue.
Gran Turismo was launched on the primary PlayStation in 1997, and it turned a direct success. Its sequel, Gran Turismo 2, got here a few years later and did simply as properly.
Since then we’ve been capable of see the saga on virtually all Sony consoles, aside from PS Vita, which didn’t have any supply. The newest, Gran Turismo 7, was launched earlier this 12 months on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
In a message posted on the PlayStation Weblog, Gran Turismo and Polyphony Digital Director Kazunori Yamauchi mentioned, “Thanks to all of the players and followers within the GT group who’ve performed all of the video games we have featured, a few of them fairly experimental.”
“We’ve got come this far because of everybody who has supported us,” he added. “I believe the Gran Turismo collection has all the time had magnificence as certainly one of its objectives. The great thing about the automobiles, of the surroundings, of the lighting, of the driving, of the sound, of the graphics. The seek for magnificence is our motivation.”
The message ends by saying that “the seek for magnificence is our motivation. Our willpower is to maintain transferring ahead and trying to the long run. Thanks very a lot for all of the assist acquired throughout these twenty-five years.”