Gran Turismo Celebrates twenty fifth Anniversary, 90m Copies Bought

December 25, 2022 Gabriel Stanford-Reisinger

Gran Turismo celebrated its 25-year anniversary with a heartfelt, private message from Polyphony Digital’s CEO, Kazunori Yamauchi. The message additionally outlined the sequence’ complete copies offered.

Over on the PlayStation Weblog, Yamauchi mentioned his historical past with the sequence and his curiosity in recreation improvement from a younger age. He additionally had a factor for motion pictures and anticipated his job to be within the picture division when becoming a member of Sony. To his shock, he was assigned to the division answerable for making the unique PlayStation.

Together with his love for real-time 3D graphics, he supplied up plans for a slurry of various video games with totally different genres, however one thing in regards to the thought of a racing recreation caught the eye of the higher-ups. This led to 1997’s Gran Turismo changing into one of many first PS1 first-party titles.

Yamauchi mentioned how Gran Turismo was made up of a small group of individuals — two part-time artists and three engineers — earlier than the numbers grew and grew over the course of 25 years. Now, Polyphony employs over 200 staffers.

It was then that the put up went on to notice the Gran Turismo sequence has made it to round 90 million copies offered as of earlier this 12 months.

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