Gran Turismo 7 takes center stage in an all-new State of Play, arriving Wednesday at 2pm Pacific:

[KayX23]

Polyphony Digital has doubled employeers count since 2019. According to a interview in jeuxvideo now its a 300 people team.

Quel est votre meilleur souvenir durant ces 25 ans de Gran Turismo ?

Kazunori Yamauchi : À sa sortie il y a 25 ans sur PlayStation, Gran Turismo était un titre expérimental, et je ne m’attendais pas à ce qu’il devienne aussi populaire à vrai dire. Depuis, nous avons le soutien de millions de joueurs dans le monde, et Polyphony Digital est ainsi passé d’une petite équipe de 15 personnes à l’époque, à environ 300 aujourd’hui, mais il s’agit encore d’une même et grande famille, qui prend plaisir à mettre au point un titre élaboré avec passion. C’est sans doute de cela dont je suis le plus fier aujourd’hui.

Interview de Kazunori Yamauchi, le papa de Gran Turismo nous parle du 7ème opus

En amont du récent State of Play consacré à Gran Turismo 7, nous avons pu, avec d'autres médias internationaux, poser quelques questions au créateur emblématique de la saga Kazunori « Kaz » Yamauchi.

www.jeuxvideo.fr

Also snow circuits could be added in future dlc.

To all those rally fans in here, Kaz said that snow tracks may come in future updates!

Here is the quote in french :

Quelle est la place du rallye dans Gran Turismo 7 ?

Kazunori Yamauchi : Le rallye a toute sa place dans Gran Turismo 7, avec la possibilité de rouler sur la terre, et possiblement sur la neige dans une future mise à jour.

 

[Toysuprahot]

So you did talk out of your behind about GT7's carrer mode without actually knowing a thing about it, figures.

About GT4's AI I don't need to "see" anything, I've played that for hundreds of hours and while it was passable for the time it isn't better than Sport's let alone GT7's AI which we haven't even seen in the finished product so that's another assumption from your part.

I have played GT4 ai as well, including GT5-GTS. The fact that you refuse to see the evidence I've posted and provide a counter evidence proves my point.
About the rest, I'm no longer going to say "wait and see" and then be disappointed yet again. No, we have "seen" it all already since the GT5 days, and the fact that during yesterday's presentation the career mode was so briefly touched upon should be more a cause of concern than anything else, unless you're not gonna bother with it I presume and you're gonna go straight to online or taking pictures, which seems like how the game was made.

 

[philipPF]

And as many GT players like myself have said even 10 years ago, GT will never move on if people keep falling for the candy presentations and keep buying the game. They think people want rubbish AI and a career mode because they keep buying it.

So we are supposed to boycott a game that we enjoy, to force developper improving parts of game that are important to you ?

If "people" keep falling, especially after 25 years of "the same formula" according to some complaints here, it's maybe because some people are enjoying this game ?

 

[ArR29]

I just feel like people care way too much about the AI, even if they were a bit more competitive I wouldn't really a lot of it unless there are some special rewards. Find yourself some online leagues to race, it's much better in any way if you find the right people And as a bonus it helps a lot more at improving driving skills in general from my experience

Well, if you have an AIs that act like a bunch of road blocks than actual racing competitors and a dull single player campaign mode, I don't think those two are a good combination. I honestly don't mind the old GT career mode that they have as long as the AI are satisfying to race against.

 

[GBalao888]

At this point, having the ability to use all the cars in the game in Arcade Mode as rental cars is more satisfying and far more important than the AI.

 

[JDMKING13]

Well, if you have an AIs that act like a bunch of road blocks than actual racing competitors and a dull single player campaign mode, I don't think those two are a good combination. I honestly don't mind the old GT career mode that they have as long as the AI are satisfying to race against.

My thing is even if the AI was A1 it’s still not comparable to racing friends, new people, or the best in my opinion people on GTP. Even If the AI was A1 I don’t think I would play the game like I played GTS, racing against people, real emotions.. feeling the excitement after a win I’m sorry I can’t get that from AI… would I appreciate a better AI hell yea… I appreciate PD giving us the ability to do custom races.. just gotta see how deep can we customize the actual race… I still will use the feature and I hope the AI is better.

I think the difference between me and others compared to the people extremely upset about the offline mode is I’m willing to adapt to the new online world… I was once only caring about offline mode and just using free mode, GTS actually open my view point on gaming and showed me I can still play the game using the style I’m use to playing, but I can also enjoy other aspects of the game ex Online/Sports mode. So while I will agree with you the offline mode could be better, combine with the online mode I thinks is a pretty good balance if your willing to go out your comfort mode and adapt to this new online gaming world… which might be old to a lot of you buts it’s new to me and I’m enjoying it big time!

 

[Dave A]

My thing is even if the AI was A1 it’s still not comparable to racing friends, new people, or the best in my opinion people on GTP. Even If the AI was A1 I don’t think I would play the game like I played GTS, racing against people, real emotions.. feeling the excitement after a win I’m sorry I can’t get that from AI… would I appreciate a better AI hell yea… I appreciate PD giving us the ability to do custom races.. just gotta see how deep can we customize the actual race… I still will use the feature and I hope the AI is better.

I think the difference between me and others compared to the people extremely upset about the offline mode is I’m willing to adapt to the new online world… I was once only caring about offline mode and just using free mode, GTS actually open my view point on gaming and showed me I can still play the game using the style I’m use to playing, but I can also enjoy other aspects of the game ex Online/Sports mode. So while I will agree with you the offline mode could be better, combine with the online mode I thinks is a pretty good balance if your willing to go out your comfort mode and adapt to this new online gaming world… which might be old to a lot of you buts it’s new to me and I’m enjoying it big time!

Online isn't for everyone but it certainly has it's place. However it isn't an excuse for poor AI or badly thought out single player experience just as the reverse is also true. I know you aren't suggesting otherwise, just adding my point.

 

[VoidhawkRD]

Oh, but it does! It's called "Sport".

I’m referring to single player career.

 

[JDMKING13]

Online isn't for everyone but it certainly has it's place. However it isn't an excuse for poor AI or badly thought out single player experience just as the reverse is also true. I know you aren't suggesting otherwise, just adding my point.

Definitely not an excuse for poor AI and agree with majority of people the AI in GTS is really not that good don’t get me wrong you get some good action here and there or for a couple of laps, but ultimately they are trash… I just heard from a member campaign will allow us to pick a difficulty which is cool. All I was saying was even though the AI might not be to people liking, There is actually very good racing online that can help make the game a lot more enjoyable.

 

[ArR29]

My thing is even if the AI was A1 it’s still not comparable to racing friends, new people, or the best in my opinion people on GTP. Even If the AI was A1 I don’t think I would play the game like I played GTS, racing against people, real emotions.. feeling the excitement after a win I’m sorry I can’t get that from AI… would I appreciate a better AI hell yea… I appreciate PD giving us the ability to do custom races.. just gotta see how deep can we customize the actual race… I still will use the feature and I hope the AI is better.

I think the difference between me and others compared to the people extremely upset about the offline mode is I’m willing to adapt to the new online world… I was once only caring about offline mode and just using free mode, GTS actually open my view point on gaming and showed me I can still play the game using the style I’m use to playing, but I can also enjoy other aspects of the game ex Online/Sports mode. So while I will agree with you the offline mode could be better, combine with the online mode I thinks is a pretty good balance if your willing to go out your comfort mode and adapt to this new online gaming world… which might be old to a lot of you buts it’s new to me and I’m enjoying it big time!

That's perfectly understandable. Racing with actual people still the best way to play a racing game but we have to take into consideration that a lot of people don't want to race online. Majority of GT fan base buy the game for offline experience. I don't think asking for a more competitive A.I is too much tbh.

 

[bleeder]

They confirmed possibility to choose AI cars in custom races!

For me this is BIG for GT to add that option.

Timestamp below (23:30 if something went wrong)

That great but if we can only choose from Easy, Medium and Hard that's just not enough for me.

 

[Aloha62_2]

As a single player gamer what I have seen in this has ended my interest.

Tacked on random events and the miserable catch the pigeon rolling starts? Why bother PD. What have you been wasting your time on.

 

[PirovacBoy]

I just finished watching the GT7 Presentation, and I must admit, I’m blown away.
Although there were no News that I personally was hoping for, the shown footage and as a whole, the presentation just absolutely got me super excited for this Game.
So yes, I’m finally hyped for GT7…finally, just shy of a Month before its release

 

[JDMKING13]

That's perfectly understandable. Racing with actual people still the best way to play a racing game but we have to take into consideration that a lot of people don't want to race online. Majority of GT fan base buy the game for offline experience. I don't think asking for a more competitive A.I is too much tbh.

Oh for sure, but here what makes me kinda scratch my head, i seen PD be criticized big time on being stuck in the old times.. people saying it’s the same game style for years… it’s GT4 with new cars updated graphics etc, however when people insist on them trying new things such as playing online it’s cool for them to stay in their old ways or comfort zone? I am admitting I was only caring about offline things because I wasn’t comfortable talking to people or just competing against others and that’s absolutely fine for anyone to feel that way. My thing is how can people slay PD for being stuck in old times or on their ways but it’s cool for them to? I never got that.. nevertheless I still play offline and will agree with everyone saying that the AI has to get better, the difference with me is it’s not a deal breaker as it is for others.

 

[silicon1138]

Really disappointing and worrying that they didn't show a single PS4 clip. Day 1 player here and i've loved them all but this is the first time i actually came away feeling very underwhelmed. Yes, it's super shiny but i saw little to make me think that there is anything enticing below this surface veneer. I think the Music thing is a joke.

 

[dacc10]

I think people need to be better at criticizing. Be more specific on what you want the game to improve. Saying the gameplay is the same since GT# is not helpful at all, the same goes for people going at eachother's throats because they disagree on something.

Let's be honest, the gameplay we needed, we already got from both the Deep Forest and Daytona videos, which are fairly recent videos. In this SOP thing, we got to see other stuff that we didn't know yet, so showing more on track gameplay wouldn't really be much different from what we saw (they would probably reuse the footage anyway). Maybe they could show us a bit of the campaign mode events, but even then we probably wouldn't see anything massively new. In the end, we know the AI needs to be improved.

What we got here, were some answers on things like the widebodies, tuning in general, what actually is the "Music Rally" (which even though most people don't care about it, it was one of the things people were trying to wrap their head around what it actually was), etc. So all in all, I think this SOP worked a lot better at showing the overall content of the game, than if it was 15 minutes of on-track gameplay, which would end up being boring to look at to the average player, while would show us exactly the same thing that we've seen inthe Deep Forest and Daytona videos.

 

[samdu]

I just rewatched. I still have absolutely no idea what the "Music Rally" thing is. Everything else looks groovy to me.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

A fair question. What did GT4 have that GT7 doest? The answer is time! GT4 was of it's time, that time has passed. Its 18 years since GT4 came out, it didnt come out after a trail of disappointing GT's with lots of failed promises and lies and misleading marketing making you think you were getting stuff that you were not. GT4 was off the back of a cutting edge series, but even back them the sounds were poor and the AI were terrible. All GT7 has is current tech but wity GT4 offline gameplay by the looks of it, also GTS physics were boring, maybe they're better than GT4s but alas that was of it's time. The tracks in GT4 at least made hotlap fun for me or racing with mates ( we actually use to bring 2 TVs to a mates house and do 2 teams of 2 endurance races ). 2004 GT4 gameplay just for me cut it for me today.

All GT needs is decent AI, not even the best, just decent , and a well thought out career with no mind numbingly boring grinding. Something simple would be a good start like race this tournament to win a Ferrari 250 GTO so you can enter the tournament to win a Ford Gt40 which you need to enter tournament X to win an Auto Bianchi. Rather the standard GT method of "race this slow car gat cant win multiple times to win credits to tune it up so you can blitz everyone on the first lap.

So if GT4 was of it's time and there are people who wish PD would make GT7 very much like GT4. How can you expect them to make a game just like one that came out 18 years ago but still be modern?

I loved GT4 back in the day, still do. However from what I saw from the SOP video, the majority of the modes, gameplay, structure etc is similar to GT4 which is what a lot of people asked for. It seems as though PD are damned no matter what they do. I'm very much looking forward to GT7 and I'm sure that over time the updates will make it into a great game.

Obviously everyone's entitled to think what they think about it, not everyone's going to like what PD make. I accepted that a long time ago.

 

[KaiB]

What are you talking about? I just said there are not many new tracks, not mentioning other factors.
And even though new tracks and cars will be added later for free, the lack of tracks and cars to choose from for day one is meaningless to people who will complete most of the game in the first month.

The only part of the post that refers to you is, They mentioned that more tracks and cars/content will be ADD in future updates.
Online races are the end game..., after complete the game online is what keep community alive, even with few new tracks if you compare it with other racing games are actually plenty.
Lets see what the future brings

All the other "nonsense" its cause of all the moaning arround GT7, game have so many stuff compared to other racing games and with top tier quality that cannot be perfect in all areas.., and the target audience also requires the game to be has it is.

 

[VinylRichie]

It's highly unlikely to be a Cyberpunk situation, and more like a Forza Horizon 5 situation. The X1 version didn't look bad at all considering the hardware, but the vast majority of the footage shown was from XSX because it looked even better. It's marketing, and there's no reason not to put your best foot forward. Or to show your not-so-best foot at all.

If you're taking part in the aspects of car culture where there are multi-million dollar cars for sale or available to drive, you're rich. If you're building up a garage of multiple dream cars, you're rich. Anyone can observe from outside, but the high end car collecting world is nowhere near as accessible as say, grass roots motorsport or tuning cheap sports cars.

The XP levelling system is based around collecting. Fundamentally, that suggests that your progress through the game is gated by how your collection is going. Add in that Kaz describes GT Cafe as the career mode of the game and it's a mode where you work through menus where you collect cars.

There's a whole lot of other stuff there, but the basic structure of the progression of the single player side of the game looks a lot like it's built around collecting. That's backed up anecdotally by how much the marketing talks about car collecting and car culture, making it highly unlikely that this is all just accidental.

What? So what you actually say is that this is that you to be a active part of this culture in real life to admire what they do in GT7? I don’t even have a car, let alone a drivers license or a lot of money, but I love that part of car culture, i like to go to exhibitions or festivals for Oldtimers, and part of it are also multi-million dollar cars. I like to read it in magazines, about the history of cars, coachbuilders, historic races and so on, and i know theres a lot of other people who are into it, so what’s the point?
How many multi million dollar cars like the Alfa Romeo 8C Lungo are in the game?
How many modern cars just for rich people are in the game like Bugatti, Ferrari, Lambo, Aston Martin, ..?
You could also said back on the first GT that it was mainly a game for lovers of Japanese car culture, which many in other parts of the world didn’t knew next to nothing about nor had they access at that time to many of these cars.
I‘m really happy that PD put more focus on that because this is almost exactly what I was dreaming about for a long time and I think it will be very welcome for a lot of other players because collecting cars was always part of the fun for many people in GT.

And yeah just because you can make some xp with collecting cars doesn’t mean it will be the main thing in the career. How much of the trailers for GT7 shows racing scenes and how much is about car collecting? I would say let’s just wait till the game comes out

 

[Islaygaz]

I just rewatched. I still have absolutely no idea what the "Music Rally" thing is. Everything else looks groovy to me.

I think the timer counts down with the beat of the music (faster beat, faster timer) and you have to get to the checkpoints to add more time. Can’t remember if overtaking got you more time too?!

 

[Confus]

Happy to say that I really couldn't care less about AI accuracy or online play. I'm just excited to be able to actually modify my silly little hatchbacks in-depth again and tune them at Tsukuba. Plus now I get to hear car designers wax philosophical about their work in a cozy little cafe while smooth jazz plays. I'm at peace.

 

[risuku13]

Looks great! Still waiting for some PS4 screenshots or videos though. I still don't have a PS5. 😁

 

[Islaygaz]

Looks great! Still waiting for some PS4 screenshots or videos though. I still don't have a PS5. 😁

Unfortunately I don’t think Sony/PD will release any PS4 screenshots or videos. They’ll want the game to look as good as possible for marketing. You’ll only see them from ordinary users post launch

 

[Samus]

They mentioned that more tracks and cars/content will be ADD in future updates.

Why do people keep mentioning this as if it makes it alright? Future updates are no good if you play the game day 1, are they? Are we supposed to sit and twiddle our thumbs waiting for more content? It just seems like the go to response now whenever anyone suggests the cars/tracks aren't satisfactory and it's quite a cop out, especially when nothing is guaranteed.

Gran Turismo games have ALWAYS launched with brand new tracks alongside returning ones.

GT2:
Apricot Hill
Grindelwald
Laguna Seca
Midfield Raceway
Motor Sports Land
Pikes Peak
Red Rock Valley
Rome
Seattle
Smokey Mountain
Tahiti Maze
Tahiti Road

GT3:
Complex String
Monaco
Super Speedway
Swiss Alps
Tokyo R246

GT4:
Le Mans
Fuji
Infineon
Nurburgring
Suzuka
Tsukuba
Motegi
El Capitan
Citta di Aria
Costa di Amalfi
Paris
Hong Kong
New York
Seoul
Cathedral Rocks
Chamonix
Grand Canyon
Ice Arena

GT5:
Daytona
Indianapolis
Monza
Top Gear TT
Cape Ring
Eiger Nordwand
London
New Rome
Madrid
Toscana

GT6:
Brands Hatch
Goodwood
Silverstone
Willow Springs
Ascari Race Resort
Bathurst
Matterhorn

GTS:
Interlagos
Alsace
Maggiore
Broad Bean
Blue Moon Bay
Dragon Trail
Kyoto
Northern Isle
Tokyo Expressway
Colorado Springs
Fisherman's Ranch
Sardegna

GT7:
NONE

It's perfectly reasonable to be disappointed GT7 breaks this trend and promise of unspecified future updates at unspecified time doesn't null that disappointment.

 

[matrix_gt1]

Why do people keep mentioning this as if it makes it alright? Future updates are no good if you play the game day 1, are they? Are we supposed to sit and twiddle our thumbs waiting for more content? It just seems like the go to response now whenever anyone suggests the cars/tracks aren't satisfactory and it's quite a cop out, especially when nothing is guaranteed.

Gran Turismo games have ALWAYS launched with brand new tracks alongside returning ones.

GT2:
Apricot Hill
Grindelwald
Laguna Seca
Midfield Raceway
Motor Sports Land
Pikes Peak
Red Rock Valley
Rome
Seattle
Smokey Mountain
Tahiti Maze
Tahiti Road

GT3:
Complex String
Monaco
Super Speedway
Swiss Alps
Tokyo R246

GT4:
Le Mans
Fuji
Infineon
Nurburgring
Suzuka
Tsukuba
Motegi
El Capitan
Citta di Aria
Costa di Amalfi
Paris
Hong Kong
New York
Seoul
Cathedral Rocks
Chamonix
Grand Canyon
Ice Arena

GT5:
Daytona
Indianapolis
Monza
Top Gear TT
Cape Ring
Eiger Nordwand
London
New Rome
Madrid
Toscana

GT6:
Brands Hatch
Goodwood
Silverstone
Willow Springs
Ascari Race Resort
Bathurst
Matterhorn

GTS:
Interlagos
Alsace
Maggiore
Broad Bean
Blue Moon Bay
Dragon Trail
Kyoto
Northern Isle
Tokyo Expressway
Colorado Springs
Fisherman's Ranch
Sardegna

GT7:
NONE

It's perfectly reasonable to be disappointed GT7 breaks this trend and promise of unspecified future updates at unspecified time doesn't null that disappointment.

I wonder what their reason for this is.

 

[xiimracing]

Its crazy that no one cares about the fact that the used car dealership only changes every day... With mostlikely everyone having the same cars displayed... ^^

 

[Samus]

I wonder what their reason for this is.

Don't we all. Sadly it's not the type of question Kaz is likely to be asked or answer if he was.

 

[Biggles]

Fine - they've spent a lot of time & resources capturing "cloud movement" ... but why didn't they spend those resources WORKING ON THE AI & PHYSICS?

All the traditional elements of GT - the "car culture", amazing graphics, cool music - it's all good, but why does that preclude improving the AI to be more inline with other cutting-edge racing games?

 

[philipPF]

Why do people keep mentioning this as if it makes it alright? Future updates are no good if you play the game day 1, are they? Are we supposed to sit and twiddle our thumbs waiting for more content? It just seems like the go to response now whenever anyone suggests the cars/tracks aren't satisfactory and it's quite a cop out, especially when nothing is guaranteed.

Gran Turismo games have ALWAYS launched with brand new tracks alongside returning ones.

[...]

It's perfectly reasonable to be disappointed GT7 breaks this trend and promise of unspecified future updates at unspecified time doesn't null that disappointment.

I share the disappointment for no new track from GT sport (at least, we have to "rediscover" Deep Forest, Trial Mountain & High speed ring with new graphics, adapted layouts and maybe new time of day / weather option on these tracks ?). It would have been really nice to have at least 3-4 more tracks new to the series.

I don't think we'll "sit and twiddle our thumbs", there's quite a lot to do with driving licenses, tuning cars with new body parts, etc...

I hope they'll have quite the same update rate that we had in GT Sport, and that updates will start soon. It was something I really enjoyed during GT Sport, I know it sound strange but I found it cool to wait for new cars & tracks that drop on a regular basis.