According to official figures from PlayStation, Gran Turismo 7’s player base has been rather busy in 2022 — driving 13 billion miles between them.
The figures were posted as part of the 2022 PlayStation Wrap Up, a traditional year-end summary of activities that many large entertainment companies now produce to show players what they’ve been up to over the past 12 months.
Players can head to a dedicated part of the PlayStation site to see their own Wrap Up, which includes details of play time, the top five games by play time, how many games you’ve played and trophies you’ve earned, and how these stats compare to 2021’s figures.
However in addition to these data, the site also reveals community statistics on PlayStation Plus and four of its first-party games: God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Gran Turismo 7.
Alongside traveling 814,000 miles in buckets as a cat in Stray, throwing five billion axes in GOWR, and firing 11 billion arrows at the sentient machine animals in HFW, GT7’s players have driven a remarkable distance of 13 billion miles.
To put that into context, the furthest man-made object from Earth — the Voyager 1 probe — is almost 14.8 billion miles from home. GT7’s players have driven far enough to leave the Solar System entirely and pass the Heliopause into interstellar space, catching right up to Voyager despite a 44-year head start for the probe.
As the latest Gran Turismo game only launched in March and 2022 is still almost three weeks from its conclusion, it translates to a cumulative 45.8 million miles every day — enough to drive to the Sun and back in a little over four days. If everyone was just doing their 26.2-mile “Daily Marathon”, it would take 1.8 million players every day to reach that distance.
It’s worth noting that at the GT World Tour in Paris in 2019, Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that GT Sport players had driven just over eight billion miles in a year and a half. That means GT7’s activity is very close to three times higher.
Along with the tire-worrying mileage, GT7 players have also created over a million liveries for the 212 million cars they’ve bought and won. Another statistic states that players have done an unspecified task 369 million times; we’re not sure what, but it’s likely to be the total number of races entered.
You can look up your own statistics on the PlayStation site, and don’t forget to share them in the comments!
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