Year in Review

With 2023 now firmly in the history books — and you can read our summary of the year if you need your memory jogging — it’s time to look forward to what 2024 should be serving up for racing game fans.

There’s just one more day to tear off on your page-a-day calendar for 2023, and it’s been another intriguing 12 months to be a fan of racing games in general — and Gran Turismo in particular.

As you’ll have read in our glance back at the last 12 months, 2022 was another jam-packed year in the racing game world, and 2023 looks like it’s going to continue in the same vein.

With the days running out on the wall planner, another exciting year to be a racing game fan is coming to a close.

As the world continues to toil in probably the most challenging couple of years for seven decades or so, it might be hard to recall some of the bright spots.

Whew.

Another year is wrapping up. We’re mere hours away from 2019, and thus, we’re looking back on what the last 12 months have given us in the gaming world.

As we get the champagne on ice in preparation for New Year’s Eve, we’re taking a look back at the frankly historic last 12 months. 2017 was a great year to be a sim racer, and we’ve got a ton of supporting evidence.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. As if to drive that point home, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr first coined the term (“plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, in his native French), over 160 years ago. When we look back at 2015’s Year In Review, we can’t help but feel — with the required date changes — the opening paragraph is just as appropriate when wrapping up this year.

2015 has proven to be a year of expansion, for both Gran Turismo and GTPlanet. Gran Turismo 6 is largely complete after a little over two years on the market, and the series is set to land on Sony’s current PS4 in 2016, with an approach that will mark numerous firsts for series creator Polyphony Digital.

2014 was a roller coaster of a year for Gran Turismo fans. Although GT6 didn’t evolve as quickly as many people expected after its December 2013 release, it has undergone a considerable transformation over the past twelve months and introduced some major “firsts” for the series.

March

2011 has been yet another rollercoaster year for Gran Turismo and its fans, and our first full year of GT5. The year has been dominated by game updates, GT Academy successes and significant events affecting the infrastructure of both the PlayStation Network and the people of Japan. Just as with the last two years, GTPlanet is taking a look back over the last 12 months before we head on into 2012…

Fans of the Gran Turismo series have been through a lot over the past 13 years or so, but none of those years have been as dramatic as 2010. Though I wasn’t able to get this out before the calendar flipped over, I wanted to take one last look at where we’ve been before moving forward (just as I did at the end of 2009)…