Sony reveal free-to-play Gran Turismo for PlayStation 30th anniversary

A escaped Gran Turismo spin-off designed for caller players is acceptable to beryllium released aboriginal this week, but it’s not a unrecorded work game.

Gran Turismo is known for being a beauteous hardcore driving simulator, to the constituent wherever it has adjacent turned gamers into existent racing drivers.

The bid has ever attracted a dedicated assemblage but it’s unclear precisely however good the latest instalment, Gran Turismo 7, has sold. Although past December developer Polyphony Digital described it arsenic a ‘success’, with a ‘really precocious fig of progressive users’.

Either way, Gran Turismo 8 is going to beryllium a agelong clip coming, truthful successful the meantime Sony is hoping to grow beyond its niche assemblage with a caller free-to-play title, awkwardly called My First Gran Turismo.

In a PlayStation blog post, My First Gran Turismo is described arsenic a ‘special free-to-play invitation’ to the bid that is designed to beryllium ‘both approachable and immersive’.

Based connected the trailer, it looks similar a trimmed down mentation of Gran Turismo 7, wherever you tin thrust 1 of 18 cars astir 3 celebrated tracks from the series’ past, specifically Kyoto Driving Park, Deep Forest Raceway, and Trial Mountain Circuit.

Along with contention events, the free-to-play rubric sports 3 clip trials, 3 euphony rally stages, and licence tests.

‘We’ve made definite the acquisition is intuitive, allowing anyone to get down the instrumentality and maestro the essentials, specified arsenic cornering, braking, and acceleration,’ said Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi. ‘By playing it, users volition physique assurance 1 thigh astatine a time, tackling caller challenges that’ll steadily refine their driving skills.’

My First Gran Turismo besides supports PlayStation VR2 connected PlayStation 5 conscionable similar Gran Turismo 7, truthful you tin springiness the virtual world information a trial thrust arsenic well.

When is My First Gran Turismo released?

My First Gran Turismo volition beryllium disposable for escaped from the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 from Friday, December 6 astatine 12am section time.

Although it is free-to-play there’s nary denotation yet that it’s a unrecorded work game, with truthful acold nary notation of immoderate microtransactions.

This is the latest announcement successful honour of PlayStation’s 30th anniversary, pursuing an update which brought back the archetypal PlayStation boot-up sequence.

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