The racing simulator celebrated its long history in the video game industry
Grand Touring is a driving simulation game of Japanese origin created Polyphony Digitalfor consoles Playstationbeing his first game released in the December 23, 1997, under the name of Grand Touringworking from the beginning as one of the major console brands and being the first of many.
Members of the franchise met with Playstation To celebrate this great milestone, the event was attended by Kazunori YamauchiCEO and of Polyphony, who recalled the origins of the franchise.
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The origins of Gran Turismo
“That place was not what I expected, but looking at it now, it can be said that I was very lucky”bill Yamauchi. Interestingly, dince he was 14 years old, he was part of a film production club and that led him to join Sony. This to be able to continue on the path that he was passionate about, however, It ended up being part of something very different, the video game industry.
The project that we now know as the franchise Grand Touring had humble beginnings, like almost all games of that time, ended up entering what would later become the department of PlaystationIt was there that he met Ken Kutaragiwho was the genius behind Playstation 1 and Playstation 2, the project was born from a group of two part-time artists and three engineers. Group that grew ever larger and has become today Polyphony Digitala company with more than 200 employees.
The legacy of the franchise
Although at that time the future of the project was uncertain, today we can say that, with more than 90 million copies sold to this day, Grand Touring is a very successful brand, as it is one of the few video game franchises that has continued for 25 years with the same title and with the same team.
The impact that the video game currently has is so great that there have been numerous Esports competitions with the race simulator, making players from all over the world face off annually.