Gran Turismo celebrated its 25-year anniversary with a heartfelt, private message from Polyphony Digital’s CEO, Kazunori Yamauchi. The message additionally outlined the collection’ whole copies offered.
Over on the PlayStation Weblog, Yamauchi mentioned his historical past with the collection and his curiosity in recreation growth from a younger age. He additionally had a factor for films and anticipated his job to be within the picture division when becoming a member of Sony. To his shock, he was assigned to the division accountable for making the unique PlayStation.
Together with his love for real-time 3D graphics, he supplied up plans for a slurry of various video games with completely different genres, however one thing concerning the thought of a racing recreation caught the eye of the higher-ups. This led to 1997’s Gran Turismo turning into one of many first PS1 first-party titles.
Yamauchi mentioned how Gran Turismo was made up of a small group of individuals — two part-time artists and three engineers — earlier than the numbers grew and grew over the course of 25 years. Now, Polyphony employs over 200 staffers.
It was then that the publish went on to notice the Gran Turismo collection has made it to round 90 million copies offered as of earlier this yr.
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