Everything you need to know about Gran Turismo 7: Release date, trailer and more

(Pocket-lint) - Gran Turismo is 1 of the astir storied of each racing crippled franchises, a simulator that was offering realistic racing good earlier galore of its modern competitors were adjacent conceived of. 

Now, with the PS5 retired successful the wild, Gran Turismo is coming backmost for its seventh game, and the hype is real. Keep speechmaking to find retired everything you request to cognize astir this blockbuster racing crippled up of its release.

Gran Turismo 7 trailer and merchandise date

The supra trailer for Gran Turismo 7 came retired backmost successful June 2020, erstwhile Sony archetypal unveiled a clump of games moving connected the PlayStation 5, and we've not had overmuch quality astir the crippled since. 

Initially, we hoped for a 2021 merchandise date, since it didn't look apt it would motorboat with the console, but that's present slipped. Gran Turismo games notoriously don't travel retired until they're deemed wholly ready, and the latest intel is that GT7 volition present beryllium hitting a merchandise day of 4 March 2022.

Jim Ryan confirmed successful a 2021 interview that the origin of the delay, arsenic with truthful galore different games, has been the chaos caused to improvement by COVID-19, which is surely thing we tin sympathise with!

Gran Turismo 7 platforms

There's been immoderate mixed messaging erstwhile it comes to wherever you'll beryllium capable to play Gran Turismo 7, it's just to say. When it was archetypal unveiled, we were near assured that it was a PlayStation 5 crippled from the crushed up, and was labelled arsenic an exclusive. 

That made consciousness fixed its seemingly bleeding-edge graphics - the ocular upgrade that the game's bringing seemed simply beyond older hardware. However, a aboriginal interrogation from Hermen Hulst, caput of PlayStation Studios, has named GT7 arsenic 1 of a fewer games that Sony is looking to bring to some the PS5 and PS4, to debar freezing retired its monolithic existing subordinate base.

That makes consciousness connected paper, but we're a small amazed to larn that this graphical showcase volition negociate to tally connected a PS4 successful owed course. 

Needless to say, arsenic 1 of Sony's astir long-standing exclusive franchises, it won't beryllium connected its mode to Xbox oregon Switch gamers, either. A PC merchandise is simply a much absorbing thought fixed Sony's caller determination to people much exclusives connected that platform, but we inactive deliberation it's hugely improbable to travel astatine motorboat if it ever does. 

Gran Turismo 7 gameplay

The bully happening astir Gran Turismo 7's uncover trailer, above, is that it had a chunky conception of gameplay successful it to springiness america a wide look astatine however the crippled is shaping up.

The archetypal large country to screen disconnected is ocular fidelity - GT7 is intelligibly going to beryllium an perfectly gorgeous game. The trailer is expressly designed to repeatedly amusement disconnected the reflections that it tin present manage, and they look for each the satellite similar afloat ray tracing from here. 

Sony's confirmed that the crippled volition beryllium targetting 60FPS, arsenic you tin archer successful the footage, arsenic good arsenic bringing enactment for 4K and HDR. Whether it tin negociate each of those, with ray tracing, astatine the aforesaid time, is thing that volition stay to beryllium seen, but there's nary harm successful being optimistic. After all, arsenic an exclusive rubric it should beryllium well-placed to maximise its usage of the PS5's hardware.

The crippled volition besides instrumentality vantage of the PS5's SSD for speedy load times, and the DualSense controller volition beryllium a bully upgrade too. It'll person adaptive trigger settings and haptic feedback to immerse you further. Layer connected 3D audio and it's going to instrumentality vantage of each the PS5's bells and whistles. 

We cognize from past Gran Turismos to expect a immense scope of meticulously recreated real-life cars to thrust astir circuits, and it's wide that each of them volition beryllium customisable with liveries and part-swapping to tune them to your nonstop needs and preferences earlier a fixed race. 

The archetypal trailer shows disconnected a spot of what looks similar a vocation mode, too, with characters guiding you done immoderate menus, and it looks similar there'll beryllium plentifulness of antithetic ways to play. 

On the track, though, we expect it to beryllium a accepted Gran Turismo crippled - meaning punishingly realistic with each the assists turned down, and a racer that leans person to the hardcore than astir different options retired there. For purists, it'll beryllium a dream, and adjacent for those who don't attraction excessively overmuch astir accurately modelled suspension modes, the visuals should beryllium much than capable to marque it truly enticing. 

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 5 March 2021.