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

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(Pocket-lint) — Gran Turismo is one of the most storied of all racing game franchises, a simulator that was offering realistic racing well before many of its modern competitors were even conceived of. 

Now, with the PS5 out in the wild, Gran Turismo is coming back for its seventh game, and the hype is real. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about this blockbuster racing game ahead of its release.

The above trailer for Gran Turismo 7 came out back in June 2020, when Sony first unveiled a bunch of games running on the PlayStation 5, and we've not had much news about the game since. 

Initially, we hoped for a 2021 release date, since it didn't seem likely it would launch with the console, but that's now slipped. Gran Turismo games notoriously don't come out until they're deemed completely ready, and the latest intel is that GT7 will now be hitting a release date of 4 March 2022.

Jim Ryan confirmed in a 2021 interview that the cause of the delay, as with so many other games, has been the chaos caused to development by COVID-19, which is certainly something we can sympathise with!

There's been some mixed messaging when it comes to where you'll be able to play Gran Turismo 7, it's fair to say. When it was first unveiled, we were left confident that it was a PlayStation 5 game from the ground up, and was labelled as an exclusive. 

That made sense given its seemingly bleeding-edge graphics — the visual upgrade that the game's bringing seemed simply beyond older hardware. However, a later interview from Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, has named GT7 as one of a few games that Sony is looking to bring to both the PS5 and PS4, to avoid freezing out its massive existing player base.

That makes sense on