Gran Turismo 7 is proof of why Xbox Series X is better than PS5 – Reader’s Feature
A reader is unimpressed by Sony’s handling of Gran Turismo 7’s problems and explains why it convinced him to buy an Xbox Series X instead.
I was thinking of writing a Reader’s Feature about the disaster that has been Gran Turismo 7 and then the news came that Sony has, as GC predicted, instituted a major U-turn. The latest in a long line of U-turns for the PlayStation 5 that has included free (but mostly not free) upgrades, cross-gen releases, and cross-play. They’re constantly making bad decisions, that anyone could have warned them about, and then having to publicly backtrack them afterwards.
I have enjoyed previous Gran Turismo games a lot and by all accounts this is a good entry, if it hadn’t been ruined by decision makers at the top being greedy. Not unusual for any company you might say but this is such basic stuff, especially when it comes to the question of microtransactions which I thought we’d settled long ago with Star Wars: Battlefront 2.
The bizarre thing with Gran Turismo 7 is that Sony thought that changing the ease with which you can earn ‘free’ in-game currency just a couple of weeks after launch would be something people wouldn’t notice. If you’re going to push people towards microtransactions that’s awful but at least be competent about your evilness. If they’d had it that way from the start there probably would’ve been less complaints but no, you release it as an update and then have the director claim it’s doing the opposite of what it’s actually for.
On top of that they still haven’t explained why the game is online-only or why they’re not doing anything to change that, despite 30 hours of proof of why it’s a bad idea. Being a greedy corporation is one thing but being a greedy, incompetent corporation
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