Gran Turismo 7 is the worst PS5 exclusive and Sony’s biggest mistake – Reader’s Feature
A reader argues that Gran Turismo 7 has been a major mistake and is a bad omen for Sony’s plans to focus on live service games.
If you’re a keen gamer, you spend a lot of your time wondering what new games are going to come out. That is a particularly interesting question at the moment because we know almost nothing about Sony’s plans, beyond three games – only one of which (God Of War: Ragnarök) is due out this year. Whether it makes it remains to be seen but what I’m more interested in at the moment is not individual games but what the state of the games industry is going to look like after the next two years.
Will Microsoft get to buy Activision Blizzard (I thought this was a done deal but apparently it’s not)? Will the changes to PS Plus have the impact Sony is hoping for? Will Microsoft be able to maintain control over all these new developers, given there’s already massive cracks appearing in the ones they already own – including ones they’ve had for a long time like 343 Industries and Turn 10 Studios?
Will Sony be able to make £70 for a video game the accepted standard or will they be forced to back down? In short, will Sony still be the number one console manufacturer in two years’ time? I don’t know the answer to that, obviously, but much will depend on whether they learn the lessons from Gran Turismo 7, the first PlayStation 5 game I wish I’d never bought.
The central problem with Gran Turismo 7 is that it’s a fundamentally old-fashioned game. Now, maybe that’s something to do with how slow Polyphony Digital are at making these games but while the graphics and physics simulation are good the structure and style of the game seems stuck in the PlayStation 3 generation at best.
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