Not buying a PlayStation 5 made Gran Turismo 7 better for me

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It wasn’t for lack of trying, but I didn’t manage to buy a PlayStation 5 before the launch of Gran Turismo 7, despite it being my plan after the game’s long-awaited launch date was revealed. Instead I stuck with my trusty PlayStation 4 and bought a racing cockpit for my living room with the money I would have spent on a new console.

Now a couple of weeks into playing, I am so glad the PlayStation 5 proved to be elusive. For all its hardware -acilitated graphical upgrades, I cannot imagine how Gran Turismo 7 could actually play any better than it does when I’m sitting in my race seat holding on to that steering wheel.

When Gran Turismo 7’s March 4 release date was revealed, I began to look in earnest for a PS5. It’s not new information that the console is hard to find, but it was such a pain to get here in the U.K., I only had one opportunity to buy one over the period of several months. The pack I almost settled for was a digital edition, which wasn’t my preference at all, with a pair of controllers when I really only needed one, and a game I’d never play. The nearly 600 British pound price ($792 U.S.) also seemed inflated for what I was getting.

I didn’t buy it, and as the release date neared, I wondered what to do. I wanted it to be an occasion. Something a bit special. I truly fell in love with the series when Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec came out, and remembered buying it at the midnight launch along with the official Logitech Driving Force GT steering wheel. As much as I wanted one, racing seats were not attainable at the time, so it was clamped to a table. It was thinking back to this after failing to get a PS5 that I had my epiphany.

Why not do the same as I did with Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, just on a grander scale?