Gran Turismo celebrated its 25-year anniversary with a heartfelt, private message from Polyphony Digital\u2019s CEO, Kazunori Yamauchi. The message additionally outlined the sequence\u2019 complete copies bought.<\/span><\/p>\n Over on the PlayStation Weblog, Yamauchi mentioned his historical past with the sequence and his curiosity in sport improvement from a younger age. He additionally had a factor for films and anticipated his job to be within the picture division when becoming a member of Sony. To his shock, he was assigned to the division accountable for making the unique PlayStation.<\/span><\/p>\n Together with his love for real-time 3D graphics, he provided up plans for a slurry of various video games with totally different genres, however one thing concerning the thought of a racing sport caught the eye of the higher-ups. This led to 1997\u2019s Gran Turismo turning into one of many first PS1 first-party titles.<\/span><\/p>\n Yamauchi mentioned how Gran Turismo was made up of a small group of individuals \u2014 two part-time artists and three engineers \u2014 earlier than the numbers grew and grew over the course of 25 years. Now, Polyphony employs over 200 staffers.<\/span><\/p>\n It was then that the put up went on to notice the Gran Turismo sequence has made it to round 90 million copies bought as of earlier this 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\nAssociated<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
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