NPD Group, a market analysis agency, informs that the newest installment of the Gran Turismo franchise, Gran Turismo 7 has made more cash throughout its launch month than another entry within the collection.
Gran Turismo 7 is the newest sport within the well-known racing collection that was launched on March 4, 2022, as a PlayStation unique title for each PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The sport was developed by Polyphony Digital and printed by Sony Interactive Leisure.
Regardless of being the best-selling title of the Gran Turismo collection, Gran Turismo 7 landed at No.2 on March’s software program chart in addition to No.2 on PlayStation platforms, being overwhelmed in each situations by FromSoftwares newest title, Elden Ring.
In line with NPD, Gran Turismo 7 was the fourth best-selling title of the primary quarter of 2022 behind Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and the sequel to the Horizon franchise, Horizon Forbidden West.
Regardless of the sport’s sturdy industrial begin, its launch was lower than stellar, to say the least with the sport being Sony’s lowest-rated title on Metacritic in historical past.
A lot of the low rating Gran Turismo 7 critiques have been posted by customers after Polyphony launched a brand new patch for the sport on March 17. The patch applied some controversial adjustments to the sport reminiscent of decreasing the payouts from races and making new automobiles just about unobtainable with out spending a ton of cash on microtransactions. The truth that the sport was additionally offline for greater than 24 hours upon the launch of this patch didn’t assist issues both.
All of this was met with an enormous backlash from the neighborhood which made Polyphony rethink and rapidly launch a brand new replace through which they rebalanced the financial system within the sport.
The most recent Gran Turismo 7 replace was launched on Monday. It launched three new automobiles, a model new monitor, and three new World Circuits in addition to quite a few high quality of life menu updates.
