Gran Turismo 7 creator claims studio is not working on a PC port

Sony has been slowly but surely bringing its portfolio of PlayStation games to PC, with The Last of Us Part I and Returnal previously announced to be coming in 2023. Though leaks have in the past claimed otherwise, Gran Turismo 7’s Director has explicitly stated that no PC version is in development.

In an interview conducted by Japanese site Dengeki Online (and translated by GTPlanet member ‘flimmelblitz’), Kazunori Yamauchi, the CEO of Polyphony Digital and game director for Gran Turismo 7 was asked “Some media outlets are reporting that you're researching and even developing a PC version of GT7. Is that true?”

In response, Yamauchi stated ‘That is not correct. I said that, “(as a developer,) there are no options we wouldn't be open to think about”. So, the probability for a PC version may not actually be zero, but if you want to know what we're actually doing [regarding a PC version], the answer is nothing. There's nothing to talk about.’

It is not uncommon for developers to shy away from answering questions surrounding leaks and rumours, and so it is interesting to see Yamauchi explicitly deny that a PC port is in development.

One possible ray of hope remains however, as given the accuracy of the now infamous Nvidia leak (which claimed GT7 would come to PC), it is possible that Yamauchi selected his words carefully, meaning while Polyphony Digital themselves may not be working on a PC release, Sony’s PC porting specialists ‘Nixxes Software’ could be. We will have to wait and see.

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