{"id":244301,"date":"2025-12-21T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244301\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:01:14","slug":"sonys-never-experienced-this-phenomenon-before-ps5-smash-hit-gran-turismo-7-getting-stronger-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/244301\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sony’s Never Experienced This Phenomenon Before’: PS5 Smash Hit Gran Turismo 7 Getting Stronger Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Sony's<\/a><\/p>\n

The trajectory of virtually every game \u2013 even wildly successful live service ones \u2013 is that they\u2019ll start strongly and slowly tail off.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not writing anything revolutionary here: this is a trend practically everyone is familiar with, and we see it all the time with the data made publicly available by Steam.<\/p>\n

In fact, there\u2019s nothing really wrong with it: games release, they enjoy a few weekends of peak popularity, and then they slowly fade away. The really good titles take longer to drop off, of course, but they do still steadily decline.<\/p>\n

In the case of Gran Turismo 7<\/a>, the latest entry in Polyphony Digital\u2019s smash hit sim racer series, it\u2019s defying these traditional industry expectations.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Gran Turismo World Series 2025 World Finals in Fukuoka earlier today, series boss Kazunori Yamauchi revealed the game is drawing an incredible two million monthly active users right now \u2013 and new players are joining all the time.<\/p>\n

He said, as reported by GT Planet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGran Turismo 7 has been released for several years, but still, the active users are currently over 2 million people, and the new users are increasing. The status that Gran Turismo 7 is in now is probably the best of any Gran Turismo titles that we\u2019ve had in the past. We\u2019ve never experienced this phenomenon before, and neither has PlayStation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yamauchi pointed out that, while the game has certainly been discounted over the years, it\u2019s never seen its price significantly plunge. Furthermore, it hasn\u2019t been added to a subscription like PS Plus<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, according to him, the game\u2019s longevity can be attributed to Polyphony Digital\u2019s continued post-release support \u2013 a commitment it started with GT Sport<\/a> during the PS4 generation.<\/p>\n

Indeed, to mark 100 million series sales recently, GT 7 just received its Spec 3 update<\/a>, which includes a ton of new content for free. For those looking for more, there\u2019s also a Power Pack expansion<\/a> which expands massively on the number of in-game activities you can do.<\/p>\n

Gran Turismo has its own community, of course, which means it doesn\u2019t get talked about as much as other tentpole Sony series. But it continues to prove that it\u2019s one of PlayStation best and most important properties.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re confident GT 7 will continue to enjoy significant success right through the remainder of the PS5 generation.<\/p>\n

[source gtplanet.net<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trajectory of virtually every game \u2013 even wildly successful live service ones \u2013 is that they\u2019ll start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,128190,19,17,11909,11908,4517,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-244301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gran-turismo","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-ps4","13":"tag-ps5","14":"tag-sony","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115757690982844413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}