GAMING
| May 23, 2018
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Sony
Interactive Entertainment Singapore Ltd. (SIES) recently announced that the
company's world-renouned Gran Turismo video game franchise has sold 80.4
million units worldwide in its twenty years in the gaming world since its first
back in 1998 for the original PlayStation console. These surprising numbers are
definitely a delightful milestone for the series considering that Gran Turismo
is indeed one of the most-loved franchises in video game history.
Heck,
even Polyphony Digital president and the man behind the successful franchise
Kazunori Yamauchi was surprisingly delighted by these figures and thanked the
gaming community for being part of a long, thrilling ride with the Gran Turismo
series. In case you don't know, the Gran Turismo series has been providing
gamers the most authentic and most enjoyable racing simulation experience and
keeping them indulged on their own career and success as a virtual race car
driver. The unprecedented success of the Gran Turismo franchise has spawned a
unique reality series - Nissan GT Academy - where gamers from around the globe
compete to become a real professional race car driver.
Gran
Turismo Sport for the PlayStation 4, the most recent installment of the franchise,
is taking virtual race car driving to a whole new level with the staging of the
2018 FIA Gran Turismo Championships. In partnership with the Federacion
Internacional d' Automobiles, participating gamers are set to be indulged in a
series of races for the opportunity to become a real racing champion. An
exclusive feature dubbed Online Season has officially been revealed with
details to be announced in the coming months ahead.
