After the closure of Japan Studio, Sony allocates its creatives to Team Asobi and its new IP: Gran Turismo 7.

One of the big concerns for console gamers is finding out if their manufacturer will continue to support them once the next generation of hardware arrives. However, the usual thing is that each new console shares games with the previous one for a few years: the case of the transition from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 will be no different.

We already knew that some games like Horizon: Forbidden West would make it to the eighth generation desktop, and we recently learned that God of War 2 will follow that path as well. To that list, we have to add Gran Turismo 7, which was announced last year with PS5 in mind and now confirms its appearance on PS4 through an official blog post.

“You can’t build a community of over 110 million PS4 owners and then just walk away, right? I think it would be bad news for PS4 fans, and frankly, it wouldn’t do the business any good,” says Hermen Hulst, Director. of the company. “When it makes sense to develop a game for both PS4 and PS5 we will continue to consider doing it […] That said, having PS5 badges is also very important, which is why the Returnal and Ratchet and Clank developments are exclusive to PS5 “.

“When it makes sense to develop a game for both PS4 and PS5, we will continue to consider doing so.”

(Hermen Hulst)

Gran Turismo 7 doesn’t have a release date yet, although we don’t expect it until 2022 anyway. Of course, the driving game will be signed by the Japanese from Polyphony Digital, a market that had been giving alarm signals for some time. Still, Sony seems interested in relocating Japan Studio veterans to Tokyo’s Team Asobi, who are working on a new franchise for all audiences.