Kazunori Yamauchi, head of Polyphony Digital, hinted in a recent interview that the Gran Turismo series may come to PC.
Yamauchi would seem to be quite the gearhead, having repeatedly made Motor Trend’s Top 50 list for designing the acclaimed Gran Turismo series — and as Polyphony is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, GT has long been a PlayStation mainstay. But neither may be the case much longer.
UK-based Develop Mag translated part of an German interview with Yamauchi where the famed developer let slip hints that the realistic racing series may be headed to PC; at least in China, where the lucrative market (with the potential for situations like the recent one million simultaneous players logging into World of Warcraft) is hard to ignore.
Speaking to German site derStandard he said: “It is very, very improbable that GT will comes out on another consoles. “But perhaps it comes to the PC. Particularly [for] the Chinese market.”
After four full GT releases and a number of “prologues,” it appears Yamauchi is ready for a break from the digital automotive world; citing the nearly half-a-year it takes to model a single, photo-realistic car for GT5, he told derStandard that it is his dream to build a RPG instead.
If it looks nearly as good as those GT5 cars, we’ll be first in line.
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