#gran turismo

More specifically, the Gran Turismo series. I was fortunate enough to have literally grown up with the franchise, wasting countless hours racing, tuning and just basically living in the Gran Turismo virtual space. Naturally, the success of Gran Turismo opened the doors for others. While there have been gallant attempts none have been able to challenge and even beat Gran Tourismo.... Microsoft (who at the time was launching the very first Xbox console) wanted to replicate the Gran Tourismo success, turned to a studio called Turn 10 (yes, pun intended). Gradually, over time, the makers of Forza would focus on where they thought Gran Turismo was coming up short and slowly but surely debates about which was the better game began. While I won't say that Gran Turismo games during the advent of Forza were ahem “feces”, they lacked the same innovation and slowly started to stagnate in terms of introducing game-changing features or abilities. Not to mention, (and this is what annoyed me the most) Gran Tourismo games took longer to develop and finish, which resulted in the developers releasing “Prologue” editions, which were 1/4 of the full game... Read more in our articles including "Why Forza Horizon 5 is the greatest racing game ever" and "Sony unveils Gran Turismo Sophy racing AI".