Gran Turismo has sold more than 90 million copies as it turns 25

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The first of the said free updates came out in September and featured three new cars, a new racing track, and several new features. Meanwhile, the latest one dropped last week and it introduced five new cars including a Ferrari Vision GT concept car. The updates were more than welcomed by the player base, considering the new features were all free of charge.

After being originally released in 1997 for the PlayStation 1, Gran Turismo became one of PlayStation's premier 1st party titles. From the moment it hit the shelves in its native Japan, Gran Turismo has been keeping pace with the ever-evolving technology of the PlayStation hardware. As Yamauchi noted, none of this would be possible without the hard work of the ever-growing team at Polyphony Digital. He revealed that the team behind the first iteration of the game consisted of three engineers and two part-time artists.

"From there, the number of comrades has continued to increase in number for over a quarter of a century, and has become Polyphony Digital today, a company with over 200 staff members."

Yamauchi also mentioned that his filmmaking ambitions in his early days of collaboration with Sony might have pushed him in a different direction, but that he is "very lucky" to have realized his first project plan out of the hundreds he had in mind when beginning his career.

"I believe the Gran Turismo series have always pursued "beauty." The beauty of the cars, the beauty of the scenery, the beauty of the lighting, the beauty of driving, the beauty of sounds/music, and the beauty of the graphics. " writes Yamauchi as his pursuit of beauty lives on with Gran Turismo.

Gran Turismo 7 is widely considered one of the best entries in the series and, most likely, it will push the franchise close to 100 million units before it gets a sequel. Racing fans might also want to look forward to the live-action adaptation in August.