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"My First Gran Turismo" May Expand With Updates in the Future, and Why It Was Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosUvtkPvYw Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that, like Gran Turismo 7, the compact My First Gran Turismo demo may be expanded over time, stating that he wants to "continue to update" the title into the future. Speaking in a round-table interview at the Gran Turi

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Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that, like Gran Turismo 7, the compact My First Gran Turismo demo may be expanded over time, stating that he wants to “continue to update” the title into the future.
Speaking in a round-table interview at the Gran Turismo World Series World Final in Amsterdam, Yamauchi gave some insight into the reasons behind the development of the free-to-play MFGT demo, as well as a possible glimpse at its future.
“My First Gran Turismo was something that I had always wanted to make, for a long time now,” said Yamauchi.

Citing the need to get younger people into car culture and the daunting nature of a full GT title, he added “Gran Turismo is ‘the real driving simulator’ and it’s grown and become bigger and bigger more complex; it’s important to get people interested in cars, not just for us but for the car industry as well”.
Yamauchi also highlighted the other end of the gaming age spectrum: “In the homes for the elderly – they are all over the world of course, we have old people everywhere – if you have, like, mah jong or some games going on, the ladies will come and gather and socialize and play, but the men won’t do that.”
“But the people from these homes told us that, well, in fact, actually, if it’s something involving cars, the men will get involved and get excited about it!”
A lot of people have also noted the larger typefaces throughout the MFGT demo, and this too is a choice designed at expanding GT’s accessibility.
“Whenever we have these events like the World Series, after the event when we’re taking photographs and giving autographs and things, I’ve had multiple people come up to me and asking about how the game appears now,” says Yamauchi.
“Back in GT1, because we had lower resolutions, the fonts are really big. People with impaired vision still could see the marks, the characters, and actually play the game. But they tell me now that, in GT7 and the recent titles, the font is so small that they can’t really read it any more and they have a very difficult time playing”.

“They asked us if there’s anything we can do about that. So that’s something else that I wanted to do in My First Gran Turismo as well; that’s kind of what one of the other driving factors in developing that”.
But, as noted earlier, it’s not necessarily one-and-done for MFGT. “We will obviously keep advancing the cutting edge of the technology and what we’re doing now,” says Yamauchi, “but at the same time we also want to continue to update My First Gran Turismo as well into the future”.
“So it might not be that My First Gran Turismo code is over already”.

 

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