Gaming
Let’s hope it’s more than just replaying the same race twenty times for credits
Sony has confirmed a Gran Turismo television series is in the works.
Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan confirmed to investors in a recent call that the company is planning on making TV series of its key games, including God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Gran Turismo.
While there aren’t any concrete details about the GT telly show, one can only hope it’s not just the story of A Player coursing around Trial Mountain 37 times in a Honda Civic for credits. Satisfying, perhaps, but only for gamers.
Sony is of course transferring much of its gaming content into other forms – Uncharted was turned into a mega-bucks movie, while there’s a television adaptation of perhaps the greatest video game of all time in the works, too – The Last Of Us. (Indeed, that latter game’s got an entire mission focused around finding a battery for a dead car. If you know, you know.)
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And it might interest you to know that Sony feels buoyed by the success of the PlayStation 5, which would explain the expanding of its entertainment base. Like for like, Sony was selling six PS4s per minute, while it’s now shifting one thousand PS5s every minute.
So, what do you want the GT TV series to look like? Let us know below…