Gran Turismo Sport has been removed from the PlayStation Store ahead of the online server’s official closure later this month.
In September 2023, Sony and developer Polyphony Digital announced that their PlayStation 4 exclusive racing game would shut down its online servers on January 31, 2024. However, it appears that the simulator was removed from the PlayStation Store weeks in advance. meaning that users will no longer be able to purchase the game digitally in the future.
As Push Square reports, players noticed earlier this week (January 1) that the store page Gran Turismo Sport It no longer includes a buy button, just an “Add to Wishlist” option.
Players who previously purchased the game will still have access to the game and will be able to re-download it whenever they wish, but the digital version of the game is no longer available for purchase.
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The original announcement post did not include a date for when the game would be delisted. Previously, only the dates of server closure and the end of distribution of downloadable content (DLC) and add-on items from the PlayStation Store were mentioned. The latter came into force on December 1, 2023.
Polyphony Digital Launch Gran Turismo 7 in 2022 for PS4 and PlayStation 5, which appears to be the main reason behind the decision to leave Gran Turismo SportThe online functionality behind it.
“We would like to thank the many users of the Gran Turismo Sport online service since its first launch in 2017,” the studio said in its September announcement. “From now on, we will continue to further improve the online services for the currently available title. Gran Turismo 7 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.”
We qualify Gran Turismo 7 five stars in our review, and our hardware editor Rhys Wood called the game the best entry in the long-running series that “sets the bar astronomically high for all future racing sims.”
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