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The story
Kazunori Yamauchi, the father of the Gran Turismo series at Polyphony Digital, sparked discussion on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry board (Geha) after saying, ‘I think a lot of people enjoy Gran Turismo 7 together as a family.’ The thread quickly filled with responses like ‘no one does that’ and ‘most PS users are single middle-aged men,’ with some posters mockingly comparing it to his previously memed comment about ‘enjoying The Evil Within with his grandkids.’ Others brought up Astro’s Playroom winning a family-friendly award and compared the situation to Forza Horizon, leaving the thread divided over just how much of a family game GT7 really is.
What people said
Most people only even own one controller anyway
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Wait, someone actually said that?
Sorry, but what's fun about that?
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes State of Play fun to watch
Everyone's probably just here for these terrible quotes
Probably a house with a Bravia TV in the living room, only Sony consoles around, and parents who obviously don't work any kind of PC-related job
Guess PSW guys genuinely all think the same way
That one was said as a joke, but this guy sounds dead serious, which is kind of off-putting
The only Forza that's out on PS is FH5
Motorsport culture runs deep there
It's fine… you don't need to pull that 'everything's better overseas' act anymore…
Nobody's buying it anymore…
This is the crowd that enjoys playing The Evil Within with their grandkids, remember?
Of course they'll enjoy something as tame as Gran Turismo with the family
I have no idea!!
If they got courted into relocating to Fukuoka City, I guess they're getting paid for it somehow
Yeah, I've thought that too
Maybe it's like Forward Works — some kind of cushy landing spot for someone's amakudari post (a bureaucrat's post-retirement sinecure)
What is this, the thought police? lol
Sure, thinking it is fine
But if you say it out loud, of course people are gonna call you out on it lol
Lol
Somebody make a clip of just that part
Fabrication's not cool
I watched it and that's not what happened
If you're making stuff up you could get sued, buddy
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Background and Key Points of the Discussion
Gran Turismo 7 is a racing simulator released in 2022 for PS5/PS4, and Kazunori Yamauchi has led the series for many years as its developer. The thread doesn’t specify where or when the comment was made, so the context is unclear. What divided opinion in the thread was the actual makeup of the PlayStation user base: while the self-deprecating notion that PS is ‘for single middle-aged men’ has become a running joke among users, most posters felt Yamauchi’s comment was out of touch with that reality. That said, it’s worth noting that PlayStation does have family-oriented titles, as shown by Astro’s Playroom winning a family-focused award. It’s also worth flagging that his earlier remark about ‘enjoying The Evil Within with his grandkids’ has been repeatedly cited as a running joke, even though its authenticity has never actually been confirmed.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Polyphony’s Yamauchi: ‘I think a lot of people enjoy Gran Turismo 7 together as a family’ — really?“.
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