Gran Turismo Sports was removed from the PlayStation Store before the official online server shut down later this month.
In September 2023, Sony and developer Polyphony launched Digital announced that the online servers of the exclusive PlayStation 4 racing game would be closed on January 31, 2024. However, it appears that the sim has been removed from the PlayStation Store weeks in advance, meaning users will no longer be able to purchase the game digitally in the future.
Like Push Square reportsplayers noticed earlier this week (January 1) that the store page for Gran Turismo Sports no longer has a purchase button, only an “Add to Wish List” option.
Players who previously purchased the game can still access the game and re-download it whenever they want, but a digital version of the game is no longer available for purchase.
GT Sport has been canceled. I thought it was just the DLC by r/granturismo
The original announcement post did not include a date for when the game would be removed. Previously, only the dates of server shutdown and end of distribution of downloadable content (DLC) and add-on items from the PlayStation Store were listed. The latter came into effect on December 1, 2023.
Polyphony Digital launched Gran Turismo 7 in 2022 for PS4 and PlayStation 5, which seems to be the main reason behind the decision to leave Gran Turismo Sports's online functionality behind.
“We would like to thank the many users of the Gran Turismo Sports online service since its initial launch in 2017,” the studio said in the 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 assessed Gran Turismo 7 five stars in our review, with our hardware editor Rhys Wood calling the game the best entry in the long-running series that “sets the bar astronomically high for all future racing simulations.”
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