Prerelease:Gran Turismo 7
This page details pre-release information and/or media for Gran Turismo 7.
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First announced at PlayStation 5's launch show in 2020, development of the next numbered Gran Turismo title after GT Sport began in earnest side-by-side following GT Sport's release to manufacturing.
PlayStation 5 Launch Show
As the game was revealed at PlayStation 5's launch show, originally, the game was expected to be exclusive to the new console and to be released in 2021, but starting in December 2020, disclaimers regarding the game in marketing were amended to "In development for PlayStation", which not only signifies a release date delay, but also implies a potential carve-out for PlayStation 4 holdouts; this change was also retroactively made to the version of the trailer on PlayStation's YouTube channel. The information regarding a then-potential PS4 version of the game was confirmed by GTPlanet on August 2, 2021.
Being an early build, the game features a radically UI design, as well as a different design for Sarah, one of the in-game speech bubble characters, which indicates she was portrayed by a different actress in this build. These builds, while showing a clock on the top bar, only displays time, not date, meaning it is not possible to judge when these builds were captured. The N-class classification for road cars from GT Sport are also present, which was dropped in favor of just using Performance Points, returning from PlayStation 3-era games (although still calculated in same method as those games, without support for decimals; GT Sport's database file also features PS3-style PP ratings for each car despite not being used, from which PP numbers for the Aston Martin DB11 '16 and Toyota 86 GT '15 are sourced from.)
The original main menu, based on Gran Turismo 4's GT Mode menu, but with a darker color scheme.
The earlier design of Sarah, possibly portrayed by a different actress.
Home, with no spec sheet, N-class system, and two options (Scapes Movies and Tuning Parts) missing.
The tuning shop. In the final game, only the brakes are branded (by Brembo), and some parts were moved across categories. Also note the N-class system and the GT Sport-style performance rating meters. There is also an error where measurements are in meters but shown with inches as the listed unit.
"Gran Turismo World", the old name for World Circuits. Note the points system and only one championship series present, Gran Turismo World Final.
Selecting a track in Gran Turismo World.
Selecting a race after selecting a track. Something blocked off by the speech bubble is that the GT Cup event on the right would have required a National A license and PP limit of 300 PP; other events here have no restrictions.
In-race HUD, mostly unchanged from GT Sport. There's also no opponent car name indicator yet.
PlayStation Experience 2021 and Behind the Scenes videos
After a period of silence (barring Genesis' GTWS entry announcement at that year's Monterey Car Week, though the marque made no appearance in pre-release material from this point), a release date trailer finally aired as part of PlayStation Showcase 2021 show held on September 9, 2021. Throughout the following months leading to release, "Behind the Scenes" videos were also posted. The footage of builds used in the trailer and the Behind the Scenes videos, as well in the Brembo partnership announcement video and on the official Gran Turismo website following the show, are close to the final game (and helpfully now includes a date in the top-right date/time indicator, allowing recording dates to be identified), although some segments in the Behind the Scenes videos show an earlier build without date indicator.
Judging from a pre-release promotional tweet posted on February 23, 2022 comparing GT7 with Gran Turismo 2 (mislabeled as from the first game) that contains unlocalized strings, in which the date indicator reads "5 MONTH_SHORT" (the whole string is cut-off), the switch to the near-final UI likely took place in or before May 2021.
Builds from around this time also featured per-country liveries used in FIAGTC events (such as one used by the Porsche 911 RSR (991) '17) as field fillers, with none of them making it to the final game.
Except for those taken from the Gran Turismo website, the images below are taken from Ukraine and Hong Kong versions of PlayStation's YouTube channel, as versions posted there feature no on-screen subtitles.
World Map, with different indicator sign. Captured on September 2, 2021; taken from GT website.
Used Car Dealership; the star ratings were removed starting from the State of Play build. Captured on September 2, 2021; taken from GT website.
World Circuits; note the different design for list of available tracks, possibly to make room for championships. Captured on August 20, 2021.
Selecting a track in World Circuits. Captured on September 2, 2021; taken from GT website.
Introduction to Legend Cars, branded using fictional Brighton Antiques branding before Hagerty partnership was revealed. Also note the final version of Sarah.
Legend Cars; branding aside, there's also the star ratings. Captured on August 21, 2021; this screenshot uses Japanese currency pegging.
The tuning shop. Apart from whole numbers-only PP and different car thumbnail on the sidebar, everything here is close to the final game. Captured on September 2, 2021; taken from GT website.
In-race HUD; note the different, numeric rain indicator.
The comparison tweet comparing GT2 (mislabeled as GT1) and GT7.
Color picker in the livery editor. The color shine was dropped in the final game.
Selecting a decal in the livery editor. The sidebar has a background that was removed in later builds.
Ride History, a feature that would have allowed the player to look recently driven cars from their garage. This feature was dropped in the final game.
Car chooser. The PP/class and gift car/favorite status swapped positions in the final game, and the CLK-LM is shown as a Mercedes-Benz car, which was changed to AMG at launch, only to be reverted back to Mercedes-Benz in version 1.31.
Old UI
As mentioned above, some segments in the Behind the Scenes videos contain an older menu bar, similar to those shown in the 2020 PlayStation 5 reveal build. As these contain no date, only time of day, it is not possible to determine when footages containing the older UI were taken.
Garage. Similar to the 2020 builds, but with background set to what would end up being used in idle demo loops. The space where the player's name is shown on these builds was repurposed to be the currently active menu book in later ones.
Scapes main menu. Note the Corvette ZR-1 (C4) being listed as 1990 car like it had in the PS2 and PS3-era games; this was changed to 1989 in the final game, as it had the interior of the pre-production model.
GT Auto body part selection.
Some trailers, such as those in the Liveries video, has another different top bar compared to old UIs present in other videos, resembling the 2020 builds even more. As these builds lack date on the time indicator, it is not possible to determine which exact UI came first.
Tuning shop. Mostly same as the post-PlayStation Showcase apart from unlocalized strings (and error in decimalization of car dimensions), except for lack of Brembo branding in brake parts and sports tires was not yet in the Sports tab. This screenshot was also shown with Japanese currency peg.
Selecting a decal in the livery editor. The sidebar's background is more visible than in the later builds before being dropped.
GT Auto main menu.
Selecting a color in the livery editor. The ability to save favorite colors was not yet a thing in the old UI builds.
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