Gran Turismo Sport server shutdown confirmed for January 2024

Gran Turismo Sport servers will likely be shutdown on January thirty first, 2024, Sony and Polyphony Digital have confirmed at this time. From December 1st all purchasable downloadable content material will likely be eliminated too, so if you don’t get them earlier than then you’ll miss out on that DLC perpetually. The server shutdown will imply no extra on-line play and no extra entry to customized liveries, in addition to some trophies not being obtainable anymore.

In an announcement on the Gran Turismo web site, Polyphony Digital wrote,“The web companies of the PlayStation®4-exclusive software program ‘Gran Turismo Sport’ will come to an finish on 31 January 2024 at 06:00 UTC. Previous to this on 1 December 2023, we may even finish the sale of purchasable Downloadable Content material from the PlayStation Retailer.After the top of service date, it can now not be potential to utilise on-line companies such because the Group, Open Foyer, and the Sport mode, nor on-line options/objects corresponding to customized liveries. The offline parts of the sport can nonetheless be performed, together with all beforehand bought Downloadable Content material.

We wish to thank the various customers of the Gran Turismo Sport on-line service since its first launch in 2017. From right here on, we are going to proceed to additional enhance the web companies for the at present accessible title ‘Gran Turismo 7’ on PlayStation 4 system and PlayStation 5 console.”

In our Gran Turismo Sport assessment, Stefan wrote, “Gran Turismo Sport is a near essential purchase for PlayStation 4 racing fans. There might be a few disappointments in some of the limitations and regressions, but the brilliance of the game is in the small details that combine to enable willing players to become better drivers and racers and the implementation of multiplayer. Underneath it all, this is still a very familiar feeling Gran Turismo racing game, but it’s also one that’s set to grow and evolve over time and looks set to herald a new era of competitive online racing.”

Supply: Gran Turismo official site