Clues for what might be coming up in future updates to Gran Turismo 7 have come from a rather unexpected source: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Current host Fallon was playing GT7 as part of a recent broadcast of the nightly talk show — the longest-running talk show in the world, closing in on its 13,000th episode later this year.
While it’s fair to say he didn’t entirely put the game to a particularly strenuous test, we did get to see the eight-year veteran of the show getting to grips with a race that regular players will note isn’t actually in the game currently.
Fallon’s car of choice was a Gr.1 category McLaren Vision Gran Turismo car, which he drove in a race event located at the returning Daytona International Speedway. If you boot your own copy of GT7 up right now and you’ve completed the GT Cafe Menu Books, you’ll spot there’s no such race at Daytona.
In fact the brief glimpse at the circuit menu showed that while the first three events match the current retail copy of the game, there’s two completely different events after that: a Hypercar Racing Days race, and a Gr.1 Series race.
It’s the latter of these two that Fallon apparently enters (and in which he finishes fifth) – although later screens appear to show a purely Vision GT race – and it’s further noteworthy in that the race seems to be a two-lap event worth 70,000cr for a win. That would make it the fastest way to earn credits in the game, if it were in the retail version.
Along with the fact that the comedian’s home garage contains 433 cars — nine more than the 424 vehicles in the current game version — it seems clear that The Tonight Show had access to a special build, but it could be a hint of what’s to come.
We have already heard from Polyphony Digital that future GT7 game updates will contain more events, cars, and tracks, and what we saw in the short sequence above suggests that at least one such update is ready and could be on its way soon.
