Polyphony Digital

As part of today’s major announcements coming out of Polyphony Digital, including Gran Turismo 7: Spec III, recognition of another significant milestone has been achieved: over 100 million copies of Gran Turismo series games have been sold worldwide.

The Vision Gran Turismo program is back in the spotlight with the recent reveal of the Opel Corsa GSE Vision GT. It’s a striking concept, blending the brand’s hot-hatch heritage with a futuristic electric powertrain, and it’s a welcome addition to the growing Vision GT lineup.

At the SIGGRAPH 2025 conference in Vancouver, three engineers from Polyphony Digital delivered a detailed presentation on the visual technology inside Gran Turismo 7, offering a rare look behind-the-curtains to explain why the game’s graphics have such a distinct quality.

Polyphony Digital has received another high-profile guest to its offices as legendary car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro dropped into the Tokyo HQ, leading to some speculation as to the nature of his visit.

UPDATE: Dereck Higgins has removed his original social media posts and YouTube video, sharing new information that it was unfortunately a prank designed to humiliate and embarrass him. Dereck’s updated videos have been shared below.

Polyphony Digital has been unveiled as a “Silver Sponsor” for the Sessions demoparty event taking place in Tokyo this November.

Superstar musician Pharrell Williams met with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital staff at the company’s offices in Tokyo, Japan. The visit was announced by Yamauchi himself on social media as he shared several photos of the occasion.

A group of Polyphony Digital sound engineers and designers gave an extensive presentation on Gran Turismo 7’s audio production at the CEDEC+KYUSHU game developer conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

Nissan has revealed a new concept car called the Hyper Force as part of the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo, and Gran Turismo 7 developer Polyphony Digital has again been involved in creating the vehicle.

The Jaguar XJ220, once the fastest production car in the world, has been spotted in some behind-the-scenes images from a recent Polyphony Digital studio tour, seemingly scanned in Gran Turismo 7-level detail.

Following a public vote conducted on the official PlayStation Blog site, Gran Turismo 7 has scooped the Best Sports Game in the 2022 Game of the Year awards.

Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 7 has taken top honors in the Sports / Racing category at The Game Awards, the gaming industry’s premiere annual awards event held in Los Angeles, California.

GTPlanet is here in Monaco for the Gran Turismo World Finals and Gran Turismo’s 25th Anniversary event, and we had the chance to sit down with GT series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.

Along with Kazunori Yamauchi opening the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference (CEDEC) 2022 with a keynote speech, Polyphony Digital has taken part in a session presenting some of its circuit modeling methods.

Back in August 2018, we brought you some rather interesting information on the inner workings of the Gran Turismo series: after two decades of almost exclusive in-house development, Polyphony Digital had decided to bring in some external talent by outsourcing some of its vehicle modeling tasks.

Today marks 22 years since Polyphony Digital came into existence as a game developer. April 2 1998 marks the start of a long path that has lead to the game’s best player standing alongside multi-millionaire celebrity race drivers to receive their trophy and recognition of their talents.

At the most recent Gran Turismo World Tour event in Tokyo, I had the opportunity to tour Polyphony Digital’s studios to see exactly how Gran Turismo is made.

The Polyphony Digital team has again been presenting some of its technical expertise at the CEDEC event in Yokohama. CEDEC, the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference is an annual conference for the computer entertainment industry. Taking place at the Pacifico Yokohama, an exhibition center in Yokohama, earlier this month, CEDEC includes seminars from noted figures aimed at improving the industry as a whole.

If you’ve always wanted to be involved in the production of the Gran Turismo series, you’ve got another chance.

Polyphony Digital, the studio behind the Gran Turismo series, has opened a new office in Tokyo.