Would there be demand / value in remakes or remasters of the early Gran Turismo games?

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I have a lot of nostalgia for these games, the tracks and the music but does GT7 give gamers all they need or could remakes of these games fulfill an unrealized demand?

GTT 2 & 3 would be particularly great to replay, for me.
 

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GT7 already is more or less is an expanded remake and has this role, having the classic game mode again when compared to GT Sport.

I assume its post launch updates and the development of GT8 already consume the resources they have, so I assume they have no resources for remakes.

I think to see remakes is difficult because they'd have to relicense the cars, music tracks, etc. And well, GT moved to GaaS and the original ones weren't.

Something that maybe they could do is to include GT1, GT2, GT3 etc. themed post-launch GT7 content. Stuff like:
  • GT1 season: adds missing GT1 circuits, music tracks, cars and a GT1 themed campaign, GT1 themed tournaments (limiting circuits/music/cars to the GT1 ones), maybe to bring back some GT1 feature that GT7 doesn't have, etc.
  • GT2 season: same as the previous one but with GT2
  • GT3 season: same but with GT3
 

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It would be nice to bring back all the features, circuits, cars, music tracks, and modes from previous GT’s into GT7.

I also think they should just put GT1-4 on the classics titles
 
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The closest thing to this is heavily modded GT4 on pcsx2. I Like that game more than other GT due to its car selection and career mode.

Not a fan of post 2005 car design and since racing games are basically ads for the newest cars, you see lots of wasted car slots with modern cars instead of classics from the 50s through the 90s early 00s.
 
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GT7 already is more or less is an expanded remake and has this role, having the classic game mode again when compared to GT Sport.

I assume its post launch updates and the development of GT8 already consume the resources they have, so I assume they have no resources for remakes.

I think to see remakes is difficult because they'd have to relicense the cars, music tracks, etc. And well, GT moved to GaaS and the original ones weren't.

Something that maybe they could do is to include GT1, GT2, GT3 etc. themed post-launch GT7 content. Stuff like:
  • GT1 season: adds missing GT1 circuits, music tracks, cars and a GT1 themed campaign, GT1 themed tournaments (limiting circuits/music/cars to the GT1 ones), maybe to bring back some GT1 feature that GT7 doesn't have, etc.
  • GT2 season: same as the previous one but with GT2
  • GT3 season: same but with GT3

Great idea, I would love that.
 

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No! As those games did not age well. I know people crucified Jim Ryan for saying the quiet part out - loud and PS1 games specifically when he said why would anyone wanna play the older GT games compared to the new ones.

But outside of some tracks, I would never wanna go back.
 
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Personally I have no interest in the older titles.

But it would be valuable as classics on ps premium.

I think what will prevent polyphony from doing it will be the licenses. There could be a few car licenses(e.g. lotus) and maybe track license that they no longer have.
 

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GT needs a single player with an anime storyline where the MC overcomes obstacles with power of friendship and waifu 🙃 , the game will sell another 3-4 million in the launch week
 

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Yes. But ain’t happening cause of a little detail. Cars, tracks and music licensing
 
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I have a lot of nostalgia for these games, the tracks and the music but does GT7 give gamers all they need or could remakes of these games fulfill an unrealized demand?

GTT 2 & 3 would be particularly great to replay, for me.
I'll take the older ones over the always online no proper career mode modern ones any day
 
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