The founding members of the company are still working on the front lines, and I am thankful and proud that all 200 of our staff are a team that have the same motivation and love that the company started with in the beginning. I don’t think there are many video game franchises in the world that have continued for 25 years with the same title, and with the same team. Thereafter the Gran Turismo project started from gathering a team of two part time artists and three engineers.įrom there, the number of comrades have continued to increase in number for over quarter of a century, and has become Polyphony Digital today, a company with over 200 staff members. ![]() I was fascinated by real time 3D graphics that many had been waiting for, and created and presented plans for all kinds of video games, not just limited to race games but RPGs, adventure games, action games, puzzle games, and more.Īs a result, Gran Turismo took a more fantasy race game format in the “Motor Toon Grand Prix,” becoming one of the first first-party titles for PlayStation, but if a plan for something other than a racing game had been the one that was approved, there is a good chance that I might have been making a title other than Gran Turismo today. That place was not what I had hoped for, but looking back now, you could say that I was very lucky. It was a department where the PlayStation console was just about to start, and was a place where Kutaragi-san was working feverishly to bring the concept of PlayStation to life. But the department they assigned me to was not what I was expecting. ![]() ![]() I started a movie production club when I was 14, and had been producing movies, so I first joined Sony hoping to create image products.
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