Gran Turismo 7 has been getting positive reviews since the review embargo was raised two days ago, but there is one aspect of the game that reviewers did not have access to, and that was the game’s microtransactions. As with any other Gran Turismo title, players can accumulate credits in game from various activities which can then be spent on cars and upgrades. Players can also buy credits in bundles from the Playstation Store. Now that the game has finally gone live, we can see what the prices of these credit bundles are, and they seem to have seen a sharp increase over the price over its predecessor – GT Sport.
There are four bundles that are available on the Playstation Store currently, and they are priced as follows:
- 100,000 credits – $2.49 / £1.99
- 250,000 credits – $4.99 / £3.99
- 750,000 credits – $9.99 / £7.99
- 2,000,000 credits – $19.99 / £15.99
Cars in Gran Turismo 7 can cost anywhere from a few hundred thousand credits for lower spec vehicles to millions of credits for a high performance vehicle. This was not the case in GT Sport, where cars could be purchased individually for prices that ranged between $0.99 and $4.99 for most cars. For example, a Porsche 919 Hybrid 16 only costs $2.99 in GT Sport, whereas in Gran Turismo 7, the same car costs 3,000,000 credits, which requires players to spend $40 to buy it through credit bundles.
Here are some more examples:
- Aston Martin Vulcan ’16 ($4.99 in GT Sport) – 3,300,000 credits in GT 7 ($40)
- McLaren P1 GTR ’16 ($4.99 in GT Sport) – 3,600,000 credits in GT 7 ($40)
- Audi R18 TDI ’11 ($2.99 in GT Sport) – 3,000,000 credits in GT 7 ($40)
Many high performance vehicles cost 1,000,000 credits, but there is currently no option to buy 1,000,000 credits from the bundles in the store. In order to purchase these cars, players would have to purchase two bundles – 750,000 credits and then another 250,000 credits for a total of $15. Or, they could buy 2,000,000 credits for $20, and possibly get two cars.
But cars aren’t the only things players need to buy. As in every Gran Turismo game, every also requires you to purchase upgrades for it, which also costs credits. Not to mention a previous State of Play video showed some “legendary” cars costing as much as 20,000,000 credits, which would cost a whopping $200 to purchase from just bundles on top of the full game price of $70. It is not known if these prices have changed or not, but there are currently no cars for that price in the legendary showroom as of the writing of this article. However, the possibility is there that they could show up later as the cars in the showroom are rotated.
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