Forza Horizon 5 Launches April 29 for PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 February 2025 / 8,321 Views
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Playground Games announced the open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 5, will launch for the PlayStation 5 on April 29.
The Standard Edition is priced at $59.99, the Deluxe Edition is priced at $79.99, and the Premium Edition is priced at $99.99. The Premium Edition includes early access to the game starting on April 25.
The PS5 version of the game will have Performance and Quality graphics modes. I will also be enhanced for the PS5 Pro, which will see the Performance mode receive improved visual fidelity and the Quality mode receive ray-traced car reflects to Races and Free Roam.
View the PS5 release date trailer below:
Forza Horizon 5 first launched for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC in November 2021.
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PlayStation only gamers are in for a treat
PlayStation players are getting access to a great game.
Xbox players are getting fewer reasons to stick with the platform in the future.
Microsoft are getting closer and closer to being fully third party.
There's Gamepass... and that's it, at least to me.
And that's fine, that's a legit reason to want to use Xbox.
The issue is Microsoft's goal was to reach 100 million users by 2030, which more than likey reflects how many users it requires to make the service profitable. It's highly doubtful that they can reach that now, and every move futher into 3rd party territory, that goal gets ever more doubtful.
All of which throws the future of the service into doubt.
This is correct. Microsoft's goal was to have:
58 Million o. console
33 Million on Cloud
20 Million on PC
58 Million just isn't going to happen without Sony or Nintendo breaking which isn't going to happen.
32 Million on cloud just sounds really too optimistic
20 Million on PC isn't happening either.
So given those realities it makes sense that the are going multiplat instead. It shows that their plans changed.
Everything you said is unrelated to a game going cross platform. They want GamePass/Users which is in your targets (with no source)
So tell us, How is releasing FH5 going to get them more GP memberships?
The source is Microsoft. What a weird fn response but okay...
It won't. Clearly as I stated their plans have changed when they realized they couldn't reach they goals.
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Well im asking you how going multiplat increases GamePass memberships since you are posting it.
You said it makes sense to go Multiplat as achieving those member goals on Xbox and PC alone isn't enough.
FH5 isn't going to boost GP members going Muliplat. It makes more sense to say, Playground needs more funding for Fables delay and this is there way of making that money.
AFAIK, Game Pass on console is only available on Xbox consoles and not available on PS5 or Switch, and 30+ million people aren't going to switch to PC just for Game Pass. That’s the only reason to get an Xbox, outside of just being invested in the platform for so long to where that's where all your friends, achievements, and digital game library is. And whether people want to acknowledge it or not, Xbox makes more money on GP subs (which is overwhelmingly on console) than multiplat game sales. They’re not giving up billions of dollars a year by getting out of the console business when Microsoft has given them such high revenue targets to meet.
They're not going the way of Sega because they can't afford to. Only way Xbox gets out of the console business completely is if Game Pass gets added to all the other console platforms. Game Pass is Xbox's primary business model and biggest money maker. Game Pass was the whole point of buying Bethesda and ABK. On top of getting into the mobile gaming business which they’re working on an Xbox Mobile Store for as well.
Xbox is 100% leaving the console business. It's patently obvious. Just look at the trail left behind. It's clear. They cooked up a business model to ease out of making consoles, and they're three-fourths of the way there. They will release one more bit of hardware, and then perhaps some little Fire-stick-like devices... and then it's Gamepass, the Steam competitor. I don't like it (I use to enjoy owning all three consoles), but it is what it is.
They are literally making another console so thats another decade of Xbox hardware.
As their console sales continue to dwindle and Game pass subs continues to rise on PC, (up 30% last quarter) it's clear that the future road of game pass will be moved to PC as times goes on. Combined with the fact that MS is already shipping less or no consoles to certain regions of the world (Saudi Arabia and Brazil) and PlayStation accounting for 64% of Xbox spending from December, there has never been a worse time to stay invested in the Xbox console hardware. Next gen a lot of people are going to move to PC, PS6 and Switch 2 from the Xbox console or entirely from the ecosystem.
People still want convenient Gamepass devices. That's what Xbox consoles are now.
I'll keep buying Xbox games provided they are released on Physical media, but that's just the collector/hoarder part of me.
But I am feeling less "beholden" to the Xbox consoles these days, it certainly wasn't like the OG Xbox or Xbox 360 where I had to get those consoles to sit alongside my PC in order to play Halo, Fable, Gears of War and more.
Pretty sure Xbox gamers don't want to wait 4 years to play this game.
This may kill off Gran Turismo... and the rest of the Xbox sales in Europe.
I really really reall!!lly hope it have a PSVR 2 update :D
But it may not since it's graphics may drain it's VR capabilities, plus large dev costs for a niche amount of VR consumers.
Sony is putting their games on PC so Microsoft is returning the gesture by putting their games on PlayStation.
Cross-play confirmed?
This decision probably saved some jobs at Playground as Fable got delayed and they probably asked Xbox for more funding.
Actually, Playground Games opened up a third studio not that long ago. So, they are working on something else besides Fable and Forza Horizon 6.
That would also explain the extra funding needed. Got to love the downvotes. Notice how they never debate because they know they are wrong so they downvote. You can't make this stuff up.
