Microsoft Says It 'Will Continue to Support Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 11 August 2025 / 5,633 Views
Microsoft announced Xbox first-party studios Turn 10 and Playground Games will continue to support the current Forza games Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5.
"Dear Forza Community, we know many of you have questions about what’s next for the Forza franchise, and we appreciate the support of our incredible community," said the developers. "We wanted to assure players that Turn 10 and Playground Games will continue to support Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5."
Microsoft continuing support for Forza Motorsport was up in the air after nearly half of developer Turn 10 was let go last month. This was part of a round of layoffs that saw around 9,000 Microsoft employees laid off.
Playground Games is expected to release Forza Horizon 6 in 2026 as Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in June teased Xbox would be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Xbox in 2026 with a number of new releases in classic Xbox IPs.
"I'm excited to share that players will get to celebrate 25 years of Xbox with a new Fable, the next Forza, Gears of War: E-Day and the return of a classic that's been with us from the beginning," said Spencer at the time.
Forza Horizon 5 has been one of the most successful Xbox games in recent years with it surpassing 45 million players ahead of its PlayStation 5 launch on April 29. This is in contrast with Forza Motorsport, which has struggled to find a big audience.
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Is it reasonable at this point to expect Forza Horizon 6 day and date on PS5?
It might be but hard to say for sure. Xbox still does timed exclusives for certain games.
It feels like that’s just for now as they introduce their IPs to Playstation, so it feel like only a matter of time until they go for parity.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if E-Day and Horizon 6 release simultaneously on all platforms.
Who knows, but they still have hardware to sell so expecting day and date on other platforms is wishful thinking.
Besides Bethesda and Activision games, they are already day and date on PC.
Gears Reloaded is day and date on Playstation, and whilst that’s a remaster is could prove to be a sign of things to come.
People initially expected Bethesda and Activision games to become exclusives because MS had consoles to sell. Then it was MS retaining their exclusives, but they didn’t do that either.
Not a big stretch to think they’ll start do day and date on Playstation at this point.
Bethesda and ABK were already 3rd party and Reloaded released years ago on the XB1, upping the res and fps doesn't make it a new game.
They never said day and date for rival platforms, they just said there is no red tape stopping them from porting games over.
PC is also a MS platform so the games were already on PC, some dating back to the OG Xbox.
If you are buying a PS, then its in hope for Xbox games, no garentee. Through games that are heavily focused online, I will say that's more a chance. Games like Grounded 2 already proving that, but so is Sony with their online games like Marathon.
Hence why they didn't close Turn 10.
hope so, horizon 5 is on fire!
