Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has been heavy impacted by this week's brutal Microsoft layoffs, erstwhile employees person claimed, reportedly resulting successful Xbox's sim racing bid being coiled down.
Former Forza Motorsport contented coordinator Fred Russell has stated that the franchise's squad is "no more," with remaining Turn 10 Studios employees near astatine the Washington-based institution present focused connected supporting the Forza Horizon bid instead, which is chiefly developed astatine British outfit Playground Games.
"Turn 10 Studios has shuttered the Forza Motorsport abstraction and the squad is nary more," Russell wrote successful a station connected Facebook. "A precise bittersweet time for 1 of the champion car racing video games. I loved my clip there."
Responding to a remark regarding Turn 10's aboriginal overall, Russell noted that "the workplace is unfastened to enactment the Horizon side" and that Microsoft had "shuttered the Forza Motorsport broadside only."
Chris Harding, different erstwhile Turn 10 Studios employee, suggested that "120 people" were "gone from FM side." IGN has contacted Microsoft for comment.
Turn 10 Studios' archetypal Forza Motorsport launched for the OG Xbox successful 2005, and established the bid arsenic 1 of Microsoft's halfway gaming brands, arsenic good arsenic a superior rival to PlayStation's Gran Turismo. Seven Forza Motorsport sequels person launched since, dispersed crossed each Xbox console generation.
But the series' archetypal sim racing broadside has progressively been eclipsed by the occurrence of Forza Horizon, the franchise's newer, open-world spin-off that archetypal launched connected Xbox 360 successful 2012. Following a affirmative reception, the pursuing decennary saw 4 Forza Horizon sequels follow.
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When Xbox brag Phil Spencer precocious confirmed that the adjacent Forza rubric would get successful 2026, it was wide assumed that this meant a caller introduction successful the Forza Horizon series, alternatively than a follow-up to 2023's astir caller Forza Motorsport, which was acceptable up arsenic thing of a bid reboot but launched to a mixed response.
Now, Forza Motorsport is reportedly nary more, with nary 1 astatine Turn 10 Studios near presently moving connected it.
"The bequest volition stay," Russell concluded, "even if determination is nary aboriginal for the game."
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