Wednesday, December 17th 2025
Forza Motorsport Effectively Sunset After Prior Layoffs
Forza Motorsport, in its most recent iteration, launched in October 2023, but despite the relatively recent release date, it seems as though the game's developer, Turn 10 Studios, is already starting to sunset the multiplayer racing sim, although the game will remain playable for the foreseeable future. Turn10 said in a recent announcement that it would no longer be adding any in-game content—cars, tracks, or features—to Forza Motorsport, nor will the studio provide regular bug fixes or updates. However, the studio says that it will still offer online support for multiplayer gameplay, although it's unclear how long this will last.
In addition to the continued server maintenance, Turn 10 will also host a number of special events and competitions throughout 2026, seemingly in an effort to keep players around and as a way for players to earn past special event rewards, cars, and other content that was previously limited. Turn 10 says it is ceasing further development of Forza Motorsport in order to "shift its focus" to the upcoming Forza Horizon 6 game that was announced earlier this year. This news also comes after Turn 10 Studios lost about half of its staff in July 2025 when Xbox Games laid off a sizeable number of staff across multiple subsidiaries.
The full quote regarding Forza Motorsport follows:
Source:
Turn10 Games
In addition to the continued server maintenance, Turn 10 will also host a number of special events and competitions throughout 2026, seemingly in an effort to keep players around and as a way for players to earn past special event rewards, cars, and other content that was previously limited. Turn 10 says it is ceasing further development of Forza Motorsport in order to "shift its focus" to the upcoming Forza Horizon 6 game that was announced earlier this year. This news also comes after Turn 10 Studios lost about half of its staff in July 2025 when Xbox Games laid off a sizeable number of staff across multiple subsidiaries.
As our team shifts its focus toward delivering the best possible experience with Forza Horizon 6 in 2026, we do not plan to introduce new cars, tracks, features, or regular bug fixes for Forza Motorsport. However, we will continue supporting the game by keeping online servers active, hosting special events and competitions, and reintroducing previously released Featured Tours and reward cars on a monthly basis, until all content is available for you to enjoy anytime.
6 Comments on Forza Motorsport Effectively Sunset After Prior Layoffs
Instead of adding depth and complexity to reward those that invest their time to improve at driving and racing.
The technical feat of what Turn10 did on Xbox 360 is much more impressive: 3 consoles for 3 viewports in a 2011 game on 2005 console hardware (below)
Meanwhile, 2023 version goes sunset without implementing real, native support of 3 viewports :banghead:
Well, well, well...
Over-promise and under-deliver.
Bravo, Phill.
With a malicious smile,
Fred.
I was hoping they'd turn things around with this game, which took 6 years to release, and while it was solid, the magic from the X360 era was not present. I completed the "campaign", and then I went back like one or two times after that.
Time I spent in Forza games since 2014 (they didn't track time played on X360):
FM5 - 93 h
FM6 - 94 h
FM7 - 95 h
FM (2023) - 32 h
FH2 - 155 h
FH3 - 78 h
FH4 - 93 h
FH5 - 68 h
32 hours in a Forza game is pretty much nothing. I even decided not to play Gran Turismo 7 earlier that year to have proper simcade hunger for FM release, but it didn't manage to capture me.
On a side note, I've spent 254 hours in The Crew: Motorfest in the last 1.5 years. Much better live service formula than any Forza game, and I actually haven't fully skipped a single week (I occasionally ignore some events I don't find interesting).