Perfect Dark and Everwild reportedly cancelled as Microsoft lays off up to 9000

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Norion said:

A big thing here is the Forza Motorsport series likely being dead for at least a while with half of Turn 10 getting laid off. That studio is probably just gonna become a Forza Horizon support studio now since FH6 is an extremely important release that I'm sure Microsoft wants to last for a really long time. Forza is known for Horizon now but it started off with Motorsport so this is one of the very original Xbox properties that got its start on the original Xbox going dormant.

It makes sense though since the 2023 Forza Motorsport flopped big time. I feel like not enough people talk about just how badly that game has performed considering the series prestige. It wouldn't surprise me if it hasn't even sold one million yet considering the low amount of Steam reviews which is disastrous since it had a much longer development time than all past Motorsport entries.

It does sound like Forza Horizon 6 is coming out next year. Along with Fable, Playground Games has a lot on their shoulders. So I agree Turn 10 is likely going to be a support studio on Forza Horizon and continue work on ForzaTech.