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Microsoft France is on the roll this weekend! First we had the leaked teaser “trailer” for Forza Horizon,then this morning Microsoft confirmed that the trailer is real, and we’ll receive more information. Well, Microsoft has another Forza-related announcement for you today! Fans of Forza Motorsport will be happy to know that Forza Motorsport 5 will be coming in 2013 as stated by Sebull of Microsoft France. Sebull has also elaborated upon something that fans may have wondered. The recently unveiled Forza Horizon is and Forza Motorsport are “two different games” that are split between two development teams; Playground and Turn10 respectively. Motorsport will remain on an “every-two-years release schedule” as it has since the beginning of the franchise.

By handing the development of Horizon to Playground–a developer composed of talents from a range of studios: TOCA, GRID, Codemasters–it seems that Microsoft aims to have a new Forza title released every year, without making the sacrifices that are commonly seen in yearly franchises handled by one developer. In regards to the Horizon “trailer”, Sebull reassured fans that “this is not a game trailer” but instead a “simple video showing the FH universe and there is not much to see.”

Microsoft’s handling of the Forza franchise has been quite smart thus far. Providing fans with a game every year, while still retaining the quality that Forza is known for will prove to be great for longtime fans of the series that might have been worried about Forza’s yearly status. Horizon will be officially unveiled tomorrow during GDC 2012, until then, game one!

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/forza-mortorsport-5-coming-2013-horizon-and-motorsport-are-2-different-games/

So like COD, alternate devs.

Not bad if Horizon really is arcade like, I do think they could have chosen a new name though ;

Or just revived Project Gotham.

Project Gotham Horizon? Awesome.
Forza Horizon? Not so much. Forza name MUST stay as definition of simulation. If I were MS I'll choose EA's policy with Battlefield and Medal of Honor series for racing genre.

like call it Project Gotham Horizon(or world)?

Forza 5 in 2013? Dunno about other people but to me that may as well be confirmation that Forza 5 will be a launch title for Durango.

If Microsoft really is going to announce soon and release the Next-Box in 2013, which I should imagine is a real possibility, then yeah I definitely believe Forza 5 will be a launch title for the Next-Box, or at least within ~6months of each other.

Yup, Forza 5 will be one of the demos we get at E3, along with a Rare game and perhaps some stuff from Crytek/Epic.

well forza 5 is no suprise it fits in with the dev cycle, forza horizons i can see it being an arcade game to fill in for pgr

Forza Horizon seems promising. I'll be checking more out on monday.