In a recent live stream on Mixer,Forza Motorsportdeveloper Turn 10 Studios announced that it is hard at work on improvingForza 7. The team is focusing development time on providing free updates to Microsoft’s flagship racing series and working to improve the general reception around the game. Chris Esaki, creative director at Turn 10, also stressed that the team is currently not developing aForza Motorsport 8yet, opting to work more on the last title instead of the future of the series.
At around one hour and 37 minutes into thelive stream, Esaki states, “The entire team, 100%…the entireForza Motorsportteam is working onForza Motorsport 7. What that means is, we’re not going off makingForza Motorsport 8; we’re actually not going off and making a grand new expansion; what we’re doing is, we’re investing in the motorsport experience you have right now.”
That sounds very promising, to me. While I didn’t expect a sequel to be happening this year (Forza MotorsportandHorizontrade years to give each team more time to develop),my biggest complaintwithForza 7was the introduction of loot boxes and how it affected the core experience. Having the team continue to polish and refine the design of the game could mean that7will end up being the defactoForzagame…up until the inevitable8comes out.
If you were wondering about the future ofForza Motorsport, this should put your mind at ease.
