Forgive me if this has already been answered, but last I heard, Turn 10 has not yet started development on Forza Motorsport 8? If this is true, do you think they want to give the series a rest and pursue other things?
They’ve said they want to further improve fm7.
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To me, it seems Horizon is the main title now. Not Motorsport anymore, but I’m sure there will be FM8. I just hope the current 2 year cycle will be dropped and they take more time to develop and TEST the game (+learning from mistakes and taking players feedback into account).
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Definitely. Just look at FH4’s Car Pass next to FM7’s. It feels as if FM7 players have been getting the bones while the juicy meat goes to the FH4 crowd. They got lots of stuff that should really have come to Motorsport first, like the Triumph TR3B, the RX-7 Spirit-R and the Agera RS, as well as cars included in the base game like the Austin Healey 3000, the old Bentleys, or the Escort RS Turbo, older cars the juvenile crowd that makes up the bulk of the Horizon community doesn’t give a damn about. With the extended support time for FM7, there’s no guarantee we’ll see these cars in the Motorsport branch any time soon, if ever, should Microsoft pull the plug on it rather than kicking off their next console with an FM8.
After seeing the Turn 10 Studios channel on YouTube being renamed to “Forza”, which puts Playground on equal footing with T10 when it comes to managing the franchise, I don’t give much time before the URL to these forums becomes “forums.forzahorizon.net” or simply “forums.forza.net”. And to think everything sounded really promising at E3 last year, with Microsoft bringing the GT2 RS to the show and effectively making FM7 their highlight alongside the new console… What a shame. No matter what Chris says in the streams, the writing’s on the wall: T10 has lost favor with Microsoft and Horizon is where most of the funding will go to now.
At this rate, making the racing in Forza Motorsport more serious is probably the right course of action for the team. But, to attract the more serious racers, they have to do so much more than the penalty system. The game is gonna lose so much of its remaining player base and content creators next week that I wonder for how long Microsoft will let T10 keep going with FM7. For FM8, I would start with severely trimming the car list and removing all off-road vehicles except for Group B, rallycross, and a select few SUVs like the Cayenne or the X6M. If Horizon doesn’t get Group 5 cars, why should Motorsport get Jeep Wranglers?
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They can pack FH with all the stuff they want. I’ll never buy another Horizon product again. My first and last was FH2. Then recently I tried the demo of 4. Boring. I don’t get the hype for this type of free roaming. Maybe because I’m getting older? When I was younger I liked Test Drive Unlimited 2…but Horizon, which is a blatant copy, and hybrid, of TDU+Dirt+NFS, I just don’t feel it.
My humble opinion.
Back on topic, I’m pretty sure they already started working on FM8 (something at least!) but I hope they fix the major bugs of FM7 and introduce penalties before it’s too late (=the time to BUY another FM product).
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Well, they stated they’re not actively working on Forza 8 and want to get Forza 7 on the right track. So whether they put the Motorsport series to a stop or release 8 in two years, we don’t know. Next year is unrealistic though.
Seeing it from a reputational and financial standpoint Horizon has become the main focus anyways. So we’ll likely see Horizon more frequently than Motorsport until Playground performs a “Forza 7” and find themselves in the same spot.
How populated Forza 7 will remain after Horizon 4 ships we’ll see in the upcoming weeks.
Forza Horizon is from Playground, Forza Motorsport from Turn10. Cant see a problem here…
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Forza 8 has been confirmed not in development yet but aren’t the Motorsport games pretty much an expansion with a lick of paint. Entirely realistic that it will be released next year a broken mess like 7 
Confirmed where?
I recall one of the big wigs, possibly in a WIR saying there was no work on a FM8, fully concentrating on further developing FM7.
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They’re both just two different takes on the same basic genre and share a lot of common content and coding. It’s all Microsoft at the end of the day so I wouldn’t put too much store into what is being worked on and what isn’t. In a way, they’re both being constantly worked on.
Actually, I do hope they make a FM8, learn from the release mistakes and feedback of FM7 and just fix the bugs in FM7 and leave it be.
But FM8 really needs to be a feature complete, fully working game on release.
I am talking leagues, hoppers, auction house, no locked cars, and no technical issues.
A fully polished product, which makes a good impression from the start.