So my reason for this is cause of the recycled playlists for May meaning that April/Horizon Realms will be our final major update for FH5 and since the recycled playlist is right before the Summer Games Fest/Xbox Games Showcase I have a wonderful feeling that FH6 will be announced in June but what are y’all’s thoughts about this?
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Actually, I’m not sure. I don’t think they officially confirmed that this will be the final update. 
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FH6 will definitely be announced around summer, assuming that they go for a Autumn release date.
I also really hope that they will start the monthly livestreams again around that time.
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me to. mostly the summer games fest.
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Would be great if they juiced the PS5 version of FH5, and within a year release Horizon 6.
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That would be great11
According to Tom Warren, an inside source and writer for The Verge, the Xbox Summer Showcase for 2025 will take place on June 8th.
Sorry for the late reply but thanks for letting me know and I thought of something we know that in May we’re getting Fujimi Kaido back in FM23 and if we get German car’s with Fujimi Kaido then FH6 will be set in Germany or if we get Japanese car’s the FH6 will be set in Japan or if we get a mixture of Japanese, South Korean, and Chinese car’s then FH6 will be set in either Japan/South Korea or China or somewhere in Asia cause this update is literally weeks away from the Xbox Games Showcase on June 8th and also both Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon do share basically almost everything with each other
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Hi. I honestly don’t think we’re getting FH6 this year. I would say that they will reveal the Nintendo switch 2 port of FH5 along with another update (just like realms).
Most likely FH6 will be revealed in the 2026 showcase with the immediate direct.
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I think that would not be very smart.
I think if they really have plans on going to nintendo switch, then it would either be smart to do so at the same time as PS5 , or they keep that option for FH6.
If they do so, they can generate hype, just like rn with PS5.
With that hype towards the end of a game, they have more attention for the next games announcment and so they also make more money.
A nintendo switch release right after PS5 would probably fly under the radar, also Switch 2 has just been announced, i dont think they want Forza Horizon as a launch title, since the games premium edition costs just a little more than the new MarioKart.
That wouldnt be the best Marketing.
Im curious to see who will be the creative director, as that is the most important role in development id think.
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With the latest update in FH5 and New Car Pack, I’m going to speculate it’s a sign that FH6 will be based in Japan. The Horizon Realms feature could be a precursor to “drifting type” arenas placed throughout the FH6 map where you accumulate highest scores. Japan has a rich drift culture so it makes sense. The lastest car pack is also Japanese cars so that could be a hint too.
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Other hints would be Fujimi Kaido returning in Forza Motorsport, and the fact that there are Japanese Forza Horizon social media accounts now (before FH5 was released, the Spanish social media FH accounts were a hint to the game’s Mexican setting).
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I would agree but the spanish accounts were created after the fh5 announcement
I’ll pass on that. I don’t miss the livestreams at all. That video that they put up to explain the Realms update did everything the livestreams did in a quicker and less cringey fashion. More of that please instead.
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I was under the impression Torben took over the role of creative director. Also, given how Mike Brown didn’t leave until around late 2022/early 2023, there’s probably a chance some of Mike Brown’s Horizon formula is still present in Horizon 6, but with luck (and a lot of prayer), hopefully 2023, 2024, and 2025 were spent on course correcting the franchise.
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Well, with GTA VI now coming out over a year from now, it’s open season for the video game industry this year. While, of course, Horizon 6 isn’t going to magically manifest from nowhere, I’d say the odds of Horizon 6 coming out this year have increased more than somewhat.
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The team traveled to Hakone for a 10-day photoshoot. We captured tens of thousands of photos, hundreds of hours of video driving up and down the mountain roads – and even created photogrammetry scans of the assets we planned to recreate once we returned to Redmond, WA.
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So in other words there’s a 50/50 chance that FH6 will be set in Japan after all then?
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