What will be the future of Xbox as a console and the Forza Motorsport series?
Forza Motorsport is a series of games produced by Xbox Game Studios, exclusively for its gaming systems. Turn 10 Studios, an American company, has been in charge of its development since 2005, being one of the pioneering franchises in the Xbox ecosystem, jumping to fame thanks to the Xbox 360.
Although there is a spin-off saga called Forza Horizon, Motorsport seeks to emulate the performance and handling characteristics of a large number of real-life production cars. In practical terms, you can compare it to the Gran Turismo series, which is exclusive to Sony Interactive Entertainment for its PlayStation consoles.
Counting the games under the Horizon brand, nearly 20 million copies of this franchise have been sold, producing $1 billion over two decades. Even the most recent title of the spin-off saga, Forza Horizon 5, premiered this 2025 for the first time on a competition platform, PlayStation 5.
But far from being a financial relief by expanding the number of sales, the racing series is experiencing its most critical months because of some layoffs inside its developer studio, Turn 10. There is even more speculation about what Xbox’s true intent, such as hardware, is in the next generation of Gaming systems.
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What’s going on with Forza Motorsport??
After 9,000 layoffs inside Microsoft, many in its video game division and a few among Turn 10 Studios workers, uncertainty over the future of the Forza Motorsport franchise grew.
Even a studio ex-worker publicly said the saga was completely closed, and developers dedicated to this series of video games would be reassigned to secondary roles within Playground Studios, the company behind the creation of Forza Horizon.
However, communication from US companies came a month after the collective panic began. We want to assure the players that Turn 10 and Playground Games will continue to support Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5 euros, both studies published in an X statement.
Querida comunidad Forza, sabemos que muchos de ustedes tienen preguntas sobre qué pasará con la franquicia Forza de ahora en adelante, y apreciamos el apoyo de nuestra increíble comunidad. Queremos asegurarles a los jugadores que Turn 10 y Playground Games seguirán apoyando Forza… pic.twitter.com/MQ6Mcenxhr
— Forza Motorsport en Español (@ForzaMotorEsp) August 7, 2025
What’s next for Xbox in the console business?
Clear the doubts regarding Forza Motorsport and Turn 10 Studios, the persistent unknowns are even more disturbing, because despite confirming their presence in the tenth generation of video consoles and announcing their first portable console, the uncertainty around the future of the green X in the market is evident.
After the presentation of his agreement with AMD to manufacture his new platforms, a leak emerged, this time from an insider of the processor company, which ensures that Xbox not only prepares a family of consoles under its name, but also a line of PC gamers with its brand’s stamp.
If this information is true, we are talking about a project in which the US multinational, financially backed by Microsoft, points and competes in two different segments, that of consoles and that of gamer computers.
Xbox goes for everything, and now it’s serious.
In addition, Xbox will also be present in the portable laptop and PC segment, being a hybrid between a traditional console and a pocket computer. This has already been confirmed by the US company, in addition to its compatibility with Steam.
All these devices are powered and moved by AMD chips, which, if true, is profiled as the great beneficiary of the new strategy, as the demand for their processors will triple, and you will be able to find ways to make them more profitable, and therefore obtain better profit margins.
In conclusion, the green X, once again, shows that having the checkbook of a technology giant like Microsoft allows it to bet on several markets at the same time. And now much more that has the collaboration of reliable manufacturers like AMD and Asus in the case of their new portable models.
