Forza Horizon Dev, Playground Making a Non-Racing, Open World Game

"We've become pretty good at racing games, but we'd love to prove ourselves in a different genre."

[RpgSama]

This is great for them considering they're an incredible developer, what worries me is that they haven't even opened their second studio, this means the new game will release at least in 2020, at the earliest.

[OhMyGandhi]

excited as well. Criterion went from the Burnout series to making BLACK, which was one of my favorite shooters on Xbox. Even though, I don't have an xbox one, I would love to see what they could do!

[chrisx]

I can see others are being slowly inspired by Guerilla Games type risks with Horizon Zero Dawn. That's good. They even stated that their new game could possible even come to the Ps4...Show me what you got

[gamer1138]

IGN made that suggestion about PS4. I would be surprised if the game wasn't at least a timed exclusive for Xbox considering how closely tied playground have been to Xbox. Turn 10 and Playground have worked together on the Forza engine.

[XXanderXX]

Screw timed , rather full on exclusive. Timed Windows are dumb either full exclusive or no deal.

[uptownsoul]

Remedy had close ties to Xbox and the 2 new IP they're working on will not be tied to Microsoft (source: https://www.videogamer.com/... )...So close ties doesn't necessarily mean much.

[LexHazard79]

Inspired, Tell me is Guerilla the first developer to work on a genre and then try out another? Think not.

[Kiwi66]

News Flash GG weren''t the first nor the last studio to try something different to what they usually do, but you think that only studios linked to sony/ps are the only ones who are capable of doing this

[Bruh]

Yeah but Playground Games was actually amazing in the genre they were working on before trying something new

[rainslacker]

I say the more variety the better. I'm all for developers spreading their wings. It's easy enough to get into a rut if you keep making the same game over and over again, and quite a few of the top brass at a lot of studios tend to be extremely creative types, with lots of good ideas.

[Relientk77]

Would be very interested to see what their open world game turns out to be.

[TheCommentator]

Playground makes really good games. Can't wait to hear more!

[Chaos_Order]

Good to hear. No doubting Forza Horizon is a solid racing series, but the devs may want to tackle something more ambitious.

[Doopy]

Cool. The Forza Horizon series is better than any racer on any console.

[Lime123]

I agree. Just like Bloodborne and Uncharted 4 are better than any Xbox One "exclusive".

[slate91]

MS needs to allow their studios more creative freedom! It was under don mattrick that 343 was for halo only. Name dedicated to the halo universe or not, they need to allow that juggernaut studio to create something outside of the halo universe. I like the direction Rare is headed.
They need to allow the coalition do the same as well.

[rainslacker]

While I agree with you, Playground isn't a MS studio. They are free to work on whatever they want, but obviously, they need funding for any project they do.

[slate91]

Youre right. Unfortunately didnt catch that fact before I made my comment 😅

[3-4-5]

*Imagine GTA but with the driving and racing of the Forza series.

[MoreRPG]

Does MS own this studio?

[XXanderXX]

Not yet , but hoping they nab this new game as an Xbox Scorpio console exclusive.

[Ceaser9857361]

"Not yet , but hoping they nab this new game as an Xbox Scorpio console exclusive."

I thought Xbox Scorpio wont have any exclusive particularly... Should release on the base model too.. Anyways cant wait to hear more.. Good times ahead.

[XXanderXX]

@arijitfrens2006 by the time this game is completely done, it will either be a Scorpio game or at the end of Xbox one S life cycle.

[mocaak]

Does that mean no Forza Horizon 4? From them at least? :(

[QUIMICOMORTAL]

FINALLY!

[Puertorock77]

They're ready to get some of that Playstation money.