Forza Creator Dan Greenawalt to Retire From Microsoft After 27 Years

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The future has never looked more bleak.

Dan Greenawalt has apparently left Xbox.



I'm now more convinced, and no longer optimistic that a new Forza Motorsport will ever happen again.

Long live Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo.

(RIP Motorsport, 2005-2026)
 
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GBalao888
The future has never looked more bleak.

Dan Greenawalt has apparently left Xbox.



I'm now more convinced, and no longer optimistic that a new Forza Motorsport will ever happen again.

Long live Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo.

(RIP Motorsport, 2005-2026)
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Well I hope he passed the baton back to Kazunori before leaving
 
This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Forza Creator Dan Greenawalt to Retire From Microsoft After 27 Years​

Dan Greenawalt, the man who pitched Forza Motorsport to Microsoft and founded Turn 10 Studios to build it, is retiring after almost 27 years with the company. The news comes from an internal Playground Games memo seen by The Verge’s Tom Warren, and it arrives barely five weeks after Turn 10 was folded into Playground Games.
 
He certainly created a great franchise and drove some heavy competition for Gran Turismo. Its a shame neither game series truly scratches that itch for me that the earlier ones did anymore. But I do consider Forza Motorsports 3 and 4 among the best racing games I've ever owned. Up there with Gran Turismo 3 and 4 (something about the 3rd and 4th numbered titles).
 
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Wait, he did?

I genuinely didn't know that. No wonder I've never disliked Dan. :lol:
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Yep.
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I'm fairly sure he has a Special Thanks credit in PGR4, as well. Edit* Yeah, he's there as well b/c of his Microsoft role.
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As i kid i always had a deep envy for my friends with xbox because they could play Forza Motorsport 4, all the best
 
What a great career he’s had. Teenage me had a blast with FM2, 3 and 4, and beyond. That game changed my life as it was the first time I’d paid attention to game development and Dan built a great community as well, and the transparency from the FM team set the bar compared to PD. I met so many great people through Forza, makes me think back to those times.

Kudos to Dan.
 
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Massive thank you to Dan Greenawalt for his part in PGR and for making Forza Motorsport 2-4, to this day some of the best racing games ever imo, with PGR4 and FM4 being my absolute favourites.

I used to watch so many of his videos during the announcements and release of FM3 and FM4 and you could just see the passion this man had for all things cars. A true legend in my eyes.
 
Well, FM had a brilliant run. I have some incredibly fond memories of it, and so glad that stuck with Xbox between 360 and Series X. Good times indeed. I hope MS come to their senses and continue with FM where they left off. Big company execs are the worst - they have absolutely no idea what the end consumer wants. All they see are numbers or stats on a graph.
 
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Never really got on board with Forza except for just the occasional testing. I did get an Xbox and believe Forza 4 at one time. I believe that I would of jumped ship if Forza had all or most of the car roster from horizon.
 
So he's handing the baton back to Kaz? :dopey:
 
CinnamonOD
So he's handing the baton back to Kaz? :dopey:
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In Forza Motorsport (2023), the 1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe costs 165,000 CR.
It costs Cr. 20,000,000 (20 million credits) in Gran Turismo 7 :ouch:

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That's a shame. Never had an Xbox of any variety myself, but I had seen Forza as a respectable rival to GT. This is especially since Forza has always been on a platform that's always been virtually fighting for its life from conception, with Xbox not only being the sole non-Japanese competitor up against Sony and Nintendo, but also the only one from the United States, so I respect the fight a lot. (It's a lot like how I root for the Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R, as it is both the only American automaker in LMDh/LMH at the moment, and Whelen Engineering is based in my state in particular.) Hopefully CEO Sharma can keep Mr. Greenawalt within orbit somehow, as I've been finding myself very impressed with what I've seen of her leadership.

Also, I had an idea for an alternative headline: "From 'Turn 10' to the Finish Line: Forza Creator Announces Retirement" Though I wonder if it'd work better with a different publication...
 
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CinnamonOD
So he's handing the baton back to Kaz? :dopey:
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There's still FH6. The Turn 10 team is now fully engaged with the Horizon team. Once the hype dies down a bit with the latter, they might shift their attention to FM. The online channel where you report issues for FM is still active. So, who knows, right? Anyway, it's had a good run but if they go back to it, that would be a dream come true. So much potential just left untapped. Asha would be mad to not designate a team to pick up where they left off.
 
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