Personally, the only thing I think that might happen to FH6 as a result of this is the "increased monetisation" referred to in Asha's email. So I wouldn't be surprised to see paid DLC packs earlier and more of them.
Oh, and i already thought T10 would likely be wound up and staff integrated into PG as soon as the PS5 port is finished and main bugs sorted, but I am feeling that to be even more likely now.
The biggest impact, in my opinion, will be to FH7 which I believe is going will be churned out with the bulk of it generated by Microsoft AI (note: Microsoft AI is all perfect and contains zero AI slop [sarcasm alert]).
My own personal interpretation of Asha's "AI slop" reference is:
Everybody else's AI : "AI slop"
Microsoft's AI: 100% perfect, just like grassy meadows on an idyllic summer day.
I have a gut-feeling (after read Asha career) that now that Phil is gone, Satya will do what he wanted to do with xbox in the first place: Spin-off into a new company or sell it all (or a part of new company shares) to the highest bidder (right now i feel would be between Apple, Amazon, Meta and mayyyyyybeeeee tencent but tencent is also doing cuts, saudis are out beacuse EA and cuts)
how it would impact forza is unknown, but basically the new CEO is there to be a caretaker and maybe help with a possible IPO of the new company, if needed (Asha had done a succesful IPO before). this why asha is being nice and most listening to the people, also why she semmly is free to do what she wants and even allowed to mention and use the term "Slop" (Satya HATES the term): beacuse Xbox won't be part of microsfot (at least directly) very soon...
but, hey that is my gut feelings and i was wrong before
just a side note about forza horizon and profits, the actual system for horizon is not only profitable enough, i feel she will mirror it to other xbox games specially if FH6 be another profitable success for Xbox, but i feel they may hit a road block that it is...
- This will be the only place to race cars that you will not be able to use in Festival Events just yet.
- For example: With the structured restrictions of the Horizon Festival, Hypercars can’t be used in Festival races until you’ve obtained at least the Purple Wristband. which is quite late into the game. This means players who want to stay engaged in the stricter progression system can do that in the official Horizon Festival events, while others who want to immediately jump into the fastest cars will have unofficial events as part of Discover Japan open to them.
I hope the game be as good for those that likes the sandbox element of FH4/FH5, i know it turns off a lot of hardcore fans (including some here), BUT some of reasons why both 4 and 5 still sells a lot, is due the easyness of get any car you want, drive around race with it
Hardcore racers hate it, but most casual players seems to like it enough to make Forza Horizon 5 the second most played racing game of all time (first obviously is mario kart 8)
if they go with "hey you can't do campaign missions just yet, but dont worry: we have those special ''''unsantioned'''' races for you" at least i hope it has a similar number as horizon festival races, beacuse otherwise, will turn off many that see horizon more as a car sandbox than a propper classic racing game
This what was my biggest problem with the FH5 hot-wheels DLC, the progression there was great (and i assume is where they are using parts of it for FH6), but, outside of the pgoression, there had nothing else to do if you wanted do a casual drive or a quick race with some random 999X car outside of campain, in some times you were pratically forced to race the campain if you wanted use some car just for unserious fun
it is actlaly very similar akin to the "snow vs no-snow" debate, the reason why FH5 pratically removed all snow was breacuse most people disliked winter in FH4, but hardcore fans complanied so much that they are bringing it back. i am sure they wont do a update to remove all snow for the FH5 map obivusly, but i still imagine how it would impact FH7 (if it contunes being produced the same way as before)
I totally suck at drifting, so I hope drifting isn't a mandatory requirement on the way to Legend Island.
That is another part of above debate, as well, how hard it would get to reach this island, if is too hard, it will turn off some players that like exploring as well
i get the idea of "reward for hard work" but sometimes people dont want their car game to look like freaking dark souls
still waiting Proton in Forza
The fact that proton already has a hotwheels but not any car on Forza is borderline criminal
i mean, it shouldnt be that hard take a small trip to the proton factory in east asia nad ask them to scan a car and put in the game, i am sure proton woiuld love have the gaer just like they liked have the hot wheels
Food deliveries? Excited for Doordash: The Game
to be fair, we had car delivery missions in the past, and also the taxi missions
i am sure we will have afew with Ar86 for sure
if PG is smart, they could give away the Toyota Auto Body COMS as prize for get all stars in the missions
It is a common delivery driver used by convenience stores and pizza places in japan
i heared toyota plans to make a new generation, but the GEN 2 will be always my favorites
the pizza ones i found from a japanese traffic incident website, they have a area to post about rare cars and so it seems the 7-Eleven one is more common than the Pizza-LA one
Irokawa Space Center seems like it's a made up location (from what I could find online). But perhaps it's inspired by Tanegashima Space Center which exist IRL
That is usual on ficctional japanese media or media in japan, its seems hard to get
JAXA (Japanese NASA) license outside certain contents, so people end up making ficctional bases overall
