Phil Spencer addresses the future of Forza Motorsport

Earlier this year following the then-latest round of lay-offs at Microsoft, insiders claimed that Turn 10 Studios – the team behind Forza Motorsport – had been directly impacted with future work on the racing series essentially being cancelled. While the studio themselves briefly addressed the reports at the time, Xbox head Phil Spencer has now offered his own statement on the matter.

In an interview conducted by the Japanese publication Famitsu (and translated by Windows Central), Xbox’s Phil Spencer was asked about the future of the Forza Motorsport series and whether it had been cancelled. 

Directly addressing the lay-offs and reports from earlier this year, Spencer stated: “As for Forza Motorsport, we sometimes have to shift our focus to games that will be released earlier. And I also understand that many people reacted when the scale of Turn 10 Studios was reduced.”

He continued, “As far as we are concerned, there are many games that we would like to support carefully, and sometimes we give the development team a little more time so that they do not continue to be in a state of tension.”

While mostly a nothingburger of a statement, it does indicate that Xbox has plans to keep the Forza Motorsport series alive…for now.

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