Forza Horizon 5 Is Heading To PS5 With Cross-Play

Forza Horizon 5 is heading to PS5. Playground Games’ open world racing game from 2021 which still continues to receive weekly monthly game updates will go proper multi-platform soon.

The PS5 port is helmed by Panic Button, a developer specialising in ports. The team made the Xbox Series X|S version of the now-delisted Forza Horizon 4, and many “impossible ports” on Nintendo Switch, from Doom Eternal to Warframe.

The announcement confirms cross-play will be available, allowing players on Xbox and PC to race and hang out with their PS5 compadres in Forza’s take on an open world Mexico. There’s likely no cross-save, like how the Xbox/Microsoft Store version does not have cross-save with the Steam version.

Forza Horizon 5 has seen monthly updates where the game world itself was changed for the occasion, something the devs refer as Evolving Worlds. A new feature called Horizon Realms will be available on all platforms allowing everyone to revisit some of the community’s favourite Evolving Worlds, whether that be Mexico during Christmas time when a whole town is decorated for the occasion, or one of the events where the empty Horizon Stadium gets turned into an extreme sports park where you can drive cars on half pipes, and more.

Xbox really is committed in being a third-party publisher. While seeing Xbox-owned Bethesda stop making their games first-party exclusives is a natural change to how it used to be (though it’s curious not to see Starfield announced for the PS5 yet), seeing Xbox Game Studios spreading beyond Xbox and PC is something wild. And now, one of the best racing games on Xbox, and one of the best games Xbox Game Studios ever produced, is a proper multi-platform title. What a time to be alive gaming.

Xbox Game Studios will also be publishing another game on the PS5: the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 4.

Forza Horizon 5 will be out sometime in Spring (Q2) this year.

Source: Forza

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