The Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2025 broadcast ended with a teaser to the next Forza Horizon game. As many fans clamoured and wanted (as acknowledged in this interview by Xbox Wire), the next entry to the open world racing game is heading to Japan.
The teaser shows a bunch of license plates based on the locales of all the previous games, a Colorado plate for the original Forza Horizon, a pair of European license plates for France and Italy for Forza Horizon 2, an Australian one (Forza Horizon 4), a UK plate (Forza Horizon 4) and finally Mexico for Forza Horizon 5. At least for the last two plates, plate numbers represented a key characters that players interacted with during the Horizon Festival, Kiera in FH4 and Rami (under his nickname “El Jefe) for FH5. The last license plate isn’t quite a Japanese-style license plate, but it does say “Legend” in katakana lettering.
The teaser shot ended with a picturesque view of Mt. Fuji, a lake, some sights of low residential housing with a familiar Japanese-style architecture, and conveniently placed stems of cherry blossom trees on the sides, while phonk music incorporating Japanese instrument plays out.
Forza Horizon 6 will “launch first on Xbox Series X|S consoles and PC in 2026” which implies it will eventually launch elsewhere (i.e. the PS5). Forza Horizon 5 sold quite well when it dropped on the PS5, but even if Xbox now sells game on multiple platforms including other consoles, they’re putting Horizon 6 first on Xbox and PC.
Expect to see elevated roads, the Japan map will include Tokyo as well as “Japan’s rural and mountain areas.” It would be a crime not to see a representation of some touge roads.
That’s all to it to the teaser, but there is a chance that developer Playground Games will ship a new Forza Horizon before the new Fable.
More news of Forza Horizon 6, including its gameplay reveal, will be rolling out in early 2026.