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A post originating from IGN reporting that the PS5 version of “Forza Horizon 6” — a title that had been positioned as an Xbox exclusive — is being cancelled sparked reactions on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board.
In the thread, some pointed to the recent leadership change atop Xbox’s gaming division and its new push for more exclusives as the reason, while others took the chance to needle Sony over its “Only on PS5” branding, touching off a back-and-forth between fans of both camps.
Source is IGN
Source: x.com / Original post here
What people said
they'll probably ship it anyway.
Must be a Sony mole on the board —
seriously, releasing your exclusive on a rival's platform is just insane.
The head of Xbox's gaming division changed and openly said they're ramping up exclusives, so yeah, this is probably really getting cancelled.
Microsoft: "Guess our stuff can be Xbox-only too then, huh? 😄"
Can't really complain, right?
Maybe it'll come out exactly a year from now.
No joke, they did release 5, and its sales fell way short of the hype, so it's no surprise it's on the chopping block.
Kind of sad, honestly.
Exactly.
It doesn't hurt anyone when a Sony first-party stays exclusive, but losing a Microsoft title to exclusivity is a fatal blow.
Well, that's just how console war (geha) flame wars go.
Same paper-thin nonsense again today (obscure meme phrase, hard to parse).
And there's the classic "but Switch 2!" deflection, thanks lol
I had one up through the PS4, but I only ever played Japanese games on it.
Not interested in Western games.
GTA6 running at 30fps would wreck your eyes too, so you won't be playing that either, huh?
Did you really come to this thread just to say that? lol
This whole thing where Xbox fanboys look down on PS people kind of pisses me off.
So it's fine when I do it, but you guys can't?
That's a refreshingly blatant double standard.
Just like Kennosuke.
There was that weird pressure campaign pushing "Nintendo should do it too," remember.
Development costs skyrocketing.
Oh yeah, true.
Kind of weird to be begging for FH6 while ignoring GT, though.
Whether this game comes out or not, both platforms are trash either way,
so it doesn't really matter in the bigger picture.
That's just sour grapes talking.
Xbox's exclusives are strong, though.
I'm having a blast with my Switch 2.
Isn't that the part where you're supposed to at least name a game, even if you're lying?
He was talking about the hardware itself from the start.
Here's roughly what I've played since switching to Switch
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HQw3VNmboAAoySt?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
If it never had a PS5 version to begin with, the gaming press would've torn it apart 100%.
Steam helped too, but it was nice having positive buzz keep flowing in normally.
"Mighty Japanese" reviewers (said sarcastically) are still rating it low as ever.
Actually, the score's tanking specifically around the playlist stuff.
Something feels off about dropping a low rating after almost 200 hours of playtime.
Background and Key Points
Forza Horizon has been Xbox/PC-first since Playground Games launched the series in 2012 under Microsoft’s own studio banner, but that stance already cracked in 2025 when Forza Horizon 5 itself got a PS5 port — the “5” and its lukewarm reception that posters reference in the thread. Around the same time, Xbox’s video-game division saw a leadership change, widely reported as Xbox President Sarah Bond taking a more prominent role and publicly emphasizing a return to platform-exclusive titles rather than Microsoft’s brief flirtation with going fully multiplatform. Sony’s side of the joke, “Only on PS5,” is the marketing tagline the company has used for years to promote console-exclusive titles like Spider-Man and God of War, which is why posters treat Microsoft reversing course as ironic payback.
The thread’s real disagreement isn’t whether the cancellation is good or bad — nearly everyone frames it positively for Xbox loyalists — but why it’s happening: some credit the new leadership’s explicit pro-exclusivity messaging, while others point to FH5’s underwhelming PS5 sales as proof multiplatform releases simply didn’t pay off financially.
What’s easy to miss is that this entire story traces back to a single IGN report relaying an X/Twitter post, not an official Microsoft statement, and Forza Horizon 6 itself hasn’t been formally announced — so “cancelled” describes a PS5 version of a game whose existence is still unconfirmed. Readers unfamiliar with the FH5 port may also assume Forza was always strictly Xbox-only, when the multiplatform experiment is barely a year old.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Version Cancelled ♥“.
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