Interesting. They've caught up with something their console competitor introduced four years ago.
This is kinda funny. Forza 3 made a big deal about this and we [my racing circle and I ] were pumped for Forza 3 as much as any game that has ever been released but then we got the game and played it we were sorely disappointing. The changes they had bragged so much about were barely noticeable in game. The ABS no longer worked properly. The Online Lobbies that we loved so much were gone. The ability to tune in a lobby was gone. The local leaderboards gone, the career leaderboards gone. The web based leaderboards were broken and still have not been fixed to work as well as they did in Forza 2. The PI system was broken and almost forced you to drive AWD everywhere and of course we all like to drive RWD.
Many of the people I used to race with on a very regular basis left the series and have not been back. Some returned to Forza 2 and some just quit playing Xbox completely.
In FM3 they added Lemans, Fuji and Rally Positano. They also added the ability to gift tunes and load them so that parts were applied automatically which was a good thing.
Of course they added drag racing, storefront, drifiting the benchmark tracks and then NB GP as DLC. They modified career mode quite a lot but IMO not for the better. They added the hoppers which I have never liked.
In FM4 they did give us back some form of Public User created lobby but with the Hoppers the User lobbies just are not the same as they were before FM3 but at least they did do something about it. They added Rivals which is very cool. They added the Alps tracks which are very cool but they took away Bugatti and Rally Positano which is not cool. They did correct the AWD nonsense.
They added some other things improved the tire physics a bit though they still have along way to go and there are issues with suspension physics some which were also in Forza 3 and some new ones. Overall I would not say the physics are that great in FM4 but they are a bit better than they were in FM3.
I can say that I was much happier with Forza 4 than I was with 3 but I still think 2 was the better game so when I hear people talking about all the leaps and bounds Forza has made from one version to the next I just have to laugh a bit.
Of course There were also things that were better in GT4 than in GT5 tire wear for example was a biggie. Even with the issues that were in GT5 we did see huge improvements and continued to see small improvements after the release.
I expect to see several improvements in GT6 and I expect that we will get additional improvements after release. The physics I have saw so far look better than any Forza version or that matter any console game. Still early but hopefully that will be the case.
I was also pumped for the new Forza but if it does in fact not support our existing wheels that is enough to make me consider not getting the XBOne or FM5
