Microsoft has announced that Forza Horizon 5 will, as we’ve been suspecting for a while, make the transition to the PlayStation platform this spring, making its debut on PlayStation 5.
It will mark the first time that any Forza title has been available on any Sony console, and follows a trend of Microsoft becoming a publisher on the platform that began almost a year ago. The process started back in February 2024 with four titles — Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, Pentiment, and Sea of Thieves — released on PlayStation (and two on the Nintendo Switch) to test the waters.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was the next title slated for a PlayStation release, some time early in 2025, and it seems that Forza Horizon 5 has now joined that list.
Microsoft has re-enlisted the help of Panic Button for the PlayStation 5 port of Forza Horizon 5, with the Texas-based developer previously having worked on the Xbox Series port for Forza Horizon 4 and working in partnership Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios.
PS5 FH5 will be the same game at its heart, and come with the same content, as the Xbox and PC versions of the title and with full cross-platform play enabled. That should mean it’ll ship in the same state as its contemporary Xbox version, which recently entered Series 43 and looks to have wound down on much by way of new content.
As well as having the same 800+ cars out of the box, the PS5 version will have the same add-on DLC, which includes the Hot Wheels and Rally Adventure expansions, and the individual car packs as well as the recently added Ultimate Car Pack.
That isn’t quite everything, as PG is also working on a new, free content update called “Horizon Realms”. This is promised to allow players to revisit some of the favorite Series themes — or “Evolving Worlds” — from the past three and a bit years, and it’ll be released across all platforms.
It’s not clear precisely when FH5 will arrive on PlayStation, although it’s likely to be some time between mid-March and the start of June, but you can wishlist it from today.
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