Turn 10 Studios announced Forza Motorsport 7 today during Microsoft’s E3 press conference, and it’s primed to be the best-looking and most feature-dense entry in the series. The game was tailor-made to take advantage of the new Xbox One X’s added horsepower, which should render the game in 4K resolution and 60 frames per second.
This also the first full Forza Motorsport game to hit PC. (The series has tested the Windows 10 water with Forza Motorsport 6: Apex and Forza Horizon 3.) And if you want the cars, the tracks, the raindrops on the windshield to look their absolute, pixel-perfect best, the Windows 10 version — with the help of some top of the line GPU — will be the best choice.
Freedom to customize versus tight integration
But the real advantage isn’t necessarily what you’d expect. The key difference, according to developers, will be the PC’s adaptability — being able to use more types of controllers and wheels, for example. Here’s what some of the head folks responsible for Forza Motorsport said when I asked them about PC vs. what at the time was still called Project Scorpio:
Alan Hartman, head of Turn 10 Studios
“Oh, of course, of course [PC will be better]. I don’t know what that gap is come this winter when we ship the console. But there’ll be a gap. You can go spend however much you need to spend to get over it. Obviously, you can throw ten thousand plus dollars into your PC and build a killer rig, you can do multiscreen. That’s not what the console’s trying to be. The console is trying to be an entertainment device you just take into your living room, plug it in and you’re up and going. The PC commitment’s a different layer.