In a candid interview with Kikizo, Microsoft’s Shane Kim was asked about the future of the PGR franchise now ex-creator Bizarre has flown the coop.

His reply was interesting to say the least:

That’s a great question, you know, we have a great internal racing studio in Turn 10, the creators of Forza Motorsport. And our goal is to roll the studio so that they can do more creative execution within the racing space. So you can imagine a future where they would develop a new version of Project Gotham Racing.

We don’t have anything concrete there, and I do think that after four versions of PGR, it’s really important for us to take a fresh creative approach to it and to really think about what we want the next version of PGR to be if we do that.

If Turn 10 were to create PGR5, would the franchise retain its arcade racer style roots or move towards Forza 2’s standing as an incredibly deep racing simulator?

Source: Kikizo

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