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

Tags: arcade_racer, candid_interview, concrete, creative_approach, forza_2, forza_motorsport, kikizo, Microsoft, move_towards, pgr, project_gotham_racing, racing_simulator

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1 Comment » horngreen on May 22, 2008 7:16 pm Well it would be stupid to turn PGR into a hardcore sim. Then again after playing the PGR4 demo with the bikes I think making PGR5 at all is stupid. RSS feed for comments on this post. Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.