I thought if we got Motorsport next year and Horizon 5 in 2022, they'd each have had 4 years to work on each game and we'd see some amazing results... but if Horizon 5 comes first, it makes me think something has gone wrong.
I think Japan is the popular choice (ray-traced neon cities
), but maybe they'd not want to do such a highly anticipated location in their first game of the gen, especially if the next one will be in the 'old' engine and we have to wait for FH6 before getting the new Forza engine Turn10 are working on.
Since getting my Series X, I've played through FH2 and FH3 to the credits (although nowhere near fully done with either), plus gone back to the original Horizon to try and bump up my Forza Rewards tier. My original plan was to space FH2 to FH4 out, but I'm having more fun with them than any racing game I've played before and kind of want to jump straight into FH4 even though I know there's a risk of too much Forza and getting burned out.
I know FH2 and FH3 are delisted, but you can still get FH3 and all it's DLC on sites like CDkeys, and the older games are still worth playing. They're not like your typical racing game where the new ones make the old ones irrelevant. I think I've seen Parksey say he'd like to eventually upgrade his Series S to a Series X and at least the discs are easy to come by and cheap. FH2 did frustrate me a little though with just how many cars were DLC, and even if it was free DLC, it's now cut off. For FH3 I'd bought all the DLC when it went on sale before being delisted.