Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Release Date, Price, and Expansion Confirmed

Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5 on January 26, 2027, Playground Games has confirmed on the game's official site, with Premium Edition buyers getting five days of early access starting January 21. Pre-orders are already open on the PlayStation Store, with pricing that mirrors the existing Xbox and PC release: $69.99 for the Standard Edition, $99.99 for Deluxe, and $119.99 for Premium, which bundles in the game's first paid expansion at no extra cost. The PS5 version launches alongside that expansion, nearly nine months after Forza Horizon 6 debuted on Xbox Series X|S and PC.

Forza Horizon 6 PS5 release date: January 26, 2027

Forza Horizon 6's official site now lists a firm PS5 launch window: January 26, 2027. That's the first time Playground Games and publisher Xbox Game Studios have attached an actual calendar date to the PlayStation version, after months of the game's marketing only promising a vague "later this year" window for 2026. The PS5 edition arrives roughly eight months after Forza Horizon 6's original Xbox Series X|S and PC launch on May 19, 2026, making this one of the longer console-to-console gaps in the Forza Horizon series' history.

The PlayStation Store listing for the Premium Edition lists its own release timestamp of January 21, 2027, which lines up with the early-access window Playground is giving to buyers of the higher-priced editions. Players who buy Standard or Deluxe will need to wait for the January 26 general release to start playing.

Premium Edition early access starts January 21

As with the Xbox and PC launch, Playground Games is giving Premium Edition and Premium Upgrade buyers a head start on PS5. According to the official Forza Horizon 6 site, that early-access period begins January 21, 2027, five days ahead of the January 26 release date everyone else gets. The PlayStation Store's own listing for the Premium Edition reflects this, showing a release date of January 21 specifically on that SKU's product page.

This mirrors how the early-access rollout worked on Xbox and PC back in May 2026, where Premium owners also got roughly five days of a head start before the wider launch. It's a now-familiar pattern for Forza Horizon releases, and it gives PS5 players the same purchasing calculus console veterans will recognize from other platforms: pay more up front, play sooner.

Forza Horizon 6 PS5 price and editions

Pricing on PS5 is identical to what Xbox and PC players have been paying since May, based on the pricing data published directly on the PlayStation Store's own product listings. There's no PlayStation tax or markup on any tier.

The breakdown of what's in each tier comes from Forza's own Editions and DLC list, which Playground Games maintains as the authoritative reference for what every SKU includes across all three platforms. Notably, there's no PS5-specific edition or bundle; Sony's players are getting the exact same tier structure Xbox and PC players have had access to since launch.

What's in the Forza Horizon 6 expansion

The PS5 launch doesn't arrive alone. Playground Games is timing the release of Forza Horizon 6's first paid expansion to land alongside the PlayStation debut. Per the official site, that expansion is included automatically with the Premium Edition and Premium Upgrade, and it's also available as a standalone purchase or as part of the Expansions Bundle alongside the still-unreleased Expansion 2.

Forza's own DLC listing describes the content in broad strokes: a new location to explore, additional cars, and new gameplay built around it. Playground hasn't published a more detailed content breakdown — no confirmed region, car list, or story hook — in the materials currently live on forza.net, so treat anything more specific you've seen elsewhere (location names, car counts for the expansion specifically) as speculation until Playground publishes a dedicated expansion reveal. A second expansion, Expansion 2, is also confirmed as part of the Premium Edition and Expansions Bundle, but it has no release window attached yet on any platform.

For context on the base game that this expansion builds on, Forza Horizon 6 moved the series to Japan for the first time, with Tokyo serving as the series' largest urban hub to date and a roster of more than 550 real-world cars at launch.

What's in Forza Horizon 6

For anyone catching up on the base game before it reaches PlayStation, Forza Horizon 6 is Playground Games' sixth entry in the Horizon branch of the Forza series, and the first to move the setting to Japan. According to its entry on Wikipedia, the game is built around a fictionalized version of Japan with Tokyo serving as its largest urban hub to date, paired with a car roster that launched at more than 550 real-world vehicles on Xbox and PC. The series' usual structure carries over: a festival-style campaign built around discrete events and challenges, player-owned and customizable homes scattered across the map, and creation tools that let players build and share their own routes, liveries, and festival playlists.

Multiplayer is a central pillar rather than an add-on. The game supports shared open-world sessions, competitive and cooperative race types, and the convoy/co-op structure the series has used since Forza Horizon 4, all of which extend to PS5 players once the console version is live thanks to the game's cross-play support. The title carries an ESRB rating, which can be checked directly on the ESRB's rating lookup, alongside content descriptors covering the game's driving, crash, and in-game purchase elements.

On Xbox and PC, Forza Horizon 6 is also included at no extra cost with an active Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass subscription, through the Xbox version's Microsoft Store listing. There's no PlayStation equivalent of Game Pass that includes the game, so PS5 owners will be buying one of the three standalone editions outright regardless of any other subscriptions they hold.

How to pre-order on PS5

Pre-orders for all three editions are live now on the PlayStation Store, reachable directly from the official Forza Horizon 6 site's "Pre-order on PlayStation" link. Buying digitally through the PlayStation Store gets you the standard pre-order bonus cars included in every edition — the Ferrari J50, plus the Peel P50 and Toyota Sports 800 partnership liveries — regardless of which tier you choose.

One thing worth flagging for anyone who already owns the game elsewhere: buying on PlayStation Store is a separate purchase from owning it on Xbox, the Microsoft Store, or Steam. Forza Horizon 6's cross-buy entitlements only extend across Xbox consoles, the Microsoft Store on PC, and Xbox Game Pass — there's no indication from Playground or Sony that a PS5 copy is included with any existing Xbox purchase, so PS5 is effectively a fresh buy no matter what you own on other platforms.

Cross-play and cross-save with Xbox and PC

PS5 isn't being treated as a walled-off version. Forza Horizon 6 was built from the ground up to support cross-play and cross-save across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, and PlayStation 5 — the first mainline Forza Horizon game to offer full save-data portability across every platform it ships on. In practice, that means career progress, your garage of unlocked cars, race completions, and player level should all carry over if you're moving between platforms, though cross-save doesn't hand you a second free copy of the game; buying on PlayStation Store is still its own purchase.

Multiplayer and the open-world Horizon Festival itself will put PS5, Xbox, and PC drivers into the same shared world and online events once the PS5 version is live, matching how the game has worked since its original launch.

Why the PS5 version is arriving so much later

Forza Horizon 6 was never a simultaneous multiplatform launch. Microsoft confirmed as far back as the game's original reveal that it would hit Xbox Series X|S and PC first, with a PlayStation 5 version following "post-launch" — a plan that held even as Xbox began selling some of its other first-party games on PS5 day one. Forza Horizon 6 launched on Xbox and PC on May 19, 2026, and for months afterward Playground Games' public messaging on the PS5 version stayed vague, repeatedly promising only that it would arrive "later this year" without attaching a date.

That vagueness fed persistent reporting through the summer and early autumn that the PS5 version might slip into 2027 rather than meeting the original 2026 target, even as Playground continued to publicly reiterate that the console version remained on its roadmap. The January 26, 2027 date now listed on Forza Horizon 6's official site effectively confirms those delay reports were accurate — the PS5 version missed 2026, landing instead in the first month of 2027, timed to coincide with the game's first expansion rather than shipping as a bare port.

It's worth noting what didn't change: Microsoft never walked back the PS5 release itself, only the timing. Unlike some past cases where an Xbox-published game's PlayStation plans got quietly shelved, Forza Horizon 6's PS5 version stayed listed and wishlistable on the PlayStation Store throughout the delay period, and Playground kept referencing it in its own update notes for the Xbox and PC version. The eight-month gap between platforms is unusually long by modern cross-platform standards, but it's a gap, not a cancellation.

Which PS5 to play it on

Forza Horizon 6 is a cross-gen-style open-world racer built around a large, detailed map, so performance mode on a base PS5 should hold up fine for most players, with a PS5 Pro offering headroom for higher-fidelity visual modes if Playground ships one. If you're shopping for hardware ahead of the January release, our breakdown of PS5 vs. PS5 Pro specs and pricing covers which console makes sense for a game like this. Xbox and PC owners who already have the game can also play it through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at no extra cost on those platforms — our Xbox Game Pass tiers guide breaks down which subscription tier includes it.

What's next

With a date, price, and expansion plan now locked in on Forza Horizon 6's official channels, the remaining open questions are narrower: Playground Games hasn't published a release date for Expansion 2, hasn't detailed exactly what new location or cars the first expansion adds beyond the broad "new location, extra cars, gameplay" description on its own DLC page, and hasn't said whether PS5 will get day-one parity patches alongside future Xbox and PC updates. Expect a more detailed expansion reveal — likely with gameplay footage and a confirmed setting — in the weeks leading up to the January 21 early-access window. Pandromeda will update this guide as Playground Games and Sony confirm further details.

Written byJonah Reyes

Jonah Reyes leads Pandromeda's gaming coverage: console and handheld hardware, release dates, pricing changes, patch notes and the business moves behind the biggest franchises. He sources every date and price from the platform holders and publishers themselves, and says plainly when something is still only a rumour.

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