Forza 5 is 1080p because Turn 10 could rely on Xbox One’s cloud during development
Time saved creating online features has been spent on visuals and physics.
Forza Motorsport 5 owes its 1080p visuals and 60 frames a second performance to Microsoft’s furnishing Turn 10 with easy access to scalable servers, creative director Dan Greenawalt has told OXM. The ability to tap into Xbox Live Compute has allowed the studio to lavish more time and development resources on the game’s visuals and complex physics systems; without this advantage, it would have had trouble achieving Forza 5’s final resolution.