Overview
- The Japan-set racer, which launched Tuesday, is live on PC and Xbox Series X|S with day-one access for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC members.
- Playground confirmed cross-play and cross-save between PC and Xbox, with PlayStation 5 support to follow at a later date.
- Early engagement is large, with Windows Central reporting 270,000-plus Steam players at launch and DayOne tallying about 1.68 million entries on an early-game speed-trap leaderboard.
- Series 1, titled Welcome to Japan, runs May 21 through June 18 with weekly reward cars, a Festival Playlist, new lifetime Series History Rewards, and the paid Car Pass delivering weekly vehicles.
- Some wheel users report handling and frame-rate hiccups, and hardware maker Fanatec published baseline settings such as Simulation steering, a 1.5 force feedback scale on Xbox, and 1,440 degrees of rotation.