The team behind the popular subscription-based sim is finally making a video game you can play on your Xbox or PlayStation.
Subscription-based racing simulation company iRacing announced plans on Thursday to partner with NASCAR for a 'simulation-style console game' set for release in 2025. The release will be the first standalone game produced by iRacing as it exists today.
The announcement comes alongside an announcement that Motorsport Games, the creators of recent NASCAR home console games, have sold its rights to produce simulation-style NASCAR console games to iRacing ahead of this deal. NASCAR 21: Ignition, its latest release, received relatively poor reviews when it debuted two years ago.Since 2008, the core iRacing service has been available as a subscription-based simulator for PC gamers. While NASCAR has always been a major priority for iRacing, the service offers a wide variety of other cars and tracks to put on realistic, large-field races in open-wheel racers, sports cars, and dirt oval racers, too. The current iRacing platform already includes many of the major elements of a traditional console release, including modern stock cars, AI to race against, and a full calendar of licensed tracks. Those assets should make development of the final game easier than the task would be for a studio starting from the ground up, but modern expectations for a home sports game mean that a final console release will look very different from what players see on iRacing today. A final game will likely look something more like a traditional NASCAR console release, complete with a full field of cars and teams representing what fans see on track in the real world.While iRacing's development team has only worked on iRacing, the group has origins in the former Papyrus Design Group. That studio produced celebrated racing games for over a decade, ending with a game called NASCAR Racing 2003 season. A small, loyal community still runs what fans call NR2003, still seen as the high watermark for NASCAR games. If everything goes right, this 2025 release will be seen as a spiritual successor.
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