Confirmed - No Porsche in Forza 4!!!

Straight from forzamotorsport.net.

"What’s the status of Porsche in Forza Motorsport 4?

This kills me. While Forza Motorsport 4 will feature RUF, it will not include Porsche cars. As many of you know, since the beginning of the Forza franchise, the Porsche license has been available only through a sub-licensing deal with EA. In Forza 3, we were able to feature more than 35 different Porsche models by offering to collaborate with EA. For Forza 4, we were looking forward to adding even more Porsche cars, and we were especially looking forward to featuring multiple Porsche experiences in our new Autovista mode. In the end, however, EA couldn’t see their way towards collaborating again.

We’ve asked our contacts at EA to reconsider their position frequently and regularly over the last 18 months. We also reached out to various influential people in gaming to lobby on our behalf, and on your behalf, but that was to no avail.

In our business, we stay friendly with all of the manufacturers and licensors necessary to deliver players rich and innovative automotive experiences. As you’d expect, this includes quite a few key people in Porsche circles. To make sure we tried everything, we consulted with these advocates and were happy to find they were already aware of the situation and lobbying from within on behalf of Forza 4--and, despite the result, we thank them for their efforts.

While we respect EA’s need to run their business as they see fit, we’ve regularly collaborated in the past and hope we can find our way back to that approach. Forza had the exclusive license for all Ferrari cars, for example, on the Xbox and PC platforms. But at the end of the day, we’ve always found that we just weren’t willing to block other racing games from having Ferraris outright, as we believed that this would do nothing but hurt the racing ecosystem.

I’m very sorry for all of this. Fans shouldn’t have to think about any of this – you should just be able to drive Porsches and Ferraris in the games you love. Porsche makes wonderful cars and I’m sorry that we won’t have them in Forza 4. As I mentioned earlier, we have added three RUF cars in Forza 4. RUF is a manufacturer in their own right, not simply an aftermarket mod shop—they completely remanufacture and enhance the models that they start from, and the results are unique, incredibly fast, and the cars look great. Losing more than 35 Porsche models is a lost opportunity for Porsche fans (as well as a lost opportunity to make future Porsche fans), but I hope that Forza 4 players understand and enjoy the new makes and models that have taken their place."

, that sux, hope this isnt to much more of this kinda news coming out as we get closer....who didnt love thrashing a Porsche.....!

already talked about it over here
https://ozfm.darkbb.com/t2003p180-forza-4-cars

The RUF's look the same anyways.....EA can get stuffed

EA

Maybe it's because T10 didn't give Shift 2 the Ferrari licence this time around. Nothing like a bit of tit for tat.

Ooh getting the popcorn out!

There goes the Carrera Cup. Oh well good for me as I totally suck at driving Porsches.

oh man the flying lizard was my favorite car in the whole of fm3 too. Damn....

i loved most of the Porsches, but what really makes it hurt is that EA hasn't even done anything decent with the licence. their racing games are utter rubbish compared to Turn 10's and Codemasters. hell, i rate even RacePro well above the Shift series.

if someone wants to do a Porsche based series in the future (after the release of FM4) i'd be more than happy to crack out my copy of FM3.

i'm an EA member so a nasty email is in order.

on another note doesn't that equate to no Bathurst as well, considering EA would be involved there too...

ted wrote:on another note doesn't that equate to no Bathurst as well, considering EA would be involved there too...

I could be wrong here, however I don't believe EA have the license to Bathurst, rather the GT licence they have enabled them to have the Bathurst Track in the game. Granted it they have the GT license exclusive then yep, the fans of forza would be stuffed, but given there is little likely hood (and I hope I am wrong ) of us getting Bathurst it is all hopes and dreams anyway.