As of Thursday, Forza Motorsport 3 was released in Japan with the European release coming this past Friday and the North American release is coming in less than a day.  This means, that unlike Bungie, who update their site a little before their game launches, Turn 10 updated their site on Thursday to include a new “My Forza” section.  This is where your things will be saved including your screenshots and your video.

The banner for the new section.

For your video, you can only have one up at a time, and it will only be hosted on ForzaMotorsport.net for 24 hours. Again, unlike Bungie whose videos in your Fileshare are just game code and so are relatively small, the video uploaded to ForzaMotorsport.net is a full rendered video in either 360p or 720p for up to 30 seconds of duration. I’m sure you can see how that might add up.  Having several video slots would take a significant amount of server space, so only having one slot is justifiable. Could we see a service similar to Bungie Pro with Forza 3? After a quick chat at this weekend’s Forza Motorsport 3 launch event in Toronto with Korey Krauskopf, Lead Producer of the game, we were told that this one video limit may be increased in the near future.  This was said to be due to Turn 10 not knowing how much the feature would be used, and as such, how much space they would need. So to be on the safe side they went with the conservative allotment.  If the feature isn’t used as much as expected, we can pretty definitively expect more slots!

Specifically with pictures, there seems to be no limit to the amount of pictures you can upload. They are defined by your store front in the game, and they are updated on the website nearly instantly.  If you’re interested in some shots I’ve taken within the Forza Motorsport 3 engine, they’re embedded below.

Finally, the post regarding this area states (in the URL alone) that this is still just a preview.  The image above mentions two things that are not yet even represented: stats and leaderboards.  This will presumably show your online statistics (how many races you’ve started, completed, won, placed 2nd, and placed 3rd) similarly to what was available in-game in Forza 2. The leaderboards will show who’s at the top of each of the storefront areas, as well as likely allow you to check your ranking.

With much more coming to the My Forza section of ForzaMotorsport.net, this is one section you should keep your eyes glued to.  It’s certainly in store for some cool new additions.