Forza Horizon 5 is now the biggest Xbox launch ever

Forza Horizon 5 is a very good game. It is also a very popular game. Your Twitter feed could currently be filled with people sharing screenshots and videos from the open world drive. mine is. And now it has been confirmed that the latest power The title has become the biggest launch in Xbox history with over 10 million players in a week to speed Mexico.

Forza Horizon 5 was released on November 9th and quickly brought together three times as many simultaneous players

as the last game in the franchise in just 24 hours. The launch on Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, and PC certainly helped a lot.

Now, according to the official power

Twitter account, the game reached a major milestone: It had the biggest launch week in Xbox history. That includes the whole past gloriole Games and other things power Title. With over 10 million players in its first week, it has quickly become one of the most popular games of 2021.

Of course, launching Game Pass helped a lot as a lot of people who might not be interested in racing games downloaded it Forza Horizon 5 to see what everyone is talking about. But that also shows the power of Game Pass and how Microsoft’s investment in the service established it as a hitmaker. When a good game starts with Game Pass, the odds are stacked in its favor and Forza Horizon 5 shows how successful something can be.

This latest hit for Xbox and Game Pass comes after years of Microsoft struggling to make it really big with one of their exclusive titles. Lots of them like Sea of ​​thieves and past Powers, well done. but Forza Horizon 5 feels like a real blockbuster for the company and could bode well for the full Halo Infinite release in Game Pass in December.

It should also be noted that on Steam, both Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinites Multiplayer is going great, with hundreds of thousands of active players. So it’s not just Game Pass that makes these games a huge success, but also the strategy of releasing across multiple PC storefronts.