Halo: The Master Chief Collection By Far Most Popular Xbox Release on Steam - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 April 2021 / 2,470 Views
Halo: The Master Chief Collection made the jump to Steam starting in December 2019 and has proven to be a huge success for Microsoft. It is the most popular recent release from Xbox Game Studios on Steam with a peak of 161,024 concurrent players, according to figures are from SteamDB and posted by video game analyst Benji-Sales on Twitter.
The Halo collection had a peak of nearly 100,000 higher than the second-ranked game from Xbox Game Studios. Sea of Thieves reached peak concurrent players of 66,906, followed by Microsoft Flight Simular with 61,829.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps comes in at fourth place with a peak of 34,807 players and Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition in fifth place with 20,146 players. The early access title, Grounded, has reached a peak of 16,878 players.
Forza Horizon 4, which released this week on Steam, comes in at number seven with a peak of 14,609 players. Its peak could potentially be higher this weekend.
Here is the list of recent Steam releases of Xbox Published games by peak concurrent players:
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection - 161,024
- Sea of Thieves - 66,906
- Microsoft Flight Simulator - 61,829
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 34,807
- Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition - 20,146
- Grounded - 16,878
- Forza Horizon 4 - 14,609
- Gears 5 - 10,196
- Gears Tactics - 7,351
Peak concurrent players on Steam for recent Xbox Published Games
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) March 10, 2021
Master Chief Collection - 161,024
Sea of Thieves - 66,906
Flight Simulator - 61,829
Ori WotW - 34,807
Age of Empires 3 DE - 20,146
Grounded - 16,878
Forza Horizon 4 - 14,609
Gears 5 - 10,196
Gears Tactics - 7,351 pic.twitter.com/GXzhPYFyHx
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Its Halo.
So that's good news please add Rare Replay, Halo Wars 2 and Halo 5 Full Game (Multiplayer and Campaign on Steam)
Thing is I think H5 is too large (in terms of storage space) to go into the MCC. 343 won't want to release separately and distract from the phoenix that is MCC
Every campaign and mulitplayer content is an optional install. With that said, they could add Halo 5 to MCC since you can control the size. Doing that would also encourage more people to buy and play Halo 5.
Either way, a Halo 5 remaster needs to fix the bad draw distance settings of the original release and add split screen modes. Four player split in the campaign and multiplayer would be amazing. However, the original Halo 5 has remained a popular title so its possible MS may opt for the option that doesn't split the audience.
Yeah doing 30fps headshots on the 2D promethean crawlers once they left the LOD was pretty trippy.
I say what I say 'cos of the waypoint post last summer stating that H4 would be the last Halo title in the collection to put those rumors to bed. https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/sweet-stories
Why the heck you get downvoted on that? PLEASE BRING RARE REPLAY TO STEAM
