Forza Horizon 5 Tops 4.5 Million Players, Largest Launch Day Ever for a First-Party Xbox Game - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 November 2021 / 2,844 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer via Twitter announced Forza Horizon 5 has had over 4.5 million players across the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and cloud.
This figure is enough to make it the largest launch day for any first-party Xbox game. Peak concurrent players have reached three times higher than the peak of Forza Horizon 4.
"We've invested for years in Xbox so more people can play. With 4.5+ million players so far across PC, cloud & console, Forza Horizon 5 shows that promise coming to life," said Spencer.
"Largest launch day for XGS game, peak concurrent 3x FH4 high. Thank you players & congrats to [Playground Games."
We've invested for years in Xbox so more people can play. With 4.5+ million players so far across PC, cloud & console, Forza Horizon 5 shows that promise coming to life. Largest launch day for XGS game, peak concurrent 3x FH4 high. Thank you players & congrats to @WeArePlayground
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) November 10, 2021
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3x the peak concurrent player count vs. FH4? Which itself was an awesome game?! I'd love to see the breakdown between Xbox, PC, and cloud players!
Well deserved.
Forza Horizon always delivers!
Nice to see Xbox getting some success and big numbers happening with an exclusive.
That's crazy....
Concratulations to XBOX, and TURN10 for making the best racing game even better! Now if only i could get my hands on a SX...
I had quite a few connection drops yesterday. Their servers must have been on fire!
Sucks I can't play it. That wait for gt7 burns
You could sign up for a Game Pass free trial, and stream Forza Horizon 5 to a phone/tablet/PC/smart fridge/whatever, if you'd really like to try it. :)
Can you game cloud on android? Such as linking gamepass to the pixel 6 pro and sync a controller to the phone$
Yeah that's exactly what you can do!
Yep. I have read anecdotes on articles and YouTube videos of people who didn't own an Xbox or a gaming PC, but signed up for Game Pass Ultimate anyway and just streamed games to their mobile device(s). Often they went on to later get a gaming PC or an Xbox, but they were able to check out the streaming version of the service for as little as a $1, so why not?
Congrats to PlayGround!
Okay I don't wanna be that guy, but isn't that just 1 in 5 gamepass subscribers checking the game out?
I will eventually, but when I saw the PC Gamepass download was 110 gigs I decided to wait until I can clear up some space. I'm sure I'm not the only one lol.
Also, a lot of people impulsively want to get/download games on launch day when they feel the hype. I'd imagine many that thought this weren't able to get it downloaded in time on launch day as that's a lot of gigs. Most people don't have fiber.
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