Halo Infinite Most Played Xbox Game in the US Last Week, Forza Horizon 5 in 4th - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 November 2021 / 4,861 Views

Halo Infinite was the most played Xbox game in the US last week, according to the "Most played games" list on the Microsoft website.

Forza Horizon 5, another recently released first-party game from Xbox Game Studios, was the fourth most played game.

One of the most played games of recent years, the free-to-play battle royale title Fortnite, came in second place, followed by 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in third.

Unsurprisingly, three other games in the top 10 are free-to-play including Apex Legends in fifth, Roblox in eighth, and Rocket League in 10th.

Halo Infinite was the most played Xbox game in the US last week. It beat many other popular free-to-play games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and CoD: Vanguard.

Forza Horizon 5, the 1 other 1st-party game, was the 4th most played game on Xbox. #Xbox #HaloInfinite pic.twitter.com/QDoWIvYCeS
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32 Comments

Norion (on 23 November 2021)

Vanguard not being the most played CoD seems like a pretty negative sign for how well it's doing.

gtotheunit91 (on 23 November 2021)

Awesome! Not entirely surprising for the first week of Halo's first FTP multiplayer, but let's see if it stays there. 343 definitely needs to drastically fix progression ASAP before they start losing casual players

zakr1995 gtotheunit91 (on 24 November 2021)

Its 100% impossible to stay number 1, when Fortnite and Warzone exist

scrapking gtotheunit91 (on 24 November 2021)

It's going to die out in about 3 weeks, from a spectating perspective, because it doesn't have a Battle Royale. ;)

shikamaru317 (on 23 November 2021)

Edit: Ok you fixed the typo now.

-1

eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

gtotheunit91 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Forza Horizon is anything but a SIM racer lol you're thinking of Forza Motorsport which releases sometime next year. FH is a series that has amazing legs. FH4 is around 30 million players last I checked, so I think FH5 will be fine. Infinite's early drop definitely slowed down it's popularity for sure though since FH5 is a $60 game whereas most of the other titles are FTP and don't require Xbox Live to play.

eva01beserk gtotheunit91 (on 23 November 2021)

gtotheunit91 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

That's assuming every single person who owns an Xbox also has Game Pass, which just isn't the case. There's still a lot of people that prefer to outright own their games. FH5 had nearly 2 million people playing before launch, which the only way to have done that was you either purchased the $100 premium edition or you bought the $50 premium add-on if you were a Game Pass subscriber. So FH5 being as high as it is, is quite a feat.

eva01beserk gtotheunit91 (on 23 November 2021)

gtotheunit91 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Perhaps, but Xbox doesn't provide exact numbers of players playing each game. I imagine at least a couple million play Apex Legends on Xbox, and FH5 still beat it.

eva01beserk gtotheunit91 (on 23 November 2021)

Ryuu96 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Also Forza Horizon is barely a sim, I'm not sure if you've played it, Lol. It's better described as an Open-World Arcade Racer.

eva01beserk Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

Ryuu96 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Yeah, I can see you haven't touched Forza Horizon, Lol.

If you would ask anyone who has played Horizon they would tell you it skews more towards Arcade than Sim (which stands for Simulation), the physics in Horizon are far from realistic, Motorsport is for more realistic driving, Horizon is for blitzing through fields at ridiculous speeds, doing crazy stunts, playing silly mini-games in a car.

eva01beserk Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

Ryuu96 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Dude, the physics in Horizon ARE different, on the driving alone, Lol.

You really need to go play a recent Motorsport and then play a recent Horizon, they aren't the same at all and Horizon hardly feels like a Sim, you're arguing against this point without even having played the game.

I love Horizon but find Motorsport boring AF.

scrapking eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Your repeated suggestion that it's a sim racer is wrong. It's not even a racing game. It's a driving adventure game (as opposed to an adventure game where you're on foot, or on horseback). I often play it for days without entering a single race. The Forza Horizon games not only have reams of solo challenges, they have tonnes of content that's simply exploration-based. What's "racing" about a solo challenge? What's "racing" about a reward for exploring a section of a map? What's "racing" about finding and restoring a "barn find" car?

I would say the majority of the game's content is not racing-based, given there's such a big map to explore, but that would in part come down to how the person chose to approach it.

It's far more accurate to think of it as an adventure game, as that's how it's structured. It has a main quest, side quests/challenges, it has a progression system, it rewards exploration. That makes it nothing at all like a sim racer.

And I'm sure many people cross over between adventure games and shooters, Forza Horizon and Halo included. Anecdotally, I saw it on my own friend's list, with people playing one, and then the other.

eva01beserk scrapking (on 23 November 2021)

Ryuu96 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Eh I've got to say too, last part doesn't really make sense, it could be said of sequels too, we know for the most part what to expect, regardless of what genre it is but just because we know what it is, doesn't mean we can't love it.

Side-note, I loved Forza Horizon 5.

eva01beserk Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

I agree 100%. My point is not that people dont love them. Its that like sequels if I dint like the first one its unlikely I would like the second one. unlikely that I would even try the second one anyways.

dane007 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

I am one of the 8 million people. I still play the game but not all the time as I have life commitments

eva01beserk dane007 (on 23 November 2021)

Thats respectable. To your point a game like fortnite thats played mainly by kids arent going anyware as much as we want. It sickens me to see my nephew throw so much money into that game.

dane007 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

I bet. I know alot of friends who that as well and I am like why though lol. Nope and for some parents fortnight is a great baby sitter tool

Ryuu96 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Bad news for Forza Horizon 5 being beaten by 3 massively popular F2P MP titles 2-3 weeks after its launch? Lol.

eva01beserk Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

dane007 Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

F2p is just couple of matches and it's done.. U can't just have cojple6of races and u are done. U can ish but no one plays forza horizon for just a couple of races a day

JackHandy Ryuu96 (on 23 November 2021)

It's a new Halo (and a free one to boot). It shouldn't surprise anyone that anything loses to that.

shikamaru317 eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Nah, it's a primarily singleplayer appeal game, it does have some multiplayer functiuonality but said multiplayer has never been super popular. The fact that it is still #4 this long after release, beating some juggernauts like GTA V and Apex Legends, and the just recently released Call of Duty Vanguard and Battlefield 2042, is impressive for sure.

LudicrousSpeed eva01beserk (on 23 November 2021)

Your anti-MS posts are always so ignorant, I can’t tell if it’s genuine ignorance or if you’re doing shtick.

First off, Horizon is not even close to a sim racer. And secondly, there’s nothing wrong with having less players than fucking CoD or Fortnite, LOL.