Forza Horizon 5 Tops 20 Million Players - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 June 2022 / 3,192 Views

The open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 5, has surpassed 20 million players, according to the Hall of Fame leaderboard in the game itself.

Forza Horizon 5 had the largest launch day ever for any Xbox Game Studios game and had over 10 million players in its launch week. Its launch day had a peak concurrent three times that of Forza Horizon 4.

The racing game would reach 18 million players in January of this year, while another first-party Xbox game, Halo Infinite, topped 20 million players at the same time.

Forza Horizon 5 Tops 20 Million Players

Forza Horizon 5 is available now for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Game Pass.

Thanks, VideoGamesChronicle.

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13 Comments

2zosteven (on 06 June 2022)

fantastic game!

LivncA_Dis3 (on 06 June 2022)

Would be happy if it was 20 mil sales hahaha!

Sadly game might've sold just a fraction of 20 maybe 5?

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Chris Hu LivncA_Dis3 (on 06 June 2022)

It sold way more than 5 million units there were over a million people that bought the Ultimate Edition and played the game in the early access period.

Chris Hu Chris Hu (on 06 June 2022)

Also let's not forget a good chunk of the people that play it through Game Pass also bought some of the DLC for the game.

scrapking Chris Hu (on 07 June 2022)

Nearly two million people played it in the early access window, which required buying either the Premium version of the game, or the upgrade from the the game pass version to the Premium version. And it's not even a sure thing that 100% of people who purchased the Premium edition actually got around to doing so (anecdotally, one of my co-workers bought the Premium edition but didn't get around to playing it in the early access period).

scrapking LivncA_Dis3 (on 07 June 2022)

Given it appeared to be well received on Steam as well as on Xbox, I suspect it's done better than 5 million.

In any case, the comparisons vs. Forza Horizon 4 are still valid as Forza Horizon 4 was also available in Game Pass. And probably no shortage of people have bought DLC for the game to supplement the Game Pass edition. That'll likely become even more true as the expansions launch.

Azzanation LivncA_Dis3 (on 07 June 2022)

Why does that matter? Does not take away from the popularity of the product

rapsuperstar31 (on 06 June 2022)

G2ThaUNiT rapsuperstar31 (on 06 June 2022)

It's most likely anyone that has played the game at some point either through Game Pass or by purchasing the game. If you logged in and played for a minute, you're in that list of 20 million, including PC players since you need an Xbox Live account on PC and the game has cross play/progression.

If there were 20 million players still playing it, they would've said 20 million active players or something like that. Makes sense that so few players have gotten all 53 achievements. Just on Steam, the rarest achievement is sitting at a 0.8% of Steam players unlocking that achievement.

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smroadkill15 rapsuperstar31 (on 06 June 2022)

It's anyone who has downloaded the game and launched it. Looking at the number of people of have completed all the achievements doesn't mean much. A good chunk of them are probably achievement hunters. Plenty of people like myself have put 40+ hours into the game and only have half of the achievements because we play it the way we want to.

Shiken rapsuperstar31 (on 06 June 2022)

Comments like these are hilarious. The same thing was said about Halo Infinite, but looking at achievement percentages and doing a little math would tell you just as many people beat the Halo Campaign in the short time it has been out than people who beat Uncharted 4 in the same timeframe, if not more. Kind of makes this kind of downplay look silly if you actually look at the facts.

Why can't we just be happy for a great game's success, regardless of the console war crap?