Forza Horizon 5 Tops 32 Million Players - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 August 2023 / 5,637 Views
The open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 5, has surpassed 32 million players, according to the Hall of Fame leaderboard in the game itself. This was spotted by Twitter user Stallion83.
The open-world racing game had topped 30 million players in May 2023, 20 million players in June 2022 and 15 million players in January 2021.
It 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.
Forza Horizon 5 released for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Game Pass on November 9, 2021. The Hot Wheels expansion released on July 19, 2022 and the Rally Adventure released on March 29, 2023.
The entry in the Forza series, Forza Motorsport, will launch for the Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass on October 10.
Forza Horizon 5 is a smashing hit: It has been played by over 32 million people so far. 🐐 #Xbox pic.twitter.com/rLgyT0aNIF
— Stallion (@Stallion83) August 7, 2023
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huge numbers, fantastic game!
I would love some solid sales figures on the game, but I know that MS doesn't operate that way anymore.
Due to multiple account sign ins and how you only have to play the game once to be considered a player, it could be somewhat less than that. If someone tried gamepass for a month for a dollar, they would be considered a player even if they didn't continue the subscription or even play that long.
But I have no idea. I don't even know how well Forza Horizon 4 sold as a comparison point. The series could be super popular sales wise or just moderately and I'd be none the wiser lol
You can only sign into one account, which is your Xbox account to play the game. You are right though. Who knows how many people just used a GP promo for a month that came with their laptop or something, tried it, then never played it again lol.
Forza Horizon 4, we do know sales up to a certain time. It had 10 million in sales by June 2019. 2 million sales were in the games first week, but that was the last time official sales were shown. So I still think 10-15 million in sales for FH5 would be accurate. The game already had 1 million in sales before it even launched with the 5 day early access.
Disc vs. digital doesn't make any difference, it's how many gamertags have played the game. If you buy it digitally, anyone else can play it on your "home" Xbox. If you are a Game Pass subscriber, anyone else can play Forza Horizon 4 or 5 by logging into Game Pass so long as you're also logged into Game Pass on that device. So it's just about the number of Microsoft Accounts that have played the game, and who paid for the game, or the subscription, or whether it's digital or disc, doesn't matter.
Well, at least we can assume that it has sold really well on PC; I mean, the game has been on the Steam top 100 for 101 consecutive weeks. If that doesn't sound like much, just think that Cyberpunk has 8 weeks, FFXIV Online has 35, and RDR2 has 6 (all games that we know have sold extremely well); and just as a sidenote: the only one of Sony's bangers on the top 100 at the moment is R&C (with 2 weeks).
Does this count people who played for 5 min then never again? I just don't find this the same as sales numbers kinda impressive. How many of them actually bought or fully played the game?
Yes, but either way, 32 million is still a lot of people and probably close to 10 million have bought the game. I can't imagine anyone playing it for just 5 minutes. At least a few hours. It's a great game and with very addicting gameplay.
Quality has nothing to do with playing for 5 min in most cases. Lack of time. Just not for them. Got side tracked and just never got back to it. Happened to me plenty in the latter for games. Sometimes trying modern racing games like one of the Horizon games just wasn't for me. Felt bored.
According to the achievements, 69% got the first achievement. 11% made it to the hall of Fame, which is later in game. I think it's safe to say 30-40% of people played longer than 5 hours. 30% didn't make it past the first achievement. Do with that what you will.
You trail games you are interested in.
We need sales numbers lol
Was good. I just hope for a more exciting location next time. I've currenly moved over from horizon to nfs unbound, and enjoying the racing more.
Still going? Best Car racing game ever made
Forza is Xbox's biggest 1st party ip now?
Minecraft?
