Forza Horizon 5 Has Reportedly Sold Over 5 Million on PS5, Generating Over $300M in Revenue - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 January 2026 / 3,489 Views
Microsoft released its hit open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 5, on the PlayStation 5 in April 2025 and it has reportedly sold over five million units on the console according to Alinea Analytics analyst Rhys Elliott.
"Forza Horizon 5 crossed 5 million copies sold on PS5 this week (Alinea Analytics estimates)," said Elliot. "That's over $300M in revenue from a port of a four-year old game.
"Xbox's move to third-party is no mystery, especially given Microsoft's lofty profitability mandates."
Forza Horizon 5 first released or the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Game Pass in November 2021. It also surpassed 50 million players as of August 2025.
The next entry in the series, Forza Horizon 6, will launch in 2026 for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass, while it will also release for the PlayStation 5 "post-launch."
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I'm not sure I believe these sales number. More importantly if they are real what's more disturbing is even with these amazing sales Xbox was down last quarter and they predicted that they would be down next quarter. The amount of games they need to sell to keep that division growing must be massive.
They kind of go hand in hand. Shift to more third party sales and that’s going to drag on the console business. Being third party is going to be more profitable than the hardware business, so its not really surprising to see the latter decline as MS chase higher profitability.
I think he meant Xbox as a division and not just Xbox the console.
Edit: misunderstood your comment. Yes, I think all the people that are no longer purchasing software on Xbox platform (cos they feel it's a dying platform) would counteract the increase in sales on other platforms. Xbox had a lot of very loyal players up until recently. VGChartz was a great example of that.
I think it will rise because people really haven't been upgrading consoles and are content with what they have. As time goes on though they will start losing Xbox one and eventually Series users. Then again if COD sales keep dropping they could be in for a serous reality check.
In 2020 COD cost around 700 million to make its probably closer to 1 bil now. Sales for that game can't drop.
Actual sales too. Not just given away as part of a subscription service.
And to think that PS fans have been repeating for years the phrase: "There is nothing worth playing on Gamepass".
In all the years that Gamepass has existed (and in all the years I’ve frequented gaming websites) I’ve never heard anyone say this!
The 2 prevalent opinions on Gamepass have always been, one, that PlayStation needs something comparable. And two, that it’ll be the death of XBOX as we know it. The 2nd opinion is one that I’ve always held myself.
I’m not sure how much Gamepass has to do with XBOX being in its current failed state as a console, but the parallels can be drawn.
Why would any PS player say nothing is weird playing on Gamepass when games that we’re paying pull price for are being released day 1 on Gamepass? Doesn’t sound sensible at all! Doesn’t even sound real.
Played it to death on xbox, bought it again for PS5pro. Looks super impressive still. Well deserved.
The charts we've had so far didn't suggest it was selling this much. It was 17th YTD in USA end of November (and that includes any PC/Xbox sales it's still getting). Ghost of Yotei was 10th and we know that only hit 4m early December.
OFC racing games are usually bigger in Europe, but as of July 28th 2025 it wasn't in the top 20 there, behind old titles like MK8 Deluxe and Battlefield 1.
I'm always dubious of Alinea Analytics info, but considering the partial info we have from Circana and GSD, doubly so.
Microsoft has no choice but to release all of their games day one on ps5 lol its a no brainer
Honestly, I think that's coming.
Same as PS games going PC. Too much revenue to be lost
Yeah, some PS games are going to be day-and-date eventually. Maybe even all of them in the distant future.
I also think eventually more of their back catalog that doesn't require PlayStation features will be ported to PC.
Not day one so exclusivity is still a thing, If you wanna play now might as well buy a ps5, if not wait on PC but death lurk in every corner lol didn't want it to sound so morbid but it is what life is right now lotsa people missing out
Except you missed that people are willing to wait if it saves them from buying a complete new console. All platforms have a plethora of games to play while waiting for timed games to cross over.
Is this more popular than Gran Turismo?
Likely not. GT is at +20M, if I'm not mistaken.
GT 7 was btw 5 and 6m last June according to Sony so it is close
You wrong, but I also made a mistake.
It's not +20M, but +15M.
Based on the 100M sales report for GT IP, GT 7 is ~15M, at least.
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465824/gran-turismo-series-sales-top-100-million-units/
Greatest Racer ever made, except for FH3 which is set in Australia and i am bias.
Crazy impressive for a port of an Xbox game. I'll probably get it at some point. My most powerful Xbox is an Xbox One X (and I don't have a Gaming PC) and I know PS5 delivers a better experience just like Series X does over One X.
