Forza Horizon 6 Tops 6 Million Players - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 May 2026 / 5,115 Views
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Playground Games announced Forza Horizon 6 has surpassed six million players.
"Forza Horizon 6? More like Forza Horizon 6-Million!" reads a post on social media. "Thank you all for joining us at Horizon Japan."
Forza Horizon 6 released for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass on May 19. Early Access started four days earlier on May 15 for those with the Premium Edition or Premium Upgrade.
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Reminder that 6 million players is not the same as 6 million copies sold. Most of them were probably on Gamepass. Still a great number, though.
Most of them where not on Gamepass since it already had over 3 million players before it launched on Gamepass this Tuesday. Not to mention you have to have the Ultimate tier of Gamepass to play it there most people have just the Premium or Standard version of Gamepass.
This is probably gonna be the best selling Forza Horizon game ever, and Forza Horizon 5 was huge. So its okay, it'll do fine.
Why does that matter? Someone that plays a video game is the same as someone else playing a video game.
They really did Japan justice in this game. Well done Playground, now we wait for Fable.
I've just bought it and looking forward to it arriving (for Series X) Physical copy as always prefer that way.
well deserved!
