Heh. Gamepass was at about 2 million when this launched.
Imagine how FH5 is gonna do.
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I love how EVERY news outlet completely missed this news back in November. 
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Haha almost forgot that Gamepass was not what it is now. Day one numbers are going to be huge. It is always amongst the most played games on Gampass too.
Forza horizon has got to be top 3-5 IPs for MS surely. 90+ rated service games that sell well and work well with Gamepass, what’s not to love.
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This game is most likely the best selling Xbox game from last gen, wouldn’t be surprised because this game has been hanging out in the top 15 most played games in the US ever since it came out on Xbox One, reached 10 million players in like 8 to 9 months and while I’m sure GamePass helped it a lot I wouldn’t be surprised if at least 30-40% of those numbers are sales which would put it between 8-10 million.
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FH4 is literally THE service seller, it’s always at the number one spot on Gamepass Most Popular, even ahead of Halo. It was the game that made me get Gamepass.
Oh, and Forza Horizon 5 will blow these numbers out of the water.
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Wow did everyone miss this? Never heard it before. Wonder what they are at now.
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Holy fucking shit!!! That’s massive for Playground and Forza Horizon 4. Can’t wait to see what Forza Horizon 5 does.
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To spitball
I bet it does 12 million in the first week. And 25 million within the first year.
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Easy eventual 30 million when it launches day 1 on Xbox one, Series X | S and Steam.
Yeah, probably. Forza Horizon 5 will be massive especially if it’s cross-gen which I do believe that it will be.
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Yeah I wouldn’t say 30 million if it were fully next gen. Maybe Horizon 6 could be when we’re well into the generation. But I too think FH5 is cross gen and releasing later this year or worst case early 2022. There has to be one other game that Jason Ronald was referring to that hasn’t been announced, FH5 just makes sense for it to be that.
Agreed.
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Exactly my thoughts too. The new was posted literally on launch day though, so it makes sense I guess. Wild numbers. 13mil for ESO, 15mil+ for SoT, 24mil for FH4 as of Nov '20…these are some insane figures.
Incredible stuff:
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What’s most impressive is that it has continuely added new players at a steady rate, which is the definition of a game having legs.
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This is also a result of outstanding support with new game modes and cars. No other GaaS racer comes even close.
Forza has surpassed Gears as the second biggest brand at xbox game studios 
(not counting Zenimax).
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There’s a chance Horizon 4 was bigger than Halo 5 too, I do think that between Halo, Gears and Forza Horizon last gen Forza was by far the most successful, what’s crazy is I believe Horizon 4 has lasted way longer than Halo 5 ever did in Xbox’s top 15 most played games in the US, that’s just crazy lol.
Plus there are lots of things that would only cause those numbers to keep growing or even accelerate that aren’t accounted for in this figure. It’s insane.
Let’s wait for a halo game that launches on pc and gamepass day one to decide if halo is or isn’t more popular than horizon.
Think infinite could pass 50 million players 2 years after launch, but who knows.
Kudos to playground though.
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