Steam Numbers are going to be lower for games that are on Gamepass. Thats just a fact. If Starfield wasn’t on Gamepass and just xbox and PC only…its hitting a significantly higher Concurrent on Steam.
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Looked it up because I was curious lol.
https://twitter.com/Halo/status/24512835831?s=20
So Reach def hit 1M. I’m willing to give FH5 the benefit of the doubt. It was Xbox’s biggest launch OAT until Starfield.
Infinite’s is the odd one, we barely have any data on it unfortunately but if Steam was able to hit 250K concurrent, I’m willing to bet it did 3-4X that number on the consoles.
Wow…
Twitter account existed since then?
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This Games player count seemed to die down faster than expected.
10 million for Starfield
https://twitter.com/StarfieldGame/status/1704246689123492120
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10m for starfielf but 4m for texas. something doesn’t add up. NO way texas had that many players.
More platforms, including past gen, and recognizable name.
Texas Chainsaw performed well for gamepass. Plus, the game is usually in the top 25 most played on xbox. Heck at the moment it’s currently higher than Mortal Kombat 1.
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I think what Starfield numbers have shown is that a decent chunk are still on last gen consoles.
Took 13 days for Forza Horizon 5 to hit over 10 million. Reached 4.5 Million users after the first 24 hours.
New Gen Xbox sales were a bit under 12M units around that time in 2021.
Took Starfield 19 days to hit over 10 million and it had 6 Million after the first 24 hours.
New Gen Xbox sales is around 22-25M units as of right now.
I think it’s not easy to compare since there isn’t a timescale for when these milestones were hit for Starfield in that Bethesda didn’t say. And FH5 announcement came a week or two after the milestone was hit.
The other difference is FH5 hit at the tail end of the pandemic where more people were working from home etc….
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https://x.com/ForzaHorizon/status/1461503003614142469?s=20
FH5’s announcement came exactly on the day they hit over 10 Million.
As for the tail end of the pandemic stuff, that’s just excuses to me personally. As for the Starfield stuff ? You could be right but that’s alot of whatifs. I’ll just take them at their word.
Tell me about it. Waiting for Xbox One owners to load the map in Halo Infinite is frustrating.
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Texas Chainsaw had last gen, playstation as well as being a multiplayer game, which can quickly pile up the numbers, lots of people get their friends to play with them
It was also way up the GP charts when it launched and is still doing well, not surprised by the numbers at all
As for Starfield vs Forza, yeah a huge chunk of players were/are still on last gen, plus it’s also multiplayer and is considered one of the best racing games ever, it’s a monster of a series these days
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Yeah Forza horizon appeals to everyone, all ages etc. It’s the only game before Starfield I’ve seen move consoles here.
It is a very cute game. Played it a lot on my laptop.
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I really liked it. Stopped playing after the first DLC’s released though.
