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Forza Horizon 5 sets Xbox Game Pass launch record with over 10 million players

The milestone seals the biggest Xbox and Xbox Game Pass launch in history.

Forza Horizon 5 has topped 10 million players in one week to deliver the biggest Xbox and Xbox Game Pass launch in history.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer had already declared Playground Games' soaring racer as the company's biggest first-party launch to-date, with the title racking up 4.5 million players across PC, cloud, and console as of November 10, 2021.

The game also managed to triple Forza Horizon 4's peak concurrent player record within one day of launch.

Forza Horizon 5 launched on November 9, 2021, for Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S and Windows PC, and like all Xbox Game Studios titles was made available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers on day one.

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