Before the game's release on 9 November, over 1.2 million players had accessed the game by buying either the premium edition of the game or the premium add-ons bundle as an
Xbox Game Passsubscriber, with
Video Game Chronicle estimating gross revenue between $54 million and $118 million before release.
[46] The game also reached #1 on the
Steam weekly charts for the week of 1 to 7 November 2021.
[47] Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, announced on 9 November that more than 4.5 million people have played the game in less than 24 hours after launch, the largest launch for an Xbox Game Studios game, while it also held three times more concurrent players than Forza Horizon 4.
[48]On 18 November, the official Forza Horizon
Twitteraccount announced that over ten million people have played the game during its first week of release, the largest amount of players for a game's first week in the Xbox brand's history.
[49][50] Writing for
Forbes, Erik Kain attributes the game's success to its at-launch availability on Xbox Game Pass,
cross-platform play between Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, its
cloud gaming support via
Xbox Cloud Gaming, and the high quality of the game itself.
[50] On 9 January 2022, two months after its release, the game passed the 15 million player mark, breaking the record for the previous game in the series in less than a year since it was released.
[51]The game attracted more than 20 million players seven months after its initial release.
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