Forza Horizon 6 has officially launched. Well, for people willing to pay extra to play early. For everyone else, we have to wait until May 19. Turns out, though, a lot of people paid up for those four days of extra fun.
SteamDB is showing that Forza Horizon 6 managed to hit a peak concurrent player count of 172,093 players. That’s not a massive playercount normally, but it is when the game is only available to people who buy the $119.99 Premium Edition of the game.
Xbox players can get a slightly cheaper deal by grabbing a month of Game Pass Ultimate and then purchasing the $60 Premium Edition upgrade.
Speaking of which, we have no idea what the total player count is across all the available platforms.
Regardless, the Steam numbers indicate that Forza Horizon 6 has already brought in a pretty good chunk of change for Microsoft. I mean, if we do some very rough napkin math and assume that every one of those concurrent players bought the Premium Edition at full price, that’s around $20.65 million in revenue from Steam alone. Again, that’s very rough math, as a lot more people have bought the game on Steam than just the concurrent count, and many of those probably didn’t pay full price, either. Still, it gives us a general idea.
On top of that, Forza Horizon 6 is currently ranked as the top reviewed game of the year so far. Basically, it’s a rare Xbox win.
