Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20 million people had played Halo infinite and 18 million had played Forza horizon 5. The CEO said that the numbers will include people who played for a few minutes and did n’t stick around.

Horizon 5 is available on the Xbox game pass subscription service. Halo infinite’s multiplayer uses a free-to-play model. Non-Game pass subscribers will have to buy the campaign separately.

In 2020, Microsoft announced that 24 million people had played the previous entry in the Forza series. But that was over two years after the game, horizon 4, came out. In 2017 the studio behind the Gran Turismo series said that the most popular entry at the time, Gran Turismo 3 a-spec, had sold just under 15 million copies.

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Halo infinite’s multiplayer is free-to-play, and previous Halo games had to be purchased. Before the game launched, the series as a whole had sold 81 million copies in its 20-year run.

Microsoft’s goal was to get people to try Halo, but it seems like it’s been very successful. It seems that the goal has been successful.