Microsoft hosted its quarterly financial conference call for investors and analysts and CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood talked about the Xbox business.
It sounds like they’re referring to the Halo campaign - which is not free to play.
Forza Horizon 5 is definitely not free to play.
But the numbers make sense, if they have 25 mil Game Pass subscribers, you can probably assume most GP subscribers are going to try out the big games like Halo and Forza.
@anubisgold Where did you get game pass for free? They currently bill me for it.
@Crows90 I assume they mean campaign. It’s only ~2 million more than Forza which is not free to play and the numbers line up with how many subscribers game pass has.
I'm not gonna lie I thought MS hid the Halo Infinite numbers because they weren't so great. Which would of been weird considering the hype around the game and the great reviews. It looks like MS was just waiting for its financial quarters.
Glad to see Halo do big numbers player counts and Forza is just on top of it still even after being out for 3 months.
More proof that MS bigger games will be fine in the long haul.
No way Halo Infinite Campaign sold 20 million, it's counting free 2 play on Xbox and PC, FH 5 is on gamepass too. Neither would sell 10 million that quick at $60 a pop
-Youre joking right....no shiii, thats one of the reasons games go on Gamepass, to quckly gain a high player count, they are not focused on individual per unit sales, Halo MP for instance being f2p can sell those cosmetics to a much, much larger playerbase day one and so on. You guys gotta get out more, theres more to sales these days than the traditional unit sales.
Good to see 2 great games being enjoyed by so many gamers...well deserved high numbers.
@ Orchard From the xbox live gold cards you can transfer into a year of game pass, let me see i got for free this year MLB the show 70 dollars, Back 4 blood 60 dollars, Halo 60 dollars, Forza 60 dollars , Psychonauts 2 50 dollars, jedi fallen order 60 dollars, Age of empires 4 60 and i paid nothing this year because i transfered my gold account over to gamepass for 1 dollar thats cheaper than 420 dollars. PlayStation cant compete withs its 70 dollar games what a joke.
You did get it for free these salty ponys are mad some of got several years of gamepass for cheap with the left over gold cards you can still find for cheap and transfer them over . I still have a few 12 month gold cards at my local gas station and i will buy 1 for me and one for my nephew so we will have game pass for awhile more.
If its free to play then the fluff is strong with this article. If they paid to play it, then wouldn't this make gamepass a more expensive way to game? You pay a monthly for gamepass, plus an additional occasional game would come out to more money than you would pay if you only picked what you wanted and paid for it. I mean I guess gamepass would make sense if you are playing a ton of games. Otherwise you are overpaying unless gamepass is and continues to be super cheap.
Game pass is one dollar or 60 dollars a year if you buy up the left over xbox gold 12 month cards you can still find them at gas stations your local dollar general or family dollar thats where i been getting mine from i had game pass for like 2 years now and never have paid full price for it i also pay for my nephews account the same way. Buy the xbox live 12 month cards are drying up there are only a few on the shelves in my town i would buy them up if i wasnt worried about them going out of date before i use them since xbox changed it policy now you have to let your game pass expire before you get another year transfer if you dont wait it only changes over to 3 months of gamepass now.
Isn't it free to play? The player count sounds great, but how does it compare to the other F2P titles, like Fortnite and the like?
Must be great for the devs to know so many people played your game.
Both got more players in a couple of months, than most games will ever get an entire generation.
Well deserved for both.
Microsoft out here just swaggering around now.