Forza Horizon 5 launched on PlayStation 5 last year, and a few short months after its release, it was evident how the game was a smashing success on Sony's console, outselling even first-party games. Today, co-developer Virtuos confirmed on its official website that the racing game they helped develop was one of the best-selling games in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies worldwide.
"Forza Horizon 5 was one of the best-selling titles on PlayStation 5 in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies sold on the platform, and earning widespread acclaim with a 92 Metacritic score," Virtuos wrote on a new infographic. The developer also revealed specifically how it supported the creation of the game, working on roughly 90% of the photo-realistic vehicles featured in the base game and DLC expansion. It has also delivered extensive environmental assets and characters, developed comprehensive texture libraries and biome-specific visual detail elements, and produced advanced vehicle animations and damage.
Forza Horizon 5 selling so well on PlayStation 5 years after its debut on PC and Xbox Series X|S not only bodes incredibly well for Forza Horizon 6's release on the system, which will come later this year, but it also sends a clear message to the gaming community. Although it's rumored that Microsoft is actively talking about a return to console exclusives, looking at how the racing game by Playground Games has performed on PS5, it makes no sense to leave so many sales on the table just to return to a concept that would be pointless nowadays, at least for the Xbox brand, although console sales would recover with a return to exclusives, since many still purchase a system for them.
With the Xbox Project Helix targeting the PC market more than the console one and reportedly having no GPU customizations, thus losing the last thing that made an Xbox one, it seems like the next generation of consoles won't even feature a traditional Xbox system, but one that may just emulate a console experience. As such, with the success some games are having on rival platforms, pivoting back to an older strategy looks less and less likely.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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