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Microsoft's Forza is now a $1 Billion USD game franchise

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Microsoft's Forza franchise, the racing franchise traditionally on Xbox consoles and more recently PC, has sold over $ 1 Billion in retail sales.

 

Forza is currently a Microsoft Exclusive and is only on Xbox and Windows 10. Recent titles include: Forza Horizon 3, Forza Motorsport 6 and Forza Motosport 6: Apex.

 

Microsoft is quite happy with these sales figures and has offered more figures regarding Forza:

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As of December, more than 14 million unique players were involved in the Forza community on Xbox One and Windows 10, the award-winning Forza Horizon 3 sold through 2.5 million units, and Forza continued its run as the best-selling racing franchise of this console generation.* Additionally, our online racing community expanded significantly: over three million players joined us online each month and we launched the Forza Racing Championship, an eSports league for players of all skill levels to compete for glory and real-world prizes

 

Awesome stuff. I will confess that I haven't played a Forza game in a while but some day when I have free time then I'll go and try out the Free To Play  Forza Motorsport 6: Apex.

 

Forza is a pretty good racing car game series and so i'm happy they're selling well.

 

http://www.windowscentral.com/forza-franchise-crosses-whopping-1-billion-retail-sales

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About time. I mean, the franchise already has like 8/9 games...

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I dont understand, it was the worst port i had ever tried..

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3 minutes ago, Pheelo said:

I dont understand, it was the worst port i had ever tried..

What issues did you have? I have FH3 and never had any major issues.

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I have never played a Forza game, but glad Microsoft has a success.

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I've been playing Forza Horizon 3 and its really good. I bought the digital version so I could play it on my PC last night. 60FPS on that game is a glorious thing.

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Forza has always been nice. I have fond memories of the first one on the OG Xbox. And Forza 6 is also sweet!

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5 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

What issues did you have? I have FH3 and never had any major issues.

FH3 was a train wreck for me.

 

The game did not launch if you had Avast installed, you had to completely uninstall it, not disable it, uninstall.

The game had pretty bad FPS and stuttering for the first few months.

Navigating the upgrades menu, especially rims, took forever because the game lagged so bad in the menu (the game was trying to calculate  0-60. 1/4 mile, accel and such when looking at each item).

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58 minutes ago, Snadzies said:

FH3 was a train wreck for me.

 

The game did not launch if you had Avast installed, you had to completely uninstall it, not disable it, uninstall.

The game had pretty bad FPS and stuttering for the first few months.

Navigating the upgrades menu, especially rims, took forever because the game lagged so bad in the menu (the game was trying to calculate  0-60. 1/4 mile, accel and such when looking at each item).

The only one of those I've experienced is the lag when changing wheels, but when I'm screwing around in menus and tuning it doesn't bother me.  Games runs nice and smooth when I'm actually driving, even on a computer that's way too old for that game.

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13 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

What issues did you have? I have FH3 and never had any major issues.

It's not that bad, It has scaling issues with older hardware but you also must remember that this game was originally designed to run capped at 30.

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23 hours ago, The Benjamins said:

What issues did you have? I have FH3 and never had any major issues.

I remember it using 16 GB of ram.

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1 minute ago, Pheelo said:

I remember it using 16 GB of ram.

That is a lot, I never noticed but I do have 32GB so I never felt a lack of RAM.

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On 2/14/2017 at 8:37 PM, Prysin said:

It's about as impressive as finding out mice can fart

pretty damn impressive!

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