Forza Horizon 3/ USA number 1 and China number 2 for PC sales!

China what the ****? Last place i would have picked i would have thought Europe, South America just somewhere else.

At an event at Beijing, @CarChris85 announced that China is the #2 region for Forza Horizon 3 PC sales, just behind US.

https://twitter.com/zhugeex/status/857374340282822656

If China is number 2 that speaks volumes about how little markets outside the US care about that game.

@Juub1990: and yet it stays on the European charts every month

Where?

China got a huge gaming population. You could be right but it also could mean Chinese gamer's are buying xbox games on PC..

Just goes to show how jealous PC gamers are of Xbox that they want to play our exclusives. Oh and it says a lot about the quality of Xbox One games.

Hey look at that! Without out a PC storefront that sells what used to be games exclusive to Xbox, China wouldn't have provided so many Forza sales. It's almost like they opened up a new stream of revenue they or other console makers don't have access to. I wonder if TC still think people don't but games on from the Windows store?

does anyone care?

That or console gaming in china isn't as accessible as PC gaming, so this makes it easier to play said games.

It's posted every month in the UK as far as I'm aware.

Also China is one of the largest PC gaming countries on Earth.

Consoles were banned fit decades in China. Makes sense they embrace pc

@Juub1990: Forza Horizon 3 was in the top 10 in the UK charts up until like 2 months ago. And it came out in September.

Unless I missed it I haven't seen Forza Horizon 3 in any top 10 charts for a few months now.

Sure and that's in huge part due to internet cafes being very popular there. Chinese people play a lot of games like LoL, DOTA or competitive MMO's. They're not really big on Xbox games.

Exactly, no one wants a computer unless consoles are banned.

if i dont like the main forza games but like other kinds of racers will i like horizon? i used to love pgr

Both XBO and Windows 10 PCs are Windows 10 based platforms. Xbox exist for both XBO and Windows 10 PC.

Forza Horizon 3 has seamless MMO features. I encounter my friend list's cars when I drive on Forza Horizon 3.

@ronvalencia: And you have seamless mental deficiencies.

MS's gaming revenue numbers are just under Sony's gaming revenue numbers.

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2016/apr/15/6-million-unique-players-played-killer-instinct-during-march-microsoft-reports-franchise-rises-all-time-high/

6 million unique players for Killer Instinct for March 2016.

MS's big games are Minecraft, Halo 5, Gears of War 4, Forza M6/Forza H3 and Killer Instinct S3.

No matter what anyone says this is very impressive.

Yeah, play the demo. Forza Horizon is a more arcadey racer.

Same here in Aus... stayed in the top 10 for months.

I never denied MS made money from the Windows store. I did say mobile gaming was a red herring. We know Microsoft is small player with mobile and gaming revenue is tiny.

Forza Horizon 3 is an xbox one game it was made for xbox one console. You have to download digitally off xbox live to play it digitally anyhow, there is no PC retail copy to buy. It's the xbox digital storefront.

Forzas baby !!!

This does have a lot to do with the price of rice in China, thanks for sharing. lol :P

Great game. Glad to see that it's financially doing well.

It sold 2.5 million copies just at retail in three months. Have no clue what it sold digitally? It could have sold 5 to 6 million copies. The new DLC likely push that number higher?

Link to evidence of tiny mobile revenue?

Also: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/forza-horizon-3-standard-edition/9nblggh4x6t9

I don't need an Xbox to buy or play Forza Horizon 3. Neither did Chinese gamers.

Also: You ever gonna respond to me in your other thread?

I can't respond to every post made by someone.

We know Microsoft phones don't sell good and we know Microsoft don't make games for it's phones. And when Miocrosoft talks about revenue its xbox software they talk about and new games bought on the digital storefront's they own.

Chinese gamers are xbox gamers you need xbox live to play the game.

No, you didn't proof anything, stop lying. We actually showed you evidence that Minecraft alone is generating huge profits for M$.

Just walk away @Zero_epyon, just walk away.

No you didn't.

Microsoft made 6.6 billion just on software and subscriptions.

30 million sales at 7$ each only made 210 million for them. Do you think Microsoft sold 30 million copies of Minecraft in 2016? 210 million is small dent in the overall figure.

@loe12k: "we know Microsoft don't make games for it's phones"

Stop lying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Studios

Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Games for Windows, Steam, Windows Store, and Windows Phone platforms.

Minecraft tops 100 million sales + the sales of in game content is much bigger than 210 million.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11838036/minecraft-sales-100-million

Stop lying

List those big money mobile earning games made by Microsoft then?

The AAA Games you play on the Window 10 store are xbox games. We know this because you have to download them digitally from the xbox live store on Windows 10.

Most of 6.6 billion revenue is coming from the sales of xbox products.

Lol so now that I proved that you lied you start moving the goal post? Pathetic...

And I already listed one of the HUGE mobile earning games: Minecraft.

6.6 billion is just one year (2016) gaming revenue.

You need to stop it game released in 2009. The 100 million people who bought this game have moved on since then. If 100 million gamer's bought the game every year, only then would the point your making make sense.

There were 40 million unique players of Minecraft per month on 2016. Per year the number is definitely higher. Probably 60-80 million. If the average spending is $10 that means Minecraft alone could be taking a considerable chunk of the 6.6 billion.

Those 40 million player's could have bought their game at any time in last 8 year's. They could spend what they needed to on the game already.

Just for argument sake even though you're wrong MS sold 10$ worth of DLC to 60 million gamers in one year. That's only 600 million.

You still left with 6 billion!!!

Yes but they can still spend money in in game content considering the game keeps adding new stuff.

Maybe but we're talking here about just one game. Those 6 billion still have to account for the rest of phones, tablets, PC, 360, xbone revenues.

Nope

Yes, the revenue is coming from tablets and PC. I never said otherwise. The red herring was mobile there is no evidence they make lot money from that space.

When you buy a xbox game to play on a tablet, PC, or on xbox one. It's a xbox one game its xbox revenue.

Anyway we never agree on this so it best to leave it here for now.

Here you are making shit claims without any information backing

In Q4 2015, Microsoft's Xbox gaming revenue has reached the number 2 position after "Server products, Cloud Services" products.

From http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-microsoft-apple-where-does-the-money-come-from/

Xbox hardware is a big part of that number, but the acquisition of Mojang (maker of Minecraft) and dramatic increases in Xbox Live services and sales of games made more of a difference.

The most startling bar on that chart is the one for Windows OEM revenue. That was once Microsoft's core product. Now it's barely over 10 percent of total revenue, as cloud services and enterprise software have picked up the slack. That's an impressive transformation.

1. Xbox hardware

2. Minecraft

3. Xbox Live

4. Sales of game

Microsoft's Xbox gaming revenue has surplus the two core products such as Windows OEM and Office Commercial.

But is incorrect to affirm that that revenue comes from xbone since people can buy games on xbox stores without even owning a xbone. And considering xbone is selling like crap relatively then obviously a bunch of the revenue is coming from other places too.

Aren't yall tired of the series? This series is getting more tiresome than Ass Creed.

@ronvalencia: You're spamming your worthless charts again that have nothing to do with the discussion taking place. Please take a vacation or take some english and debating crash courses somewhere so that maybe you can start making sense for once.

You are making shit claims without any information backing.

Captain Ron serving up the pwnage as usual. lol Good stuff. :P

If you would know how to understand english you would realize that your post basically is supporting my claim. It puts Minecraft as a huge revenue producer for M$ which was my claim. Hell even on top of xbox live which means it's probably bigger than I thought.

Just before November 6th, 2014 official Mojang buyout.

Try again.

@ronvalencia said:

@dakur said:

@ronvalencia: You're spamming your worthless charts again that have nothing to do with the discussion taking place. Please take a vacation or take some english and debating crash courses somewhere so that maybe you can start making sense for once.

You are making shit claims without any information backing.

Just before November 6th, 2014 official Mojang buyout.

They think i make this stuff up about PS3 sales too even though i provided sources backing up everything i said.