The top-selling new game on the PlayStation 5 so far this year isn’t from Sony, nor is it from any third-party publisher you may expect. It actually comes from Xbox as Forza Horizon 5 tops the list.
In a year already full of blockbusters and breakout hits like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Monster Hunter: Wilds, an older title is trumping them all.
Forza Horizon 5 originally launched on November 5, 2021 for Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S. Four years later, however, it’s finally made its way over to the blue brand, marking the first title in the fan-favorite racing series to be ported to the ‘rival’s’ hardware.
It’s a monumental moment in Xbox history as the company ports many of its former platform exclusives to PlayStation systems. Now, sales data has proven it’s been a monumental move commercially as well.
Forza Horizon is the PS5’s best-selling new game so far in 2025
Forza Horizon 5 has now surpassed 3 million copies sold on the PS5, according to data from Alinea Analytics. These aren’t official numbers, so do take them with a grain of salt, but Alinea has proven a reliable source in the gaming industry.
Thanks in no small part to a recent sale on the PlayStation Store, the Forza title rocketed past Monster Hunter: World to take the top spot. In passing 3 million total sales, it now sits as the best-selling new video game of the year so far on the PS5.
To put the sales in context, the four-year-old racing game has already sold more copies on PS5 than 2024’s Game of the Year, Astro Bot. As per Alinea’s data, Forza has reached 3 million sales in under 90 days, whereas Astro Bot still falls just shy of that mark after more than 300 days on the market.
Below is a breakdown of the current top 5 best-selling new games of the year so far for further context:
- Forza Horizon 5 – 3M
- Monster Hunter: Wilds – 2.9M
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows – 2M
- Elden Ring: Nightreign – 1.4M
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – 1.3M
Do keep in mind, the list will certainly change in the back half of the year as juggernauts like Call of Duty and possibly even the next Battlefield come into the equation.
But given the immediate success of Forza on the PS5, it’s sure to entice Xbox to continue porting its biggest games over. I’m still waiting on Starfield, personally, but who’s to say what records may be broken when a Halo game makes its way across.
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