Last Tuesday we highlighted that Xbox Game Studios had enjoyed an excellent week on Steam, and the run has continued over the past few days, with three out of the five top spots being taken up by Xbox once again.
In the Steam Weekly Global Top Sellers chart for the week ending 4th July 2021, Sea of Thieves retained its spot as the best seller on the PC platform, followed by Forza Horizon 4 which shot up to second place. Impressively, Forza Horizon 4 actually had two entries in the top five, based on different versions of the game.
Meanwhile, Halo: The Master Chief Collection also performed impressively, finishing in seventh.
The success of Sea of Thieves in particular can most likely be attributed to the recent A Pirate's Life update, while the rest appear to have received a boost in popularity due to being included in Steam's current Summer Sale.
It's great to see Xbox games selling so well on Steam regardless, especially considering they're included with Xbox Game Pass for PC at no extra charge.
Have you bought any Xbox games on Steam over the past week? Tell us down in the comments below.
[source steamdb.info]
Comments 6
Really good to see MS studio games doing well.
It's awesome that you have a choice on how you play their games, Xbox console, cloud, windows store or steam.
This is truly why MS really don't care about console sales, sure they want it to sell well, but you can be a big paying customer of theirs and never own an Xbox.
All this and it's not even with a mention of Gamepass which again gives so much value and choice.
It's no coincidence that Sony are slowly coming round to making their games available on PC, it makes perfect sense. Talk of a game not being exclusive if it's a console a exclusive is just fanboy rubbish. Who cares?!
Enjoy your games, however you like to enjoy them. That's real gaming.
(Again, I'm a XB, PS, Nintendo and PC platform owner).
@JetmanUK
I always think console sales matter a little more than Microsoft let on.
Game pass has about 18 million members.
If you sold 80 million series consoles and had a 50% up take in game pass that’s 40 million new members to the subscription service.
Let alone game, dlc and controller sales as well
And word of mouth advertising and general Xbox hype and well being.
If the above happened Phil and the gang would be lighting the cigars. 😂
Series x owner so not baiting anyone.
@Dezzy70
There's a lot of smart phones out there (billions?) and low end PCs/laptops that are now open to gaming via Gamepass/Xcloud.
If that market explodes like it could I think MS wouldn't care of they sold another Xbox again, which I wouldn't like to see, I will probably always want their box.
@JetmanUK
They always says the premium experience which is what I want, full 4K etc etc will be a box under your tv.
If the market explodes, I’m not sure if Microsoft have the games legacy for a massive explosion, but if they build one over 5 to 10 years then maybe.
Something like Nintendo games or even a few Sony ones or the big third party ones is the legacy they need the Mario kart, fifa, cod etc. The games or icons the general public buy a lot of.
@JetmanUK I’m the same I wouldn’t like Microsoft to stop making Xbox consoles either. If that did ever happen then I’d just have a PlayStation console.
Not bad for a "67 on Metacritic" game. 😏
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