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Halo: Campaign Evolved sold about 1.2M copies in two weeks across Steam, PS5 and Xbox, with roughly 2.1M players on Game Pass; its lack of multiplayer and a higher price compared with the multiplayer-enabled Master Chief Collection helped the Call of Duty: Black Ops ports outsell it by a large margin (roughly 16-to-1), and analysts say a PS5 MCC-style release with multiplayer could have driven far stronger sales.
Alinea Analytics data indicate Sony has earned about $1.2B in take-home revenue from PlayStation PC ports by late 2025 (roughly $1.5B gross before Valve’s 30% cut), with Helldivers 2 contributing heavily via Steam sales. By comparison, Xbox’s PS5 PC port revenue is around $667M, led by Forza Horizon 5. The figures aren’t apples-to-apples due to different rollout timelines (Sony began PC releases in 2020; Microsoft started on PS5 in 2024) and market scale. The piece notes Sony’s PC strategy faced issues (PSN regional restrictions, early technical problems) and that Sony plans to wind down its PC port efforts and exit Steam, signaling a pivot toward AI and broader strategy, while Xbox appears to be moderating its cross‑platform push.
Alinea Analytics data indicate Forza Horizon 6 sold around 4.9 million copies across Xbox and Steam by May 22, including four days of early access and roughly three days of main release, with over 3 million players accessing the game via Xbox Game Pass. Playground Games had earlier cited 6 million players, and SteamDB reported a concurrent PC peak over 300,000 during opening weekend. While third-party figures should be treated cautiously, the numbers align with official claims and suggest FH6 is performing strongly across platforms.
Alinea Analytics estimates Starfield sold about 140,000 copies on PS5 in its first week—a middling start for a big Bethesda port—while Xbox/PC versions saw a spike and Steam added roughly 55,000 more copies; the piece also notes strong PS5 performance for other Xbox ports like Forza Horizon 5 and Gears of War: Reloaded.
Starfield is reportedly selling around 140,000 copies on PS5 per Alinea Analytics, a figure that revives the debate over Xbox’s multiplatform strategy and the value of exclusivity. While the numbers aren’t independently verified and it’s early days for the PS5 release, the discussion centers on whether Xbox should prioritize exclusivity again or continue a multiplatform approach.
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach pushes total sales past 2 million after its PC release, with an estimated 425,000 PC copies sold in the opening week, adding to 1.6 million on PS5. Analysts say the PC launch boosted Kojima Productions' revenue and even helped spike PS5 sales; there was a pre-launch Steam piracy leak, and Eurogamer notes the sequel is both more and less radical than the original, with players spending long hours on PC.