One Of Xbox's Biggest Successes Of 2026 Didn't Actually Release On Series X|S

A consumer-friendly move, or a silly one? When going through the data from Circana yesterday for September 2026 sales in the US (specifically for the story about Xbox and Nintendo console sales suffering YoY decreases ), I happened to notice the list of "projected" best-selling video games of 2026 up to that point, and there are two games from Microsoft / Xbox in that lineup. The first of these is Forza Horizon 6 , which supposedly was the seventh best-selling game of the year up to the end of September.