Over the weekend Gears, 5 broke a lot of records for the folks at Microsoft the performance easily doubled the first week’s debut of Gears of War 4 and made Gears 5 the most-played Xbox Game Studios title in its first week since 2012’s Halo 4.
On Microsoft’s subscription service Xbox Game Pass, it has now become the “biggest launch week of any Xbox Game Studios title this generation”. It had more than three million people logging on over the weekend
On Tuesday, Gears 5 expanded into worldwide general availability with the launch of Gears 5 Standard Edition at retail, as well as new Xbox One X and Xbox One S console bundles. For PC fans, Gears 5 is included in a three-month Xbox Game Pass for PC membership bundled with the purchase of select AMD Ryzen™ processors and AMD Radeon™ graphics cards.
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