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With the likes of Xbox Game Pass and Microsoft's expertise in ongoing live service titles, plenty of the team's biggest franchises continue to grow. Just this week, we brought news of a major new player milestone for 2021's Forza Horizon 5, and now Xbox influencer Klobrille has created a neat little graphic showcasing the overall player numbers for some of Microsoft's biggest franchises.

You can check out that graphic up above - these are the latest official figures for each listed franchise, and there are some very impressive statistics here. We can't quite believe that the Overwatch series has been played by more than 100 million players over the years!

Here's are the games that have had >new player number updates:

• Fallout 76 - 20 Million Players

• Forza Horizon 5 - 40 Million Players

• Grounded - 20 Million Players

• Microsoft Flight Simulator - 15 Million Players

• Overwatch (Franchise) - 100 Million Players

• Sea Of Thieves - 40 Million Players

• Starfield - 14 Million Players

Of course, not every big Xbox franchise is listed here - the likes of Gears 5 is missing, and we'd assume that one has very high numbers given its age and the fact that it's on Xbox Game Pass Core. Still, these are the official figures that Xbox's studios have put out there, and it's nice to see them all laid out in a handy graphic!

With Microsoft continuing to bring some of its biggest ongoing titles to other platforms, we'd expect these numbers to keep on increasing in the coming years. Let's see what this list looks in the next year or two - we anticipate that these franchises will have grown quite a bit.