I would agree that 50-100k sales is bad for the game of Gears Tactics caliber (haven't played it but according to reviewers it looks like the most expensive game in the genre) even if we take some additional hundreds of thousands GamePass subscribers. If I were to guess, this game didn't return the investments and Microsoft ended up losing money on it. But probably it's not a big deal, because it was created with such outcome in mind. It was their flagship title to sell to "PC Master Race" crowd and was released under the "we are fully committed to PC market" message. Just remember that they presumably had working console build ready back in April but decided not to release it just to have that "this is a true PC title" message. It's quite interesting to see if they managed to achieve what they tried to achieve or not, but unfortunately we don't have the data about the GamePass split - how many subscriptions are Console, PC or Ultimate.

As for Gears 6. It is already a common wish, even for lots of Xbox fans, that first of all Microsoft should not rush things with this game and give more time to The Coalition to make. And the second one is that Gears 6 should be the final entry in the series. The whole gaming community just got kinda tired of this franchise and it can be seen by it being on downward spiral. Every new game performs worse than the previous. And something tells me that Microsoft just don't know what to do with the franchise at this point and they can't reinvent it somehow to breath a new life into it, especially now with Rod Fergusson left, it's probably to end it for good and let The Coalition move on to the new things.

The Coalition should definitely continue Gears. Even thought its flopped on steam its still really popular on console. Gears 5 had a huge launch, it was the first game to take the #1 most played game of that week from fortnite in almost 2 years when it released and sold more than Gears 4.

More than half a year later, this is how my most played list of the Xbox One generation looks at the end of 2020:

Quite a bit changed.
Started and finished DQ XI S, Divinity 2 and Yakuza Kiwami 2 since the last update. They are dropping in on #10,#14 and #24 respectively.
Apparently also finished ME: Andromeda during that time, feels like I played that a long time ago. It makes the list on #23.

Jurassic World Evolution, Forza 6, Far Cry Primal and Batman Arkham Knight fell off the top 25. Also while I did play the Far Cry 5 DLCs, it could only go up to 29.33 hours played (+ 5.45) and thus misses the list by only 1 1/2 hours.

Gears Tactics doesn't have in-game statistics and doesn't record time played but according to HowlongtoBeat.com the campaign is 20-25 hours so it has likely ended up short.
I'm currently installing Yakuza 0 again to see my completion time. It's supposed to be the longer game than Kiwami 2 so I'm checking if I missed it.

Currently not playing anything that would've a chance of getting into the top 25.

Finished Gears Tactics.

A very welcome spin-off in a different genre. Visually very good for a game of its kind. Cutscenes look fantastic but unfortunately most of them don't show any action and instead are more about conversations among the main characters.

Gameplay is insanely fun and deeper than I expected. With the right skills equipped, the strategy can change quite a bit. Fo example, I was pretty disappointed with the sniper class at first because the damage dealt isn't bigger than when using lancers but Mikayla was easily the strongest character in the late game.

While missions weren't all that hard on intermediate difficulty, the boss fights were quite challenging. There are different kinds of side missions that are nice to play one or two times each but get a little repetitive after that (some of them are also incorporated into the main story). The fact that you can't just skip them is certainly disappointing. It feels like they wanted to artificially increase the length of the campaign. There's little point in finishing them. Getting a level up is rare (finished the game with level 5/6 characters) so the experience you can gain from side missions isn't really worth it. Also the rewards are random so you don't know if you even need the armour or weapon upgrade in the cache. Thankfully, your roster is big enough so you can send someone one a side mission and quickly kill yourself with a grenade to move onto the next main mission.

Talking about caches, the rewards can be quite hit and miss. I had a squad with rare equipment pretty early in the game and yet there were several missions where the rarity of the caches wouldn't change so no good upgrades for me. Even in later missions, where epic caches are the new standard, you might get a rare cache as a reward for completing a mission. What's the point of that? Also I'm disappointed that you can't do anything with your old loot, well except for "deleting" them. Would've been nice if there was a system where you could trade them in or combine them to increase their stats. Furthermore, I would've liked to see more upgrades for secondary weapons and grenades. Only came across two different kind of Snub Pistols (not even found in missions but from new recruits) and one grenade upgrade.

Story was good enough but nothing special. Despite the events taking place before Gears 1, the information you get out of it is more relevant for the story of Gears 4 and 5.

Overall a fantastic game in the genre and I'd really like to see a sequel of some kind, maybe set closer to the more recent Gears games, so we can get more different enemy types.

9/10

Where do you get this info? I'm kinda curious to see what my most played games are? I know for sure though that even most played game will be under 100 hours.

Exophase.com

You can easily sort your games by hours played.

I think it used to be required for Xbox games to show hours played but MS changed that rule so many more recent games (since 2018-ish) don't support it and some even removed it retroactively. Keep that in mind when you think that some games should be higher up or are missing completely.

Hey, quick question. Why can I only find xbox one physical copies of games? Wasn't there supposed to exist a kind of xbox series physical box art? I know its the same thing as the game will be running under series X specs, but I still though there would be dedicated game boxes for the new generation. Everywhere I go I cna only find Cyberpunk, AC Valhalla etc as their "xbox one" boxes version. Again, I know its the same thing, but it is... weird...

Okay, so my top 25 is the following, but I'm counting 360 games as well as almost all of those games except one I played this gen:

Actually, the top one is Twitch with 278.38h but it is not a game, so doesn't count. Also, out of the other games that I remember playing a lot, I definitely spent more than 40 hours on Valkyria Chronicles 4, and of course Sekiro (should be number one I guess, now that I remember, I had 100 hours on save file) but it doesn't count.

Your assassins creed should look like this: depending on which version you purchased.

Cyberpunk doesn't exist for Series X or PS5 yet.  

Really? Haven't noticed anything like that. It's using the stats that are saved on your MS profile/Gamertag, so it's not a problem on Exophase's end. The numbers there should be identical to the ones found on TrueAchievements.

I just know that some games stopped tracking hours played even though they used to support them. I have 7-ish hours played in Mass Effect Andromeda when I played it in 2017 and 2018. After the X enhancement patch, the time wouldn't update.

Also it won't count the time if you've played while being offline.