Forza Horizon 6 just dropped its Premium Edition early access and the Steam servers are cooking harder than a Touge run in peak Tokyo traffic. Premium buyers are already racking up laps in the biggest map yet, smashing previous franchise records with a 172,093 concurrent peak on day one.

That's more than double Forza Horizon 5's all-time high of 81k, and the full launch is still four days out on May 19. Early access is locked to the $120-ish Premium bundle, but the numbers prove the hype is real even before Game Pass drops it for everyone else.

X is flooded with clips of massive car meets and drifting chaos, while Steam charts show the player count holding strong above 100k hours later. The series formula isn't just surviving—it's lapping the competition before the checkered flag even waves.