There were a whopping 1.2 million players on the Destiny 2 servers across all platforms earlier, suggesting that Bungie’s new first-person shooter has been a gargantuan success. The developer just so happens to have announced the tidbit as steamroll success PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds clocks one million concurrents on the PC, perhaps demonstrating just how strong a start the sequel is off to.
It’s perhaps not a huge surprise: this author did wonder whether the game would be able to draw in an audience beyond fans of the original, but plenty of marketing spend seems to have sorted that out. We’ll have a review of the game soon, but you can read our hands on impressions of the retail release through here.
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The developer just so happens to have announced the tidbit as steamroll success PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds clocks one million concurrents on the PC,
I love this metric. To "steamroll" PUBG's 1m concurrent on PC alone by posting 1.2m across all platforms. Nice.
1 million on one system. Great number. 1.2m across 2 systems. Also great number.
But one is far more impressive than the other. Take a guess which one.
@BLP_Software I never said it got steamrolled; I described PUBG as a "steamroll success". Take nothing away from Bluehole: that game's performance has been nothing short of phenomenal.
Having said that, the key context here is that Destiny 2 has been on sale for three or four days, which is impressive that it's already registering concurrents in the seven digits.
I skipped the first one but picked up D2 day one and love it!
Sweet if people are liking it. I'm sad because I miss my pro. One more week left in my hitch!!! Oh and my wife is missed
Once bitten and all that with destiny 1! I shall wait a year and buy the full game (game plus every dlc) for £25! That's what happened with the first one so I can wait
Imagine that, two unfinished games are top performers on their respective platforms
@BLP_Software
You could also say that one title hasn't even been out for a week, while the other has been available for sale for quite a while.
Could be because it appeals more to casual gamers. Unlike most FPS games where they're more PVP focused.
I don't like the first one since it doesn't have good single player content/story but if the sequels have it I'll try it.
Still waiting for single player destiny 2 review
I am not surprised at all! I said that Destiny will take top spot in the sales when it launches (yet to be confirmed of course). You couldn't find a Limited Edition to pre-order for months and they are selling on ebay for over £100 - as much as £150+ that's not 'for sale prices but selling prices. I have watched a few for PS4 as I couldn't pre-order one on PS4 myself.
Destiny appeals to a casual and dedicated fanbase. PUBG is more casual than Destiny is. Destiny isn't 'unfinished' either. You get a LOT of content at launch - hundreds of hours worth. Admittedly some of that may well be used multiple times at different difficulty settings for 'end-game' too but there is still a LOT. There is nearly an hours worth of cut scenes in the missions - some sites have put them all together as 1 'movie'. PUBG is just a 'multi-player' with 1 trick - well maybe 2 if they have added in the 'zombie' thing.
Whether it holds onto Number 1 when Fifa and the October/November big hitters arrive, we will see but I still expect it to hold on to a top 10 spot for a while.
Keep in mind pubg is on one system at the moment. Rather than 2. And is on early access/beta.
I don't why pubg needs to be brought up in this anyway. Struggling to see the relevance.
I really don't understand why this is a success after what went on with the first Destiny, with lots of locked content that you will have to pay to progress further online and keep up with the community and even then it will probably get repetitive and boring very quickly just like in D1. I'm glad I only rented this as I only played for a few hours and uninstalled it, I had more fun with Rock of Ages 2 and that's just a little indie game.
IMO Bungie had their best years with Halo and Destiny doesn't even come close but they are obviously doing something right and will be making Activision happy and rich which does not necessarily bode well for gamers.
Advertising works, shock! Money makes more money.
@BLP_Software Do you only come here to moan? Seriously. Every comment I see is ragging on Sony or whichever publisher is the subject of the article. It's getting old now, be nice.
Anyway, this can only mean good things for the franchise. 1.2 million players is pretty amazing! Good to see that there were minimal issues at launch, and that the game is as good as expected. Definitely worth the wait!
I was completely against this game to begin with.
The first started as a half baked although stunning effort.
Little content etc etc.
Destiny 2 is everything the first couldve been.
Plenty to do, great cutscenes and story, you can really see Blizzards influence.
Absolutely brilliant so far, and thats coming from someone who was let down by the first.
@ToOGoodOfAPlaya Did you play Taken King? It got pretty good from that point to be fair. Although I didn't particularly dislike the first year either. The first 2 expansions were pretty pants though.
I hope the year 1 expansions are better this time round.
Come on everybody. You can be cool to. Just join the herd.
People get real upset when FPS sell.
@Splat Especially if its CoD or Destiny....
There is always someone who thinks some 'niche' or 'retro' game is better than a the biggest sellers of the year. If its popular - it can't be good mentality.
@BAMozzy Hey, niche/retro games can be better than the biggest sellers of the year.
Take 2016 - I'll have Hyper Light Drifter over Uncharted 4 allll day long Happy to say I cleared em both, though.
Great game based on what I've played, fully deserved. 10/10 GOTY review incoming.
@kyleforrester87 Its possible... but there is a reason Uncharted won most peoples Game of the Year and games like Hyper Light Drifter will be nothing but a footnote. That doesn't mean that people can't enjoy those games if that's what they are into.
Destiny 2 isn't GotY material either - it may pick up an award like best Multi-player or some other award - like awarding one of the 'summer blockbuster that make millions at the box-office — best effects at the 'oscars'. Maybe HLD could win best 'Indie' I guess.
Each to their own and all that but Destiny 2 does what HLD does to a degree - and more. It has a more cohesive story too - LOL (even if you fully understood and found all the 'story' pictures and made sense of it). Incidentally I am not saying Destiny's Story (1, 2 or any of the expansions) was the best ever either BTW. The campaign has always been more of an 'introduction' where the real 'meat' of the game comes afterwards.
Anyway the Point I was making is that some won't like a game - simply because its popular. They only want to play a game that's 'niche' or 'retro' because that makes them seem better. Like never watching the summer blockbuster movies because they are the most popular and only watching some foreign language or 'small indie production' film that won't even get a mention at the Oscars. Like following some 'unsigned' band because the 'signed' bands that do the same 'genre' are too 'popular' to be 'cool'.
In other news London has terrible weather...
The original sold well, why wouldn't a sequel just as good?
I'm expecting it to underperform. ALL "AAA" sequels have underperformed this gen - Watch Dogs 2, Titanfall 2, Dead Rising 4, Gears of War 4, other stuff I forgot because I'm over here playing Japanese gems like God Eater 2 and Tales of Berseria when this stuff comes out all the time
Although Capcom seems to be the Japanese studio to fail like their western counterparts, judging by how sharply sales for SFV fell off compared to SFIV.
Anyway, when you consider that Destiny 2 looks like more of the first... plus all the messaging suggests "this is for the fans; we've fixed all the problems" instead of "we gotta get new fans". That's the task Destiny 3 will have to concern itself with, I guess. These constantly online games just keep narrowing the audience as they lose people with each new content update until they're just focused on a very narrow, very hardcore base. They may have hit the reset button to fight that a bit, call this a full-blown sequel and get back some of the casual fans, but... I'm still feeling good about predicting that it'll STILL DO WELL, obviously, but its gonna put up worse numbers than the first one in the end. EVEN with them replacing the PS3 and Xbox360 versions with the PC version this time.
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