We infrequently hear concurrent participant numbers for large AAA video games, however Destiny 2 is an exception.
Over the weekend, Bungie despatched a tweet that exposed, for the primary time, the variety of concurrent gamers throughout PS4, and Xbox One.
That quantity was over 1.2 million, which is huge contemplating the sport isn’t even out on PC but. For reference, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the largest sport on PC proper now, solely crossed over the 1 million concurrent milestone on Friday.
Thank you all a lot for taking part in, Guardians! Right now Destiny 2 has over 1.2 Million concurrent gamers on-line. We’ll see you within the wild.
— Bungie (@Bungie) September 9, 2017
Although this doesn’t inform us what number of copies the sport offered in its opening week, it does assist extrapolate. The easy incontrovertible fact that Bungie determined to share these numbers is itself an enormous signal of confidence.
Earlier at the moment, we realized that the sport’s bodily launch within the UK wasn’t as big as Destiny 1’s. This might very nicely be a facet impact of gamers going digital, and the concurrent participant numbers show that Activision has nothing to fret about.
It’ll be attention-grabbing to see if Bungie will share the identical determine for the PC model come October.
For extra on the sport, our large Destiny 2 guide was lately up to date with secrets and techniques, Exotic quests, and extra.
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