Activision must be fairly proud of Destiny 2’s efficiency, as Bungie’s sci-fi sequel is seemingly forward of the unique by each main metric, from earnings to time spent. The addition of a 3rd platform in PC is actually a contributing issue to the brand new recreation’s elevated gross sales, nevertheless it appears the sequel continues to be managing to do extra to maintain gamers engaged.
Find out if the sport is price all that point spent with our Destiny 2 review.
As a part of their earnings report at the moment, Activision introduced that Destiny 2 is outperforming its predecessor when it comes to complete earnings, in addition to time spent per participant, common income per participant, and fix price for the growth cross. That means it’s not simply extra unit gross sales driving the sport’s success, however quite that gamers are sticking round longer and on common shopping for extra extra content material this time round.
This is an particularly attention-grabbing revelation in gentle of the recent kerfuffle over the sport’s dropping participant counts, which had been alternately thought to be a pure a part of its life post-launch or an indication of a struggling recreation. Activision are actually making a robust argument that it’s doing properly.
They’re additionally calling it the best-selling console recreation of the yr within the US, with over half of these gross sales coming from digital purchases. Not each recreation has gone that far into the digital future, as larger titles like Call of Duty are nonetheless getting extra important parts of their gross sales by means of retail, although that clearly applies primarily to console gross sales.
Nonetheless, it’s nice to see Destiny 2 outperforming its predecessor, particularly since its shiny new PC port helps to guide the sport to new gross sales heights.
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