August 26 was an historic day for consoles, as the 2 giants of PlayStation and Xbox swapped exclusives. Gears of Struggle Reloaded launched on PlayStation, whereas Sony printed Helldivers 2 dropped onto Xbox.
So how is the superb live-service sport faring on the inexperienced model? Effectively, the early numbers are promising, in response to analytics agency Alinea.
Posting on X, Alinea Analytics mentioned the launch, commenting on how Arrowhead’s CEO revealed that the sport had over 500,000 concurrent gamers throughout all platforms a day after Helldivers 2 arrived on Xbox. With 160k of these being on Steam, that left 340k on consoles. Not dangerous for a live-service sport that’s over a yr and a half outdated at this level.
However Alinea went additional, revealing that their information factors to round 600k copies of Helldivers 2 being offered on Xbox up to now.
Which may not sound like quite a bit – actually, it’s a small drop within the bucket of Helldivers 2‘s general gross sales – however on Xbox, which usually sees very low video games gross sales, it’s a reasonably strong begin.
Talking of sport gross sales, Alinea can be claiming that Helldivers 2 has hit round 18 million copies offered. The final official quantity we obtained was 12 million.
Nevertheless, these are estimates solely. Alinea makes use of its personal particular sauce with regards to figuring out gross sales and has confronted controversy previously resulting from its utilization of consumer evaluations on storefronts as a method of estimating gross sales and engagement. In different phrases, take the gross sales information with a pinch of salt. Now we have no method of verifying it, until Arrowhead, Microsoft or Sony resolve to supply any stats.
