When you’re after extra proof that this yr’s Battlefield 6 launch goes to be one of many greatest ever for the sequence, the sport’s beta has a lot to supply there. Over the weekend, the beta’s first open weekend came about, and it’s been dominating the charts on Steam.
This comes only a day or two after the preliminary, invite-only portion of the beta broke information for the sequence on Steam. This was solely the start, nevertheless.
On Staruday and Sunday, the Battlefield 6 beta turned accessible to obtain and play with out the necessity for a code. Over that very same interval, the sport’s concurrent participant numbers jumped but once more on Steam, because of the inflow of latest gamers.
The Battlefield 6 beta was regularly in Steam’s prime three most performed video games, peaking at 521,079 concurrent gamers (by way of SteamDB), which is an enormous quantity. For one, it’s larger than the height concurrent for any Battlefield title on Steam.
Extra curiously, it’s larger than Name of Obligation’s highest-ever concurrent, too. The Name of Obligation app, which accommodates a number of Name of Obligation releases without delay, has a historic peak of 491,670 concurrent gamers. That features free-to-play mode Warzone, premium yearly releases, in addition to betas and different restricted assessments.
Name of Obligation’s greatest second on Steam arrived with the sequence’ return to Steam, which coincided with the discharge of Trendy Warfare 2 in 2022. Final yr’s Black Ops 6 was actually common, however the numbers have been nowhere close to as excessive as MW2’s concurrents.
Steam just isn’t the one approach to play Battlefield 6 on PC, both, so there’s seemingly a contigent of gamers on EA’s personal app and the Epic Video games Retailer that don’t issue into that peak, to say nothing of gamers on PlayStation and Xbox.
Whicever approach you slice it, BF6 beta’s figures are spectacular. Even when the sport’s full launch on October 10 doesn’t obtain the identical peaks, the rumoured free-to-play mode might very effectively get it there – and even past.
