Circana US Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly US Players (Not Concurrent) - W/E Mar 8, 2025

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Circana US Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly US Players (Not Concurrent) - W/E Mar 8, 2025 - Call of Duty HQ reclaims top spot on both PS and XBX - Dragon Age: The Veilguard jumps to 9th on PS with PS+ debut - R.E.P.O. debuts at 4th on Steam across US, Canada and Mexico
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COD claimed the top spot while MH Wilds was struggling on consoles.

Mod: Title changed. This is engagement. Not sales
 
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These charts are for active users in the US not sales.

Plus 4 of the titles ahead of MHW on playstation aren't even available on steam and one is ahead due to being on PS+ so it's not exactly a like for like comparison.

PC is the lead platform for MHW but to say it's struggling on console (or playstation at least) is not accurate. Sales are very strong.
 
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Mownoc said:
These charts are for active users in the US not sales.

Plus 4 of the titles ahead of MHW on playstation aren't even available on steam and one is ahead due to being on PS+ so it's not exactly a like for like comparison.

PC is the lead platform for MHW but to say it's struggling on console (or playstation at least) is not accurate.
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It's total engagement, which means people who played the games at all. Are you claiming a bunch of console users bought MHW but decided not to play it at all? Because that's the only way it's not in the top 10 and still sells well.
 
RafterXL said:
It's total engagement, which means people who played the games at all. Are you claiming a bunch of console users bought MHW but decided not to play it at all? Because that's the only way it's not in the top 10 and still sells well.
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Nope, I'm claiming that being 12th on the list for player engagement behind a lot of f2p titles and titles that have already sold 10m+ copies isn't anything to be surprised by.

When the actual sales chart comes out it'll be at the top.
 
RafterXL said:
It's total engagement, which means people who played the games at all. Are you claiming a bunch of console users bought MHW but decided not to play it at all? Because that's the only way it's not in the top 10 and still sells well.
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How is engagement tracked, I only play offline. My son doesn't even have a PSN ID, he plays entirely offline. Unlike PC, which is a dystopian nightmare for this stuff you can still play most games offline on PS.
 
Seems like an apples to oranges comparison, but it does help with getting our daily pc Vs console war. Brb, grabbing my popcorn.
 
RafterXL said:
It's total engagement, which means people who played the games at all. Are you claiming a bunch of console users bought MHW but decided not to play it at all? Because that's the only way it's not in the top 10 and still sells well.
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Engagement tracks the amount of time spent with the game I believe.

In which case you can't judge sales for a single week based on that since all the other titles have had far more weeks to amass more sales.

Thread title and premise of the thread is not accurate in the slightest.
 
GHG said:
Engagement tracks the amount of time spent with the game I believe.

In which case you can't judge sales for a single week based on that since all the other titles have had far more weeks to amass more sales.

Thread title and premise of the thread is not accurate in the slightest.
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This is weekly chart.

MHWilds had full week.

Looks like its loosing steam.

Even Avowed charted higher, despite being out for a couple of weeks longer.
 
vaibhavpisal said:
This is weekly chart.

MHWilds had full week.

Looks like its loosing steam.

Even Avowed charted higher, despite being out for a couple of weeks longer.
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Avowed charted higher on xbox because it's on gamepass, and MH has never been that popular on Xbox relative to other platforms.

It's not "losing steam" it's higher on the chart this week than last week for both steam and playstation. Smh
 
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Mownoc said:
Avowed charted higher on xbox because it's on gamepass, and MH has never been that popular on Xbox relative to other platforms.

It's not "losing steam" it's higher on the chart this week than last week for both steam and playstation. Smh
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W/E March 8.

Its first full week when MHWilds was out.
 
SpokkX said:
Looking at those top lists.. console players have no taste. Casual slop
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Except this is Steam only. Fortnite and Roblox are definitely there otherwise. COD might be too, but its engagement is split between Steam and the Xbox app most likely.

Their top 10 is quite similar. All the same GAAS.

Edit: LoL and WOW are also not on Steam.
 
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Monster Hunter is huge on PC. Capcom needs to move more resources to support the platform better. The port is not acceptable.

I'm still yet to play it as im deep in FFVII Rebirth.
 
I'm one of the gamers playing Dragon Age on PS. I'm only like 5hrs in, but the shit this game got isn't deserved. If it was a brand new IP, people would be enjoying it a lot more. So far, it's a solid 8/10 game. Writing is whatever, but it's not filled with noticeable DEI crap like people say. Avowed writing is no better, imo
 
vaibhavpisal said:
And ?

You could have read the tweet to see what chart represented.

Its not that hard.
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That's literally what I spoke about in my first post in this thread.

You then went and disputed that because you're seemingly hell-bent on making a fool out of yourself in every discussion you participate in.
 
MarV0 said:
Console gamers have the worst taste no wonder console gaming is dying.
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It's the other way around actually, while CoD or sports games are almost invisible on PC gaming, they are by far the most important console titles, there's always 2-3 CoD (now in a pack tho so it only counts as 1) and around 5 sport games.

With that not changing (and it's not going any time soon), console gaming will continue to be very healthy, even if it's almost imposible to find indies like REPO or Balatro, or AAA's like KCD2 - BG3 (or Helldivers 2?) on the top 15 nowadays, as these spots are occupied by sport games and call of duties
 
owandeseis said:
It's the other way around actually, while CoD or sports games are almost invisible on PC gaming, they are by far the most important console titles, there's always 2-3 CoD (now in a pack tho so it only counts as 1) and around 5 sport games.

With that not changing (and it's not going any time soon), console gaming will continue to be very healthy, even if it's almost imposible to find indies like REPO or Balatro, or AAA's like KCD2 - BG3 (or Helldivers 2?) on the top 15 nowadays, as these spots are occupied by sport games and call of duties
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Sports and COD are not invisible on PC, they are very much alive and kicking, we just don't have unhealthy addictions to them.

I would call the current state of console gaming anything but healthy. Xbox is pretty much dead, Sony has lost it's way, Nintendo engaging in endless lawfare and a console playerbase trapped in garbage, predatory, MTX-hell games.

There has been zero innovation or playerbase growth coming from consoles for the past 10 years.
 
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HeWhoWalks said:
Xbox is dying. Console gaming is not.
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As long as Sony see's growth on Playstation and these Xbox users decide to go with Console / Playstation it will all be ok. It's just if PC gaming continues to see unprecedented growth VS a console decline that investors and publishers will start to focus their energy elsewhere and potentially damage the console experience.
 
DenchDeckard said:
As long as Sony see's growth on Playstation and these Xbox users decide to go with Console / Playstation it will all be ok. It's just if PC gaming continues to see unprecedented growth VS a console decline that investors and publishers will start to focus their energy elsewhere and potentially damage the console experience.
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We are nowhere near any such thing happening. We often have this round of "consoles are dying" throughout every gen. Xbox is the only platform that is truly on a steady decline. As long as Nintendo and Sony are players in a slice of the hardware market (be it traditional console, handheld, or whatever else), consoles will thrive.

That said, PC is PC. It will always be there and more people are buying games there, who is great!
 
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Waiting for the FH drop and Xbox will have 3 in Playstations top 10. Should be 4 for a short time once Doom lines up, Horizon will have legs but.
 
DenchDeckard said:
You think consoles are guaranteed to be around forever?
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You could have said the same thing about PC gaming at many points in its history.


Yet it's still alive and kicking.

One single company struggling and looking like they are stepping away from the console gaming industry doesn't mark the death of the industry. If business survived Sega exiting, it can certainly survive a company whose contributions have been much less impactful leaving.
 
DenchDeckard said:
You think consoles are guaranteed to be around forever?
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I think when it comes to gaming, both consoles and PC will eventually converge into a single platform that's a mix between the two. There will still be PCs for special applications, but gaming PCs or buying PCs for gaming will largely die out at around the same time consoles will.
 
GHG said:
Dog What GIF by MOODMAN


That's literally what I spoke about in my first post in this thread.

You then went and disputed that because you're seemingly hell-bent on making a fool out of yourself in every discussion you participate in.
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You are taking this way too hard.

Am sure you will survive. Its just one game where pc version seems to be doing great.
 
MarV0 said:
Sports and COD are not invisible on PC, they are very much alive and kicking, we just don't have unhealthy addictions to them.

I would call the current state of console gaming anything but healthy. Xbox is pretty much dead, Sony has lost it's way, Nintendo engaging in endless lawfare and a console playerbase trapped in garbage, predatory, MTX-hell games.

There has been zero innovation or playerbase growth coming from consoles for the past 10 years.
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I mean they are not totally invisible... but they are just 1 more, Fifa for example did okayish numbers and that's it, while on consoles, on Europe it was the best selling game, on UK the top 3 was Fifa 25 - CoD - Fifa 24.

Even i am buying consoles last 2 generations for Fifa, the auction house on PC is "empty" while on console it's huge due to the massive playerbase difference.

And i don't think that's going to change anytime soon, that's why consoles are going to stay for a long time.

ANd yes Xbox is dead, but Sony hasn't lost it's way, they are not doing very different from what they did other generations, Playstation is selling as much as last gen while costing way more.

There's no console sales growth, but Sony found other ways to make much more money, and they have ways to keep doing this next generation, by making more money per console sold for example.

The reality is the most succesful videogames nowadays, Fornite, GTA, CoD, Fifa, whatever sport games are famous in the US... all dominate on consoles
 
vaibhavpisal said:
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You are taking this way too hard.

Am sure you will survive. Its just one game where pc version seems to be doing great.
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Dude, if I could buy you some IQ points, believe me I would.

What I've said has nothing to do with whether or not any particular version is doing well, it's all about the data being factually represented, which it wasn't at the point when the thread initially opened.
 
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So Avowed could be there purely due to being on Gamepass?

If more people check out the Avowed title screen compared to people playing MH:W for days who actually bought the game then of course engagement will be higher.
 
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As a big believer in MAUs, I've got to say engagement charts are pretty worthless.

Dominated by F2P games and tells us nothing about revenue. Obviously games that are free are going to more likely have higher engagement than games that are 70 dollars.
 
Killjoy-NL said:
Goes for both games though. (Avowed on GP).

True, but it's just something I noticed.

No wonder that Avowed studio or MS isn't sharing any numbers.
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It did better than NBA & Madden in the US last week that's solid numbers, and it's still in the top 10.

I'm sure once it gets announced 5 million+ players it still won't impress 🙄
 
Mattyp said:
It did better than NBA & Madden in the US last week that's solid numbers, and it's still in the top 10.

I'm sure once it gets announced 5 million+ players it still won't impress 🙄
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Depends. If they reached 5+M players incl GP, I suppose it's decent for a mediocre game.

And according to Obsidian, that's their goal, so yay?
 
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I wish they would share the sample size of people that they track. Is it 200? Or maybe it's 100,000? Who knows. This data is kinda useless without it.
 
Gaiff said:
I think when it comes to gaming, both consoles and PC will eventually converge into a single platform that's a mix between the two. There will still be PCs for special applications, but gaming PCs or buying PCs for gaming will largely die out at around the same time consoles will.
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This is what I see too. They will more or less merge into a PC. Which they already are, but I expect more walls to strip back and developers will end up making one version of the game that has the "Console" settings pre defined with the option for the end user to tweak in presets or maybe even finer tuned.

Basically, they will turn more into PCs but marketed as a console type experience.
 
DenchDeckard said:
As long as Sony see's growth on Playstation and these Xbox users decide to go with Console / Playstation it will all be ok. It's just if PC gaming continues to see unprecedented growth VS a console decline that investors and publishers will start to focus their energy elsewhere and potentially damage the console experience.
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Sony hasn't seen growth since the PS2 days. Sony making more money with less consoles sales means they're just milking their existing playerbase.

Developers have already moved to PC gaming. There is innovation happening on PC constantly with a new Steam hit that incorporates some cool new gameplay concept coming out every other month.
 
MarV0 said:
Sony hasn't seen growth since the PS2 days. Sony making more money with less consoles sales means they're just milking their existing playerbase.

Developers have already moved to PC gaming. There is innovation happening on PC constantly with a new Steam hit that incorporates some cool new gameplay concept coming out every other month.
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Good luck making this kind of statement on here. While I more or less agree with you, I am often told I am thinking incorrectly
 
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