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[Draugoth]

At the time of going to press, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II has recorded a peak of 2290 simultaneous players. This number is lower than Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which had 5,653 seven years ago.

There's a good chance that the number of players will rise as the days go by, but we must remember that here we have a title that was released day-one via the Game Pass service, and here we unfortunately don't have the data to check the number of players.

On Xbox, you can get a baseline by going to Microsoft's website and looking at the most "played" games at the moment and unfortunately Senua's Saga: Hellblade II doesn't even appear in the top 50 (this top is constantly updated).

 

[adamsapple]

Chill with the topic title Draugoth

It's the 4th top-selling game on Steam right now. It came out at odd times across the world. Give it a few minutes to get more people on, lol.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Meh, it's all time peak is basically right now. It'll go up. It's already at 2,290

 

[Tomi]

That is very low :/
I hooe devs will survive this

 

[Topher]

Peak time is typically 1900-2000 UTC. About 7 hours from now

 

[Draugoth]

Chill with the topic title Draugoth

It's the 4th top-selling game on Steam right now. It came out at odd times across the world. Give it a few minutes to get more people on, lol.

If it changes i will ask for a title change

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Chill with the topic title Draugoth

It's the 4th top-selling game on Steam right now. It came out at odd times across the world.

I agree it is too early. This mostly just shows how shit Microsoft marketing has been for HB2. How is Ghost of Tsushima, a 4 year old port that came out a week ago, outselling HB2 on launch day? That is a disaster

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Looks like you grabbed an old image.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Because Steam tells all? How many people are playing on Xbox?

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

"Poor launch" is lacking perspective. Aaron Greenberg has designed a slow-burn marketing strategy so the hype goes from non-existent to moderate and from moderate to heights never seen in the crazy-woman sim sub-genre. It will peak right upon the launch of the PS5 port.

 

[graywolf323]

I mean it’s not even 7am on the west coast yet

Peak time is typically 1900-2000 UTC. About 7 hours from now

exactly, gotta wait until after the usual work day is over

 

[Holammer]

How is this possible? Microsoft really sold it in the one video where they talked about mental health half the time.

 

[Desprado123]

Even 2000 peak is a blessing. PC gamer generally hate walking simulator type of games.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Half the world is still sleeping and gamepass game. -_-'

 

[ArtHands]

I thought after Ghost of Tsushima PC, people would have learn not to judge based on concurrent users few hours after launch. Apparently not.

 

[tommib]

Thread should be closed. It’s based on nothing. Game just came out. It will peak during the weekend.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Half the world is still sleeping

So they have played the game.

 

[saintjules]

C'mon man, the game JUST came out today.

 

[Draugoth]

Thread should be closed. It’s based on nothing. Game just came out. It will peak during the weekend.

Makes sense, im asking the mods to lock this

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I assume this is the exact kind of game that Game Pass will hurt sales. 5-8 hours of gameplay for 17 bucks instead of 50 bucks on Steam. I doubt it ever gets THAT high, but I bet it does well in Steam sales down the road as a tech demo. A lot of people will test their rigs on this one.

EDIT: Also... really shitty title thread as usual for the OP. Maybe wait until people can actually play tonight for a real number.

 

[Varteras]

This thread reminds me of the guy caught in broad daylight sticking a gas nozzle up his ass and rubbing one out. Baby, you gotta wait until later on before you do stuff like this!

 

[Loomy]

People are playing it for "free" on gamepass. There's no reason to pay $50 for a 5 hour game when you can pay $1 and play it on gamepass and then cancel your subscription. That or people already have gamepass and are playing it there.

 

[tmlDan]

as i said and got push back from xbox fans, its just not looking good

 

[Vlodril]

Thread should be closed. It’s based on nothing. Game just came out. It will peak during the weekend.

We get threads like this for every game it seems (got, helldivers etc). You could say it's way too early in the day for a full picture but you could get a good understanding from first day sales (unless it's an outlier of course like helldivers 2 that kept going up and up for weeks).

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Makes sense, im asking the mods to lock this

 

[Jaybe]

People are playing it for "free" on gamepass. There's no reason to pay $50 for a 5 hour game when you can pay $1 and play it on gamepass and then cancel your subscription. That or people already have gamepass and are playing it there.

Plus there are full playthroughs at 5 hours in length already posted on YouTube so it can be consumed for free. Given the limited actual “game” in this that’s being reported, I’ll likely opt for YouTube.

 

[JimmyRustler]

I hope not a soul seriously expected something else. This is a 6 hour cinematic game with minimal gameplay. If that does scream GamePass sub for a month than nothing does.

I’m seriously surprised anyone actually bought it.

 

[realcool]

At the time of going to press, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II has recorded a peak of 2290 simultaneous players. This number is lower than Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which had 5,653 seven years ago.

There's a good chance that the number of players will rise as the days go by, but we must remember that here we have a title that was released day-one via the Game Pass service, and here we unfortunately don't have the data to check the number of players.

On Xbox, you can get a baseline by going to Microsoft's website and looking at the most "played" games at the moment and unfortunately Senua's Saga: Hellblade II doesn't even appear in the top 50 (this top is constantly updated).

spawn camper

 

[LordBritish]

this post feels early

 

[Ridaxan]

I downloaded it on gamepass just to check it out. I'll buy it on steam on the weekend when I get paid.

 

[TheTony316]

I remember when people were hyping this up as Xbox's answer to God Of War.

Great technical showcase but it makes the Order 1886 look like Breath of the Wild gameplay-wise.

 

[Topher]

On Xbox, you can get a baseline by going to Microsoft's website and looking at the most "played" games at the moment and unfortunately Senua's Saga: Hellblade II doesn't even appear in the top 50 (this top is constantly updated).

Also, isn't Xbox most played only updated once a month?

 

[TropicanaTwista]

What is up with gaf consistently doing these steam concurrent player threads? It's just weird, can place a stat like that in the OT or you know, wait like a week or a couple days if it's something that seems deemed worthy to talk about. It's still working business hours in the states and in most of Europe on a Tuesday. Don't care what game this is, not much is gonna get played at this time

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

I assume this is the exact kind of game that Game Pass will hurt sales. 5-8 hours of gameplay for 17 bucks instead of 50 bucks on Steam. I doubt it ever gets THAT high, but I bet it does well in Steam sales down the road as a tech demo. A lot of people will test their rigs on this one.

EDIT: Also... really shitty title thread as usual for the OP. Maybe wait until people can actually play tonight for a real number.

More like 5-6 hours, apparently.

Also it's possible sales on Steam grow over time due to possible showcase as a UE5 tech demo, but I don't think the audience for that is very large. It'd assume they have top-end GPUs & CPUs for starters, the percentage of such owners registered in Steam GPU surveys being very small. They also are likely the ones buying the game at launch.

I do think it'll make a neat "streamer" game though, so a lot of streamers will take to it. However since it's so linear and short, I don't know if it'll translate much into sales.

 

[Pelta88]

 

[twilo99]

I hooe devs will survive this

So they can produce more mediocre single player games…

 

[Draugoth]

Also, isn't Xbox most played only updated once a month?

I'm assuming it's update like Steam but not with numbers

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Also, isn't Xbox most played only updated once a month?

It might be weekly. Even if it's daily, I don't think it would have updated yet. It took a while for Starfield to get up top, but that game stayed there for a long time.

 

[King Dazzar]

I'm sure many didn't even know that it released yet. Give it a while, I'm sure it'll get a lot healthier.

 

[H-I-M]

Can't wait for Greenberg to confirm how it's a massive hit on GP. Y'all are just haters !

 

[SEGAvangelist]

More like 5-6 hours, apparently.

Also it's possible sales on Steam grow over time due to possible showcase as a UE5 tech demo, but I don't think the audience for that is very large. It'd assume they have top-end GPUs & CPUs for starters, the percentage of such owners registered in Steam GPU surveys being very small. They also are likely the ones buying the game at launch.

I do think it'll make a neat "streamer" game though, so a lot of streamers will take to it. However since it's so linear and short, I don't know if it'll translate much into sales.

I wrote 8 because it looks like there is reason to replay and 100% the game. Might go longer than that actually.

 

[Topher]

It might be weekly. Even if it's daily, I don't think it would have updated yet. It took a while for Starfield to get up top, but that game stayed there for a long time.

True Achievements does a weekly article on the most played games so I think you may be right.

Most played Xbox games — weekly Xbox Chart

The most played Xbox games, ranked

www.trueachievements.com

 

[Bridges]

Bro chill, people have jobs

 

[Braag]

It's like 6 hours long. I can't justify 50€ for that. For 39,90 I might have bought it for the audio visual experience.
This is totally something you play on gamepass if you have it.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Phil Spencer and his head of HR are waiting outside Ninja Theory HQ waiting to see if this crosses 50,000 in the next 2 hours.

 

[zapper]

I would wait at least a couple of days to see the total. in other cases I would say to wait until the weekend but by then most of those who are playing it now will have already finished it.

it is impossible to decree its success or otherwise given the type of product by looking at the sales numbers or connected players

 

[Topher]

Phil Spencer and his head of HR are waiting outside Ninja Theory HQ waiting to see if this crosses 50,000 in the next 2 hours.

Meanwhile, inside NT HQ....

 

[Lucifers Beard]

You really should stop with these kinds of threads. It came out early in the morning or just around noon-ish in the UK. Peek time will be around 10-11pm/6pm EST.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Too early to tell but it'll prolly peak at 7k max. Still pretty bad even then.

 

[AV]

Dunking on GP titles not doing well for £50 RRP is silly. Come on.