Helldivers 2 Is Selling Strong On Xbox, According To Early Report – WGB

August 26 was an historic day for consoles, as the 2 giants of PlayStation and Xbox swapped exclusives. Gears of War Reloaded launched on PlayStation, whereas Sony printed Helldivers 2 dropped onto Xbox.

So how is the superb live-service recreation faring on the inexperienced model? Nicely, the early numbers are promising, in keeping with 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 Not unhealthy for a live-service recreation that’s over a yr and a half outdated at this level.

However Alinea went additional, revealing that their knowledge factors to round 600k copies of Helldivers 2 being offered on Xbox so far.

That may not sound like rather a lot – the truth is, it’s a small drop within the bucket of Helldivers 2‘s total gross sales – however on Xbox, which usually sees very low video games gross sales, it’s a reasonably strong begin.

Talking of recreation gross sales, Alinea can be claiming that Helldivers 2 has hit round 18 million copies offered. The final official quantity we bought 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 up to now as a result of its utilization of consumer critiques on storefronts as a approach of estimating gross sales and engagement. In different phrases, take the gross sales knowledge with a pinch of salt. We have now no approach of verifying it, except Arrowhead, Microsoft or Sony resolve to offer any stats.