PlayStation and Xbox swapped exclusives on August 26, with Gears of War Reloaded on PlayStation and Helldivers 2 arriving on Xbox. Arrowhead's CEO reported 500,690 concurrent players across all platforms the day after the Xbox release. Steam concurrent users were around 160,000, implying approximately 340,000 console players. Alinea Analytics estimates roughly 600,000 copies of Helldivers 2 sold on Xbox so far. Alinea also estimates about 18 million total copies sold, compared with the last official figure of 12 million. Alinea's sales methods use storefront user reviews and are controversial; the estimates remain unverified without publisher confirmation.
Posting on X, Alinea Analytics discussed the launch, commenting on how Arrowhead's CEO revealed that the game had over 500,000 concurrent players across all platforms a day after Helldivers 2 arrived on Xbox. With 160k of those being on Steam, that left 340k on consoles. Not bad for a live-service game that's over a year and a half old at this point.
But Alinea went further, revealing that their data points to around 600k copies of Helldivers 2 being sold on Xbox thus far. That might not sound like a lot - in fact, it's a small drop in the bucket of Helldivers 2 's overall sales - but on Xbox, which typically sees very low games sales, it's a pretty solid start.
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