Black Ops snares 1m concurrent players on Live, 140,000 on Steam
Plus 105k daily Tweets vs Kinect's 28k
Call of Duty Black Ops looks to have been a sales success on its launch day, following fears that it may not outsell Modern Warfare 2.
A tweet by Treyarch community manager Josh Olin revealed that just shy of one million gamers were shown as playing the game on Xbox Live yesterday.
"Am I getting solid intel? Is there really almost 1,000,000 players on Xbox LIVE right now?" he exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Steam stats reveal that a peak of 77,609 people were playing the PC version's multiplayer mode concurrently over the last day, and 64,267 its singleplayer. This is a significantly higher amount than those playing perennial Steam multiplayer hits such as Counter-Strike and Modern Warfare 2 over the same period.
None of these figures represent the game's total sales, as in both instances they reveal just the number of owners of the game playing at a given time, and in the 360's case just those online and logged into Live.
In addition, Black Ops' unlocking on Steam was delayed in a number of territories until 10AM EST (3PM UK time). Furthermore, no data for PS3 is available as yet.
Twitter trends also highlighted Black Ops' dominance of gamers' attention, accruing a total of 104,830 tweets over the last 24 hours - with Microsoft's Kinect, which launched last night, mustering a mere 28,495 by comparison. Those figures refer only to Tweets using the relevant hashtags.
The actual reason for the lack of players, if you visited any community forum about the game yesterday, the multiplayer portion of the game have a extreme lag and people are waiting for a patch. Didn't try to game myself yet though.
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Pier Castonguay on 10th November 2010 1:25pm
Last night I tried out Call of Duty: Black Ops on Xbox 360. When I entered the game on Xbox-Live in the lower left side of the screen it said there were over 2.4 Million players playing. So your intel must be correct, as what I seen with my own eyes more then doubled the number you posted. If you could check with your sources again you should find its well over the 1 Million.
You posted just so you could get that in, didn't you David! ;)
According to the link below it wasn't 5 million copies sold in 24 hours but a whopping 7 million. 7 million motherfrickin' copies of this game already sold! I wander though if it will pass the total 22 million that MW2 had in total.
http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82685...
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Christopher Willis on 10th November 2010 5:56pm
Meanwhile, things like Team ICO's products, Shenmue and Katamari Damacy go unnoticed.
Some guy said once "nobody ever went broke underestimating the american public". I guess he was spot on.
Edited 1 times. Last edit by Jorge Gonzalez Sanchez on 10th November 2010 6:22pm