Battlefield 6 garners 700,000 concurrent players on Steam alone

We saw the Steam player numbers skyrocketing in Battlefield 6 during the game's open beta. Now with the full release upon us, it appears to be the most successful Battlefield launch on PC to date, even beating out the lifetime peak player count for Call of Duty on the platform. 

Looking at SteamDB, over the launch weekend, Battlefield 6 peaked at over 700,000 concurrent players. This is significantly higher than Call of Duty on Steam, which currently has an all-time peak concurrent player count of almost 500,000 players.

This isn't a perfect comparison, as both Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty will have many more players on other platforms, including the likes of the EA App and Xbox Game Pass, neither of which have publicly-available player tracking data. Still, it is a good sign that EA has nailed the launch for this year's Battlefield, which I found to be a strong return to form compared to Battlefield 2042. It is also the most technically polished Battlefield game I've played at launch in more than a decade.

It will be interesting to revisit the Steam numbers when Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 drops in November.

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